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Bestselling Author & Successful Entrepreneur Jordan Raynor Offers a Biblical Antidote for Swamped To-do Lists and Hurried Schedules Despite the overwhelming amount of resources for time management and work-life balance, the ability to cultivate the efficiency and equilibrium needed to manage all our worthy pursuits can often feel frustratingly out of reach. The reason for our struggle is that productivity and time-management systems focus on individual habits rather than on more meaningful and lasting lifestyle changes. But as it turns out, there is a better way to reach our full potential.
We don’t need just another approach to changing our habits. What we need is an operating system that takes into account the full scope of our lives. In
Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present & Wildly Productive (WaterBrook hardcover; on-sale 10/19/21), bestselling author Jordan Raynor presents this vital system, using seven powerful time-management principles drawn from the example of how Jesus lived:
1. Start with the Word: Find meaningful connection with the author of time daily.
2. Let Your Yes Be Yes: Accept only the commitments you can fulfill.
3. Dissent from the Kingdom of Noise: Create room for silence, stillness, and reflection.
4. Prioritize Your Yeses: Confidently maintain your commitments.
5. Accept Your “Unipresence”: Focus on one important thing at a time.
6. Embrace Productive Rest: Live the God-designed rhythms of rest that are productive for your goals and soul.
7. Eliminate All Hurry: Embrace productive busyness while ruthlessly eliminating hurry from your life.
With these principles, readers will see how Jesus managed his time on earth and how he responded to human constraints much like the ones we face today. Throughout the book, Raynor helps readers discover 31 corresponding practices so they can embrace the best, most Christlike version of themselves possible:
purposeful, present, and wildly productive.
To help illustrate the wisdom of Jesus’s habits, Raynor also includes numerous helpful time management and productivity case studies from influential figures including William Wilberforce, C. S. Lewis, Paul McCartney, Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill, WNBA All-Star Tamika Catchings, James Cameron, and Mister Rogers.
Redeeming Your Time is an essential and highly practical guide that will be appreciated by believers everywhere.
“The Gospels are biographies of how Jesus walked. Why do we read biographies? To learn how to live. Who better to learn from than Jesus? Jordan Raynor’s paradigm of purpose, presence, and productivity is excellent. But learning it from Jesus? That’s the magic.”
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John Mark Comer, founding pastor of Bridgetown Church and author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry “A highly practical road map.”—
Mark Batterson, New York Times bestselling author and lead pastor of National Community Church ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Jordan Raynor, author of
Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present, and Wildly Productive (WaterBrook hardcover; on sale 10/19/21), is a serial entrepreneur and national bestselling author who has helped millions of Christians around the world connect the gospel to their work through his “Call to Mastery” podcast, devotionals, and other books. He also serves as the executive chairman of Threshold 360, a venture-backed tech start-up that has built the world’s largest library of 360-degree virtual experiences of hotels, restaurants, and attractions. A highly sought-after speaker on the topic of faith and work, Raynor has spoken at many events around the world, including Harvard University and SXSW. He has been selected as a Google fellow twice and served in the White House under President George W. Bush. Jordan and his books have been featured on many media outlets including CNBC, Fast Company, WIRED Magazine, The Gospel Coalition,
WORLD, “The Christy Wright Show,” “In the Market with Janet Parshall,” and the “Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast.” Jordan lives in Tampa, Florida, with his wife and their three daughters.For more information, visit
https://www.jordanraynor.com or
instagram.com/jordanraynor.
Notable Quotes from Redeeming Your Time“Our response to the gospel is to redeem our time, to manage our time as carefully and wisely as possible.”
“The gospels are our opportunity to see not just what Jesus said or what he did but how he walked so that we can walk and manage our time as he did.”
“Work existed pre-sin. Work was good. Work was more than good, and work was worship.”
“Working to earn someone's favor is exhausting. But working in response to unconditional favor is intoxicating.”
“God showed you grace when you were his enemy. Surely you can give yourself grace for forgetting to call your grandmother.”
“Silence, stillness, solitude, reflection—that’s the difference between hearing God's Word and listening to his voice.”
“If you eliminate or significantly reduce your time spent consuming information, your friends will curate information for you.”
“Jesus understood his purpose and that allowed him to take the long list of things he could do and prioritize it down to the things he knew he should do to ‘finish the work the Father gave him to do.’”
“The mission of your life is to glorify God. Period. Full stop.”
“The level of competition decreases as the size of your goal increases.”
“In today’s distracted world, being fully present is one of the most valuable presents you can give.”
“Life’s too short to spend time on things that only deserve half our attention.”
“Depth is the silver bullet for effectiveness.”
“The less time you sleep, the less time you have to do good works for the glory of God and the good of others.”
“If you work with your mind, rest with your hands. If you work with your hands, rest with your mind.”
“Sabbath is a day for ceasing and feasting. We aren’t invited just to cease from our work. We are invited to pull up a chair next to King Jesus and feast on his goodness and his gifts.”
“In today’s distracted world, being fully present is one of the most valuable presents you can give.”
“Our work matters
today because it is a means of glorifying God and loving our neighbors as ourselves. But our work also matters for
eternity because God can use it to build his kingdom.”
“We must ensure that our ‘yes’ is ‘yes’ from the smallest to the biggest commitments we make.”
“Hurry is the great enemy to our ability to be purposeful, present, and wildly productive.”
“Which problem, once solved, is going to make most of my other problems easier to solve or disappear entirely?”
“Opportunities that aren't attached to some meaningful end aren’t opportunities. They are simply possibilities that stir up frantic excitement.”
“Everything we have, including our ability to be disciplined as we redeem our time, has been graciously given to us.”
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