1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Fridays or over the weekend, I try to share some wisdom or something I’m thinking about or working on.
May 4th will mark seven years of writing RiseWithDrew every weekday. Haven’t missed a day except for holidays.
For the last several years, I’ve done … continue reading
1: “Think of a pleasant wine-tasting memory,” John Mark Comer writes in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World.
What is it that is underneath every thriving vine?
A trellis. “A structure to hold up the vine so it can grown and bear fruit,” John Mark notes.
A trellis is to a vine as structure is to … continue reading
1: Hurry. Hurry. Hurry.
That’s the reality of the life we know.
“If there’s anything we pick up from reading the four Gospels,” however, John Mark Comer writes in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, “it’s that Jesus was rarely in a hurry.”
“Can you imagine a stressed-out Jesus?” he asks. “Snapping at Mary Magdalene after a long day, ‘I can’t believe you dropped the hummus.’ Sighing, and saying to … continue reading
1: “I live right on the edge of downtown Portland in this fun micro-urban neighborhood,” John Mark Comer writes in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.
Early in the morning, as John Mark sits and prays while enjoying his first cup of coffee, his neighbors are filing out the door to do a sunrise run.
It’s “a house full of single people who are essentially a walking advertisement for Nike,” … continue reading
1: “On a regular basis I catch myself saying, ‘I wish there were ten more hours in a day,'” John Mark Comer writes in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.
Time is a problem. A limitation. A challenge.
“It doesn’t matter if we’re the CEO of a multinational corporation or a retired school bus driver, John Mark notes, “if we’re single or raising a family of seven, if we live … continue reading
1: Psychologists and mental health professionals call it “hurry sickness.”
They label it a disease. And it’s an epidemic in our modern world, John Mark Comer writes in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.
Hurry sickness is defined as “A behavior pattern characterized by continual rushing and anxiousness.”
And: “A malaise in which a person feels chronically short of time, and so tends to perform every task faster and to … continue reading
1: “In the 1960s futurists all over the world—from sci-fi writers to political theorists—thought that by now we’d all be working way fewer hours,” John Mark Comer writes in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World.
“One famous Senate subcommittee in 1967 was told that by 1985, the average American would work only twenty-two hours a … continue reading
1: It’s the late ’90s. John Ortberg “was working at Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago, one of the most influential churches in the world,” John Mark Comer writes in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.
“John himself is a well-known teacher and best-selling author—the kind of guy you figure pretty much has apprenticeship to Jesus down,” John Mark notes, “But behind the scenes he felt like he was getting … continue reading
1: “It’s a Sunday night, 10 p.m. Head up against the glass of an Uber, too tired to even sit up straight. I taught six times today—yes, six. The church I pastor just added another gathering,” John Mark Comer writes in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.
“That’s what you do, right? Make room for people?” he asks.
“I made it until about talk number four; I don’t remember anything … continue reading
