Relational Grace Podcast
Relational Grace Podcast
Nick Harris with Ariel Ministries
Sharing the teaching of Relational Grace through the lifelong ministry of Pastor Nick Harris who teaches that Christianity is not a religion but a relationship. Supplemental content at RelationalGraceBlog.com. Learn more at ArielMinistries.com.
#3 The Birth of the Church: Get Out of the Way!
Send a text Focusing on the first chapter of the book of Acts. The church, the body of Christ was transferred from his physical body and the church was transferred to us and we become the church. In this teaching we will discuss the betrayal of Judas. Many of us have our own theory of Judas, maybe when we were younger we formed this opinion based on a lot of the artistic renderings of him with the scowl and so forth. However, maybe Judas was the politician of the group, pretty savvy, pretty s...
May 5, 2025
41 min
#2 The Birth of the Church: The Gamble of Judas
Send a text If the religious leaders of the church thought they had an issue with Jesus when he was alive, well boy they have a bigger issue now! It’s kind of like one of those sci-fi movies when you chop the little monster in half and it basically multiplies and creates two more little monsters. That is exactly what is happening. All of the sudden, Jesus is no longer here physically, but he has multiplied in the believers. Now there are 300, 600, 1000, 2000, 10000 and this thing is com...
Apr 28, 2025
39 min
#1 The Birth of the Church: The Acts of the Holy Spirit
Send a text At Easter we celebrate the resurrection of Christ, the week preceding that we typically focus on the events leading up to the cross. That was the culmination of the perfect life of Jesus which was sacrificed for all of us. Now in this series we will focus on the other side of the story. If you can imagine, just for a moment, it is AD 31, 32, maybe and we are believers, maybe we are one of the 11 disciples that remain, perhaps we are one of the several hundred believers, or m...
Apr 22, 2025
43 min
Oklahoma City Bombing Day-of Story: An Interview with Kris Skinner former Director of Property & Programming at First United Methodist Church
Send a text It is truly hard to believe that we are approaching the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. As many of you are well aware at this point, Pastor Harris, was the pastor of First United Methodist Church, which is situated directly east of the OKC bombing site. Pastor Harris was at the church that day, and we have shared his story both in audio podcast as well as video on our YouTube channel. However, in this episode we will hear from Kris Skinner, a cherished f...
Apr 14, 2025
58 min
#4 - Four Lies of Satan: Inferiority Complex - “I am what I am, and I cannot change.”
Send a text In the first three episodes of this series, Pastor Harris touched on one key topic in each teaching. In episode one, “The Performance Snare”, Pastor Harris discussed the topic of Justification and that we are completely forgiven and have become fully pleasing to God. We no longer have to fear failure. In the second episode, “Approval Addiction”, Pastor Harris touched on the topic of Reconciliation and that we are totally accepted by God and we no longer have to fear re...
Feb 24, 2025
33 min
#3 - Four Lies of Satan: The Blame Game - “I am not responsible for what I do, someone else is.”
Send a text In the first two episodes of this series, Pastor Harris touched on one key topic in each teaching. In episode one, “The Performance Snare”, Pastor Harris discussed the topic of Justification and that we are completely forgiven and have become fully pleasing to God. We no longer have to fear failure. In the second episode, “Approval Addiction”, Pastor Harris touched on the topic of Reconciliation and that we are totally accepted by God and we no longer have to fear reje...
Feb 19, 2025
33 min
#2 - Four Lies of Satan: Approval Addiction - “I must be approved by certain others to feel good about myself.”
Send a text Last week Pastor Harris started a series of sermons in which he will examine four of the major lies that Satan uses to destroy the lives of far too many people. We looked at the first of these lies in the last episode which is this, “I must meet certain standards of behavior so I can feel good about myself.” In this episode, Pastor Harris will deal with the next lie which is this, “I must be approved by certain others to feel good about myself.” This leads to a ...
Feb 5, 2025
31 min
#1 - Four Lies of Satan: The Performance Snare - “I must meet certain standards of behavior so I can feel good about myself.”
Send a text To say 2025 hasn't kick off how I had hoped would be an understatement. No, I am not talking about politics or anything like that, who knows, maybe it is the tribulation Pastor Harris mentions in this teaching that is needed, time will tell. But spoiler alert… here shortly you will here Pastor Harris mention how tribulation produces perseverance, and perseverance produces character, and amazingly enough, character produces hope. All the sudden, I am starting to think that maybe a ...
Jan 30, 2025
34 min
#10 Esther - The Sweet Taste of Victory
Send a text In II Corinth 2:14 there is a verse that speaks directly to our Pastor’s present series of sermons. It reads as follows: “Thanks be to God who in Christ always leads us in triumph and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of Him everywhere.” These words sum up what the Christian life is all about. The apostle Paul wrote these words, after a terrible experience in which he had been abused so badly that he feared for his life. Yet, out of that, he writes that victory is ...
Nov 25, 2024
34 min
#9 Esther - Change Radical Change
Send a text As we saw last Sunday, the cry of Esther as she appeared before the Emperor for the second time was similar to the cry of the apostle Paul in Romans 7. "Oh, wretched man that I am…” She cried, “Oh wretched woman that I am.” Then she added something like this: “Who will deliver me and my people from this law of sin and death that has been uttered in the Emperor's name and cannot be revoked?" But the king was helpless! He could only reply to her request by saying, "I can do nothing...
Nov 18, 2024
38 min
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