Category Archives: Missouri Megatrends

Lutheran Hour Ministries Wants to Connect You with Their Lutheranism

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Paul Harris

Lutheran Hour Ministries has developed an adult instruction course to connect you to their vision of Christianity. The course is titled “God Connects – A Course in Christianity.” It’s a 12 part course, and it is better than the 4 … Continue reading →

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Like Shepherd and Sheep to Slaughter

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Paul Harris

Theodore Roosevelt was running for governor of New York. He had gained renowned as the leader of the Rough Riders.  To energize his flagging campaign, he took along on his stump speeches veterans of that famous charge up San Juan … Continue reading →

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Deep calleth Unto Deep

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Paul Harris

In 1981 I attended a Synod-sponsored introduction of the then “new” hymnal, Lutheran Worship. This is where we adapted the thoroughly inaccurate “And also with you” in mimicry of Rome. Our new, new hymnal Lutheran Service Book (How I wish … Continue reading →

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Do I think we’re the only one’s going to Heaven?

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Paul Harris

We practice closed Communion not because we think we’re the only ones going to heaven but because there is only one way to heaven.

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The Voyage of the Damned

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Paul Harris

This is the title of a 1976 movie and 1974 book based on a true WWII era event. A ship with over 900 Jews sailed from Germany to Cuba in 1939 because of the rising tide of anti-Semitism.  Cuba wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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The Real Plasticity of the Text

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Paul Harris

The Reverend Doctor Jeffery Kloha has been pilloried for asserting the plasticity of the New Testament text.  I don’t agree in general with his paper that makes the argument and I don’t agree with how he reaches the following conclusion, … Continue reading →

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A Little Yeast, a Little Hole, a Little Pregnant

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Paul Harris

What do yeast, holes, and pregnancy have in common?  There really is no such thing as a “little” of any of these, and if nothing is done they will only get bigger.  Sane people want the mother to grow bigger … Continue reading →

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Where Have you Gone Joe DiMaggio?

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Paul Harris

So Simon and Garfunkel lamented in their 1968 song.  Having read the biography of the Yankee Clipper, Mickey Mantel, Ted Williams, and Stan Musial, history can have all of them save for Stan the Man.  My lament is for the … Continue reading →

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Faithless in Big, but Faithful in Little?

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Paul Harris

The LCMS, Inc. or some such entity connected with this behemoth wants to do for your church’s finances what LCMS, Inc. has already done to your doctrine. Don’t let them.

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The Word of Cambronne

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Paul Harris

I was hunting with my eldest son.  He happened upon a snake in tall grass.  Seeing it at the last second before stepping on it he sprang to one side, as only youth can do, yelled, “Snake!”, and as kind … Continue reading →

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