Relational Grace Podcast

Send a text The day this episode was published marks the 27th anniversary of the Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.  It is a date that changed the lives of so many people.  Amy Moffiet was home with my two month old son, Christian. But the family of Pastor Nick Harris, knew that their dad was across the street.  We are excited to introduce a new friend of o...

Send a text Pastor Harris led his church and he led his community in the days, weeks and months following the Oklahoma City Bombing on April 19th 1995.  Listen as Pastor Harris tells his story to North Church's School of Ministry Leadership Class where his daughter Amy Moffiet is on staff.  This class took a field trip that day and toured the OKC Memorial and followed that tour up with a teac...

Send a text In this episode we are going to share Pastor Harris’s sermon from Easter Sunday, April 16th, 1995.  This would be the last Sunday Pastor Harris and the congregation from First United Methodist Church, or First Church as we will refer to it from here on out, would gather on the corner of 4th and Robinson in Oklahoma City for many years. For those new to this story, First Church was loca...

Send a text Amy Moffiet and Jamie Russell, Pastor Harris's children, share several podcast episodes and upcoming YouTube videos that will be shared soon.  These episodes and videos are relevant to the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing that Pastor Nick Harris and many others survived, and that took 168 lives. Support the show

Send a text We will finish strong as Pastor Harris explains to us how Nehemiah, who has quelled the external threats but now has to turn to a much more serious threat that has emerged internally among the people of Jerusalem. Pastor Harris is not simply telling a story here.  Of course, through types and shadows, he will share with us how these internal threats, if not properly addressed can domin...

Send a text On this second to last episode of the Nehemiah series we find Sanballat and Tobia, who Pastor Harris has revealed to us serve as a type and shadow of Satan and his minions, are forced to employ a military option as they see that the walls of Jerusalem are in fact on a direct path to completion.  Now, we will also learn about two distinct reactions the people of Jerusalem will have to t...

Send a text As the walls of the City of Jerusalem continue to rise, Pastor Harris is going to walk us through Satan’s attempt to discourage and detract the people of Judea.  Thinking back to the last episode, episode 10 of the Nehemiah series, which was all about the cooperative co-laboring of the Jedean people, and how this co-laboring made them stronger together. Let’s follow along today to see...

Send a text In this message Pastor Harris is going to teach on the importance of cooperation and co-laboring in our Christian walk.  Likewise, with successful cooperation and co-laboring the people of Judea begin to raise the walls of the City of Jerusalem, so shall we raise not only our individual protective walls but the protective walls of our co-laborers we are in cooperation with.  We will al...

Send a text This episode kicks off the ninth installment of our Nehemiah series. Pastor Harris will cover the various types of people it is going to take to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.  We’ll also learn about a few of the elements that contribute to Nehemiah’s success in Jerusalem. Some of these same elements can also be applied to our daily lives. Support the show

Send a text We continue on with Nehemiah’s nocturnal examination of the city of Jerusalem.  Last time we learned about some key gates on the south wall of the city of Jerusalem. In this message we will learn about the unique and storied history surrounding Jerusalem’s water supply and how it plays such a key role in allowing the people of Jerusalem the ability to continually remain behind its prot...

Send a text In this episode we will dig into the seventh installment of our Nehemiah series.  We will kick off with a very subtle arrival into Jerusalem and learn how Nehemiah began his efforts there and where he chose to begin the wall rebuilding efforts. We hope that everyone listening can really take in the new types and shadows headed their way this episode. I hope that if there are any listen...

Send a text In this episode we will continue on with the sixth installment of the Nehemiah series.   This message will review the specifics as well as the types and shadows surrounding the final of the four essentials from the last installment of Nehemiah.  First, let’s start with a quick recap of the four essentials Nehemiah requested from King Artaxerxes. The first of course is adequate time, th...

Send a text Today we dive into the fifth teaching of the Nehemiah series where we will learn about the four essentials that Nehemiah requested of King Artaxerxes. No spoilers here… these same four essentials are also required to rebuild our ruined lives or our own crumbled walls. Those that frequent this podcast know that part of our unique narrative is that of Pastor Harris’s life.  In this messa...

Send a text We continue following along as Nehemiah approaches the only man in the world in that day that had the power to change the circumstances that existed in Jerusalem. It just so happens that Nehemiah was the cupbearer to that man, and that man was King Artaxerxes of Persia, who he had a close relationship with.   Now as we recall from past episodes, Pastor Harris continues to share with us...

Send a text In this message Pastor Harris will dive into prayer.  Through the prayers of Nehemiah we will see effective prayer in action.  Nehemiah, as a type and shadow of the Holy Spirit, will serve as an advocate for the people of Judea. We will learn more about how we pray when we do not know exactly what we are praying for.  We will learn some general requirements for prayer and why.  We will...

Send a text In this episode we are going to hear about King Nebuchadnezzar overtaking Jerusalem, destroying the city and sending the Jewish people into exile. We learn about their return to the ruined city and it’s destroyed walls, and the many challenges they faced to rebuild. We also learn about Nehemiah and who he identifies as the perfect person to lead the rebuilding effort. With regard to Pa...

Send a text This episode is the first of the series on Nehemiah.  Today’s episode is a short introduction to Nehemiah but it also is a great introduction to Pastor Harris’s Circle Teachings that we reference often on this Podcast. In this message Pastor Harris will explain the main components or what the three main circles represent in these teachings as well as the various aspects to each.  Now i...

Send a text In this episode Pastor Harris answers the age old questions, "Why do bad things happen to good people.' Pastor Harris shares about his personal battle with this question, he shares some of the bad answers he received, and he shares his journey to get his own true answers.  Pastor Harris has a way of explaining in both simple terms but also explaining the complexities required...

Send a text In this episode, Pastor Harris will explain how man is created in the image of God, we are created as a triune being with a body, soul and spirit.  When we encounter and accept the  substitutionary death of Jesus, we are given the gift of regeneration.  We are born again.  Support the show

Send a text In this episode, Pastor Harris will explain to us the freedom we can experience because of the sacrificial death of Jesus on the cross.  His sacrifice sets us free from the penalty of sin and provides us the daily deliverance of the power of sin. Support the show

Send a text In past Essentials of the Faith episodes we talked about things like sanctification, justification, the second birth and all the elementary things that surround those topics. Pastor Harris has discussed a lot of big words like propitiation and redemption and Justification.  The last one of these we talked about Justification which is related to Propitiation, now we will talk about forg...

Send a text In this episode we learn more about the men we refer to as "The Wise Men".  Pastor Harris reminds us how important it is that we make it a standard practice to dig into scripture and make sure we really know what it’s telling us. Case in point, the Three Kings we find in the traditional Christmas story.   Dad was always a pretty straight shooter, so I got a kick out of dad’s...

Send a text This episode's message will focus on Joseph, the earthly father of Jesus, who is so often seen in the back of the paintings as an old bearded man wearing a brown robe.   But what do we really know about Joseph, the truth is, not a whole lot.  He was the husband of Mary.  He prepared the manger for the savior.  We know he was a descendant of King David.  We know he paid five pieces...

Send a text Today we will light the “Bethlehem Candle” where Pastor Harris will talk more about Mary, and take a deeper dive into what her experience had to have been like through these times.  Support the show

Send a text In this episode we will dive into the second of a five part Advent series titled "Good Tidings". Now in this message, Pastor Harris will focus on the unclean and ritually contaminated shepards who God chose to be the first to visit his son, the lamb of God, the savior.  Why wouldn’t God choose someone more knowledgeable, or more important, or more religious?  Well, we are all...