Faith Lutheran Church, Dartmouth, NS

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Faith is a commonly used term. For example, you might say to a friend, "I have faith in you!" By that you mean that you have the confidence that he or she can and will do whatever you are counting on. Presumably you have a reason for that confidence. You know something about that friend and his or her abilities. Your confidence is not some naļve wish but is based on both those abilities and the willingness of that friend to do something for you. So, you might have a friend who is an auto mechanic whom you would trust to fix your car. You trust him for that but probably not to do your tax return. For that you might have an accountant friend. You might have faith in her to do your taxes.

That is also what we mean by faith in Christ. He is a friend whom we have come to know through his word, the Bible. We know some things about him, both verifiable, historical facts and things that he said, or that others said about him, that we can’t now prove scientifically. This knowledge we accept as true. But most important of all, we trust him to do what he says he can and will do. Faith, therefore, is a matter of knowledge, assent and trust. There is no such thing as blind faith within the Church!

Thus, when we say that we have faith in Christ, we do not mean only that we accept the fact that a man named Jesus lived in Palestine 2000 years ago. We mean that we believe and count on the things the Word of God says about him, for example, that he was born of the virgin Mary, that he worked many miracles and revealed God to us, that he suffered and died by crucifixion, that he rose from the dead and that he will come again to judge the living and the dead. We are absolutely convinced that those things are true and that Jesus will do what has yet to be done. We trust him; we count on him.

Such faith in Christ is a liberating and empowering force. We invite you to share that faith with us!

Information

Faith Lutheran Church
208 Main Street
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
(902) 433-0757

Rev. David Milette
Supervising Pastor
1-877-ATL-LUTH (1-877-285-5884)
(506) 384-9453

1. Divine Service (using Lutheran Service Book) is at 10:15 am.

2. Bible Study and Sunday School are after the service, starting at 11:30 am.

If you would like more information about either of these (or the church in general), please contact us.

Directions

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We are located at 208 Main Street, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada). We meet at 10:15 am on Sundays, and follow the traditional liturgy from Lutheran Service Book.

Car Directions:
208 Main Street is at the top of the hill between Weyburn Road and Guysborough Avenue/Raymoor Drive (the road has different names depending which part you look at). Since road signs are sometimes easy to miss and there are multiple names for the same road, landmarks might help in finding our building. There are traffic lights at the intersection of Main Street and Weyburn Road and Main Street and Woodlawn/Caledonia Road. If you are going up the hill toward Woodlawn/Caledonia Road, we are the second building on the right after Weyburn's traffic lights. If you go past a car dealership and then the college, you have gone too far. From Main Street and Woodlawn/Caledonia Road going down the hill, Guysborough Avenue/Raymoor Drive is the first intersection you will see, and the church is on your left just after that intersection. If you make it to the next set of traffic lights, you have gone too far. Since our parking lot is quite small, it is sometimes easier to park on Guysborough Avenue. (Parking on Weyburn Road isn't recommended, as that is a bus route).

Bus Directions: (HRM bus schedules)
The 10 Westphal bus starts its hourly run at the Student Union Building at Dalhousie University (in Halifax) approximately 10 minutes after the hour, and leaves the Bridge Terminal in Dartmouth at approximately 15 minutes to the hour. This bus goes right by the church and has a stop on Weyburn Rd (right around the corner from the church), and it arrives at 10 or 15 minutes after the hour (just in time for church). If you want to arrive a bit early (the bus takes quite a while to get to the church), there are two stops you can get off early at. If you get off the bus at the McDonalds at the bottom of the hill, and walk fairly quickly, you'll make it to the church at roughly 10 am... For an easier (and shorter) walk, use the stop nearest Woodlawn and Main Street (in front of the College). Walking down Main street only takes a few minutes and you'll arrive just after the hour.

Links

www.lutheranchurch.ca Lutheran Church-Canada official web-page.

www.lcceastdistrict.ca LCC East District web-page.

www.lcms.org Lutheran Church Missouri Synod's web-page. Lutheran Church-Canada's mother church.

www.GoodShepherd.nb.ca/sc/ The small catechism: unchanging, Biblical answers in a summary form even a child can learn to confess.

www.BookOfConcord.org The historic (and still current) common confession among Lutherans.

www.GoodShepherd.nb.ca Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Moncton, NB: our sister church in Atlantic Canada.

www.lll.ca Lutheran Layman's League.

www.issuesetc.org Issues, Etc. (TM) Christ-Centered Cross-Focused Talk Radio.

www.lcms.org/pages/default.asp?NavID=2707 Who is Jesus? (An LCMS page).

www.lcms.org/pages/internal.asp?NavID=524 What about ... ? A set of pamphlets written to explain what Lutherans believe about different subjects.

higherthings.org Higher Things-a Lutheran website for youth.

www.lhm.org Lutheran Hour Ministries.

www.concordiamissions.org Concordia Lutheran Mission Society. Learn about and support mission projects through this auxiliary of LCC.

www.lcms.org/pages/default.asp?NavID=887 LCMS World Mission. Learn about and support the mission work of our mother church.

www.soundwitness.org SoundWitness.org. A Lutheran apologetics and counter-cult ministry.

www.goodshepherd.nb.ca/seal/ A webpage explaining what Luther's Seal means.

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