If your heart is beating in 2023, your body and mind can give testimony that we live in an increasingly complex and crowded world. There are more beautiful opportunities and rushing demands than our bodies and calendars can manage. Yet, we keep on drinking from the fire hose of information, social media, schedules, hurry, excursions, demands, and temptations [tell your shame-gremlins to shut up; they don’t help]. The River Church is committed to learn from and follow both the words and ways of Jesus. He practiced, with intention, a Simple life, giving his mind, body, and heart to that which mattered most. Here is a simple definition from Joshua Becker: Simplicity is “the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from them.” Let's consider how Jesus lived with Simple Time, learning from his interactions in Mark 1:35-39.
