grace Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/grace/ Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:38:45 +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 grace Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/grace/ 32 32 93416650 When Life is Like an Egg… and When it Isn’t. https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-life-is-like-an-egg-and-when-it-isnt/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-life-is-like-an-egg-and-when-it-isnt/#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2025 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=5726 Not all images work. I wasn’t at all sure that this one would. The speaker was likening life to an egg – not a hard boiled one, long dead and simply waiting to be eaten, but one of those with a fledgling chick inside. As the young bird attempts to come out, it pecks away […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-life-is-like-an-egg-and-when-it-isnt/feed/ 2 5726 Refresh: When Faith is Aspirational… https://brianharrisauthor.com/refresh-when-faith-is-aspirational/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/refresh-when-faith-is-aspirational/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=5716 The old quip goes, “When all is said and done, far more is said than done.” It’s true. sometimes it works that way in faith as well. We claim huge things… we are set to change the world. But back at the ranch things are a little different. Sometimes faith is more about our aspirations […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/refresh-when-faith-is-aspirational/feed/ 2 5716 The in and out dilemma: Should we magnify our differences? https://brianharrisauthor.com/the-in-and-out-dilemma-should-we-magnify-our-differences/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/the-in-and-out-dilemma-should-we-magnify-our-differences/#comments Sat, 28 Sep 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=5040 By and large we live in a tolerant era – well, it’s tolerant until it isn’t. What do the things we both tolerate and exclude tell us about ourself and the time in which we live? And what’s the difference between tolerating something and embracing it? Should we go on about our differences, or focus […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/the-in-and-out-dilemma-should-we-magnify-our-differences/feed/ 4 5040 Our Deepest Regrets: To the Judas within… https://brianharrisauthor.com/our-deepest-regrets-to-the-judas-within/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/our-deepest-regrets-to-the-judas-within/#comments Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4947 I get to preach on Judas Iscariot this week. Yup – I drew the short straw. Sure, someone has to do it, but how do you inspire a congregation with someone who is more infamous than Hitler? “With great difficulty”, I hear you reply – and fair enough. Jonathan Sacks has rightly noted that the […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/our-deepest-regrets-to-the-judas-within/feed/ 11 4947 Effort, Excellence, and Exclusion: Three challenging “E” words… https://brianharrisauthor.com/effort-excellence-and-exclusion-three-challenging-e-words/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/effort-excellence-and-exclusion-three-challenging-e-words/#comments Sat, 15 Jun 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4907 I’ve been fortunate enough to have pastored churches which grew. And I loved the challenge each brought – adding new buildings, enlarging the staff, seeing people grow in their love for Jesus and each other. But each time we came up against what I call the “effort, excellence and exclusion dilemma”. What happens when we […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/effort-excellence-and-exclusion-three-challenging-e-words/feed/ 20 4907 Cross-carrying or rest? The Matthew 10:38 and 11:28 paradox. https://brianharrisauthor.com/cross-carrying-or-rest-the-matthew-1038-and-1128-paradox/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/cross-carrying-or-rest-the-matthew-1038-and-1128-paradox/#comments Sat, 09 Mar 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4716 In a church I served as pastor, several leaders from the church would meet for prayer before each service. Though sincere, the prayers were predictably repetitious and I’d often be able to pick what someone would pray before they said it. One favourite was the request that God would “comfort the disturbed and disturb the […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/cross-carrying-or-rest-the-matthew-1038-and-1128-paradox/feed/ 4 4716 Why not try framing… https://brianharrisauthor.com/why-not-try-framing/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/why-not-try-framing/#respond Sat, 06 Jan 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4619 In his insightful book The Remarkable Ordinary, Frederick Buechner observes that artists get us to see things by putting a frame around them, effectively saying, “stop and notice me”. Often it is with very ordinary things, a flower, a bowl of fruit, a human face. The artist puts a frame around it and our attention […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/why-not-try-framing/feed/ 0 4619 Sabbath as restoring or restorying? https://brianharrisauthor.com/sabbath-as-restoring-or-restorying/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/sabbath-as-restoring-or-restorying/#comments Sat, 11 Nov 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4543 Perhaps the title of this post is a little too clever, but it started as a throw away question in a podcast I was half listening to while going through my paces at the gym. My location is important, as it meant I was trying to follow a thoughtful discussion whilst gasping for breath and […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/sabbath-as-restoring-or-restorying/feed/ 1 4543 Making Success a Pattern, not a Moment: 8 Qualities to Cultivate https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-success-is-a-pattern-not-a-moment-6-qualities-to-cultivate/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-success-is-a-pattern-not-a-moment-6-qualities-to-cultivate/#comments Sat, 23 Sep 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4475 You’ve probably had those moments when you breath a sigh of both relief and satisfaction. It’s come off. Something you wanted has worked out, and you are really pleased. Perhaps your response is, “Well, that was lucky. Hope it happens again.” Now once in a while success is like winning the lottery, and things come […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-success-is-a-pattern-not-a-moment-6-qualities-to-cultivate/feed/ 4 4475 Coram Deo: Living in the sight of God… https://brianharrisauthor.com/coram-deo-living-in-the-sight-of-god/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/coram-deo-living-in-the-sight-of-god/#comments Sat, 17 Jun 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4342 While I am by no means a Latin expert, there is a Latin phrase I love. Given you’ve seen the title of the post, it won’t come as a surprise that it’s “coram Deo”, which essentially claims that all of life takes place in the sight of God. We live and move and have our […]

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