Mere Christians

How to distinguish between holy ambition and selfish ambition, how to do “due diligence on your soul” and not just a deal, and could there have eventually been realtors in the Garden of Eden?

Links Mentioned:

• Bobo Beck on LinkedIn
• Bobo Beck on Twitter
• Bobo Beck on Instagram
• Wisdom Calling
• Wisdom Calling: A Professional's Devotional Guide to Skillful Life and Work
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
• Visioneering
• The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness
• Don’t Waste Your Life
• The Greatest Thing in the World
• Dwight Gibson on LinkedIn
• Lauren Gill from Redeemer
• Jordan Raynor

What Mordecai can teach us about working in exile, why Christy sees teaching in public schools as a form of justice, and how to insulate without isolating from the world.

Links Mentioned:

• Christy Adams on Facebook
• 'Christy Adams (Teacher) | Jordan Raynor’
• Netflix
• Micah 6:8
• Philippians 2:4
• John 17
• Esther
• Ruth
• Nicky Gumbel on Twitter
• Alpha
• 'What is the work beneath your work?’
• Gilmore Girls
• The Creator in You
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 
• Jen Wilkin
• Jordan Raynor

Why common grace is the key to worshiping more while you work and experience the work of others, how calling out the work of non-Christians as God’s work can build bridges for sharing the gospel, and how Jordan explained to his kids how God protected them on a recent road trip.

Links Mentioned:

• Mike Kelsey on LinkedIn
• Mike Kelsey on Instagram
• Mike Kelsey on Twitter
• McLean Bible Church
• McLean Bible Church on Instagram
• Kate Schmidgall on LinkedIn
• Timothy Keller
• Praying Like Monks
• The Imperfect Pastor
• Reading While Black
• Jordan Raynor

Jordan Raynor sits down with Dr. Gordon Chen, Chief Medical Officer of ChenMed, to talk about their radical business model that is doing justice in powerful ways, how to embrace and address conflict at work in a God-honoring way, and what Jesus’s work as a physician means for us.

Links Mentioned:

• Gordon Chen on LinkedIn
• Gordon Chen on Twitter
• ChenMed
• The Calling: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and the Future of Healthcare
• Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
• The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
• Mere Christianity
• The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
• Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus
• Jordan Raynor

What will make Christians distinct in the workplace, what Sabbath ceasing, resting, embracing, and feasting can look like practically, and why the goal of local churches should be to equip believers for working outside the church.

Links Mentioned:

• Jon Tyson on Instagram
• Jon Tyson on Twitter
• Church of the City New York
• PRAY.NYC
• The Intentional Father
• A Creative Minority
• The Burden Is Light
• ''The great untold scandal': the sordid tale of boyband mogul Lou Pearlman’
• R.C. Sproul Ligonier Ministries
• Ephesians 4
• Dave Blanchard
• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
• Nikolaus von Zinzendorf
• William Wilberforce
• Keeping the Sabbath Wholly
• Luke 15
• Greg McKeown Books
• Sacred Fire
• And There Was Light
• Martin Luther King, Jr: A Life
• Where the Light Fell
• On the Road with Saint Augustine
• The Founder’s Mentality
• The Leadership Challenge
• The Creator in You
• Jordan Raynor

Dr. Collins's remarkable response to death threats from so-called Christians during the pandemic, the theological root of many Christians’ dismissal of science, and what he’s currently writing in his first book in nearly 20 years.

• Links Mentioned:
• Dr. Francis Collins on LinkedIn
• ‘“Genesis" Song – N.T. Wright and Francis Collins’
• N.T. Wright
• BioLogos
• ‘Faith, Science, and Francis Collins’
• Psalms 1
• Timothy Keller
• The Language of God
• Mere Christianity
• The Reason for God
• Dr. Jane Goodall
• ‘Inspiration and Hope: An Event to Celebrate Jane Goodall’
• Deborah Haarsma on LinkedIn
• The Creator in You
• Jordan Raynor

Links Mentioned:

• Tim Keller
• Tim's article in The Atlantic
• Forgive
• Every Good Endeavor
• The Prodigal God
• The Reason For God
• Tim Keller on Twitter
• George Whitefield
• Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness
• Counterfeit Gods
• How to Reach the West Again
• Evangelism in the Early Church
• Why We Are Restless
• Francis Collins
• The Language of God
• The Creator in You

How to access the Holy Spirit’s power to stop outbursts of anger at your colleagues at home (read: kids), how to be as intentional about the work in your living room as the work in your office, and how to surround your kids with impressive Christian professionals.

Links Mentioned:

• Monica Swanson
• Monica Swanson on LinkedIn
• Monica Swanson on Twitter
• Monica Swanson on Instagram
• Monica Swanson on Facebook
• Luke Swanson on Instagram
• Raising Amazing
• Boy Mom
• On Birth
• Grit
• The 40-Day Feast
• Mind Your Mindset
• Jordan Raynor

How U2, Van Gogh, and Johnny Cash used art to point to spiritual truths, why we should think about our work as “spiritual timebombs,” and how to use mainstream films to share the gospel.

Links Mentioned:

• Terry Glaspey
• Terry Glaspey on LinkedIn
• Terry Glaspey on Instagram
• Terry Glaspey on Facebook
• Discovering God through the Arts
• 75 Masterpieces Every Christian Should Know
• The Chronicles of Narnia
• At Folsom Prison
• Mere Christianity
• The Lord of the Rings
• Phantastes
• 1 Corinthians 3
• It’s a Wonderful Life
• Matthew 5-7
• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Crime and Punishment
• Ephesians 2:8-10
• The Brothers Karamazov
• U2
• Sing 2
• Vincent van Gough
• Starry Night
• Psalms 19
• Not a Tame Lion
• Jen Wilkin
• Philip Yancey
• Henry Nouwen
• The Return of the Prodigal Son
• Terrence Malick on Twitter
• Makoto Fujimura
• The Tree of Life
• The Creator in You
• Jordan Raynor

Why vulnerability is the key to freedom in your work, the power of Christ-like joy in the workplace, and why every mere Christian’s work matters to God.

Links Mentioned:

• Sam Acho
• Sam Acho on Twitter
• Sam Acho on Instagram
• Sam Acho on LinkedIn
• Change Starts with You
• Let the World See You
• Jesus Calling
• Jordan Raynor