Holy WIT
33 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 months ago -This is the Holy WIT podcast. A place where we take you out of the church building to discuss questions that will get you thinking about why we do the things we do. Join Cam and Stephanie Harris as they challenge the way it’s always been done and help align what we believe with how we live our everyday lives.
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Why Prayer/Discernment?
May 14, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBCreating our content takes some time and a good amount of caffeine. If you would like to show your appreciation, click here to buy us a coffee?
Why Criticism/Exhortation?
April 16, 2023 22:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBIn this episode Stephanie and Cam talk about the difference between criticism and exhortation. We learn that the spiritual gift of exhortation is both about bringing comfort and challenge. There are those who love the comfort part but shy away from the challenge. Exhortation is a great gift for those who disciple others. We use the example of the increase of failing marriages within the church today. The question arises, how would exhortation help those who are thinking of getting ma...
Why Evangelism?
April 09, 2023 13:00 - 14 minutes - 9.98 MBWhy Evangelism? In this episode of the Holy WIT Podcast you will learn what Francis Chan and Alice Cooper have in common. Stephanie asks us, what is it and who's job is it to evangelize? She then challenges us with the thinking that evangelism is not a sales presentation, following all the steps correctly, it is all about relationship. God working through us, connecting with people in our lives over a long time. Hear Francis Chan in his own words as he challenges the western church syste...
Why Baptism?
March 26, 2023 13:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBWhy Baptism? In this episode of the Holy WIT Podcast we discuss what is the mark of salvation and how baptism in the discipleship journey of a follower of Jesus is the true mark of salvation. C S Lewis called the sinners prayer the great catalyst of nonsense. What do you think of his view of the sinners prayer? The first time we see baptism in the New Testament is with John the Baptist out in the desert baptizing people telling them to repent. Jesus exampled our need for baptism by havin...
Why Church?
March 19, 2023 12:00 - 12 minutes - 8.47 MBIn this episode of Holy WIT we tackle the question of "Why Church?" This question causes us to take a serious look at the reasons why we religiously go to the building each week. In the episode we contrast the weekly traditions with how Jesus really wants His people who are the true church to live in every day life. Tune in to hear about the Lifeway research project that they did in 2018 that took a look at why there is a decline in the church. Based on what they learned Lifeway came...
Building Bridges Not Walls
July 11, 2021 22:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBIn Episode 28 of the Holy WIT Podcast we tackle the idea that the church needs to repent about how they see and respond to those in the LTGBQ community. We continue with the conversation with Wilna van Beek who is the author of When Gay Comes Home - Learning To Build Bridges. Do we trust Holy Spirit to do the work in the background while we simply love others? If we don't trust Holy Spirit then we are trying to be in control and be our own little god. If we are to really love others we ...
Overcoming the Uncomfortable
June 27, 2021 21:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBIn this Episode of Holy WIT Stephanie has a great conversation with Wilna van Beek who is the author of When Gay Comes Home - Learning To Build Bridges. Wilna operates a ministry called God Gazers - Bridge Builders Ministry whose mission is to come alongside family and friends who journey with loved ones who have come out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer/questioning (LGBTQ) teaching them to see their loved ones with the eyes of Jesus. This is part one of a two part conversat...
The Reality of Satan In The Past and Present
June 07, 2021 00:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBThis episode is a response to the Heaven Bent Podcast - The Devil Himself and we talk about the reality of satan and the demonic in the here and now. Satan is not a metaphorical being but is a created being, a fallen angel. We discuss how we know that the demonic is real as we see throughout scripture and what power satan has in our world today. Where we see the oppression of the demonic is in the lives of individuals, over groups and organizations. We learn how deliverance is for ev...
Gifts of the Holy Spirit - Prophecy Bonus Episode
May 25, 2021 02:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBEpisode 25 is a part 2 of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit as we continue our response to the Heaven Bent Podcast . As we focus more on the gift of prophecy, we are joined this week by Pastor Kervin Raugust as he gives us his learning and wisdom. We discuss prophesy from the lens of both the old and new testament prophets. The current teaching in the church that prophecy is mainly for encouraging is challenged as it is also needed for warning and exhortation. We learn what is needed to becom...
Gifts of the Holy Spirit
May 03, 2021 02:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBIn this episode we explore the gifts of the Holy Spirit in response to the Heaven Bent Podcast. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are found in 1 Corinthians 12: 7-11 and are Words of wisdom Words of knowledge Faith Healing Miraculous powers Prophecy Discerning spirits Tongues Interpretation of tongues All of these are the work of one spirit and He distributes to each one as he determines. We talk specifically about healing, prophetic words and speaking in tongues. Healing is discussed from ...
Revival - reality or myth, how do you respond?
April 26, 2021 18:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBEpisode 23 begins a series that is a response to the individual episodes found in the Heaven Bent Podcast series by Tara Jean Stevens. This week is a response to the topic of revival as Tara Jean Stevens looks at the Toronto Blessing that began in 1994. We talk about the questions, what is revival and how do we know we are in it? How do you know we are not in it? We tell of our own experiences being part of conservative churches and then more charismatic churches and how Holy Spirit wa...
True Fruits
April 19, 2021 00:00 - 15 minutes - 8.46 MBIn Episode 22 we are beginning our True Fruits series that is a response to the individual episodes found in the Heaven Bent Podcast series. We believe that as Holy Spirit is alive and active in the Body of Christ today we experience the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. We see miracles, healing, deliverance, and the prophetic happening today in our lives. Each week over the next while as we will be responding to each of the Heaven Bent episodes we will do t...
What's Love Got To Do With It?
April 12, 2021 02:00 - 32 minutes - 17 MBIn Episode 21 Cam and Stephanie ask What’s Love Got To Do With It? No it’s not the song by Tina Turner, the “it” in the question is conflict. So what does love have to do with conflict? It seems like the two are so opposite that they would have nothing in common. When conflict comes we can tend to believe it is the end of the relationship but it can actually be the deepening of a relationship if it is done in the right kind of love. Too often love fails because we have been taught a common ...
Healthy Conflict Resolution Part 2
April 05, 2021 02:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBIn part two of healthy conflict resolution Stephanie is joined again by Marci. They take a look at a roadmap for those who have been asked to mediate a conflict or are wanting to find a mediator for their conflict. What are the next steps if you can't come to a resolution one on one? What should be the determining factors when choosing a third person as a mediator? They discuss the roles of a mediator in conflict resolution from bringing clarity to prayer to keeping the conversation going...
Kicking Someone Out Of Community
March 21, 2021 18:00 - 27 minutes - 14.6 MBWe talk about Paul's direction in 1 Corinthians 5 to kick someone out of community turning them over to Satan for a time for the destruction of their flesh. We discuss what it means to repent and take our thoughts captive in order to change the way we live. Do we kick the person out of community after one offense? At what point do we kick them out of community and send them away? When an individual is sent out of spiritual community they are removed from the protective covering that is p...
Healthy Conflict Resolution Part 1
March 21, 2021 18:00 - 24 minutes - 16.5 MBIn the last episode we ended with the question "Who gains by Christians living substandard to God's way?" and "Who gains from permanently separating the repentant sibling from our communities?" In part one of the healthy conflict resolution within community episode Stephanie is joined by Marci. They look at what unhealthy conflict looks like in comparison to healthy conflict. Throughout the episode they discuss what the end goal of healthy conflict is. The episode is wrapped up with the...
To Judge Or Not To Judge, That Is The Question
March 15, 2021 00:00 - 31 minutes - 16.6 MBIn this episode Cam and Stephanie Harris talk about whether or not we are to judge. Looking at the scripture 1 Corinthians 5 about the man who was sleeping with his fathers wife and the response of the fellowship. The apostle Paul's taught about how to deal with someone who is in your spiritual community and being unrepentant. He talks about not being present and passing judgement on it. We delve into the improper teaching that is in many churches that we are not to judge. We in fact...
As we try to become more socially relevant we become spiritually irrelevant
March 08, 2021 01:00 - 35 minutes - 18.6 MBIn this episode Stephanie makes the statement that "the everybody wins ideology has no ground". We talk about this quote from Dr Stuart Anderson that is found in the End of Churchianity film. "The church has adjusted our theological stances to follow after the changes in society. The church wanted to be included and so we have constantly incrementally changed our stance on a whole range of social values and issues. But the end result of that has been that well we might be socially incl...
What we can learn about authentic community from the 12 disciples
March 01, 2021 03:00 - 32 minutes - 17.1 MBIn this episode Cam and Stephanie discuss pseudo community and talk about what concessions are usually made to have pseudo community? When we live in denial and put a mask on to be accepted then we believe that we have to continually live in a false identity to be accepted. To truly live as an authentic person we need to risk being truly known by others in a safe community. When each person lives this way it will lead to authentic community. Looking at the 12 disciples we consider their ...
How do we deal with divisive people in community?
February 21, 2021 23:00 - 34 minutes - 23.1 MBIn this episode we discuss how to deal with divisive people in community based on what we learn out of Titus 3:9-11 9But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. 10Warn a divisive person once, and then warn them a second time. After that, have nothing to do with them. 11You may be sure that such people are warped and sinful; they are self-condemned. Proverbs 19:11 A person’s wisdom yields patience; it ...
Learn what it means to be a safe person
January 24, 2021 21:00 - 24 minutes - 16.1 MBIn this episode we talk about what is is to be a safe person. We look at what it means to be unsafe and how we are all unsafe at one level or another. What does it look like to remove your mask and become and authentic person with yourself and others? Do you present yourself as perfect like we see on social media? We can walk with others and with God and learn to hear from God for ourselves and others and allow Him to heal and restore those areas in our lives that make us unsafe. Creatin...
Hindsight is 20/20 Part 2
January 04, 2021 00:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBThis episode is part 2 of Hindsight is 20/20. We answer the question of "God why did you allow this?" with better questions based on where we are at and what we have gone through recently. We also answer the question of "how do we live differently after the great disruption that our world has experienced this past year?". John 1:14 in the MSG says "The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes, the one-of-a-kind glory, like Father, like...
Hindsight is 20/20 - Looking Back at The Year 2020
December 28, 2020 00:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBIn this episode we look back at 2020 and how hindsight is 20/20. Stephanie asks the question of what happened to our defense in 2020 with the pandemic we are told is around us? If our defense is faith then did your faith grow or was it weakened this past year? Cam and Stephanie talk about our loss of gathering in large groups and what unbelief has been revealed through this. They discuss how the scattering of the current church is a great and beautiful thing and the opportunity that it now ...
The Wildness of God and the Domesticated Christian
November 30, 2020 04:00 - 41 minutes - 23.2 MBIn this episode of HOLY WIT Stephanie gets on a call with Marci Muncey and they have a conversation about the wildness of God and how that was reflected in the way of life of John the Baptist and Jesus. Stephanie asks what do we do now that our Christian comforts are gone and how do we reclaim our joy in the midst of this disruption? Can a domesticated church be broken and get that wild instinct back? Living wild from our instincts is really about trusting God in all that He is doing in ...
John the Baptist Part 2 - Thunder in the desert! John calls for a life change.
November 08, 2020 23:00 - 38 minutes - 21 MBIn this episode of HOLY WIT Cam and Stephanie continue to talk about John the Baptist. We answer the question "what does it look like to live in the desert like John the Baptist in our modern day world?" We talk about how John called for them to repent and what does repent really mean? Stephanie asks the question "why did John say he didn't know Jesus even though scripture tells us they were related?" We need more John the Baptist type individuals to correct the course of the modern day c...
Stephanie Compares Moses to Tiger Woods
November 01, 2020 20:00 - 34 minutes - 19.6 MBIn this episode Stephanie compares Moses to Tiger Woods. Cam and Stephanie discuss how in the church today we have John the Baptist type individuals rising up and speaking out. Reading out of Luke 1 they talk about what was going on in the days before John the Baptist and the interesting experience of Zachariah when he is told he is going to have a son, John who would prepare the way. They wrap up with what it looks like to ask God for something in faith, how it is never too late for G...
Our Need For Healing Discipleship With Marci Muncey
October 22, 2020 03:00 - 13 minutes - 8.96 MBIn Episode 07 Stephanie interviews Marci Muncey about the need for Healing Discipleship in our world today. Marci talks about her recent experience as a founding member of Restoring Eden. She shares with Stephanie how different it is from other weekend retreats. Even if you have participated in weekend intensives and retreats like Encounter God, Restoring Eden is more than a weekend it is the first step of healing discipleship. Creating our content takes some time and a good amount of ca...
Resolving Conflict the Way Jesus Taught Us
October 14, 2020 03:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBIn this episode we are talking about the cause of conflict, what it looks like and how to resolve it Jesus' way. The first question we answer today is what causes conflict? In the New Testament in James 4:1-3 we learn the answer to this question and others. The next question that we answer is what does conflict look like? Sometimes it is not so easy to see but can have deep negative effects in our lives and others. The final question we answer is how do we resolve conflict Jesus' way? ...
How to Develop Intimacy With God
October 05, 2020 05:00 - 21 minutes - 11.2 MBIn this episode Cam and Stephanie Harris talk about how to develop intimacy with God. Beginning in Genesis they show the intimacy of God with Adam and Eve and how they experienced the fullness of God in perfection. The nature and character of God is shown in how many different people in the Bible experienced God as He revealed Himself to him. They answer the question of what new mindset do we need to develop in order to have greater intimacy? Cam and Stephanie discuss how our deeper inti...
Becoming a Warrior
September 28, 2020 05:00 - 40 minutes - 21.3 MBOn today's podcast Cam and Stephanie discuss what becoming a Kingdom Warrior is about and what a modern day warrior of the church looks like. Stephanie talks about her favorite warrior found in the story of Elijah and King Ahab in 1 Kings 18 and how a warrior needs to be bold and obedient. Cam shares his favorite warrior in the story from Numbers 14 of the 12 spies who were sent into the promised land and how a warrior needs to know their identity and have a Majesty Mindset, which means th...
Dealing With Anxiety God's Way
September 21, 2020 10:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBStephanie Harris invites Val Hopman on the podcast to talk about anxiety and how it is running rampant in our society to the point of being epidemic. In this episode Stephanie and Val talk about how in this day and age we are learning to manage anxiety instead of dealing with the root of it and how anxiety is the way we are dealing with fear. Learn what the bible says about how to deal with anxiety by taking our thoughts captive and bring them into obedience and how worship is a discipl...
Learning how to hear the voice of God
September 13, 2020 14:00 - 20 minutes - 10.8 MBHosts Cam and Stephanie Harris talk about what it is to learn how to walk with God and what is means to hear the voice of God. Listen as Stephanie shows us in 1 Samuel 3 how the story of Eli and Samuel examples to us so many ways we can learn about how God speaks to us. Cam and Stephanie talk about how scripture is about examples not exceptions and share current stories about God speaking to us today and what happens when we listen and respond. Creating our content takes some time an...
Welcome to Holy WIT | A Healthy Church Starts With Healthy Individuals
September 05, 2020 14:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBOn this episode Cam and Stephanie Harris talk about what a healthy church looks like and that now more than ever we need to learn to build an authentic relationship with God and that is supported by the practice of the spiritual disciplines. Today we talk about how the spiritual disciplines can help us to develop intimacy with Jesus and how that intimacy allows Jesus to go to the deeper things in our hearts for healing and restoration. Find out what the bible says about what a healthy indi...