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.

Visit to a Calvinistic Baptist Church – A High Point

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Paul Harris

Finally, after visiting a Pentecostal Church, a Bible Church, a Wisconsin Synod Lutheran Church, Redeemer Presbyterian, and St. Albert the Great Catholic church, I heard the Gospel proclaimed clearly, more than once, and not as adjunct to something else. It … Continue reading →

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Send Me Romans and I’ll Send You John or Money – An Open Letter to All Missionaries Seeking Money

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Paul Harris

I have been bombarded in the last two years with LCMS pastors seeking funding for their mission field. My response is “Send me the Book of Romans.”

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A Laughing Matter that isn’t Funny

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Paul Harris

I have a thirty-year-old cartoon in my files from Christianity Today. It depicts an absolutely frazzled man on the edge of a bed, phone plastered to his ear, with a freaked-out expression. The caption is: “My wife just left me, … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Pornography?

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Paul Harris

I know I have a blog referring to Mel Gibson’s movie The Passion as spiritual pornography (3-13-08), and I’m sure I have referred to Guideposts magazine that way in Bible Classes. I note that no pastor worth his salt would … Continue reading →

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Levels

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Paul Harris

There is a “Seinfeld” episode in which Kramer is obsessed with levels particularly having them in his apartment. It was the usual send-up. Perhaps, though, we should pay more attention to levels.

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Consumer Reports is Inaccurate

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Paul Harris

If you know anything about Consumer Reports, the magazine and the research group that supports them, you know they are fiercely independent. They accept no advertisement so that they can’t be accused of bias. Well I’m here to tell you … Continue reading →

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The Great Debate – Inherit the Wind

Posted on November 7, 2016 by Paul Harris

The debate between Doctors Kloha and Montgomery was truly great in that instead of pretending there are no differences among us those differences were brought into the light of day. However, like the Scopes Monkey Trial in which Clarence Darrow … Continue reading →

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Visit to a Catholic Church

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Paul Harris

It truly was catholic in the small ‘c’ sense. There were a variety of ethnic groups and ages all equally at home in the sanctuary and with each other. That’s not where the catholicity ended but that was where it … Continue reading →

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America, Behold Your gods!

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Paul Harris

America has three gods. They are the three C’s: Choice, Control, and Compensation. You mess with any of these and you bring a firestorm of popular resentment against you. And herein is the problem. 

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Walk Back Now or Be Marched Out Later

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Paul Harris

No prophet to be sure, but I am willing to predict that the churches that have women voting now will have women preaching within fifteen years and LGBT pastors within twenty.

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