Category Archives: For Pastors Only

“I Know” Christians

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Paul Harris

Please note I’m not saying the following aren’t Christians, but it is not a Christian response to respond with, “I know,” when someone speaks the Gospel truth to you, yet, this often the response I get. 

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You’re Just a Kid!

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Paul Harris

“You’re just a kid!” O how age can be made an accusation.

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Ministerial Health

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Paul Harris

   There’s an oxymoron for you: “Ministerial Health.”  According to some researcher somewhere the “average” minister puts in 55 hours a week.  He vicariously experiences divorce, death, and disease more times a year then he would like to remember. And … Continue reading →

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Falling Flat on Your Face

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Paul Harris

  Nobody likes to fall flat on their face. It means embarrassment, humiliation, and defeat. I doubt there’s a pastor alive who has not had that dream where he fell flat on his face while giving a sermon: his notes … Continue reading →

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Amen to that!

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Paul Harris

 I was celebrating the Lord’s Supper one Sunday about 4 years ago.  I said the dismissal, “Now may this Body and Blood strengthen and preserve you in the true faith unto life everlasting.  Amen.”  As I said, “Amen,” I heard … Continue reading →

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On Receptionism and Touching the Ground

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Paul Harris

I was raised in the era when the Flag touching the ground was an unforgivable sin.  My time in the Army reinforced this.  When I flew the Flag from the flagpole outside our church the Sunday after 9/11, I was … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Jackasses

Posted on January 5, 2008 by Paul Harris

    One of my favorite apocryphal stories about Jesus goes like this:  Jesus, Mother Mary, and Joseph are fleeing the wrath of King Herod heading for Egypt. They are all riding on the back of a donkey. Joseph becomes impatient … Continue reading →

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Almost a Christian

Posted on December 22, 2007 by Paul Harris

     In the movie 300, Leonidas is leaving with his small band of men to fight the invading million man army of the Persians.  He bids his wife goodbye. As he marches away to certain death she calls out to … Continue reading →

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A Happy Christmas

Posted on December 15, 2007 by Paul Harris

     Driving from Texas to Michigan in December 1977  John Lennon’s “Happy Christmas” seemed to be on all the radio stations.  At that time in my twenty-year-old life Lennon’s melancholy lyrics particularly the line “so this is Christmas, and what … Continue reading →

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Bart Simpson is Right

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Paul Harris

Bart Simpson cleared it all up for me.  I’m not a regular watcher of the goggled-eyed little guy but I happened to catch a re-run of a Christmas episode.  Dad, Homer, had only received 13 dollars for a part-time job … Continue reading →

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