What’s Wrong with the Church?

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

I wrote this 14 years ago for Vox Sine Nomine. It’s still true to today. Continue reading →

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Speaking the Same Old Things to Homosexuals

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

The fall 2010 issue of Higher Things has an anonymous article entitled “Speaking Hope to Homosexuals,” but I find it speaking the same old things. Continue reading →

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The More you Know the More You Trust Bayer

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

That’s a slogan for Bayer aspirin, but I think it might apply to the German theologian by the same surname.  Granted he has a lingering case of higher criticism, but two doses from him can spare us in Missouri some self-inflicted hangovers. There are two really good points to take away from Bayer’s book Martin Luther’s Theology. Taken like aspirin of the same name they might ward off a theological hangover. Continue reading →

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CTCR catches up to Ptolemy

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

The CTCR’s latest report “Together with all Creatures” April 2010 perpetuates a modern myth: that the space program first taught us how small we are. Continue reading →

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Bizzaro Martin

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

This post is to illustrate that Lutherans better not “believe in” Martin Luther.  We better not hold that everything he said, even from the pulpit, is a true exposition of the Word of God.  It also points out the dangers of anthologies. Continue reading →

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Horsemanship

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

Now there’s a word you don’t hear every day.  I don’t know why it’s not horsewomanship since it seems to me that women are fonder of horses and better with them than men are.   But then again the “Horse whisper” was male.  I digress.

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Keeping Your Powder Dry or Just Not Shooting

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

I loath long titles, so I apologize, but the war has been joined and one if by land and two if by sea didn’t seem to apply.  Our side (confessional, conservative Lutheranism) is electing to keep our powder dry.  Their side (American, liberal Lutheranism) has come out shooting.  I fear we’re really not keeping our powder dry; we’re just not shooting. Continue reading →

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You can Learn a lot from an Aristotle

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

Aristotle said it first, and I think this is what the Association of Confessing Evangelical Lutheran Churches with their Admonition is seeking to avoid. Continue reading →

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Drs. Laura and Meyer

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

Have you been party to the recent brouhaha over Dr. Laura’s repeated use of the “n” word during a broadcast?  She was trying to show a caller that it really was just another word.  She came out looking like a racist.  Reverend Dr. Dale Meyer, president of Concordia Seminary, wishing to address postmodernism comes out looking like a postmodernist. Continue reading →

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You’ve Got to be kidding!

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

This falls under the topic: You’ve got to be kidding me!  This information is taken from Acts Church Lakeway, Texas and is current as of August 2010.  Acts Church is a mission of the Texas District of the LCMS.  Here are your mission dollars at work. Continue reading →

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