Quieting the Noise to Find Jesus: feat. Kristen Welch | Episode 310

About this episode

Jonathan Youssef and Kristen Welch discuss the impact of busyness on faith and the importance of finding rest in Jesus.

Our culture doesn’t just move fast—it demands that we keep up. But what do our souls, our families, and our faith lose when we never slow down? Jonathan Youssef is joined again by author and nonprofit leader Kristen Welch for a deeply honest discussion about busyness, spiritual burnout, and the life-giving invitation to sit with Jesus. Kristen shares how years of faithful work and constant activity slowly led her toward spiritual depletion and how solitude and surrender became the pathway back to intimacy with God. Together, Jonathan and Kristen explore the dangers of equating productivity with faithfulness, the role of spiritual disciplines in a distracted world, and what it looks like to lead and live from a place of rest rather than striving.

People in this episode

Host: Jonathan Youssef

Guest: Kristen Welch

Topics covered

• busyness
• spiritual burnout
• solitude
• surrender
• intimacy with God
• spiritual disciplines
• rest

Keywords

• faith
• productivity
• distraction
• culture

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Quieting the Noise to Find Jesus

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