Yes, it is 2021. No, we still don’t have flying cars, a base on the moon, or asteroid mining. But we do have video phones, a global information database, ability to stream movies on demand in our homes, screens that…
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You can click to download our December 2020 newsletter in PDF format, or read it online at the bottom of the post (only one page for this special Christmas edition). I’ve also included the Ascension Christmas greeting video below. It…
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No, you haven’t missed anything. I was not able to get out an October 2020 newsletter. That would be the first monthly newsletter I missed in seven years. With respect, though, I was rather busy: 7,345 miles and 39 visits…
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We welcome the summer of 2020, but not as we expected to welcome it back in the cold of winter. We are welcoming it through masks, at a distance from loved ones, behind closed borders. Yet the Lord is with…
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Another month has passed, and another anniversary: in June we begin our 7th year of service with the Office of International Mission of The LCMS. Read about the month that was below in our newsletter, or download it in PDF…
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Someone on the internet joked that 2020 is an unusual year: February has 29 days instead of 28, March has 300 days and April is five years long. A Lutheran church in Winnipeg asked on their church sign if we…
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To help folks get through this unprecedented pandemic and all that comes with it – lockdowns, quarantines, loss of income, sickness and death – I’ve turned “Mid-Week with Christ” into a twice-weekly podcast. Listen below, or follow Mid-Week with Christ…
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Folks who have been reading my newsletter for the last six years have gotten used to seeing the familiar “Work Up North” and “Work Down South” sections on the front page. This month, there is only one: “Work under Covid-19.”…
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The novel coronavirus that came out of China in December is now sweeping across the globe, upending our lives in so many unexpected ways. For Christians, it has meant distancing ourselves from each other and even suspending physical church services.…
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It has been a busy month – and I, for one, am glad the Lord added an extra day to February this year! Read up on what the Lord Jesus has been doing through Charles St-Onge and his family this…
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