Mere Christians

5 things Christian leaders can do to fire their neighbors as themselves, the spiritual and business benefits of investing in employees after you lay them off, and the sign I hung in my office to help me stop working like an orphan.

Links Mentioned:

• Jena Viviano Dunay on LinkedIn
• Jena Viviano (Career Strategist)
• New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional
• Jordan Raynor

William’s biblically informed vision of “zero waste” on the New Earth, the new question I’d encourage anyone to ask when making vocational decisions, and why William chose to work as an employee rather than an entrepreneur.

Links Mentioned:

• William Winchester on LinkedIn
• Berg Mill Supply
• Mere Christians Community
• John Bevere
• The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God's Best Version of You
• Jordan Raynor

How to be content with what you have and strive for what’s next at the same time, the 4 questions Ruth asks to help her see her circumstances the way God does, and how she is currently processing the disappointing slowdown in her once rapidly growing business

Links Mentioned:

• Ruth Chou Simons
• Ruth Chou Simons Books
• Ruth Chou Simons on Instagram
• Ruth Chou Simons on YouTube
• Now and Not Yet Book Website
• Now and Not Yet: Pressing in When You’re Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for More
• GraceLaced
• GraceLaced on Facebook
• GraceLaced on Instagram
• GraceLaced on Pinterest
• 2020 Episode: Ruth Chou Simons (Founder of GraceLaced)
• The Gospel Primer: Learning to See the Glories of God's Love
• The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts
• Episode: Chassie Anders (Founder of Crown of Glory Beauty)
• Jordan Raynor

What it means to Stephen that Satan had no idea what Nate Bargatze would become, how magic can create awe and wonder that leads to belief in God, and the gospel-centered mental shift he credits for the salvation of his mom on her deathbed.

Links Mentioned:

• Stephen Bargatze
• Stephen Bargatze on Instagram
• Stephen Bargatze on YouTube
• Nate Bargatze 
• The International Brotherhood of Magicians
• Jason Michaels
• Andre Kole
• The Crown: Ruritania
• The Sacredness of Secular Work
• Redeeming Your Time
• Contact Jordan
• Jordan Raynor

The dangers in the Church’s culture of giving, what Christian peer groups might have looked like in the first century, and how to create “mini Bema Seat moments” to judge your work before God does.

Links Mentioned:

• Mike Sharrow on LinkedIn
• Mike Sharrow on X
• C12 Business Forums
• C12 Business Forums on YouTube
• CURRENT25
• Walgreens
• Unoffendable
• The Sacredness of Secular Work
• Redeeming Your Time
• Contact Jordan
• Jordan Raynor

How God is using ballets about faith to reach non-Christians, how to not undersell the power of the Holy Spirit at work, and Jordan’s favorite This Is Us scene that powerfully illustrates the gospel.

Links Mentioned:

• Julianna Rubio Slager
• Julianna Rubio Slager (5:8 Ballet)
• Julianna Rubio Slager on LinkedIn
• Julianna Rubio Slager on Instagram
• Julianna Rubio Slager on Linktr.ee
• Ballet 5:8
• Julianna Slager (Co-founder of Ballet 5:8 2019)
• The School of American Ballet
• Ballet Magnificat
• Kathy Thibodeaux on LinkedIn
• All God’s Children
• Olivier Messiaen
• Makoto Fujimura
• Slow Productivity
• This Is Us
• Steve Cuss
• Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs
• Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present, and Wildly Productive
• Jordan Raynor

How to discern what God wants to renew in your workplace, 3 positive things boasting in weakness produces, and Jordan’s new vocational dream for the New Earth.

Links Mentioned:

• Jenna Barret on LinkedIn
• Jenna Barret on Instagram
• Choice Hotels
• Jenna Fortier (Student & Founder of PASTA) (Episode 61)
• Jordan Raynor (Host of Mere Christians) (Episode 100)
• Aliyah Boston on Instagram
• Paige Bueckers on Instagram
• Tamika Catchings on Instagram
• Called to Create: A Biblical Invitation to Create, Innovate, and Risk
• The Sacredness of Secular Work
• Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.
• Mere Christians Community
• Jordan Raynor

5 practices for ensuring your work doesn’t become an idol, why “gratitude is the on-ramp to adoration” of God, and why Jesus said he is the “bread of life” and not the “grain of life.”

Links Mentioned:

• Joe Rigney
• Joe Rigney on X
• Joe Rigney on LinkedIn
• Strangely Bright
• Live Like A Narnian: Christian Discipleship in Lewis's Chronicles
• The Sacredness of Secular Work
• Leaf by Niggle
• ‘Mythopoeia’
• The Great Divorce
• Letters to Malcolm
• Jordan Raynor

What Jen envisions her work looking like on the New Earth, how the “dangerous light” in you makes every Christian’s work sacred, and why it’s significant that gold will be trampled on for eternity.

Links Mentioned:

• Jen Wilkin
• Jen Wilkin on Instagram
• Jen Wilkin on X
• Revelation - Bible Study Book with Video Access: Eternal King, Everlasting Kingdom
• Jen Wilkin Books
• Andy Crouch
• The Sacredness of Secular Work
• Art and Faith: A Theology of Making
• The Knowledge of the Holy
• The Holiness of God
• Jordan Raynor

How Christ redeemed Anne after horrific trauma and abuse, how her trauma gave her purpose and ambition for Auntie Anne’s, and how to stop overcomplicating the presence of God.

This episode originally aired on August 23, 2023. Because you all loved it so much, we are re-releasing it as a part of our Fan Fave Flashbacks series this summer! Would you like to be a guest on the Mere Christians podcast when we begin new episodes this fall? Share your story with our producers at jordanraynor.com/mc

Links Mentioned:

• Auntie Anne Beiler on Instagram
• Auntie Anne Beiler
• Auntie Anne’s
• Twist of Faith
• He Will Hold Me Fast on YouTube
• Emerge Counseling Ministries
• Come to the Table
• Disciplines for the Inner Life
• Overcome and Lead
• Jordan Raynor