The Beatitudes Project

The Beatitudes Project

By Stu GarrardReligion & Spirituality
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The Beatitudes Project episodes

  • Ep. 2 - Poor In Spirit

    Join Stu G and co-host Brian miller in conversation about the first Beatitude; "Blessed are the poor in Spirit." 

    What is a "poverty of spirit?" Did Jesus simply mean the extremely poor? What do we do when, as Eugene Peterson says, "we reach the end of our rope?" Jesus begins The Sermon On The Mount by flipping the script on what blessing or success looks like to us, and we discover that "the blessing" is God's presence with us. 

    Audio in this episode: 

    • Sam Polk (Everytable) Sam is a former Hedge Fund Trader on Wall Street. 
    • All Music from Beatitudes by Stu Garrard - The View From Here by Stu Garrard and Hillsong United. 
    • You Will Make A Way by Stu Garrard and All Sons And Daughters 

      • Episode Resource Links: 

      Sam Polk Everytable https://www.everytable.com/our-story/ 

      Food For The Hungry (India) https://www.fh.org/ 

      The Beatitudes Project https://www.thebeatitudesproject.com/ 

      Beatitudes on Spotify 

      Beatitudes on Apple music

      27 min
    • Ep. 1 - What Does It Mean To Listen

      Stu G and co-host Brian Miller give some background to The Beatitudes Project and discuss the first thought - What does it mean to Listen? 

      Jesus gave us The Beatitudes on a hillside two thousand years ago. With these conversations, we want to invite you back on that hill, but can we put aside what we think we know of the text and listen to Jesus with fresh ears just as the people listened on the hillside back then? 

      Audio used in this episode: 

      Rabbi Joseph Edelheit talking at a fire pit with friends in 2009. 

      Listen - a poem by Becky Harding and Stu G from the album Beatitudes. 

      All Music from Beatitudes by Stu Garrard - The View From Here by Stu Garrard and Hillsong United, 

      Oh Blessed by Stu Garrard and Anthony Skinner. 

      Episode Resource Links: 

      TheBeatitudesProject.com 

      Beatitudes on Spotify 

      Beatitudes on Apple music: 

      Meet Your Hosts 

      Stu Garrard (Stu G) alongside the day job as a musician and songwriter, has spent the last twenty years dreaming about and creating The Beatitudes Project. Stu is best known as Founding Member, Guitar player, and Songwriter for the UK based band Delirious?, One Sonic Society in the US, and has been a mainstay guitar player in Michael W. Smith's band for the last ten years. 

      Brian Miller is a Grand Rapids, Michigan native. He spends his time as a pastor, professor, and collaborator on projects involving music, video, and theology. Brian holds a Masters Degree in Christian Thought and has spent the past two decades engaged in vocational ministry in church settings.

      27 min

    About The Beatitudes Project

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    Stu Garrard (aka Stu G) and co-host Brian Miller explore the ancient invitations in The Beatitudes and put a twenty-first-century lens on the question, "Does the most famous sermon in history still apply?"