Between Pickups
A podcast for busy people and parents who want to follow Jesus but have no time except maybe, between pickups. John Montgomery hosts this podcast series sharing lessons of faith to hopefully encourage busy people and parents on their faith journey. It is not a parenting podcast but rather a podcast for parents and other generally busy people who want their faith to grow during one of the busiest times of their lives.
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Episodes
Thursday Sep 19, 2024
Thursday Sep 19, 2024
John explores the next characteristic of the Fruit of the Spirit, kindness and challenges us all to consider how it looks when it is offered to everyone.
Monday Sep 16, 2024
Monday Sep 16, 2024
John continues the series on the Fruit of the Spirit but this time in conversation with Mark Hand, a youth worker in Lurgan who has a young family. Hope you enjoy listening in to our conversation about patience.
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
This episode breaks from the Fruit of the Spirit series to introduce a new format of episode under the theme of 'Faith and...' Different topics with fill in the dots and for this first one the theme is education.
John enjoys a conversation with Dr. Anita Gracie about the changing look of faith education and its place in schools, and an interesting distinction is drawn through their discussion.
Monday Sep 09, 2024
Monday Sep 09, 2024
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.
Thursday Sep 05, 2024
Thursday Sep 05, 2024
John explores the second part of the fruit of the Spirit and what sets it apart from other joys we know.
Monday Sep 02, 2024
Monday Sep 02, 2024
John opens up the series with an introduction to the fruit of the Spirit and a brief look at love.
Wednesday Aug 21, 2024
Wednesday Aug 21, 2024
John introduces the upcoming series and shares a little about his promise to practice fasting.
Monday Jul 15, 2024
Monday Jul 15, 2024
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
Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Thursday Jul 11, 2024
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.
Monday Jul 08, 2024
Monday Jul 08, 2024
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