Moments You Always Remember
About this episode
The episode discusses the significance of Kairos moments in life and the importance of prioritizing what truly matters.
February 26, 2026 Kronos is chronological time. Kronos appears more than 50 times in the original New Testament. Kairos is a pregnant moment in time, an inflection-point of consequence. Does in surprise you that Kairos appears more than 85 times? Each of us vividly remembers those Kairos moments when we decided to turn the steering wheel of Life and begin traveling in a whole new direction. Jim Burns is a counselor. His voice is heard on more than 800 radio stations each day and he has 3 million books in print. But I didn’t know any of that prior to him appearing as a guest speaker at our church last week. I tell you this only because Jim Burns said something that I really needed to hear. “I had to learn to say ’no’ to good things, to say ‘yes’ to the most important things.” That was a Kairos moment for me because it instantly crystallized something in my mind that had previously been only the foggy awareness that I was speaking with so many people each day that I no longer had time to take a deep breath and calm my thoughts. Then Jim said it again, but differently. “Sometimes we just have to say ‘no’ to good things, even to say yes to the most important things. That’s how we…
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