Harris Family Ministries

02/13/2026

A pastoral reflection I’ve been sitting with lately…

I’m deeply grateful for the Church. I love her passion, creativity, and hunger for God. At the same time, I’ve been reflecting on some trends I see in parts of the North American church — and I’m processing this as someone inside it, not outside throwing stones.

I wonder if, in some places, we may have unintentionally drifted toward hype over depth — where emotion can begin to function as proof of God’s presence, volume substitutes for substance, and catchy phrases sometimes replace careful discipleship.

Some thoughts I’ve been considering:

• Emotion is a gift — but it may be carrying more weight than it was meant to. Scripture never makes emotion the test of truth or maturity. Feelings matter, but they aren’t the foundation of faith.

• Memorable phrases and Christian cliches are powerful — but formation requires more than slogans. When our words aren’t deeply rooted in Scripture and theology, we risk raising people who know Christian language but haven’t been formed in Christian thinking.

• Hype gathers a crowd — formation builds a people. The slow, patient work of teaching Scripture, shaping character, and walking faithfully through suffering rarely trends. But it’s the kind of work that produces resilient faith.

• Intensity isn’t always the same as depth. Sometimes our language can become inflated, and we can unintentionally equate volume with anointing. I think many people are quietly longing for something weightier and more lasting.

The biblical vision of maturity feels steadier than our moment:

“Solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained…” (Hebrews 5:14)

Trained. Discernment. Time.

None of that is instant.

I don’t believe people are hungry for less Spirit or less passion. I think they’re hungry for depth — for a faith that holds when emotions fade, for presence without performance, for Christ at the center rather than the experience around Him.

Not dead orthodoxy.
Not emotionalism.
But rooted, discerning, enduring faith.

Still learning. Still growing. Just reflecting.🙏🏼

02/01/2026

But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 2 Peter 3:8

Time to God is not the same as time is to us. God is outside of time—the past, present, and future are one to Him. Time to us is temporal and relative; time to God is eternal.

When time doesn’t move according to your preferences, ask God for His perspective. He is patient with us (2 Peter 3:9). So let us be patient with others.

07/05/2025

✨ MAKE EVERY DAY COUNT ✨

Live with Purpose. Love with Intention. Serve with Joy.
• Start your day with prayer and gratitude.
• Focus on what truly matters.
• Speak life. Encourage others.
• Do one thing that brings you closer to your God-given purpose.

“Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” – Psalm 90:12

06/29/2025

05/03/2025

“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
Psalm 51:10

Have you failed?

Psalm 51 is the prayer King David offered after his moral failure with Bathsheba. He humbly confessed his sin and pled for God’s forgiveness. Then he asked God to create a clean heart within him and to give him a renewed, steadfast spirit. The Lord granted his request.

This is an important chapter in the Bible for all of us because we all fail in various ways and we’re not always victorious over temptation. When we sin, we should admit our guilt, but God doesn’t want us to wallow in that guilt. In Christ, we are under His blood. We should seek a cleaner, purer heart. And we must ask God for personal renewal, revival, and spiritual rejuvenation.

In another psalm, David said, “He restores my soul” (Psalm 23:3).

Whatever you’ve done or however you’ve failed, come to your Savior in confession and repentance today. You’ll find Him ready to create in you a clean heart and to renew a steadfast spirit within you.

“No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.”Corrie ten Boom🙏🏼

04/04/2025

Some Christian denominations refer to the Lord’s Supper (Communion) as the Eucharist. Eucharist is translated as “give thanks,” being derived from a compound Greek word meaning “freely given”—a reference to Jesus Christ symbolically giving His disciples His body and blood (bread and wine) at the Last Supper (Matthew 26:26-29).

The memorial celebration of His sacrificial offering of Himself became known as the Eucharist—a giving of thanks for Christ’s gift of Himself to us.

Later, the apostle Paul would write, “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” (Romans 8:32)

We have the greatest reason possible to be thankful to God for His gift of salvation in Jesus. Since He has already given us the most important thing in life, we can surely thank Him for everything else He has provided as well: life, health, safety, provisions, family, and so much more. We can even thank Him for the difficulties of life since He has already given us life.

Look around today and be reminded of all the reasons you have to be thankful to God—and give Him thanks!😊 🙌🏼

03/29/2025

“When things don’t go the way they should, God always makes them turn for good.” John Piper

03/19/2025

Jesus made a point of finding society’s worst and elevating them to a status equal to the rest of us.

He demonstrated that “every” human being is worthy of the opportunity to know Him.

So He went for the outcasts:

He forgave an adulteress (John 8:3–11)
He healed lepers (Luke 17:11–19)
He spoke with Samaritans (John 4:7–30)
He described the Father as eagerly awaiting the return of His prodigal son (Luke 15:11–32).
He also made a life-changing visit to one publican (tax collector) and called another one to His inner circle. Choosing Matthew and saving Zacchaeus, both publicans, forever squelched elitism within God’s kingdom (Galatians 3:28).

If Jesus can use publicans in mighty ways for His glory, He can use anyone.

02/10/2025

This Wednesday night begins Part 1 of a 3-part Marriage and Relationship Series.

This week I will teach on GOD'S POWER FOR YOUR MARRIAGE. Our key passage is Ephesians 1.

God says that the same resurrection power He used at Easter is the same power He wants to use in our lives to help us with our problems.

I have discovered that lots of marriages need resurrecting. We need this power in our homes and if Christianity doesn't work at home then it doesn't work at all.

Join me in-person or online LIVE via Facebook from 7:00 - 8:00 PM CST as I share 3 points on how God can help your marriage.

LINK 👉🏼 Christian Life Church

02/08/2025

Matthew 6:7, “But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.”

Someone has written that “one sentence burdened with the heart’s desire is nearer to God than an hour’s rehearsing of words and phrases with no longing behind them.”

God doesn’t want our vain repetitions, He wants us to communicate personally with Him. He wants us to put our heart into our prayers.

02/03/2025

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

I hope you can join me in-person or on-line FB for the following February relationship and marriage series. I will be teaching from 7:00 – 8:00 PM the following Wednesday nights (SEE BELOW).

These lessons will be pertinent to not only married couples but also singles because all relationships have the same three basic stress points: unexpected differences, unmet needs and unforgiven mistakes.

👉🏽Christian Life Church

Join me for the following lessons:

FEBRUARY 12 - God’s Power for your Marriage – our key passage will be Ephesians 1. The most powerful event in human history was the Resurrection. A lot of marriages need restoring. Our home is where we need the power of God the most. If Christianity doesn’t work in your home, it doesn’t work. The same power that God used at the resurrection, He says He wants to make it available to help you change your marriage.

FEBRUARY 19 - The Greatest Risk You’ll Ever Take – we will talk about being totally honest with your mate. The reason it's a risk is because man's oldest problem is the fear of rejection. We will look first at how fear ruins relationships. We're going to look at the first couple, Adam and Eve in Genesis 3 and then what happened when sin entered the relationship. It brought in a new factor called fear and marriages have been struggling ever since.

FEBRUARY 26 - Good Marriages Don’t just Happen - God's ideal for your marriage is harmony, intimacy, and unity. The Bible says in Philippians 2:2 "... Live together in harmony and love, as though you only had one mind and spirit between you."(Phillips) In reality very few marriages live in harmony, unity and intimacy. In fact, if the truth were known, most people would say, "I feel cheated in my marriage. I'm disappointed in it. It's not at all what I expected it to be." What happened? Good marriages just don't happen. They are intentional. They take time, commitment, and most of all they take effort.

Hope you will plan to join me.

02/02/2025

Osborne Gordon, a nineteenth-century British pastor, said, “There is no soul so pure and heavenly that it can throw back upon God all that love which He lavishes upon us. God loves us infinitely more than it is possible for us to love Him; but whatever feeble flame of love is kindled in our hearts and goes up as a sacrifice to Him, we are only giving Him of His own.”

That’s a good description of agape love (divine love). The greatest command within Scripture is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, and soul (Matthew 22:37). It’s the Lord Himself who gives us the agape that allows us to do that. Let His love set your heart on fire, and return it like sparks flying upward to Him.

“Our love of [God] is nothing more than His love to us, reflected back upon Him, the source of love.” Osborne Gordon