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Slowing Down To Catch Up With God
Everyone is busy. Technology promises rest and connection. What it delivers is the ability to go faster, do more, with an alarming level of angsty loneliness. Despite our best efforts, along with this hurry comes about the future, about our kids, about getting ahead, about just getting by. Our world is an anxious place. Everywhere we look people crave simplicity. Yet we can’t seem to get there. We’re captive to cultural assumptions and expectations for our families, our careers, even our faith and church. Again, no matter how hard we try, it seems like circumstances are driving our lives and we’re somewhere in the back seat. Have you ever felt this way?
In Slowing Down To Catch Up With God, author Jim Pool, aka The Three Mile an Hour Pastor, shares honest and humorous stories from life at West Point, the Army, pastoring and mission work. He invites you to walk with him on his journey into faith and his (re)discovery of a simpler, more relational expression of the Way of Jesus and an authentic, more hopeful way of being human. He shares from his experiences of learning to slow down, surrender expectations, embrace the lessons of suffering, simplify and find new understandings of success.
If you’re a devoted follower of Jesus wondering what it could look like to faithfully and fruitfully live into his commissions to love God and others and make maturing, multiplying disciples, this book might be for you.
If you’ve been running hard to be successful and wondering how you might slow down to enjoy being an authentic human in community with others, this book might be for you.
In Slowing Down To Catch Up With God, author Jim Pool, aka The Three Mile an Hour Pastor, shares honest and humorous stories from life at West Point, the Army, pastoring and mission work. He invites you to walk with him on his journey into faith and his (re)discovery of a simpler, more relational expression of the Way of Jesus and an authentic, more hopeful way of being human. He shares from his experiences of learning to slow down, surrender expectations, embrace the lessons of suffering, simplify and find new understandings of success.
If you’re a devoted follower of Jesus wondering what it could look like to faithfully and fruitfully live into his commissions to love God and others and make maturing, multiplying disciples, this book might be for you.
If you’ve been running hard to be successful and wondering how you might slow down to enjoy being an authentic human in community with others, this book might be for you.
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Published March 20, 2025
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April 19, 2025
A raw and honest wake up call
I love this book! Jim Pool takes us into the narrative of what Jesus is actually doing in his life and he holds nothing back. If you’ve ever been in ministry you will recognize many of the dangers and false mirages on the journey. Jim shows us how God spoke to him and told him to take a different path. The funny thing is Jim shows how God was speaking to him all along but it took a couple of surprising forks in the road and rough climbs for him to listen. Read this book and reflect on whether you are listening to God or the warped values of the evangelical church machine!
I love this book! Jim Pool takes us into the narrative of what Jesus is actually doing in his life and he holds nothing back. If you’ve ever been in ministry you will recognize many of the dangers and false mirages on the journey. Jim shows us how God spoke to him and told him to take a different path. The funny thing is Jim shows how God was speaking to him all along but it took a couple of surprising forks in the road and rough climbs for him to listen. Read this book and reflect on whether you are listening to God or the warped values of the evangelical church machine!
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