Awakening to the God Who Is Not Far
Before The Noise
Chad Prather
5.0 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Athens was full of idols, brilliant minds, and endless conversation, yet something was missing. In Acts 17:16-34, Paul steps into a culture saturated with ideas and draws a line that still confronts us today. This episode explores how misplaced worship shapes identity, why reasoning matters more than reacting, and how the resurrection of Jesus forces a decision that cannot be postponed. From modern idols hiding in plain sight to the quiet danger of spiritual delay, this teaching calls listeners to wake up to the nearness of God and live with resurrection awareness. The question is not whether we worship, but who, and how that allegiance is shaping the way we live right now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Before the Noise, the place where we slow down before the chaos kicks in every weekday. |
| 0:05.2 | Join us for more at BeforeThe Noise.com. Let's go. |
| 0:08.4 | And good morning. Thursday morning. It is January 15th, 2026. Welcome to Before the Noise. |
| 0:16.9 | My name is Chan Prather. I'm glad you guys have decided to join us. Some of you didn't get to make the decision. |
| 0:22.7 | You just got rated right over into this show. You were brought to this devotional time, this gospel message by coercion, kicking and screaming. |
| 0:33.3 | I'm glad you're here. Thank you. Good morning. Hope everybody has had their coffee, they are having it or if you're one of those weird people who is abstaining from coffee, stop it. Stop it. Live by grace. There's no condemnation, but I do encourage you guys. I just drink mine. Look at there. I got to put it up because it's so pretty. |
| 0:56.0 | If I can find it. David keeps moving stuff around here. There it is right there. I like to blame |
| 1:02.8 | David for everything. That's why the thumbnail's crazy this morning. Whenever you guys click on here, |
| 1:07.6 | you don't see the thumbnail the way you're used to seeing it, you can handle change we blame david uh first cup go to first cup dot com use promo code c h a d i spell it chad this is |
| 1:18.5 | great coffee they are working on a before the noise blend because um they just should right and uh so |
| 1:26.8 | anyway they got some they got tons of coffee and all of it. |
| 1:30.2 | They send you the cool QR code. |
| 1:31.7 | You scan it. |
| 1:32.3 | You send your prayer request. |
| 1:33.4 | They got a prayer team. |
| 1:34.6 | What coffee company has got a prayer team? |
| 1:37.1 | And they're praying for you. |
| 1:38.5 | I'm praying for you. |
| 1:39.5 | I do pray for you every single day. |
| 1:42.7 | The first thing that I do after I toss a couple of dancing bananas in |
| 1:46.5 | the chat when we're done when we say goodbye, so I start praying for you. And this is family. |
| 1:52.5 | This is really a family thing. And I'm thankful that we get to spend our mornings together. |
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