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.

Adult Confirmation Class 3

After looking around the internet and seeing what pastors, particularly my generation, were posting, I decided that my audio only catechism classes were better than some of them, even the video ones, that sounded liked the biology professor in Wonder … Continue reading

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“He who Lives by the Sword Dies by the Sword”

My title is Jesus’ words to Peter in Matthew 26:52, but they are also the 2013 tweet of then Congressman Ron Paul at the murder of Chris Kyle, the most efficient sniper the service has ever seen. I was incensed … Continue reading

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Adult Confirmation Class 2

After looking around the internet and seeing what pastors, particularly my generation, were posting, I decided that my audio only catechism classes were better than some of them, even the video ones, that sounded liked the biology professor in Wonder Years. What … Continue reading

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“At All Costs”

That is what the upcoming season of Lent is about. But without a little military background, you might not know how foreboding, far-reaching, how significant those three little words are.

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Adult Confirmation Classes – First Class

After looking around the internet and seeing what pastors, particularly my generation, were posting, I decided that my audio only catechism classes were better than some of them, even the video ones, that sounded liked the biology professor in Wonder … Continue reading

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Domestic Tranquility, The Trad Wife, or Feminism – The enemy of the female and femininity

Without a doubt Domestic Tranquility [i]is the best book I’ve read on feminism. It’s subtitled “A Brief Against Feminism” because she was a lawyer by training. She was about the same age as Ruth Bader Ginsberg the feminist icon, heroine, and example. She … Continue reading

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Egalitarianism

This is a picture of one of my son’s over 30 years ago in my LBE, Load Bearing Equipment. I’m sure they have other names for this gear now. In fact in the 70s it was called something else too. … Continue reading

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Sobriety, Ecstasy, Revivalism, and Church Growth

Here’s a title to rival Lutheran sermon titles from the 17th and 18th centuries. Let’s see if I can make it make sense.

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The Relationship Between Trophies for all and Elitism for None

All my kids (I think) played Little League in Louisiana. It was in the mid to late-nineties that one of them came home from his last game with a foot or taller trophy. I know his team was not in … Continue reading

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Back-Alley Abortions and Murder

Now that abortion “rights” have become a states’ issue and no longer a federal right you regularly hear rabid young women (mostly) fairly frothing at the mouth foretelling back-alley abortions and the butchering that entails. On the right, you will … Continue reading

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