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.