Grace Lutheran Church, Winnipeg

Grace Lutheran Church, Winnipeg In-person and livestream services are held Sundays at 10:30 am. Masks are optional.

05/31/2026

May 31, 2026

05/30/2026

“The Good Samaritan”
“One does not have a neighbor; I make myself someone’s neighbor” -Paul Ricœur

This parable from Luke 10 is considered one of the most well known in the gospels. Like many other Christians, I have heard this story hundreds of times. However, it wasn’t until adulthood a mentor gave me a more significant understanding of this story.

When an expert in religious law, a lawyer, asks Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”, Jesus answers him with this parable. A man traveling down a well known dangerous road from Jerusalem to Jericho is ambushed by robbers, who steal his possessions, and beat him leaving him “half dead.” Two members of the lawyer’s own religious class pass the man by but the one who does stop is an outsider, a Samaritan, who takes pity on the man, caring for his wounds, and takes him on his donkey to a nearby inn. He is the true neighbor. Jesus tells them to go and do likewise. The Jewish listeners would have winced because at the time Samaritans were considered a member of an excluded group, an ‘other’. Jesus is giving the lawyer a lesson in God’s law of love.

In his short essay on this parable Paul Ricouer notes that the Gospel would completely condemn the modern world. Jesus is telling us that we don’t simply HAVE neighbors. We MAKE ourselves someone’s neighbor. This is a very anti-modern attitude. Through a modern world of fences, borders, screens, social media, ring cameras, automobiles, etc. we are increasingly living in an age of a dehumanized world of abstract, anonymous and distant relationships. Many often using, religion, politics or “the law” to distance themselves from the wounded and most vulnerable people in our communities. Immigrants, refugees, single mothers, the unhoused, and those in prison. Like all of the parables, Jesus is using this one for the church to imagine the kind of community it is called to be. The parables are meant to be lived. If you want to love your neighbor you are going to have to go make yourself one.

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05/30/2026

The Salam Radio Station, the first Arabic Christian ecumenical online media platform in the United States, was officially launched March 14.

05/30/2026

A Message for Pride Week 2026 Dear friends in Christ, As we prepare to enter Pride Week May 26 – June 7, 2026, we write to you with gratitude, hope, and a renewed commitment to the Gospel truth that every person is created in the image of God and worthy of dignity, safety, and love. In our...

05/30/2026

Historic moment for Lutherans in Kenya

Thousands gathered today for the consecration and installation of Bishop Catherine Ngina Musau as the new leader of the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church (KELC). She is the first woman bishop of the church.

In her address, Bishop Musau urged Christians to build bridges instead of walls, preserve unity amid diversity, serving one another in love.

Photo: LWF/Erick Kinyanguli

05/30/2026

When you are missing part of your docks- go search Dogtooth Lake and bring it home! Shout out to LV staff 2026!

05/30/2026

Meet Fabian Giordano Florez Martínez, a WASH specialist with LWF.

He works in remote Indigenous communities in Colombia, helping ensure people have access to:
✔️ Clean drinking water
✔️ Proper sanitation supplies, like soap
✔️ Hygiene education to prevent disease

Through his work, 80 water filtration kits are being distributed across eight communities, bringing safer water to families who need it most.

Thanks to the generosity of Canadian Lutherans and Canada’s International Development – Global Affairs Canada. CLWR and The Lutheran World Federation/ Federación Luterana Mundial Colombia y Venezuela is helping nearly 50,000 people in Colombia and Haiti access life-saving supplies like hygiene kits and water filters.

Read the full story: https://www.clwr.org/news-events/bringing-hope-to-remote-colombian-communities?utm_source=meta&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ColombiaStory

(CLWR photo/Shauna Turnley)

05/30/2026

God of the cosmos,
we thank you for making yourself
known to us in the solidarity
of your Word and flesh.
In the unity of the Holy Trinity,
we know life-giving love.

Nurture our unity,
that the world may believe
in your love, and live.

Amen.

Though the word trinity is not found in the scriptures, today’s second reading includes the apostolic greeting that ...
05/28/2026



Though the word trinity is not found in the scriptures, today’s second reading includes the apostolic greeting that begins the liturgy: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. In the gospel Jesus sends his disciples forth to baptize in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. More than a doctrine, the Trinity expresses the heart of our faith: we have experienced the God of creation made known in Jesus Christ and with us always through the Holy Spirit. We celebrate the mystery of the Holy Trinity in word and sacrament, as we profess the creed, and as we are sent into the world to bear witness to our faith. (From Sundays and Seasons)

Come and worship with us at 10:30 a.m., 31 May 2026 Anno Domini. All are truly welcome.

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Winnipeg, MB
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