Dr. Alicia Britt Chole on the importance of slowing down and resting in Christ

Susie Larson Live

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Our culture glorifies hurry, but God designed us to need regular rest and commands us to value that rest. Dr. Alicia Britt Chole shares a biblical view of rest and the power of living an unhurried life from her book, "The Sacred Slow: A Holy Departure from Fast Faith"

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Thanks for listening to this podcast from Susie Larson Live.
0:03.9	Welcome, welcome to get to bring you Don't have to know how to ever since, ever since we've got you left
0:22.6	Welcome, welcome to Susie Larson Live. I always honored to get to spend this time with you. In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day
0:30.6	That hopefully inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's word, and that heightens your awareness of his very
0:37.5	real presence in your life. Well, my guest today writes this. Ours is a hurried age in which speed is
0:43.6	deified and waiting is demonized. Ours is a cluttered age in which noise is the norm and images
0:49.5	constantly clamor for our attention. And in our hurried cluttered age, faster has become synonymous with better.
0:56.5	And experience has become a substitute for intimacy. Wow, there's so much there. Now, for some,
1:01.4	maybe COVID has changed all that. Maybe you've been forced to slow down in a way that you've
1:05.6	leveraged to know God in a deeper way. But for others, maybe you've defaulted to other forms of busyness
1:11.7	that have weighed you down and even held you captive. Well, no matter where you find yourself
1:16.3	today, guess what? God has more for you. He has more for you. My friend Dr. Alicia Britt Scholley
1:21.9	joins me today to talk about her book, The Sacred Slow, a holy departure from fast faith.
1:30.9	52 experiences in unhurried honesty with God.
1:35.1	It's a book that calls for your engagement, calls for you to slow down, to exhale,
1:39.9	to put into practice, kind of an unhurried, slow faith kind of life.
1:42.4	And we've got six copies of this great book to give away.
1:52.1	You can text the word book to 877-933-24-84-8-877-933-24-84. In my opinion, and I do read a lot of books,
1:57.5	Dr. Alicia Britt Scholle is one of the most brilliant, thoughtful writers of our day. I believe that strongly. We'll get around in a moment. Just quick announcement. This is the
2:01.4	month of Pastor Appreciation, and I kind of feel like it should be every month, but we do
2:05.0	designate this month as Pastor Appreciation, and we at Faith Radio would love to give a gift
2:10.1	basket to your pastor. So if you want to nominate him to win, go to Myfaithradio.com. There's already
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