Christ Risen Lutheran Church worship service videos

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Welcome to Christ Risen Lutheran Church! Divine Service is every Sunday @ 10:30 am. We are a confessional Lutheran congregation serving the communities of Kanata and Stittsville in Ottawa’s West End. We believe the Bible is the Word of God. We confess The Three Ecumenical Creeds: The Apostles’ Creed, Nicene Creed, and Athanasian Creed. We subscribe to the Book of Concord (1580). Christ Risen Lutheran Church is a member congregation of Lutheran Church—Canada. If you are visiting from a sister congregation and wish to receive communion, we ask that you kindly reach out beforehand to speak with our pastor. Guests may come for a blessing. For our first time visitors, our worship service follows an order of service laid out in our hymnal, the Lutheran Service Book. All are welcome.

Please join us for the worship services listed below.

What’s new at Christ Risen Lutheran Church

Please join us for Sunday morning Bible study. Bible study begins at 9:30 am. Anyone interested in attending a mid-week Bible study is asked to contact Pastor Lam. Choir practice has resumed on Tuesday evenings at 6:50 pm. New singers are welcome!

For more details about the Ottawa Circuit Fall Forum to be hosted by Christ Risen on Saturday, November 7th, click here.

The next meeting of Council is scheduled for Wednesday, November 18th at 7:00 pm.

The Canadian Lutheran featured a tribute to Christ Risen's long-time organist and choir director, Eloise Schaan, who was called to glory on August 25th, 2026. Also mentioned is Eloise's history as a church musician prior to moving to Kanata and her many contributions to the Lutheran Women's Missionary League (LWML).

Rev. Larry Beane, Pastor of Salem Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Gretna, Louisiana, visited Christ Risen in June and wrote a brief account for his blog at Gottesdienst: The Journal of Lutheran Liturgy.

For anyone desiring prayer or visitation, please call or text Pastor Lam at 514-979-1383. For a biography of Christ Risen's pastor, Rev. Milton Lam, click here.

The Church commemorates …

Martin Chemnitz on November 9th. The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod document of Commemoration Biographies describes Martin Chemnitz as follows: Martin Chemnitz (1522–1586) is regarded after Martin Luther as the most important theologian in the history of the Lutheran Church. Chemnitz combined a penetrating intellect and an almost encyclopedic knowledge of Scripture and the church fathers with a genuine love for the church. When various doctrinal disagreements broke out after Luther’s death in 1546, Chemnitz determined to give himself fully to the restoration of unity in the Lutheran Church. He became the leading spirit and principal author of the 1577 Formula of Concord, which settled the doctrinal disputes on the basis of the Scriptures and largely succeeded in restoring unity among Lutherans. Chemnitz also authored the four volume Examination of the Council of Trent (1565–1573), in which he rigorously subjected the teachings of this Roman Catholic Council to the judgment of Scripture and the ancient church fathers. The Examination became the definitive Lutheran answer to the Council of Trent, as well as a thorough exposition of the faith of the Augsburg Confession. A theologian and a churchman, Chemnitz was truly a gift of God to the Church.