Dec2024
Daily Devotions – 5 million sent!
Early this month, LCA Daily Devotions reached a milestone worth celebrating when the total number of emails sent to subscribers reached 5 million! Since this very popular ministry began in 2017, many thousands of members and friends of the LCANZ have welcomed the devotions into their email inboxes.
Dec2024
Bishops explain ordination pathways
The four pathways to ordination in the LCANZ are explained in the new ‘Candidacy Pathways for the Office of the Public Ministry’ document released this month.
Dec2024
Preparing for nothing
by Pastor Tim Castle-Schmidt
Now listen, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.’ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes (James 4:13,14).
Dec2024
Governing bodies’ members appointed for next synodical term
The General Church Board has appointed members to nine of the LCANZ’s boards, committees and commissions for the 2024–2027 synodical term.
Dec2024
Witness at Christmas
by Anne Hansen
Many don’t know or relate to the story at Christmas – it’s just a nice story for children, in the same way as Santa Claus is – fictitious and harmless! Who is God? Everyone seems to have an idea of who a god is for them, but do they know the real God, who is the only one to offer eternal life?
Dec2024
Preparing for peace
by Pastor Tim Castle-Schmidt
But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness (James 3:17,18).