The War On Noise
Join us for our series, The War on Noise, a six-week sermon series inviting our church to slow down in the middle of the loudest moment in human history.
As our lives grow more hurried, distracted, and overstimulated, Scripture calls us to a different way. A quiet life rooted in trust, presence, and faithfulness.
Together, we’ll explore how quiet is not the absence of sound but the presence of God, and how inner stillness shapes outer faithfulness. This series is an invitation to resist hurry and distraction, to re-order our love, and to come under the easy yoke of Jesus as we learn His unhurried way of life.
In a world addicted to noise, choosing quiet is an act of discipleship. Come and rediscover the freedom of abiding with Christ.
Saturday • 6pm | Sunday • 8am, 9:30am and 11:15am
Applications
Week 1: Pastor Daniel Collins
Resisting Noise:
1. What is my noise?
2. Why do I hurry?
3. What crowds do I hide in?
4. In my life, my top five distractions are...?
5. What would help me to change? Certain people? Silence? Space? Something else?
Felicia Wu Song [from Restless Device]
Week 2: Pastor Taylor Ford
Listening Prayer:
1. Slow down your body.
2. Read one passage of Scripture (3x slowly).
3. Sit for 5 minutes in reflection.
4. ASK:
a. Am I convicted by something?
b. Did I get a sense of clarity?
c. Is there a nudge towards repentance or greater trust?
d. Is there someone I need to pray for?
5. TEST IT:
a. Does it sound like Jesus?
b. Does it align with the Bible?
c. Does it move me towards love, humility, and obedience?
6. Put it into practice.
Week 3: Pastor Ray Armstrong
Discerning Questions
1. What does this voice say about God?
2. What does this voice produce in me?
3. Does this voice invite hurry or patience?
4. Is this voice accountable or amplified?
5. Does this voice draw me toward love of my neighbor?
Jesus replied: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 22:37-39
How do we push back?
1. Limit your inputs.
2. Slow down reaction time.
3. Re-center on Scripture.
4. Practice communal discernment.
Week 4: Pastor Daniel Collins
The word Sabbath comes from the Hebrew word Shabbat, a word that means to stop.
“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God.
- Exodus 20v8-10
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
- Genesis 2v1-3
When we remember the Sabbath:
We return to God’s rhythm for creation.
We recognize our true identity and the source of our worth.
We resist the addiction of endless productivity and limitless activity.
We recover our witness.
The Sabbath is a day to:
Stop. Rest. Delight. Worship.
“...The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.”
- Mark 2v27