Between Pickups

John explores the next part of the fruit of the Spirit - peace.  He dips in to how inner peace and social peace are derived from divine peace, that peace of the soul we all crave.

John explores the second part of the fruit of the Spirit and what sets it apart from other joys we know.

John opens up the series with an introduction to the fruit of the Spirit and a brief look at love.

John introduces the upcoming series and shares a little about his promise to practice fasting.

In this final episode of the series John explores why we are asked to practice fasting.  He also makes a pledge to fast and invites you to join him (if you don't have underlying medical conditions that would make fasting unwise).

Please also check out some advice on how to fast.  Here is a link from the Methodist Church in Ireland that might help: https://bit.ly/4b24IoC 

John explores the other side of the conversation and why listening is such a vital part of the practice of prayer.

Link to Praying like monks, living like fools - https://www.eden.co.uk/praying-like-monks-living-like-fools-tyler-staton/  Also available with other retailers.

John introduces the practice of prayer as inspired by the spiritual practices Jesus speaks about in Matthew 6.  John explores why Jesus asks us to pray and even expects us to, then Paula Lough (IMYC) shares a number of prayer ideas that we can use as we are on the go.

For digital copies of the ideas and a couple more click here: https://bit.ly/3XrA1px 

John and Courtney continue their conversation about spiritual practices as they zoom in on Jesus' teaching from Matthew 6 on giving.

In this introductory episode on spiritual practices found in Matthew 6, John welcomes Courtney Randall to the podcast to help think through what spiritual practices are and why we focus on some more than others.

John is welcomes Ruth back as she shares some thoughts from Psalm 23.