Category Archives: Missouri Megatrends

On Exploded Ordinance

Posted on June 18, 2018 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

If you drive about a major military installation, you will find signs warning you to be aware of live ordinance. An EOD, Explosive Ordinance Disposal, officer told me in 1993 that every year around Fort Hood someone is injured or … Continue reading →

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Is This Confessional Lutheranism? A Critique of Confessing the Gospel, Volume I

Posted on May 28, 2018 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

              The following is based on a presentation to my Bible Class on April 22, 2018. It was suggested that I put it in a blog. I would like to think I have refined it and not watered it … Continue reading →

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Look to the Rock from which You were Hewn – Visit to a Baptist Church

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

“Look to the rock from which you were hewn,” is a call from Isaiah 51:1. Israel was to look to Abraham and Sara from which the Promised Seed came and therefore their righteousness did. In popular parlance it means to … Continue reading →

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A Janus-faced Synod

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

There are words in English that mean two different things. For example, ‘bolt’ means both secure in place and to dart away. ‘Dust’ means to both remove material and spread material. ‘Trim’ means to both add and to take away. … Continue reading →

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Politics and Peeing on New Hay – Rerun

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

This is not deja vu. You might have read this in May of 2008; you could have read it in 1998. Think of this as my Carthago delenda est. I am republishing because both at the district and synodical level the political … Continue reading →

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What do Seminex, Kloha, and ELDONA have in common?

Posted on December 26, 2017 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

The answer to this query comes from me, but it is based on an article written by the Reverend Doctor David Scaer. It is good to know not everyone is asleep at the switch at the seminaries, not everyone is … Continue reading →

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Playing First Century in Red Pantaloons

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

Krister Stendahl, a Swedish Lutheran theologian, gave a lecture at an Episcopalian seminary in 1982. It was on Romans. I was in attendance. I remember thinking either this man is too smart for me to understand or so stupid he … Continue reading →

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The Fabricated Luther

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

In Dr. Uwe Siemon-Netto’s helpful 1993 book The Fabricated Luther he shows how it takes a misreading of history to lay Hitler and Nazism at the feet of Luther. But the Luther fabricated by William Shirer in his 1960 book … Continue reading →

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Coupage Coal Miner’s Communion, and Mutage

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

The 1970 book Wines for Everyone says this. “It would be neat to say that there is only one kind of bad wine but a million sorts of good. Unfortunately, this is untrue, for the ingenuity of some wine merchants … Continue reading →

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A Boat with Billowed Sail

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

Whether it’s Peter, Paul, and Mary’s 1963 “Puff the Magic Dragon,” or the 1977 – rather annoying – song by Styx “Come Sail Away” or the 1980 – less annoying – song by Christopher Cross “Sail Away”, images of the … Continue reading →

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