Author Archives: Paul Harris

About Paul Harris

Pastor Harris retired from congregational ministry after 40 years in office on 31 December 2023. He is now devoting himself to being a husband, father, and grandfather. He still thinks cenobitic monasticism is overrated and cave dwelling under.

If not for the Laughing I’d be crying

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Give us 18 Minutes, we’ll give you the world

The Satellite News Network (SNC) debuted in 1982 with  this slogan.  It would be more accurate to say that if you give them 18 minutes they will give you their world, the world as they see it, believe it, edit … Continue reading

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Is Implying Closed Communion Practicing It?

Again, I don’t go browsing, surfing, or shopping the web for Communion Statements. Something else brought me to St. Paul Lutheran Church & Early Childhood Ministry, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod,  Columbus, IN. Once there I checkd out their Sunday bulletin, … Continue reading

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Who’s Writing the History Now?

You know the adage that history is written by the winners. Well, it’s re-written by the losers. Solzhenitsyn points out in one of his books on the Gulag that the Soviets removed from their history ¾ of what really happened. … Continue reading

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Woman the Glory of Man?

You know 1 Cor. 11:7, “For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man”, doesn’t mean that women exists to glorify us. … Continue reading

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Don’t Let the Old Man In

One of my sister’s sent me the link to the song named above on my birthday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc5AWImplfE.[i]  Give it a listen. You need to be a certain age to really appreciate it. My older brother said: He sneaks in. My older … Continue reading

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Useful Suffering

When suffering one either migrates to the poll of despair or resignation; at least I do. We know that despair is not of God but of the Evil One. We know that resignation is the refuge of the fatalists, Stoics, … Continue reading

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To be Hoisted Yet Again

Having recently published a blog about the ‘necessity’ (This word seems ill-advised in this context, but nevertheless.) of properly discerning what is truly adiaphora I find myself flummoxed, adrift, even asea.

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Apparatchiks Я Us

I’ve been banging on Concordia Health Plan’s publication Better Health for years. To sum up my take from 2013 (“Better Health Poorer Christianity” 7-29-2013) and from 2009 (“Food for Thought” 11-09-2009), I would subtitle Better Health with :Poorer Theology.

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Fruit Dragging the Ground

If you don’t know what to say about this 2002 Editorial Cartoon, you don’t understand the bizarre nature of the Pro-Death movement. If you aren’t moved to write a Letter to the Editor in response, you might not be as … Continue reading

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