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.

Beyond Race

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Paul Harris

In 1989 tennis player Michael Chang won the French Open.  The crowd cheered the Chinese-American player until….

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Getting Your Head Around It

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Paul Harris

I’m not sure we ought to be able to get our head around a person killing others at random and then killing himself.  Mad dogs are mad.  Fallen humans are fallen and there is no bottom to which they can … Continue reading →

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Philosophies Men live By but Don’t Realize It

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Paul Harris

Surely it can’t be coincidence or accident that in God’s so-called silent years when He only spoke by the written Word and the visible Word of Old Testament Sacraments that the great philosophers did their speaking?  Between the Word of … Continue reading →

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Walther’s Woodshed

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Paul Harris

I was going to take other’s to C.F.W. Walther’s woodshed, but I found myself being hauled in there too.  Well if we’re going to get disciplined by the first president of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod let’s remember the … Continue reading →

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Shall the Circle Be Unbroken?

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Paul Harris

We’ll we’ve certainly completed our tyranny over them now.  The prophesy of Genesis 3:16 is complete:  The woman’s lust shall be for the man’s place and he shall be a tyrant over you.  The ACLU with their lawsuit on behalf … Continue reading →

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Concerning Visitation and Other Ways to Cut Pastors off at the Knees

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Paul Harris

President Harrison’s latest Lutheran Witness article is entitled “Concerning Visitation.” He makes some powerful assertions in this article.  Now, he does throw us all under the bus with his closing statement: “Absent visitation, we paralyze the ‘legs of the Gospel’ … Continue reading →

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Why Don’t We Commune Those Who Believe in Open Communion?

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Paul Harris

This is first and foremost a matter of pastoral care.  If I asked an LCMS Lutheran if they believed in infant Baptism and they answered “No,” you know I could not commune them.  Well those who believe Christians believing different … Continue reading →

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What Will Get You Thrown Out of Synod?

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Paul Harris

All confessional guys have said this for as long as I’ve been in the ministry. “I’m going to stay in the Synod till they throw me out.  That’s what Luther did.”

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Keith Richards: Higher than Higher Things?

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Paul Harris

Having finished Keith Richards’ biography Life, I can say with some authority that Keith is higher than Higher Things.

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When Second becomes First

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Paul Harris

Some years ago the St. Louis seminary began writing articles emphasizing the two kinds of righteousness: one before God and the other before men.  Even then what they didn’t emphasize is that one can be righteous before men without being … Continue reading →

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