“The Essentials of the Faith” are the things that are absolutely necessary for us to understand about our faith. In these messages Pastor Harris identifies the wall that exists between God and Man and how Jesus came to knock that wall down.  He will discuss many topics including substitutionary death, why God became a Man, redemption, justification, forgiveness and many more. In this episode, Dad will discuss the disease of sin. 

Pastor Harris identifies the wall that exists between God and Man and how Jesus came to knock that wall down.  He will discuss the topics of the disease of sin, substitutionary death, why God became a Man, redemption, justification, forgiveness and many more.

Our lives consist of a series of choices.  Choices that lead to consequences. Consequences can lead to doubt and doubt can lead to fear.  How do we deal with fear? As fear sets in on the Children of Israel what do they do?

Through comparing the diametrically opposed characters of King Saul and King David, Pastor Harris teaches us about the two selves that battle with us and how we can be our ideal selves.

Pastor Harris juxtaposes grace to that of justice and mercy. With Justice you receive what you deserve, with Mercy you receive less then you deserve and with Grace someone else takes what you deserve. Pastor Harris also touches on the topics of free will and how it can make our lives hell on earth.  Also discussed are the two attitudes that can stop us from appropriating God’s grace.

Pastor Harris teaches from the story of David Ben Jesse and Goliath of Gath and how David was motivated by the Holy Spirit and uses positive words that align with God’s will to defeat the giant.  David uses the ABC’s of faith.  David takes ACTION, he BELIEVED because he had CONFIDENCE.In the story, David takes his rod in his hand and goes to the brooke and collects his five flat stones. There is an interesting fact pointed out in the introduction to this message that Rabbi’s believe that the staff of Moses was passed down to Joshua and then passed down to Samual; he gave it to David when he anointed him.We are in war, this life of ours is in a war, a spiritual war, and whether we win or whether we lose is in the power of our words.  Guard your words.

Pastor Harris walks us through the religion to relationship evolution of the lying, maming, torturing, murdering, Paul of Tarsus to Paul the follower of Jesus Christ (Galatians 1:6-14). Salvation is not based on what we do or who we please. Religion says you missed the mark... relationship says you are unconditionally loved because of who you are, a child of God. The number one thing that Pastor Harris always taught was that Christianity is not a religion, it’s a relationship. This phrase represents the teaching legacy that he has left behind. It is so very important to what we are continuing to do with Pastor Harris’s teachings that we may very well remind our listeners of this every episode. So today I have found a message where he talks about this very topic through the story of Paul. Pastor Harris literally despised the idea of religion and in this message he has some, well i’ll just say it, some pretty strong things to say about religion.  However as much as he despised religion he was the foremost advocate of relationship. The Lord loves you because who you are not the things you do, we are his children, it is about what his son did for all of us on the cross.So with that said, here is a message originally recorded just short of 10 years ago about the lying, maming, torturing, murdering Paul of Tarsus and his evolution to become Paul the follower of Jesus.  This message is simply titled, “Religion vs. Relationship”.

A fascinating take on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the types and shadows that accompany it. Get Pastor Harris’s take on where we fit into that story. Who is the Good Samaritan?

In this series Pastor Harris has attempted to show us six steps which could lead us to the very highest place a Christian can reach in life, and that place is to be seated together with Christ on His throne according to Revelation 3;20-21. Of course, we all recognize the fact that we are not dealing with physical realities here.  When we ascend the six steps, we are not going to find Christ sitting in a great big chair, and He is not going to scoot over as far as He can so that we can slip in beside Him. In fact, when we talk about being seated with Christ we are not speaking of physical, visible, tangible experiences at all, we are speaking of spiritual realities; and invisible things.Pastor Harris used Solomon”s throne as a model. He wanted us to see that for Solomon to sit down on his throne, he had to ascend six steps. He has shared with us 5 steps, and today he will introduce the sixth which is this: to actually sit down with Christ on His throne. This final teaching in this series is entitled, Seated with Christ.

Over the last 4 teachings Pastor Harris has been pointing to the fact that the goal of every Christian is to be seated with Christ on His throne. This is where He wants us to be, but what does that mean to be seated with Christ on His throne? How do we get to this place and what does His throne represent?Today we will examine step 5 in our journey to the throne, which is this: Christ was resurrected from the dead.  This leads us to today’s teaching entitled: Resurrected with Christ”.