Christian Living Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/christian-living/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:17:26 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/brianharrisauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-brianharrisauthor-favicon-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Christian Living Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/christian-living/ 32 32 93416650 On Launching a Book: The Stirrers and Saints Story https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-launching-a-book-the-stirrers-and-saints-story/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-launching-a-book-the-stirrers-and-saints-story/#comments Sat, 06 Jul 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4938 There is a fair chance you already know that my latest book, “Stirrers and Saints: Forming Spiritual Leaders of Skill, Depth and Character” was recently launched. It’s my 7th, and I like to remind people that in the Bible 7 represents a complete or perfect number – so hopefully that says something about the book. […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-launching-a-book-the-stirrers-and-saints-story/feed/ 3 4938 When we are Generous: A Counter-Cultural Difference https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-we-are-generous-a-counter-cultural-difference/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-we-are-generous-a-counter-cultural-difference/#respond Sat, 21 Jan 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4109 I’m finishing this brief series on the counter-cultural difference being a follower of Jesus makes by adding to the list of gratitude and providing a non-anxious presence that of being generous. Now I realise that some had hoped I would come out swinging against prevailing attitudes to things like sex and sin and sobriety, but […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-we-are-generous-a-counter-cultural-difference/feed/ 0 4109 On doing what you can… https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-doing-what-you-can/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-doing-what-you-can/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2022 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3716 Perhaps this Easter you will read the Mark 14 account of the woman who pours perfume over Jesus. Lest that doesn’t sound like an especially exciting story line, grab hold of this. She used the entire bottle which had cost more than a year’s salary. While we are not certain how many dollars that was […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-doing-what-you-can/feed/ 2 3716 On what we don’t hear… https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-what-we-dont-hear/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-what-we-dont-hear/#respond Sat, 02 Apr 2022 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3689 I’m due to preach from Matthew 16:21 where Jesus announces his suffering and death. Often that’s how we summarise that verse (the heading in my Bible is “Jesus predicts his death”), but actually if you look at it more closely you will spot that it also predicts Jesus’ resurrection on the third day. I wonder […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/on-what-we-dont-hear/feed/ 0 3689 From Theodicy to Theophany https://brianharrisauthor.com/from-theodicy-to-theophany/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/from-theodicy-to-theophany/#comments Sat, 12 Feb 2022 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3594 Ok, I admit the title of this post is not exactly catchy! But you are still reading, so let me quickly say why I think it is important. You probably know people who have suffered greatly – perhaps you are one of them. All suffering is hard to watch, but it is especially devastating when […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/from-theodicy-to-theophany/feed/ 6 3594 From FOMO to hello to here… https://brianharrisauthor.com/from-fomo-to-hello-to-here/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/from-fomo-to-hello-to-here/#comments Tue, 10 Dec 2019 22:00:52 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3243 Do you, like me, often want to be somewhere else? It’s not that I’m unhappy where I am, it’s just that in a world filled with many options and possibilities – well, why wouldn’t you explore them all? Those younger than me tell me it’s FOMO, aka fear of missing out. Here’s the irony. FOMO […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/from-fomo-to-hello-to-here/feed/ 2 3243 When heaven is now… https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-heaven-is-now/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-heaven-is-now/#comments Sun, 29 Sep 2019 22:00:17 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3230 I’m greatly enjoying Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, All the Light we cannot See – a moving exploration of life set against the Second World War. One chapter is entitled “Heaven” and in it Marie-Laure, blind since aged six, is picnicking with the ailing Madame Manec. It is a rare and brief respite from […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-heaven-is-now/feed/ 9 3230 Practicing the presence of people… https://brianharrisauthor.com/practicing-the-presence-of-people/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/practicing-the-presence-of-people/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2016 22:00:04 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=2181 You might well be familiar with Brother Lawrence’s classic The Practice of the Presence of God – a wonderful text on becoming aware of God in the everyday. But what do you think about practicing the presence of people.  At my home church (Carey Baptist) we are currently working through Peter Scazzero’s Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, and on Sunday it […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/practicing-the-presence-of-people/feed/ 4 2181 Becoming whole and holy… https://brianharrisauthor.com/becoming-whole-and-holy/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/becoming-whole-and-holy/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2016 22:00:35 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=2023 I am currently enjoying reading a book on spiritual formation published under the title Becoming Whole and Holy: An Integrative Conversation about Christian Formation. It is essentially a gentle conversation between the three authors (Jeannine K. Brown, Carla M.Dahl and Wendy Corbin Reuschling) on questions of human being and becoming (or formation). They each bring a different […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/becoming-whole-and-holy/feed/ 2 2023 When God writes straight with crooked lines… https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-god-writes-straight-with-crooked-lines/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-god-writes-straight-with-crooked-lines/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2016 22:00:36 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=2017 Ever heard someone’s story, scratched your head and thought – ‘that doesn’t make sense. Surely this story is not over yet’? Sometimes you get to hear the sequel, sometimes not. When it’s not, you simply have to trust that God is fully competent, and makes God sized decisions based on significantly fuller knowledge than you or I will […]

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