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.

Scripture as Graffiti

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Paul Harris

They finally got rid of the dingy Mobil gas station across from the church.  After hearing it was to be a new bank and then a wine bar, it became another gas station.  But this is not your father’s gas … Continue reading →

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Antichrist – a Teaching to be Ignored

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Paul Harris

“Luther’s judgment of the papacy as Antichrist is no longer accurate with respect to the modern papacy.  But at that time it did apply, insofar as the papacy was destroying God’s order in the world because of a false understanding … Continue reading →

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What’s Worse than a False Dichotomy?

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Paul Harris

What’s worse than a false dichotomy?  The failure to recognize a true dichotomy.  President Harrison’s latest discovered truth is in his words garnered from “studying and paging through my Greek New Testament” yet, strangely enough, it is quoted from Kittel’s … Continue reading →

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Stamping on C-4

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Paul Harris

C-4 is a plastic explosive I was trained to use.  You could take a piece of this white doughy substance and safely heat your C-Rations.  But if you tried to put that fire out by stamping on it, the resulting … Continue reading →

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Studies in Progress to form a Synod

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Paul Harris

That’s what the headline of the press release should have been from the latest meeting of the ACELC Steering Committee and the LCMS.  But below is what it was.  I kept the ! and didn’t change it to 1 because this comes … Continue reading →

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The Sound of Silence

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Paul Harris

I don’t think Simon and Garfunkel were praising the sound of silence in their song by that name.  After all, they have the line “Silence like a cancer grows.”  They don’t appear to praise silence; I do.

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What’s Wrong with the Church?

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Paul Harris

I wrote this 14 years ago for Vox Sine Nomine. It’s still true to today.

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Speaking the Same Old Things to Homosexuals

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Paul Harris

The fall 2010 issue of Higher Things has an anonymous article entitled “Speaking Hope to Homosexuals,” but I find it speaking the same old things.

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The More you Know the More You Trust Bayer

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Paul Harris

That’s a slogan for Bayer aspirin, but I think it might apply to the German theologian by the same surname.  Granted he has a lingering case of higher criticism, but two doses from him can spare us in Missouri some … Continue reading →

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CTCR catches up to Ptolemy

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Paul Harris

The CTCR’s latest report “Together with all Creatures” April 2010 perpetuates a modern myth: that the space program first taught us how small we are.

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