Rhythms of Grace: Be Still
Sep 20, 2026 · 31 min · 9 segments
In this episode. PJ continues in our series and will be talking from 1 Kings 19:1-18
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Sep 20, 2026 · 31 min · 9 segments
In this episode. PJ continues in our series and will be talking from 1 Kings 19:1-18
When was the last time you experienced complete silence? Not quiet-ish, but proper silence.
That was about 20 seconds.
And probably it felt longer than 20 seconds.
And I wonder what came into your mind.
Maybe it was beautifully peaceful for you.
For some of us, perhaps it felt a bit uncomfortable.
Some of us, our brain started immediately filling with our to-do list and the things that we should get on with.
Some of you probably rightly thought, what on earth is PJ doing? How long is this gonna last? I've got things to do.
It's interesting, isn't it? Because we live in a world that doesn't give us much silence, and when it does, we fill in the gap.
whether it's boiling a kettle and we quickly take the moment to check our phone or tick something off our to-do list while it runs, or if we're walking somewhere, putting some music on, or I'm very guilty of trying to do an email between my house and here.
Even eating, we put the TV on to fill the gap.
Waking up in the morning, immediately we might reach for our phone, the newspaper, whatever it may be.
And sometimes we don't even realize that we're doing it.
We've become so accustomed to noise.
But perhaps the problem isn't simply that there's too much noise around us.
Perhaps the deeper problem is that the noise around us makes it difficult to hear what's going on within us.
So here's the question for this morning.
What is the noise in your life preventing you from hearing? Because maybe what we're missing isn't simply silence.
We're doing a series this term, thinking about rhythms of grace, practices which the church throughout the history, disciples have done, not because they're important things we have to do to be a good Christian, but they're rhythms which have enabled God to be at work in his people, to draw them closer to him, to help them to become more like Christ.
Discipleship isn't just about attending church and doing the right things.
And so we're exploring these rhythms.
When was the last time you experienced complete silence? Not quiet-ish, but proper silence.
That was about 20 seconds.
And probably it felt longer than 20 seconds.
And I wonder what came into your mind.
Maybe it was beautifully peaceful for you.
For some of us, perhaps it felt a bit uncomfortable.
Some of us, our brain started immediately filling with our to-do list and the things that we should get on with.
Some of you probably rightly thought, what on earth is PJ doing? How long is this gonna last? I've got things to do.
It's interesting, isn't it? Because we live in a world that doesn't give us much silence, and when it does, we fill in the gap.
whether it's boiling a kettle and we quickly take the moment to check our phone or tick something off our to-do list while it runs, or if we're walking somewhere, putting some music on, or I'm very guilty of trying to do an email between my house and here.
Even eating, we put the TV on to fill the gap.
Waking up in the morning, immediately we might reach for our phone, the newspaper, whatever it may be.
And sometimes we don't even realize that we're doing it.
We've become so accustomed to noise.
But perhaps the problem isn't simply that there's too much noise around us.
Perhaps the deeper problem is that the noise around us makes it difficult to hear what's going on within us.
So here's the question for this morning.
What is the noise in your life preventing you from hearing? Because maybe what we're missing isn't simply silence.
We're doing a series this term, thinking about rhythms of grace, practices which the church throughout the history, disciples have done, not because they're important things we have to do to be a good Christian, but they're rhythms which have enabled God to be at work in his people, to draw them closer to him, to help them to become more like Christ.
Discipleship isn't just about attending church and doing the right things.
And so we're exploring these rhythms.
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