Category Archives: Contemporary Worship

The Excruciating 21st Century

Posted on May 19, 2025 by Paul Harris

You can say something is excruciatingly funny or that a comedy is excruciating. “But the root sense, all pain, is: ‘to crucify.” The Lain ex functions as an intensive. Cruciare ‘to crucify’ has the generalized sense to torture. That’s from … Continue reading →

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21st Century High Place – Life.Church

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Paul Harris

I’ve had my eye on this “church” ever since they bought the building Kohls vacated, tore half of it down, and rebuilt a big box to replace the big box retailer that was there. This really is a Big Box … Continue reading →

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Give us 18 Minutes, we’ll give you the world

Posted on March 24, 2025 by Paul Harris

The Satellite News Network (SNC) debuted in 1982 with  this slogan.  It would be more accurate to say that if you give them 18 minutes they will give you their world, the world as they see it, believe it, edit … Continue reading →

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Apparatchiks Я Us

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Paul Harris

I’ve been banging on Concordia Health Plan’s publication Better Health for years. To sum up my take from 2013 (“Better Health Poorer Christianity” 7-29-2013) and from 2009 (“Food for Thought” 11-09-2009), I would subtitle Better Health with :Poorer Theology.

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GodConnect Videos – Connecting With the Video Generation

Posted on October 7, 2024 by Paul Harris

I grew up when the marks of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod were the “L’s”. Lutheran Layman’s League, Lutheran Women’s Missionary League, and Aid Association for Lutherans. You saw these “L’s” and you knew you were home where, to steal … Continue reading →

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Pete Seeger was right

Posted on September 30, 2024 by Paul Harris

If you’re going to listen to Pete Seeger’s antiwar anthem, written in 1955 but made popular in the 60’s, listen to the Kingston Trio’s 1962 version. Songfacts.com says, “Pete Seeger wrote this song as a call for peace.

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It’s Baack!

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Paul Harris

It’s baack, and you’d sooner have a poltergeist than this spirit. I’ve predicted for over 20 years that the Charismatic Movement that disrupted Christendom from circa 1965 – 1980 would be back. It was driven to the Side-Show Bob of … Continue reading →

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PFocus – Visit to Pflugerville Community Church

Posted on September 2, 2024 by Paul Harris

I struggle to write concise blogs of my visits to other churches. Pflugerville Community Church is just like the dozen other Contemporary Worship churches I have visited. The leaders all, including the LCMS and WELS churches, address the congregation as … Continue reading →

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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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