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A thought by John Mark Comer from his book, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry (p. 91). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) And here is the key.   John says, “Yet he never came off hurried . “This rootedness in the moment and connectedness to God, other people, and himself weren’t the by-products of a laid-back personality or pre–Wi-Fi world; they were the outgrowths of a way of life. A whole new way to be human that Jesus put on display in story after story. “After all, this is the man who waited three decades to preach his first sermon, and after one day on the job as Messiah, he went off to the wilderness for forty days to pray. Nothing could hurry this man.” John goes on, “Jesus made sure to inject a healthy dose of margin into his life. It’s been said that margin is ‘the space between our load and our limits.’ 1   For many of us there is no space between our loads and limits. W...

A thought by John Mark Comer from his book, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry (p. 77). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) That’s a great way to say follower of Christ, isn’t it? John says, “And in doing so to recover your soul. To have the warped part of you put back into shape. To experience healing in the deepest parts of your being. To experience what Jesus called ‘life…to the full.’ (John 10:10)   What the New Testament writers call ‘salvation.’ (Romans 1:16) Keep in mind, the Greek word that we translate ‘salvation’ is soteria ; it’s the same word we translate ‘healing.’ When you’re reading the New Testament and you read that somebody was ‘healed’ by Jesus and then you read somebody else was ‘saved’ by Jesus, you’re reading the same Greek word . Salvation is healing. Even the etymology of our English word salvation comes from the Latin salve . As in, an ointment you put on a burn or a wound.”...

A thought by John Mark Comer from his book, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry (p. 72). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Time, it’s so important how we use it, isn’t it? He says, “Apparently, I’m known as a ‘reader.’ I read two or three books a week, which normally comes in at around one hundred and twenty-five books a year. And I feel pretty good about that. At least I did. Until I read Charles Chu’s calculations. The average American reads two hundred to four hundred words per minute. At that speed, we could all read two hundred books a year, nearly twice my quota, in just 417 hours. “Sounds like a lot, right? 417? That’s over an hour a day. But can you guess how much time the average American spends on social media each year? The number is 705 hours.   TV…2,737.5 hours. “Meaning, for just a fraction of the time we give to social media and television, we could all become avid readers ...