Aaron Powers

Aaron Powers Husband. Dad. Ministry leader. I care about building strong teams, helping people grow, and serving in places where mission and excellence work together.

Most at home in good conversation, around a table with family, or outdoors near water. Pastor, public speaker, coach, and consultant. I've been serving in ministry for over 20 years in roles from volunteer chair stacker all the way up to lead pastor. I'm passionate about sharing the gospel in ways that are accessible, engaging, and honest. I would love the chance to speak at your church, retreat,

or camp! Additionally, I love working with local churches and para-church organizations to help problem solve and grow through coaching and consulting. Reach out and let me know how I can help you!

06/17/2026

We are surrounded, almost constantly, by a single piece of advice dressed up a hundred different ways. Look within yourself. Find yourself. The answer is already inside you, you just have to dig deep enough to uncover it.

It sounds like freedom, and it sounds so obviously true that most of us have never thought to question it. But here’s what I’ve noticed. The people who look hardest inside themselves for the answer often end up the most lost, because they keep excavating and never quite hit the thing they were promised was down there.

Paul names why without making a big deal of it. You were created in Christ Jesus. The identity and the purpose are both found in Him, not by digging endlessly through your own interior.

A paintbrush could study itself forever and never discover what it’s for. It only learns that in the hand of the artist. You are the same. You will not find what you’re for at the bottom of yourself. You find it in Christ, where your identity was rooted in the first place.

So if you’ve been digging around inside yourself for a while now, exhausted and still unsure, maybe the invitation is to stop digging and start looking up.

A big thank you to Mark Ramos of RAM Shirts for the awesome shirt in today’s video. You can find Mark at ramshirts.com and on all social channels.

Before the Noise drops every morning before the rush begins.

06/16/2026

If you ever watch a sculptor work in marble, there’s a long stretch where the thing in front of them looks like a disaster. The block is hacked and scarred, chisel marks everywhere, rough pieces that clearly don’t belong yet. If you walked in at that moment you might think the artist ruined a perfectly good piece of stone. You’d be looking at a masterpiece and seeing a mess. Yesterday we said you are God’s poiema, His work of art. And some of you nodded and then thought, you haven’t seen the inside of my life. So today we sit with that honestly. A masterpiece in progress still looks like a mess up close. The flaws you see aren’t evidence you’re not a work of art. They’re evidence the artist isn’t finished. You are not a failed product. You’re an unfinished one, which is a completely different thing.

Before the Noise drops every morning to help you start your day grounded before the rush begins.

06/15/2026

Think about the last thing you bought that came off an assembly line. A phone, a coffee maker, a pair of shoes. There are hundreds of thousands of them, identical and interchangeable. If yours broke, you’d replace it with another one exactly like it and never feel the difference.

And if we’re honest, a lot of us secretly suspect that’s what we are. One of billions. Nothing particular about us that the world would actually miss. We feel mass produced.

There’s a verse in Ephesians that looks straight at that feeling and tells you it’s a lie. Paul writes that you are God’s workmanship. In English that lands a little flat. But the Greek word is poiema, where we get our word poem. It means a work of art. A masterpiece. Something deliberately crafted by an artist who cared about every detail.

An artist doesn’t mass produce. An artist lingers, makes choices, crafts a particular set of details that exist nowhere else in exactly that combination. That is how Scripture says you were made.

This week we’re talking about purpose. But we’re starting with what you are, because you’ll never understand what you were made for until you believe you were made on purpose.

Before the Noise is a few minutes every morning before the rush begins.

06/13/2026

There’s a detail in the story of Peter walking on the water that I think we rush right past. When Peter starts to sink, nothing about his circumstances had actually changed. The wind was just as strong as it had been a moment earlier. The waves were the same size. The water was no less deep.

The only thing that changed was where he was looking.

All week we’ve talked about the habits that sustain a resilient soul. Being present instead of rushing past your own life. Gratitude as defiance against the voice of not enough. Bringing your pain to God honestly. Staying connected when everything in you wants to hide.

And here’s the truth underneath all of them. None of them are really about becoming tougher. Every one is just a different way of fixing your eyes on Jesus instead of on the storm.

The storms are real. The question was never whether there would be one. The question is what you’ll fix your eyes on while you’re in it.

Before the Noise is a few minutes every morning before the rush begins.

06/11/2026

Growing up, I had a friend whose parents had a persimmon tree in their backyard. At least they said it was a persimmon tree. There was no real way to tell, because it never once bore fruit.

Turns out, for a persimmon tree to produce anything, there has to be another tree nearby. On its own, no matter how healthy it looks, it won’t bear what it was made to bear.

This week we’re talking about the resilient soul, and today is the one we most often get wrong. We’re quick to settle for something that looks like connection but isn’t really.

To be truly connected is to be known. Seen and valued for who you actually are, even the parts you’d rather keep hidden. And a lot of us avoid exactly that, usually because of shame, the quiet voice that says if people saw the real you, they’d leave. So we show people an easier version to love and keep the real one hidden. The problem is that a version of you that isn’t really you can’t actually be loved, because it isn’t actually known.

Resilience is found in connection. You were never meant to carry the weight alone.

Before the Noise is a few minutes every morning before the rush begins. Join us all week.

06/10/2026

There’s a kind of person everyone admires, the one who’s always holding it together. Something hard happens, and they show up steady. They say they’re doing okay. They don’t burden anyone with it. From the outside it looks like strength, and we even praise it.

But if you’ve ever been that person, you know what’s actually happening underneath. You’re not processing the weight. You’re just carrying it, adding it to a pile that never gets dealt with, and telling yourself that holding it together is the same thing as being okay.

It isn’t. And eventually that pile gets heavy enough that something gives.

A resilient soul isn’t one that never falls apart. It’s one that knows how to fall apart in the right direction. Away from God looks like numbing, going quiet, or letting the pressure leak out sideways onto people who didn’t cause it. Toward God is different. It’s turning to face Him with the thing you’d rather hide and saying it plainly, even if it comes out more like complaint than prayer.

There’s a name for that. Lament. And it might be the thing that actually keeps you whole.

Before the Noise is a few minutes every morning before the rush begins. Join us all week.

06/09/2026

Someone steps outside on a beautiful Saturday morning. The air is cool, the light is doing something gorgeous through the trees. And the very first thing their mind does is land on the one neighbor’s lawn that looks better than theirs.

Just like that, a beautiful morning becomes a quiet inventory of what they don’t have yet.

There’s a voice in a lot of us that’s been trained, carefully and over many years, to scan any situation and immediately locate the thing that’s missing. It’s not that the missing thing isn’t real. It’s that the voice gives it all the weight and gives everything good in the frame almost none.

So today I want to make a case for gratitude. Not the version on the cute journal with the prompt at the top of the page. Gratitude as an act of defiance. Because when that voice insists what you have isn’t enough, naming the good on purpose is genuine resistance. It refuses to let scarcity run the show.

Gratitude doesn’t pretend the missing thing isn’t there. It just refuses to let it get the only vote.

Before the Noise is a few minutes every morning before the rush begins. Join us all week.

06/08/2026

Picture someone standing in their kitchen waiting for the coffee to brew. It’s maybe a ninety second wait. And in those ninety seconds they check email, glance at the news, answer a text, and by the time the coffee is ready they’ve mentally left the kitchen and arrived at three problems that aren’t even in front of them yet.

They were never actually in the kitchen.

And for a lot of us, that’s not a ninety second habit. It’s the entire texture of a life. We’re physically present in moment after moment we never actually inhabit, because some part of us is always running slightly ahead, scanning the horizon for the next thing to manage.

We call it being busy. Underneath it is usually a low hum of anxiety, the quiet sense that if we ever stopped moving the whole thing might catch up to us.

This week we’re talking about the habits that actually sustain a soul, and we start with hurry. It doesn’t look like sin. It looks like responsibility. But it slowly disconnects you from your own life and from God, because you cannot be present with someone you’re always rushing past.

Before the Noise is a few minutes every morning before the rush begins. Join us all week.

06/04/2026

Most of us have quietly made peace with a version of grace that doesn’t actually offend us anymore. It’s polite. It’s reasonable. It shows up for people who are trying, people who are mostly headed in the right direction, people who fundamentally deserve a little help getting the rest of the way.

But that is not the grace the New Testament keeps describing. The real thing keeps landing on the wrong people. The tax collector who got rich betraying his neighbors. The woman everyone in town could place by reputation. The thief on the cross with nothing left to offer. Grace shows up for them with no waiting period, and something in us almost protests. That’s not fair. There has to be a catch.

The discomfort you feel right there is the clearest evidence that you’re finally looking at the real thing instead of the counterfeit.

And to be clear, the scandal of grace was never that it lets you stay where you are. It’s that it reaches all the way down to where you are, before you’ve cleaned anything up. And that reaching is the very thing that changes you.

Before the Noise is a few minutes every morning before the rush begins. Join us all week.

06/02/2026

There’s a particular kind of discomfort that shows up when someone gives you something you can’t pay back. Somebody picks up the check before you can reach for it, or hands you a gift that’s clearly more than you gave them, and almost involuntarily you start reaching for some way to even it out.

Something in us genuinely struggles to just receive a thing cleanly, to let it be a gift without insisting on contributing our share. And I think that exact instinct is what quietly distorts the gospel for a lot of us.

When Jesus said the work was finished, He meant it in a way that’s almost offensive to how we’re wired. Complete. Nothing pending. No balance left for you to settle. Your instinct to add your effort or your performance on top of it isn’t humility. It’s a quiet refusal to accept that the gift is as complete as He says it is.

The reason you can’t add to it isn’t that your contribution would be too small. It’s that the whole thing was finished before you ever arrived. You’re not being asked to help. You’re being asked to receive.

Before the Noise is a few minutes every morning before the rush begins. Join us all week.

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