Relational Grace Podcast

Send a text In this episode we are going to continue our series entitled “Six Impediments to Personal Success.” This message for today will be the fourth in this series and will focus on the subject of a poor work ethic. Previously, Pastor has shown us three other impediments, the first is a negative self-image, the second is self-pity, and the third is what dad calls “stinking thinking.”   Wherea...

Send a text In this episode Pastor Harris will be focusing on the third impediment, the one he identifies as stinking thinking. In America today, this stinking thinking is a plague. To illustrate how a stinking thinking can be overcome, he will appeal to one of the great men of the Old Testament, a man whose name was Joshua ben Nun, the central figure in the Old Testament book focusing upon him. A...

Send a text In this episode, Pastor Harris will examine a second impediment to success, which is that of self-pity. It is related to the first but the two are not the same; not even remotely. This second impediment can be an abyss, and some of the greatest people who have ever lived have fallen into this abyss. Those people who have had the pleasure of seeing the movie, “The Darkest Hour,” have se...

Send a text Is it safe to say that everyone listening right now agrees that we all want to achieve our goals? I know I do. Personally, I’m a goal setter, sometimes I do it subconsciously but I definitely set goals. Now, we all probably also know that there are many impediments to achieving those goals, or certain impediments that will always stand in our way. Well, for the next six episodes Pastor...

Send a text As the great Apostle Paul opens Galatians 5, he returns once again to the all important issue of salvation and circumcision. As we recall, that was the issue that provoked the apostle to write the epistle to the Galatians in the first place. Bear in mind that certain Christians of a Pharisee persuasion who belonged to the church in Jerusalem had journeyed to the region of Galatia in As...

Send a text In this episode Pastor Harris will pick back up in Galatians, chapter 4:6-12 and discuss the process of maturing in God and many aspects surrounding that idea.  He points out how important it is to realize that simply asking the Lord Jesus into your heart does not automatically make you a fully matured Christian.  Furthermore, we should all try to avoid immaturing ourselves as a believ...

Send a text In this message Pastor Harris is going to tell us the Christmas story as presented by the Apostle Paul.  The amazing thing is that Paul tells the Christmas story and explains it with five easy words.  This is what Paul writes.  “When the fullness of time was come, God. sent. forth. his. Son. That is it. That is the Christmas story as told by the Apostle Paul. Obviously his version is v...

Send a text In the previous episodes of the Breaking the Chains series on the epistles to the Galatians. Pastor Harris makes a rather revolutionary claim.  He suggested that the Abrahamic covenant, the great agreement described in Genesis 15, is really the New Testament covenant. In other words, he believed that the Abrahamic Covenant was an initiation of the new covenant.  This covenant was estab...

Send a text You may recall the churches in Galatia were founded by the missionary activities of the Apostle Paul. But the believers in that area had turned away from the true gospel messages Paul had delivered to them.  In fact Paul said they had turned to another gospel. These congregations had allowed themselves to be seduced into believing that the Pauline Gospel of Jesus plus nothing was not a...

Send a text In this series we have been examining what Pastor Harris calls the Pharisee Gospel. Over the past seven episodes we have taken a close look at the various arguments of a group of Pharisee Christians used to convince believers in Galatia that they should abandon the concept of grace and submit to Jewish law. These Pharisee Christians were so convincing that many of the Galatians believe...

Send a text I hope everyone continues to enjoy the “Breaking the Chains” series.  This series sure continues to bring a very unique insight into the process of being born again and how the spirit continues to work in the believer from that point forward.  This week I was talking with a listener and we were discussing this series.  As we briefly discussed our thoughts and take aways thus far we bot...

Send a text In the last message of the Breaking the Chains series, Pastor Harris examined the thorny issue of the curse of the law in the so-called “Jerusalem incident”.  This incident involved a confrontation between the Apostle Paul and the leaders of the church in Jerusalem. What made this confrontation tricky was that some of the leaders in the church were some of the original 12 disciples of...

Send a text In the last episode we saw that the Apostle Paul had introduced the believers in Galatia to the concept of freedom in Christ. Paul knew once he had introduced this idea the legalists would show up in force, and they did!  Legalists came to Galatia to challenge this concept, and when Paul journeyed to Jerusalem they showed up again. Anytime freedom in Christ is championed, whether it be...

Send a text In this episode we will learn that the letter to Galatians is focused on two major struggles for the earliest church and how the outcome of those struggles would determine the future direction of the body of Christ on earth. These two struggles were as follows. Salvation by Grace vs Salvation by Works, and Spirituality by Grace vs Spirituality by Works. We should be aware that one majo...

Send a text In the past two episodes we have seen how certain Pharisee Christians have visited the church in Galatia. When they arrived they told the Galatians that the message they preach is just another Gospel of the same kind of what Paul preached. However, in the epistle to the Galatians that Paul writes, he says, no no no this is not the gospel I preach.  This is another gospel the opposite o...

Send a text In this episode we’re going to dig into the second message of the Breaking the Chains series we recently started featuring Paul’s letter to Galatia. As a quick refresher, Paul initially wrote this letter to address the mammoth problem that had originated in the churches. Paul and  Barnabas established churches in Galatia on their first missionary journey.  However, the believers had be...

Send a text In this episode, we are going to jump into a new series from the book of Galatians.  This series of teachings were delivered at Ariel Chapel in Norman Oklahoma back in 2011 and overlapped into 2012.  Paul’s letter to Galatia, like many other books, has its own theme. For example, the theme of the book of Romans’ is Justification by Faith.  The theme of Ephesians is the Church.  The the...

Send a text In this episode we will be wrapping up a quick three part series titled WW 3: When, Where and Why. In this teaching Pastor Harris will focus on, what he has learned according to scripture, which will need to happen in order to initiate WW III.  He will also break down the factors that should be considered to deduce the location this war or invasion will take place. He’ll also review so...

Send a text Today we are going to share the second of three teachings from a series we kicked off in the last episode called World War Three: When. Where. And Why. Pastor Harris will focus in on specific alliances that will assemble as the next World War approaches.  I will have to say that as Pastor Harris starts to chip away at some of this scripture in Ezekiel 38 there are a few elements that d...

Send a text In this episode we begin a new study titled, WW III: Who, What, When, Where, and Why? Many aspects of what Pastor Harris taught in the Beast from the East series could be applied here so weI thought we should go ahead and share this teaching now while topics like the prophetic timetable are fresh on our minds and our decryption and biblical decoding skills are finely tuned and well-oil...

Send a text In this episode we will close out the Beast from the East series, by discussing Armageddon and how Pastor Harris believes it could manifest itself in modern day… outside of the fact that this teaching was recorded about 20 years ago. You can expect a quick recap from Pastor Haris, so for those that back-to-back listen to some of these teachings, fear not, you are simply in a recap. The...

Send a text In this episode Pastor Harris will teach on the Anti-Christ and the various aspects leading up to his identity being revealed. These final two teachings in this series are going to be extremely revealing.  Now, before we continue forward we want to ensure that everyone listening understands that of course Biblical scripture is Biblical scripture, no one can deny that. However, much of...

Send a text In this episode, Pastor Harris will again dive deeper into the book of Daniel and focus on the five apocalyptic visions we have been touching on in the last two episodes. We’ll hear more about the statue of many metals as well as the four beasts.  Although Pastor Harris does touch on the same topics we have been talking about in earlier episodes, he takes a different approach in this t...

Send a text Pastor Harris will begin by taking us through Jeremiah chapter 50 which is a message about Babylon. He’ll then take us through a quick “Prophecy Fulfillment 101” that’s proved for me to be very important to take into account while listening to messages like these. If we look at the principles of the last episode we can see several continuing to take shape in our present time.  For exam...

Send a text Back in 2003 Pastor Harris prepared a study he titled “The Beast from the East.”  These topics included Daniel, Revelations, Armageddon and the Antichrist. However, in this series of messages Pastor Harris will discuss these teachings through the lens of the time, his time being 2003 when this was originally recorded. It was Indeed a historic time. Back in 2003 in the Persian Gulf War,...