Tagged: Charles Hummel

See last week’s devotion for Part One: Prudence Urgent: requiring immediate action or attention.   He inquired of Arioch the king’s deputy, “Why is the decree from the king so urgent?” Then Arioch informed Daniel about the matter. So Daniel went in and requested the king to grant him time, that he might disclose the interpretation to the king.  Daniel 2:15-16 I learned to be urgency averse from a tiny book called Tyranny of the Urgent by the late Charles Hummel. Out of fifteen books and Bible studies published in Hummel’s lifetime, Tyranny of the Urgent was a bestseller. It was printed in 1994, the year I married and the year I started my clinical residency as a speech-language pathologist. Many things were demanding my time and I was… Read More