Relational Grace Podcast

Send a text This episode marks the final teaching of the Spiritual Gifts teaching series. What a fascinating teaching Pastor Harris has saved for the last. I have to admit I have probably listened to this teaching over five times to fully understand everything Pastor Harris was trying to get across to us.  In this Pastor Harris will cover the nine manifestations of the Fruit of the Spirit. I can’t...

Send a text In this episode Pastor Harris will be continuing his teaching on the topic of the manifestation gift of tongues.  More specifically he will begin this teaching discussing the function of the gift of tongues and he will end it by discussing the final manifestation gift which is the gift of the interpretation of tongues. There is quite a bit of detail Pastor Harris has to unpack on this...

Send a text After the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995, Rich Mullins contacted First United Methodist Church after their church building had been destroyed.  He surprised the congregation on Father's Day that June with a concert they would never forget.  Recent Hi8 video footage was found of this day and we are very excited to share it with those that remember that day, and those who miss Rich a...

Send a text Pastor Harris will continue on in his teachings on the Spiritual Gifts.  Specifically his teachings on the Manifestation Gifts. In the last episode Pastor Harris taught us about the gift of prophecy as it relates to the idea of manifestations, he also covered the gift of discerning spirits. In this teaching he will begin covering the eighth and ninth manifestation gift which is the gif...

Send a text In this episode we will continue learning more about the individual Manifestation Gifts.  In the last several episodes Pastor Harris has taught us about the manifestation gifts of the word of knowledge, the word of wisdom, faith and healing. In this teaching Pastor Harris will discuss three more of the Manifestation Gifts. He will cover the gift of miracles, the gift of prophecy as it...

Send a text In this episode Pastor Harris will continue teaching on the eleven Manifestation Gifts.  More specifically he’ll cover the gift of Faith and the gift of Healing. Not only that, he will use two stories from his life to illustrate these gifts.  I won’t give much away on these stories but I will tease them by saying they may or may not include a Volvo and a bottle of vegetable oil. Suppor...

Send a text In this episode of our teaching series on the Spiritual Gifts, we will continue to dive into the final category of gifts that Pastor Harris refers to as the Manifestation Gifts.  The first category consists of the seven motivational gifts, the second category consists of the eleven equipping gifts, also called ministry gifts. There are a total of nine Manifestation Gifts and in this te...

Send a text As we continue this Spiritual Gifts teaching series, Pastor Harris has made his way through what he calls the Motivational Gifts and then into the Equipping Gifts, which as a reminder are also referred to as the Ministry Gifts.  We’ll now dive further into another subsection of the Equipping Gifts which Pastor Harris reluctantly refers to as the “minor” gifts.  Now there are eleven Equ...

Send a text I hope everyone has been enjoying this Spiritual Gifts teaching series.  This episode will mark our seventh lesson in this series in which Pasto Harris will continue his teachings on the equipping gifts, which he also refers to as the ministry gifts.  In the last episode her taught us about the ministry gifts of the apostles, the prophets, and the evangelists. In this lesson he will di...

Send a text As Pastor Harris continues to walk us through the Spiritual Gifts, in the last episode he completed his teachings of what he refers to as the Motivational Gifts, or in the Greek, these are referred to as the CHARISMATA.  In this episode he will get into the Equipping Gifts, or in the Greek, these are referred to as the DOMATA. Being equipped, as we are all becoming very aware, is one o...

Send a text In the last four episodes, Pastor Harris has been teaching about each of the spiritual gifts, gifts that he refers to as the “motivational gifts”. In this teaching, he’ll cover the last two of those motivational gifts, which include the gift of administration and the gift of empathy.  It has been great taking a deeper dive into each of these gifts and learning about the intricacies of...

Send a text n this teaching Pastor Harris will follow a similar format as our last episode, this time he’ll cover the motivational gift of exhortation and will then cover the motivational gift of giving. He’ll walk us through what both of these gifts entail, and will wrap up each one listing seven dominant characteristics for both of these gifts. Support the show

Send a text In this teaching Pastor Harris will discuss two more Spiritual Gifts, two that he has categorized as motivational gifts.  One is the gift of servanthood, and the other is the gift of teaching. It really is fascinating to listen to these gift bearer's descriptions.  Hopefully you all are having a similar experience as I am, learning about your own giftings. Support the show

Send a text As always we hope everyone enjoyed our introductory teaching on the Spiritual Gifts.  I for one am very intrigued with the three categories of gifts that Pastor Harris has provided for us.  Of those three categories I am referring to, one contains 7 motivational gifts,  another contains 11 equipping gifts and another contains 7 manifestation gifts.  I am looking forward to digging into...

Send a text In this episode we kick off one of our largest teaching series to date; Pastor Harris is going to walk us through the Spiritual Gifts. What are the spiritual gifts?  How many of them are there? How do we know which gifts we have? There are so many questions to be answered on this topic. In this episode Pastor Harris will examine these God given abilities through the lens of none other...

Send a text Given the nature of this podcast and how it is dependent on past recordings, it is inevitable that we are going to run into instances where we simply don’t have the full recording of the teachings.  Well sadly on this final teaching of dad’s 2017 Advent series it seems that the entire teaching was not captured successfully. However, I say we don’t let that get us down.  I say this Chri...

Send a text This episode marks the third week of this Advenseries.  It is that time when we remember God’s decision to become a man, and when we look ahead with anticipation to his second coming to establish his kingdom on earth. The magnitude of this first aspect of Advent, God’s decision to become a man is truly incredible. Just think about it! The one true God, the God who brought the world int...

Send a text In this episode we will jump into the second episode of our Advent series this year titled, “The Christ of Christmas”. Pastor Harris will tell us more about the “Little town of Bethlehem” which was made famous by the great Christmas carol that we all have sung so many times. Bethlehem is located some six miles south of the city of Jerusalem near the chief north-south route that links J...

Send a text Now if the Bible clearly teaches that when Jesus entered the life of this world, He was born in a land, and to a people who enjoyed a unique relationship with God. We would imagine, of course, that these people would welcome Him with open arms. Unfortunately, none of these things would prove to be true. Rather than being received with open arms, He was rejected and hated, not adored. W...

Send a text As we wrap up Pastor Harris’s fourth and final message on Discouragement.  Let’s step back a few episodes to episode one where Pastor Harris defined discouragement and explained this with some of his own personal examples.  In the second episode on discouragement, Pastor Harris discussed Its many causes and ways that Christians can combat these feelings. In the third episode, Pastor Ha...

Send a text We are continuing on to Pastor Harris’s third message on Discouragement.  In the last episode Pastor Harris discussed the causes of discouragement and ways that Christians can combat these feelings. In this episode, Pastor Harris will discuss three “don’ts”, or three things we should avoid doing to rise above discouragement. Hopefully this message helps everyone listening to discover t...

Send a text As you all know we recently kicked off a series on Discouragement.  This episode will mark the second of four on this topic that Pastor Harris will deliver.  In the last episode Pastor Harris defined discouragement using its most basic definition of “losing heart” or “to lose heart”.   In this episode Pastor Harris will address some of the causes of discouragement, specifically some th...

Send a text We are excited to kick off a new series on the topic of Discouragement starting with this episode. Now I know this doesn't sound like the most exciting or uplifting message series ever.  However, it goes without saying that discouragement is something we all face to some degree and I feel like dad’s approach is very personal and in the end, highly ensightgul and very encouraging....

Send a text This episode marks the sixth and final teaching of the series Six Impediments to Personal Success . In this message Pastor Harris will bring the final of the six impediments which relates to the human tendency to become disorganized, thus dysfunctional. To demonstrate how this occurs, pastor Harris will use the biblical example of the twin brothers, Esau and Jacob, two brothers who cou...

Send a text In this episode, Pastor Harris will continue his sermon series entitled, “Impediments to Personal Success.” In this series, he is pointed out how the great people of faith guaranteed their successes by their attitudes. Pastor Harris will be addressing what he calls a Lone Ranger mentality, one he considers to be a great impediment to succeeding. So, in this message Pastor Harris will f...