You wake up, gulp down your coffee while speed-reading the news, and half-listen to a podcast during your rushed morning commute. You spend your workday juggling tasks before finally returning home and sinking into the couch, your brain fried and your heart pounding.

If any aspects of this scene describe your typical day, you know what it’s like to rush through life. In The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, pastor and author John Mark Comer explores our cultural obsession with rushing and examines how it harms our relationships, health, sense of purpose, and spirituality. He argues that you can escape this culture of rushing by following the lifestyle of Jesus. In this guide, we’ll present Comer’s insights on how to stop rushing by deepening your Christian spiritual practice. You’ll learn how to carve out more time for your spiritual practice and enjoy slowing down your life. Along the way, we’ll compare Comer’s ideas to those of other scholars and offer additional steps you can take to stop hurrying.