Monthly Archives: August 2024

Let’s Stop Putting a Question Mark over Baptismal Regeneration

Posted on August 26, 2024 by Paul Harris

For centuries, the practice among Lutherans has been to ask the sponsors on behalf of the infant to be baptized to confess the faith and renounce the devil for him. Once ordained in 1983, I used the liturgy as then … Continue reading →

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That Don’t Impress Me Much

Posted on August 19, 2024 by Paul Harris

Crosspoint Church, Georgetown, Texas is my third outing to a Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod church. At the following link you can view the one I attended on 23 April 2023: https://crosspointgtx.wpengine.com/liveworship/ . But if you want to know where the … Continue reading →

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At Least it Isn’t Pot

Posted on August 12, 2024 by Paul Harris

In the first Episode of HBO’s “White Lotus”, an uber rich family is vacationing at an uber-fancy Hawaiian hotel. The mom comes into where her daughter and friend are smoking pot. As they quickly put their gear away, the mom … Continue reading →

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50 Years Later and We’re Still at War with the Unborn

Posted on August 5, 2024 by Paul Harris

Don’t you cringe when women, usually in their mid-20s, express such righteous indignation at the Supreme Court could taking away a right they have had for 50, count ‘em, 50 years. I suppose anything twice as old as you seems … Continue reading →

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