Mere Christians

Jordan Raynor sits down with Dr. Michaela O’Donnell, Executive Director of the Max De Pree Center for Leadership, to talk about the helpful difference between “betting the farm” and taking the “next doable risk,” how Russian nesting dolls can help us think differently about calling, and 3 things to consider before joining the Great Resignation.

Links Mentioned:

• Dr. Michaela O'Donnell on LinkedIn
• Max De Pree Center for Leadership
• Make Work Matter
• Moana
• Ted Lasso
• Lasso Leadership Lessons
• Bill Lawrence
• Designing Your Life
• Uli Chi

Jordan Raynor sits down with Cheryl Bachelder, former CEO of Popeyes, to talk about the quote that stopped her in her tracks and led her to understand her calling as “developing leaders for a living,” and how she has learned to embrace her lack of discipline and routine.

Links Mentioned:

• Cheryl Bachelder
• On Moral Business
• Dare to Serve
• Faith for Exiles
• Redeeming Your Time
• Transfluence

Jordan Raynor sits down with songwriters, David & JJ Heller, to talk about the difference between creating art that is “about the Light” and art that is about “what you can see because of the Light,” what they learned from their shift of releasing full-length albums every year to releasing singles every month, and what Mister Rogers has taught us about how God views our work.

Links Mentioned:

• JJ Heller
• JJ Heller on Twitter
• JJ Heller on Instagram
• JJ Heller on Spotify
• JJ Heller on Apple Music
• Hand to Hold children’s book by JJ Heller
• Instrumental with JJ Heller
• Mister Rogers
• Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson
• Every Moment Holy
• Choreography to JJ’s version of ‘Make You Feel My Love’
• Jordan Raynor
• Jordan Raynor’s Bookshelf

Jordan Raynor sits down with Jessica Honegger, Founder of Noonday Collection, to talk about what dignified work looks like practically, what the shame Adam and Eve experienced after the Fall has to do with courage and our work, and how prayer and Sabbath can help us “relax into the goodness of God.”

Links Mentioned:

Noonday Collection

Jessica Honegger

Jessica Honegger on Twitter

Jessica Honegger on LinkedIn

Jessica Honegger on Instagram

Imperfect Courage

The Going Scared Podcast

Food for the Hungry International

Andy Crouch: Playing God

Andy Crouch: Strong and Weak

Curt Thompson: The Soul of Desire

John Mark Comer: Live No Lies

Jordan Raynor

Jordan Raynor’s Bookshelf

Jordan Raynor sits down with Becky Nesbitt, Editor at Penguin Random House, to talk about what happened when Becky started letting her friends curate the news for her, 3 tips for delivering great feedback, and how to view Sabbath as a feast, rather than a chore.

Links Mentioned:

• Becky Nesbitt on LinkedIn
• Jordan Raynor
• Jordan Raynor’s Bookshelf
• Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present, and Wildly Productive
• Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
• Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do
• On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft
• Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse

And don't forget, if you pre-order a copy of Jordan's new book, Redeeming Your Time, you can enter to win a trip for two to the Holy Land (or a cash prize of equivalent value)!

Entering to win is super simple:

• Step 1: Pre-order Redeeming Your Time on Amazon or one of these other retailers (1 entry per copy, maximum of 3 entries)
• Step 2: Fill out the form at JordanRaynor.com

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Jordan Raynor sits down with Os Guinness, author of The Call, to talk about the surprising friendship between Guinness and William Wilberforce, why a rhythm of “engagement and withdrawal” is a key to redeeming our time, and why Christians should be bold to carry “the future key of history” into our places of work.

Links Mentioned:

• Os Guinness
• Books by Os Guinness
• Os Guinness on Twitter
• Os Guinness on Facebook
• Practical View of Christianity
  Pensées
• Covenant and Conversations

And don't forget, if you pre-order a copy of Jordan's new book, Redeeming Your Time, you can enter to win a trip for two to the Holy Land (or a cash prize of equivalent value)!

Entering to win is super simple:

• Step 1: Pre-order Redeeming Your Time on Amazon or one of these other retailers (1 entry per copy, maximum of 3 entries)
• Step 2: Fill out the form at JordanRaynor.com

NO PURCHASE NEC. Restrictions apply. U.S. + D.C. residents only. Visit jordanraynor.com for full rules, prize info, odds, free entry method & other details. Void where prohibited.

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Jordan Raynor sits down with Matt Perman, Author of What’s Best Next, to talk about his rich theology of “Gospel Driven Productivity,” why we shouldn’t “let go and let God,” but rather “trust God and get going,” and the important difference between “following your passions” and “following your interests.”

Links Mentioned:

• Matt Perman
• Matt Perman on LinkedIn
• Matt Perman on Twitter
• What’s Best Next Blog
• What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
• Desiring God
• Amy Wrzesniewsk
• Making Vocational Choices: A Theory of Vocational Personalities and Work Environments
• God at Work
• A Treatise on the Callings and Vocations of Men
• Made to Stick
• Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
• Beyond Entrepreneurship
• Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0
• The Human Side of Enterprise 
• First Things First
• Ministries of Mercy
• For more books check out Jordan’s Bookshelf

And don't forget, if you pre-order a copy of Jordan's new book, Redeeming Your Time, you can enter to win a trip for two to the Holy Land (or a cash prize of equivalent value)!

Entering to win is super simple:

• Step 1: Pre-order Redeeming Your Time on Amazon or one of these other retailers (1 entry per copy, maximum of 3 entries)
• Step 2: Fill out the form at JordanRaynor.com

NO PURCHASE NEC. Restrictions apply. U.S. + D.C. residents only. Visit jordanraynor.com for full rules, prize info, odds, free entry method & other details. Void where prohibited.

Jordan Raynor sits down with John Mark Comer, Author of Live No Lies, to talk about why he is passing the baton of leadership at his church after 18 years, the difference between thinking about Scripture and THINKING scripture, and how and why to read the gospels as biographies of the life of Christ.

Links Mentioned:

• John Mark Comer
• Live No Lies
• The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
• Bridgetown Church
• Cal Newport
• How to Be a High School Superstar
• Powell's Books
• Shalom Y'all
• Malcolm Gladwell
• Adam Grant
• The Road Less Traveled
• Talking Back: A Monastic Handbook for Combating Demons
• The Overstory
• A Testament of Devotion
• Letters by a Modern Mystic
• Andy Crouch
• Redeeming Your Time

And don't forget, if you pre-order a copy of Jordan's new book, Redeeming Your Time, you can enter to win a trip for two to the Holy Land (or a cash prize of equivalent value)!

Entering to win is super simple:

• Step 1: Pre-order Redeeming Your Time on Amazon or one of these other retailers (1 entry per copy, maximum of 3 entries)
• Step 2: Fill out the form at JordanRaynor.com

NO PURCHASE NEC. Restrictions apply. U.S. + D.C. residents only. Visit jordanraynor.com for full rules, prize info, odds, free entry method & other details. Void where prohibited.

Jordan Raynor sits down with Dr. Benjamin Long, Sleep Medicine Physician, to talk about the one shockingly simple thing you can do today to drastically improve your sleep, what scientists are learning about the correlation between faith and sleep quality, how we can help our neighbors—especially the marginalized—get better sleep, and Parks and Rec and Pitch Perfect.

Links Mentioned:

• Benjamin Long
• Benjamin Long on Instagram
• The Wholehearted MD website
• Deep Sleep Bible Study
• Redeeming Your Time: Seven Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present and Wildly Productive
• A Scientific Man and the Bible
• Abraham Joshua Heschel
• The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
• Edmund Pellegrino
• Why We Sleep
• The Way of Medicine
• The Divine Conspiracy
• The Divine Conspiracy Continued
• Theosomnia
• Kevin "K.O." Olusola
• Jordan Raynor

And don't forget, if you pre-order a copy of Jordan's new book, Redeeming Your Time, you can enter to win a trip for two to the Holy Land (or a cash prize of equivalent value)!

Entering to win is super simple:

• Step 1: Pre-order Redeeming Your Time on Amazon or one of these other retailers (1 entry per copy, maximum of 3 entries)
• Step 2: Fill out the form at JordanRaynor.com

NO PURCHASE NEC. Restrictions apply. U.S. + D.C. residents only. Visit jordanraynor.com for full rules, prize info, odds, free entry method & other details. Void where prohibited.