S15 Ep19: Noise vs. Silence

Made For This with Jennie Allen

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jennie explores the war against noise. Addressing the incessant distractions of our modern age, Jennie unpacks the negative thought spirals, emphasizing the allure of distraction that hinders our connection with God. She encourages us to become vigilant in recognizing and limiting these distractions by prioritizing time with God as the foundational strategy in combatting noise. Jennie provides a compelling call to embrace stillness with God amidst the noise, offering actionable steps for engaging truth amid a noisy world. Wondering where to start in reading your Bible? Jennie and Chloe cover that too!

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MAIN POINTS

00:53 Pulling back favorite episodes during this holiday season.
2:19 Noise vs. Silent, entering advent season introduction.
3:05 Jennie talks about the Seven enemies of our generation. Anxiety, victimhood to noise. We live in the noisiest generation. She talks about how to navigate the difficult spiral of thoughts.
4:16 Jennie talks about how we have a choice to change the way we think. We can choose the truth.
5:46 What noise tells us in life, and Kate’s example about social media.7:50 The point of spending time with Jesus.
11:57 Uganda story with Food For the Hungry.
13:56 God knows our thoughts. This brings companionship and accountability.
16:02 God likes you and delights in you.
19:34 Where do we start with spending time with God and reading our bible?

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0:58.7	listening week to week, especially as the year is winding down and we're headed into the holidays and into the beginning of a new year,
1:05.9	we wanted to take a minute to pause. We had you in mind when we mapped out the rest of this year's episodes
1:11.6	because we know that these weeks leading into the
1:15.0	holidays and then beyond can be full of joy and delight they can also be stressful
1:21.5	they can be full of grief, and maybe sometimes all of those things simultaneously.
1:27.4	And so we went back all the way back years ago, archives and selected the episodes that have been most impactful to you guys and to us personally.
1:38.3	So we wanted to give you a little bit of a like holiday boot camp and maybe that sounds a little more intense than what we thought
1:46.9	but I just was like let's let's talk about things like expectations noise versus silence, forgiveness, anxiety, our emotions, and how that plays a part of things.
1:58.9	Like I kind of was like, let's put a lot of these things that we struggle with into the rest of the season and
2:04.9	pull out some of the very best episodes that you guys have listened to the most and then
2:10.1	a few that our team has chosen because they were really special to us.
2:14.4	So we're going to kick off today with an episode called Noise versus Silence.
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