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 this imminent threat. How will Nehemiah combat the negative reaction some of the people of Judea are having? ...

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 how the people of Judea reacted to this attack by the evil one. Likewise let’s learn how we can react to...

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 also see how Nehemiah's gift of administration regarding how he appointed his leadership played a significant...

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.

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 protective walls.  

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 listeners that struggle with this, that they can finally take the trash out of their lives and enjoy the acceptance...

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, the second is proper authority, the third is abundant resources and the fourth, which we will be focusing on in...

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 message Pastor Harris reminds us of his own broken walls.  Sadly for him, his walls began to crumble at the early...

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 the types and shadows found in this story.  We have learned that Nehemiah represents the Holy Spirit, and...

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 learn the necessity of exultation to God in prayer, speaking the word of God in prayer, and confessing our...

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 Pastor Harris's Circle Teachings.  Last episode we learned more about the Body, the first circle, In this...

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 in this short introduction, Pastor Harris explores the types and shadows found in the infrastructure of the...

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 to answer this question that take us all the way back to creation.

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. 

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.

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 forgiveness which is related to redemption.  Those two things belong together so you have to consider them in...

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 answer to his own simple question he posed regarding how the story of the three wise men following a star actually came...

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 of silver in Jerusalem to secure two doves for Mary to sacrifice.  We know he was the man who cheated King Herrod...

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. 

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 about to find out. So it is with great JOY that we present this message, along with its original intro by Kyler...

The first of five advent messages this season. Pastor Harris delivered these messages not too long ago in 2018. In this episode we will learn how Augustus Caesar unknowingly enabled several ancient prophecies allowing two insignificant peasant people to be in the right place at the right time.

Join us today as we remember Pastor Nick Harris after losing him a year ago today.  Hear from Pastor Craig Groeschel, Pastor Harris's children Deak Harris, Amy Moffiet and Jamie Russell, and finally his wife Crystal.  Learn a little more about the man, the teacher, the dad, the husband, the coach, the friend, and our pastor. 

Missions are crucial in ministry.  We hope you enjoy this unique story of a partnership between a pastor and a missionary that started over 35 years ago and how a simple unscheduled meeting at a church in downtown Oklahoma City helped fuel a mission to spread the gospel on the other side of the globe for so many years. In this episode Crystal Harris, Amy Moffiet and Jamie Russell are joined by Linda McCarter, wife of the late Cal McCarter.  Cal and Linda started their mission known as Each...