Category Archives: For Pastors Only

Does Rome still teach Ex opere operato?

Posted on October 14, 2024 by Paul Harris

I’ve been on  2-year quest, odyssey really, to answer for myself if Rome still teaches ex opere operato. Based on the quote below from Rome’s official catechism of 1994, I doubt it.

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Is it Not Kicking the Dog or is it Rising Above Them?

Posted on June 24, 2024 by Paul Harris

This blog was written years ago just after the Covid dust began to settle. Now, 2024, I’m reading King Cholera, a 1966 “biography” of the disease that consumed England beginning in the early 1830s and lasted to the 1860s. O … Continue reading →

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Rick Perry Leads the Way into the Brave New World

Posted on March 11, 2024 by Paul Harris

This blog is a follow up to the September 9, 2019 blog “Let’s Get Chemical” and it carries the warnings and advisories of the June 29, 2021 blog “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. So you might want to read these before … Continue reading →

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The Truth About Grief – And Why It Won’t Matter

Posted on September 11, 2023 by Paul Harris

The Truth About Grief came on my radar in 2012. The book is an exposé of the myth perpetuated in the name of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. I first heard about it, I think, on NPR. It is well-researched and well-reasoned, and will … Continue reading →

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You’ve been Warned

Posted on January 16, 2023 by Paul Harris

This is for pastor’s only. If you are a layman, turn around now. I’m not kidding. I’ve shared such thoughts below in Bible classes and it bothered some. I can’t blame them. It bothers me. But you don’t need to … Continue reading →

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“I Support Rick Sawyer”

Posted on October 3, 2022 by Paul Harris

            That’s the title I saved this under in 2011. I think this is the writing of his I am referencing https://steadfastlutherans.org/2011/03/acelc-conference-the-divine-service-and-daily-offices-by-rev-rick-sawyer/ . As always from the original Seelsorger of the web, good stuff.

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Self Surgery

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Paul Harris

“Physician heal thy self,” is the old canard against pastors. Well, originally quoted against the Pastor of pastors. No, not churchmen, bishops, or district presidents, but Jesus. Why doesn’t it go the other way? You would think among those who … Continue reading →

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Yes, There is a Difference

Posted on February 21, 2022 by Paul Harris

Lutherans aren’t the only ones who distinguish between themselves with letter acronyms. The Reformed do too, particularly the Presbyterians. They have PCUSA, PCA, and OPC. This corresponds to Lutherans ELCA, LCMS, and ELS. I’d never been to an OPC that’s … Continue reading →

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Halfway to Concord

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Paul Harris

Concord is a Lutheran word. We have the Book of Concord of 1580 and the Formula of Concord of 1577, and yet we never seem more than halfway there. Despite having a formula  for it and book of it. Something … Continue reading →

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Of Killing Snakes and not Kids

Posted on August 9, 2021 by Paul Harris

               The story begins either with an outdoor writer, a district president, or a secretary but culminates with a journalist and an organist.

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