Podcast appearances and mentions of jim harnish

The writer of Hebrews scans over the long history of men and women who lived by faith, some of it in gory detail! But then the text looks directly at us to say that God's story will not be perfect (complete, whole) without us.  We have the beautiful stories of how God has been at work through the people of this congregation over the past 125 years, but the story will not be complete until we step into it, i.e. lay aside the things that keep us from moving forward and run the leg of the relay that is before us. HydeParkUMC.org/nextsteps

This week Mat sits down with former senior pastor of Hyde Park, Jim Harnish, with the topic of discovering and recognizing continuing threads of your life in the both spiritual and historical sense. HydeParkUMC.org/nextsteps

When crisis comes, the words that guided Jesus can be a guide to us. Pastor and author Jim Harnish unpacks some of these Old Testament words that grounded Jesus to provide insight for us today. It's one more way Jesus helps us find our bearings in life.Support the show

In this special episode of Your Week with St. Luke's, Pastor Jenn (Rev. Dr. Jenn Stiles Williams) interviews former St. Luke's Lead Pastors: Rev. Dr. Jim Harnish and Rev. Dr. Bill Barnes as they talk about the history of St. Luke's, where we started and how far we've come. 

Browns Point Lighthouse, Washington. Photo by Jeremy D'Entremont Browns Point is on the east side of the entrance to Commencement Bay, which leads from Puget Sound to the Port of Tacoma. The first navigational aid at Browns Point was a simple post light established in 1887 – two years before Washington became a state. A new square wooden lighthouse began service in 1903, and a fog bell was mounted on the side of the tower. In 1933, the current 38-foot concrete lighthouse tower was built. It's unusual Art Deco style makes it unique among Washington's lighthouses. Jim Harnish and Light Hearted host Jeremy D'Entremont at Browns Point. Photo by Jeff Gales. The keeper's house at Browns Point. Photo by Jeremy D'Entremont. A year after its automation in 1963, Browns Point became a public park. In more recent years, the Points Northeast Historical Society has restored the keeper's house and has opened it for overnight stays. The Society carried out a major restoration of the lighthouse in 2021. Jim Harnish is a board member and past president of the Points Northeast Historical Society. A 2014 newsletter called him “the glue that holds us all together.” U.S. Lighthouse Society Executive Director Jeff Gales takes part in this interview along with host Jeremy D'Entremont. George Fox and other volunteers in Ukraine George Fox and friends with a sunrise over the Black Sea in Odessa, on Ukrainian Independence Day (August 24) This episode features one of our occasional "Be a Lighthouse" segments, which focus on people doing good in the world. George Fox, who lives in Bethel, Maine, recently spent several months in Ukraine, helping war refugees escape the country to Poland. During his time in Ukraine, Fox transported people west out of Ukraine and brought supplies east. After three separate stays in Ukraine, George says he's fallen in love with the country and its people. He hopes eventually to go back to help rebuild the country. If anyone would like to contact George Fox, his email address is georgesfox@msn.com

This week, Rev. Jim Harnish is our guest speaker. Jim is the author of the book, "Earn, Save, Give," that has been the focus of this message series, "Three Simple Rules for Money." In this final message, "The Cure for the Selfie Addiction," Jim focuses on generosity in the Christian life.If this message is a blessing, you can support our ministries by donating at www.fumccb.com.  Speaker: Rev. Jim HarnishVenue: First United Methodist Church (Cocoa Beach, FL) Connect with Pastor Mark:www.revmarkreynolds.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PastorMarkReynolds 

This week, Rev. Jim Harnish is our guest speaker. Jim is the author of the book, "Earn, Save, Give," that has been the focus of this message series, "Three Simple Rules for Money." In this final message, "The Cure for the Selfie Addiction," Jim focuses on generosity in the Christian life.If this message is a blessing, you can support our ministries by donating at www.fumccb.com.  Speaker: Rev. Jim HarnishVenue: First United Methodist Church (Cocoa Beach, FL) Connect with Pastor Mark:www.revmarkreynolds.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PastorMarkReynolds 

Today guest preacher Rev. Jim Harnish shares his sermon titled "Surprised Again" through scripture Acts 16:6-15. Giving: www.firstchurchorlando.org/give Missed a passed service, check out our YouTube Channel for past services or you can find our Podcast wherever you podcast from. Want to know more about First Church? Visit our website at firstchurchorlando.org

Jim Harnish is a retired United Methodist Pastor and author. In our conversation, Jim shares about his first time preaching, how he reinvents sermons like Tom Brady did with his football career, how curiosity has helped him stay fresh, and why he writes a full manuscript every single time he preaches.

My guest today is personal. What I mean is that Jim Harnish is not only a pastor of 42 years, a prolific author, and a top leader in the United Methodist Church - but he was influential on my own faith long before I ever got to meet him. I am happy to now call him a mentor and a friend.

A pastor, author and longtime friend of James Howell joins James on the podcast today. Pastor Harnish served for more than 40 years at the Florida Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. He now enjoys retirement, although he stays busy authoring books like Make a Difference and A Disciple's Heart. Jim and James talk about many of the themes of Jim's books, including how one can find their place in this world and make a difference. Jim also shows how a lack of orientation in life can contribute to one feeling unfulfilled.

This week, Steve Crawford sits down with the Rev. Jim Harnish to usher us into the New Testament with a discussion of the genre of gospel, and Jesus' sermon on the mount in Matthew 5–7. #HydeParkUMC Learn more about The Bible Project 2020. Join our Facebook discussion group. *Facebook account required

The value of spiritual friendship is discussed between Revs. Wayne Curry, Gary Spencer, Jim Harnish, and Bob Bushong. Psalm 133 Giving: www.firstchurchorlando.org/give

For this inaugural episode of the podcast, Steve Crawford and Mat Hotho sit down with the Rev. Jim Harnish for a discussion about Genesis 1–14. We focus on the creation story, God's role in creation, the Noah story and the conflict within God in that story, and the Tower of Babel, when humans try to become like God.If you haven't joined a small group yet or downloaded the daily devotional, go to BibleProject2020.com. #HydeParkUMC

A sermon preached by Rev. Ginger E. Gaines-Cirelli at Foundry UMC, January 7, 2018, observation of Epiphany. Texts: Isaiah 60:1-6, Matthew 2:1-12   Today I unabashedly draw inspiration from a new book I received for Christmas, a book entitled, “Joy.” The book is a collection of 100 poems and editor Christian Wiman’s introductory essay is, for me at least, worth whatever price Anthony paid to put the book in my hands.  The opening lines read, “Paul Tillich once said of the word ‘faith’ that ‘it belongs to those terms which need healing before they can be used for the healing of [people.]’ The word ‘joy’ may not be quite so wounded, though I have noticed…that it does provoke some conflicting responses.”[i]  Words can be “wounded”—that is, twisted and misused, abused and made lifeless—and religious words, perhaps, most of all are prone to such wounding. But “grace,” the topic of this new “Grace Notes” sermon series, as a religious word, seems oddly immune to serious damage.  Spiritual writer Frederick Buechner comments on this saying, “After centuries of handling and mishandling, most religious words have become so shopworn nobody’s much interested anymore. Not so with grace, for some reason. Mysteriously, even derivatives like gracious and graceful still have some of the bloom left.”[ii]  Grace is a relational word connected to prayer, blessing, thanksgiving, mercy, compassion, forgiveness, harmonious movement, and beauty.  Theologically speaking, grace can be defined as God’s abiding presence, love, and mercy—always offered as a pure gift, no strings attached.  I love the fact that, in music, the little notes that add emphasis and interest to a melody are called “grace notes.” These notes are “gifts” to the music, accenting the experience of the song.   But, I imagine, even with all this loveliness, the critique may arise: how can you speak of grace or be inspired by joy when Dreamers are under threat, when the loss of the Children’s Health Insurance Program leaves so many children vulnerable, when the planet continues to be polluted and destroyed, when juvenile boasts are made by the leader of the free world about the size of nuclear “buttons” as though the lives of all who inhabit earth are no more than blips in a video game? Shakespeare asked the question this way: “How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea?”[iii]   Grace—and the beauty and joy that often emerge in its wake—are like the star in our Gospel today.  They shine and shimmer in the darkness and provide focus and encouragement for the ongoing journey of life and spiritual seeking.  Wiman says that “Joy is the only inoculation against the despair to which any sane person is prone, the only antidote to the nihilism that wafts through our intellectual atmosphere like sarin gas.”[iv]  //   Today we observe the Feast of the Epiphany.  The word “Epiphany” literally means manifestation or appearance—and this feast celebrates the manifestation of God’s Word made flesh to all nations and peoples. Epiphany is the culmination of the Christmas Cycle that began with the first Sunday of Advent. And the story at the center of this feast is of the Magi (an ancient, Latin-derived term for Persian astrologers and professors of all things esoteric) who follow the star to Jerusalem and then, upon hearing the prophecy from Micah, on to Bethlehem. The story is a powerful illustration of light shining even amidst the encroaching darkness. It is a story of a journey, a quest for a benevolent ruler whose appearance on earth was written in the stars. It’s a journey to find the One who is God’s love and mercy in human form, One who is, in a word, grace.  It seems a fitting place to begin these weeks when we will focus on grace and ways that grace attends us all along our spiritual journey—through the twists and turns, valleys and mountaintops. The journey of the Magi—and of the holy family they visit—illustrates ever-present grace in a powerful way if we guard against any de-politicized, sterilized version of the story.  All it takes to do that is to read the whole thing.  Reading Matthew beginning at chapter 1 verse 18 through the end of chapter 2, you see that Joseph, before having a change of heart, was planning to abandon his pregnant-but-not-by-him fiancé Mary (but “quietly”).  Herod, described by my colleague Jim Harnish, (referencing the Anchor Bible Dictionary) as “a pathologically insecure narcissist who was obsessively driven by his fear of any threat to his position and power,” schemes and lies to the Magi in order to do the child Jesus harm.  After the Magi find Jesus and heed an intuitive warning NOT to return to tell Herod of his whereabouts, the King goes on a rampage and has all the children in and around Bethlehem who were 2 years of age and younger killed in hopes of ridding the world of any threat to his power.  Having been warned of this heinous plot in a dream, Joseph and Mary take their child Jesus and flee into Egypt as refugees, only later returning to Israel and seeking a safe haven from ongoing political unrest in a town called Nazareth in the Galilee.   This is not a saccharine tale.  It’s a nightmare.  The journey of the Magi was fraught with danger.  The holy family’s safety and survival was at risk from the very beginning.  But notice the grace notes that appear throughout…  Joseph’s heart and mind change, thereby providing support for Mary already full of grace; the Magi have one another as companions on the path, the star to guide them, and the skill to follow that light; dreams and intuitions of danger not only arise but are heeded, thereby allowing escape from harm; and even the duplicitous word of Herod provides necessary guidance pointing toward Bethlehem and the child, Jesus.  In the midst of so much risk and vulnerability, with powerplays and violence lurking in every quarter, with a horrific ruler on a rampage, innocents trampled, and countless lives lost, even in the midst of all that (the Gospel reminds us) there were journeys punctuated with grace, with manifestations and appearances of love and mercy and guidance.  Hatred and cruelty tried to snuff out grace—the love and mercy of God.  But that plot failed. The light of Christ shines and the darkness did not, will not, overcome it.   At this time of year, I’m acutely aware that many of us struggle—the cold, long nights, the emotions and memories stirred by the holidays, the turn of the year highlighting where we are—or aren’t—in our lives, and the pressure to get things “resolved”…  All of this and more can trigger depression, anxiety, and relapse into the false comfort of addictions.  For many, this part of the annual journey is always especially fraught.  And even if we manage these days with relative equanimity, at this or any time of year, it is easy to get caught up in all that is wrong in our lives and in the world.  One of the reasons I’m glad our story for today often calls the Magi “wise” is that they were smart enough to travel with a buddy—to not go it alone.  I imagine that helped when, tempted to shut down in the face of the real dangers and scheming around them, they don’t focus on those things or allow themselves to get thrown off-course by them.   They stay together, know what they seek, keep their eyes focused on the light, and continue to walk together toward their destination.  That kind of focus and perspective reeks of wisdom.  And “When they saw where the star had stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy.”   On life’s journey, on the spiritual path, on the Jesus-seeking path, there is so much pain, confusion, struggle, disappointment, and injustice along the way.  Those realities have the capacity to draw all our focus, to steal our energy, and keep us from apprehending the grace notes that dance in and among the shadows offering points of light.  On the journey, it is an act of sacred resistance to notice, welcome, and savor moments of joy, to acknowledge, as Christian Wiman writes, “how in the midst of great grief some fugitive and inexplicable joy might like one tiny flower in a land of ash, bloom.”[v]   One poet puts it this way: If we deny our happiness, resist our satisfaction, we lessen the importance of their deprivation. We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.[vi]   We are called to praise the Christ child not the Devil.  And today we are given the grace of this ancient story of the Magi and the holy family, a story that reminds us that in a world like the one we know right now—even when illness or circumstance keeps us from apprehending it—light shines.  The story teaches us to seek out companions on the journey and, together, to focus our attention on the places where light shines, where grace is enfleshed.  The fact that we can choose where to focus our attention is itself grace.   Where will you focus your attention in 2018?  How might you attune yourself to the grace notes on the journey?  Perhaps taking a few minutes to reflect on the gifts of each day with gratitude…perhaps a commitment to pause and take in moments of wonder…perhaps an intention to actively appreciate the grace of traveling companions on life’s journey…Seek light.  Seek love and mercy incarnate.  Stay focused on delight and beauty, courage and generosity, tenderness and care.  As you journey with such focus, the primary threat may be that you become overwhelmed…with joy.           [i] Christian Wiman, “Still Wilderness,” Joy: 100 Poems, Yale University Press: New Haven, 2017, p. xi. [ii] Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker’s ABC, HarperSanFrancisco, 1993, p. 38. [iii] Wiman, p. xi. [iv] Ibid., p. xxiv. [v] Ibid., p. xii. [vi] Jack Gilbert, “A Brief for the Defense,” excerpt, quoted in Joy: 100 Poems, p. xxiii.

A sermon preached by Rev. Ginger E. Gaines-Cirelli at Foundry UMC December 3, 2017, the first Sunday of Advent.   Texts: Isaiah 64:1-9, Mark 13:24-37   Today we begin a new Christian year. Just as there is a unique Chinese calendar and Jewish calendar (and many others across cultures), the Christian community has its own cycle of seasons to give shape and meaning to time and to delineate days of special celebration and remembrance. Advent is the first season—the entry point—of the Christian year and is a time of preparation for the great feast of the Incarnation, what we commonly call Christmas. Advent includes simple practices—like the lighting of candles and the use of sacred symbols like evergreens, circular wreaths, stars, and the like—to stir our senses and awaken us to beauty and to an awareness of God. At Foundry this year, our music-inspired annual theme provides an opportunity to learn what will be, for many, a new word and concept.  An “anacrusis” consists of the note or notes that are the “lead-in” or “pick-up” notes for a melody.  I’ll use a familiar song to illustrate (appropriate for an anticipated birth).  [sing “Happy Birthday” but start with “birthday to you…”] The “happy” at the beginning of the song is the anacrusis. Just as an anacrusis is the beginning, the entry point into a song, Advent is the entry point into the Christian year.     One of the particular practices of this season, is the intentional marking of time. Advent is a time of waiting and watching, of opening our eyes and hearts through spiritual practices. With all the hustle and bustle of the season, pausing for even a few moments to light a candle and say a prayer can be profound. This year, Foundry is providing a resource for each week during Advent, a prayer card drawing from the week’s scriptures. The prayer cards are an invitation to practice breath prayer. This simple prayer practice can be done anywhere. Use it as a mantra, as a brief prayer in the morning, evening or throughout the day. Use it as Spirit leads. I hope the prayer card will itself be an “anacrusis”—an entry point into moments of mindfulness with God.  The cards will be available as you exit worship today…   Explain breath prayer and practice it for a few seconds…   +++++++++++   What is the world coming to?  Well, I’m afraid it’s coming to a place where empire is strong as ever.  I know there’s a new Star Wars movie coming out next week, and even though there are plenty of narrative resonances between that saga and the world we inhabit, that’s not what I’m talking about. What I’m talking about is empire as reflected in our ancient texts and experienced right up to our own day.  I’m talking about empire that consists of consolidation of power by a small, wealthy ruling class, the abuse of people and the planet for economic gain, the shameless rationalizations of these practices by religious leaders who are in bed with those pulling the strings, and the public promotion of the voices of those religious leaders to provide legitimation for injustice.   Last year at this time, we grappled with our prophetic call, a call to challenge empire, to resist evil, injustice, and oppression in whatever forms they present themselves.  The words of Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann challenged us to understand that living under the conditions of empire threatens a slide into a “numbed consciousness of denial.”[i]  The imperial reality distracts, rationalizes, and drugs the populace so that people fall asleep, so that the awareness of human pain and struggle won’t get in the way of business as usual and a healthy bottom line for those in the top 1%.  Bread and circuses, smoke and mirrors, flash and spin… Empire employs these and many other tactics to tempt us to turn toward ourselves, to be protective of our own comfort, fearful for our own safety, so distracted by all the chaos and shiny objects swirling around us that we lose sight of what matters most of all—so distracted that we lose sight of one another; so distracted that we lose sight of God.   What is this world coming to? I see this world cozying up to empire… And, oh, how easy it is to grow numb… How easy to look upon the state of the world with either heartbroken despair or with hatred and blame.  Because it sure seems like the world is coming to a whole lot of more of the same evil, injustice, and oppression that the prophets have been railing against since the earliest recorded prophets back in the 8th century BCE. When will it be different?   I just celebrated a birthday—not quite hitting the 5-0 mark, but within close range.  And I find myself thinking a lot about the passage of time.  As I’ve meditated upon the state of the world and of the church, I’ve also thought about folks who’ve been alive a lot longer than me and those whose experiences have been so different from my own due to race, gender, identity, orientation, opportunity, and more—and I wonder what they’ve seen, I wonder what you’re thinking, how you’re feeling now.  As we observed World AIDS day I’ve thought about those of you who lived through the terrifying, devastating initial outbreak back in the 1980s, who lost countless friends and loved ones and those who are living with HIV today.  As I realized it was 62 years ago this past Friday that Rosa Parks stood up for justice and her own dignity by sitting down in a bus, I thought about those of you who’ve been in the struggle for racial equity and justice your whole lives because of the color of your skin and of those who have long labored to be allies in that struggle.  When I feel weary or am tempted to despair, when I become mindful of my own failures, foibles, selfishness, and complicity, it’s helpful to think of you who’ve been at this thing called life and faith for so long, who’ve labored to know God and to know yourselves, who’ve been through so much, and—nevertheless—keep showing up, keep acting up, keep standing up for love and mercy, in faith, hope, and love.   In my musings upon time, I’ve also pondered how it will feel to preach on the traditional Advent scriptures twenty years from now.  Today, we’ve heard what’s called the “little apocalypse” of Mark. Those who first heard these words had done their best to resist empire. They had organized and rebelled against the Roman occupying force. And it had ended in disaster and devastation. Their hopes were dashed and the sacred center of their lives—the Jewish Temple—had been destroyed.  It is this context that gave rise to the words we hear today.   Apocalyptic is a genre of sacred writing whose function is to respond to moments of crisis with revelation of things to come. Folks tend to think of apocalypse as the end of the world.  That is kind of true, but only if “the end of the world” is understood as the band R.E.M. sang about it—the end of the world as we know it.  As Dr. Karoline Lewis writes, “When apocalyptic shows up in biblical writings, you know time has changed, time is changing, and it’s time to pay attention—not to prepare for the end of time, as this genre is so frequently misunderstood, but to expect the revelation of God in our time. And not just God’s arrival, but God’s ongoing presence and God’s certain reign that transforms our time. God’s control of time. God’s directing of time toward all that is good and perfect and true.”[ii]   Apocalyptic speaks of the revelation of God’s presence, the revelation of God’s activity, the anticipation of God’s in-breaking, of God’s drawing near. These writings are usually cryptic and dramatic, poetic and often scary.  But they are meant to evoke awe and to wake people up to anticipate God’s arrival.  Apocalyptic doesn’t ultimately signal what the world’s coming to, but what’s coming to the world—who’s coming to the world.[iii]   Apocalyptic writing calls us to expect God to show up and do something good. But, as so many of you have said to me, some days it’s difficult to see or to expect anything good, perfect, or true to appear. That difficulty may be the result of mental or physical illness or struggle against addiction or being worn out and overwhelmed or being in a relationship that feels on the verge of implosion or of the general state of the world and the oppressive tyranny of empire.  In my darkest moments, I worry and wonder: in twenty or forty years, when I stand to preach these texts yet again, will time have been transformed at all?  If not, will I have the faith I see in so many of you?—a strong, stubborn, commitment to compassion and to hope even when things seem hopeless… I worry and wonder: Will the world have come to anything resembling the Kin-dom or will empire continue its mind- and heart-numbing churn, its boot still ground into the necks of the vulnerable as it has for century upon century upon century?  How long, O Lord? When will the times be different than they are today?    “About that day or hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.  Beware, keep alert; for you do not know when the time will come.” (Mk 13:32-33)   That’s just aggravating. But even though we may want something else, we are given something. We are given clear instruction: in a time of crisis and turmoil and all the chaos of empire, stay awake and look for God to show up. And, when I let go of my weariness and worry, I remember—and perhaps you will too—moments that prove that when God shows up, things do change—time shifts from measured minutes and seconds into timeless moments and never-forgotten memories. When God draws near, we find our voice or the strength to keep going, we discover we’re not alone, that even with all our imperfections and fears we possess gifts to share, we see here and there the ways that our choices have made a positive difference.  When God intervenes, love happens, ways get made when there really is no way, death is no longer the end, and despair is overcome with hope.  Our hope is possible because even when it seems the world is coming to no good, God comes to the world.  Every time.   [i] Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination, Second Edition, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001, p. 81 [ii] Karoline Lewis, “Advent Time,” http://www.workingpreacher.org/craft.aspx?post=5007 [iii] Jim Harnish, “What’s Coming?” https://jimharnish.org/2017/11/30/whats-coming/

Thanks for checking out this episode of Art of the Sermon! Be sure to subscribe through iTunes, Google Play Music, or your favorite podcast app. If you enjoy this episode, leave a review on our podcast’s page in the iTunes store. This will help others discover the show! Guest: Rev. Jim Harnish, author and retired United Methodist pastor General Topic: Politics and Preaching Introduction to Jim Harnish (0:59) Thanks to Jim (2:26) Philosophy of preaching (3:19) Relationship of politics and preaching (4:48) Should we look for political parallels? (12:38) Sensitivity to how messages are received (15:51) Importance of personal relationships (19:38) Presenting all sides (21:44) Planting seeds of unity (25:55) Personal outlets and practices (29:24) Challenging preaching experiences (32:02) Impactful communicators (35:14) Recommended books and resources (37:40) How to follow Jim (39:57) Reaching out to our guest JimHarnish.org (Jim's blog) Next Episode arrives April 20, 2017! Connect with the Show I would love to hear what you think about the show—especially this episode. You can connect with the show and send me your feedback through the following channels: Facebook - Facebook.com/ArtOfTheSermon Twitter- Twitter.com/ArtOfTheSermon Instagram- Instagram.com/ArtOfTheSermon Comment on the Show Notes post at ArtOfTheSermon.com Art of the Sermon is a project by Dan Wunderlich of Defining Grace. Learn more at DefiningGrace.com Disclosure of Material Connection: Some of the links in these show notes may be “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. Defining Grace is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program.

Thanks for checking out this episode of Art of the Sermon! Be sure to subscribe through iTunes, Google Play Music, or your favorite podcast app. If you enjoy this episode, leave a review on our podcast’s page in the iTunes store. This will help others discover the show! Guest: Brad Montague, the creative mind behind Kid President General Topic: The power of love, joy, and creativity Introduction to Brad Montague (0:51) Brad's love for kids (2:25) Philosophy of communication (5:51) Source of Brad's hope and joy (9:13) Responding to life's challenges (13:05) Faith like a child (16:18) Smuggling hope (20:07) Kids' advice on being a better grown up (23:07) What's your Space Jam? (25:12) Challenging creative experience (32:11) Impactful communicators (35:09) Recommended books and resources (37:44) How to follow Brad (41:00) One more thing! Brad emailed me afterward and said he forgot to mention some friends of his who "help me see God in ways I often forget." Check out their current project on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCanZUyabsUrhSF8wRz6ADtQ Reaching out to our guest MontagueWorkshop.com @TheBradMontague (Twitter) @BradMontague (Instagram) Next Episode arrives April 6, 2017! An interview with Rev. Jim Harnish, author and retired United Methodist pastor Connect with the Show I would love to hear what you think about the show—especially this episode. You can connect with the show and send me your feedback through the following channels: Facebook - Facebook.com/ArtOfTheSermon Twitter- Twitter.com/ArtOfTheSermon Instagram- Instagram.com/ArtOfTheSermon Comment on the Show Notes post at ArtOfTheSermon.com Art of the Sermon is a project by Dan Wunderlich of Defining Grace. Learn more at DefiningGrace.com Disclosure of Material Connection: Some of the links in these show notes may be “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. Defining Grace is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program.