Pick the hour
Choose one hour this week with the phone in another room. Not the whole day, one hour, at the same time if you can, so the week has a shape to it.
Not So Fast
Six Sundays on slowing down, and on the pace Jesus kept while everyone around him hurried.
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Life today moves quicker than ever before. Our calendars fill quickly, our screens fight for our attention, and the margins in our days disappear. Jesus faced pressing crowds, people seeking him, yet he took time to withdraw and pray. He stopped for people along the way, and over the next six weeks, we’ll reset, we’ll clear the clutter, we’ll put screens in their place, leave margins in our day, take unmeasured steps, and practice unhurried love. Together, we’ll follow the pace Jesus kept and learn to live not so fast. A new sermon series starting next week.
A week with room left in it
You can get through an entire day at full speed and not remember one minute of it. The calendar filled up, the phone kept buzzing, and somewhere in there was a person you meant to call and a quiet you never found.
For six Sundays this fall we slow down and look at how Jesus lived. The pauses he took. The interruptions he welcomed. The pace he kept while the crowd pressed in and everybody wanted something from him.
Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.
Mark 1:35, NIV
Try one this week
None of these needs a Sunday to begin. Pick one and bring it to next Sunday's message.
Say one no
Look at next week and find one good thing you agreed to without having room for it. Say no to that one. Good things are the hardest to cut, which is the point.
Leave the edge
Stop filling the calendar out to the last square. Leave one evening open on purpose, then wait and see who ends up standing in it.
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Six weeks, one step at a time
The Reset
What pushes us to the point of needing a hard reset? Mark 1:12-35 follows Jesus from the wilderness to a whole town at his door, then out alone to pray before dawn. Pastor Kyle Relph opens Not So Fast by naming what wears us down.
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Decluttered Days
How do you declutter your soul? In Psalm 139:23-24, Pastor Tim Rolen shows where spiritual clutter piles up and how to start clearing it, with the Holy Spirit doing the cleaning.
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Screenless Time
We carry a device that reaches everyone, and still feel hard to reach. This week looks at what our attention is worth, who ends up with it, and the quiet that has to come before we can hear anything at all.
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Mind the Margins
God told farmers to leave the edges of the field unharvested so there would be something there for whoever came along hungry. We look at the margin we leave in a schedule, a budget, and a week, and who gets reached because of it.
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Measured Steps
Scripture keeps describing the life of faith as walking, never sprinting. This week is about pace: running ahead of God to fix things ourselves, dragging our feet when we would rather not go, and what it takes to match his stride instead.
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Unhurried Love
Two men with somewhere to be walked past a man who needed them. The one who stopped had room in his day to stop. We close the series where slowing down stops being private and turns into the way we treat the person in front of us.
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Come for one Sunday or all six. There's parking off Preuss Drive, free coffee and tea in the pavilion, and a seat wherever you like.