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soil( Genesis 2:7). We are dirt, not metal. However, in the Chaos of our modern world, we have become machines— cranking out projects and grinding and being productive. Maybe many of us are anxious and living chaotic lives because there’ s no rhythm to our work. Both machines and farms produce. But those processes of production look radically different. Embracing Sabbath doesn’ t mean that we produce less; it means that we produce differently. Sabbath is a rhythm, and rhythm is a nonnegotiable element of God’ s Order.
forms of chaos that produce anxiety in our lives. The Bible provides a path out of Chaos, but it requires that we recover an ancient way of reading the Scriptures.
Excerpted from Crushing Chaos by Manny Arango. Copyright 2025 by Manny Arango. Published by WaterBrook, an imprint of Penguin Random House Christian Publishing Group, LLC. Used by permission.
Sequence. Authority. Rhythm.
I wonder how many of us have been praying for peace but are sabotaging our ability to receive, produce, or sustain peace because our lives reject God’ s sequence, authority, and rhythm. I wonder how many of us have rebuked anxiety but have yet to reject the
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Dr. Manny Arango is the author of Crushing Chaos: Calm Your Storms. Order Your Life. Find Your Peace. and the founder of ARMA Courses, an online educational platform that helps Christians become biblically literate. The platform has grown to thousands of monthly subscribers since launching in 2020. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Manny was a teaching pastor at Social Dallas under pastors Robert and Taylor Madu and is now the lead pastor, along with his wife Tia, of The Garden in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Northern Seminary in June 2024 with a doctorate in New Testament studies. He’ s been married to his beautiful wife, Tia, for over a decade and they have a son named Theophilus. 34