Hey friend welcome to the mere Christians podcast I'm Jordan Rayner.

How does the gospel influence the work of mere Christians, those of us who aren't

pastors or religious professionals, but who work as Special Forces officers,

railroad conductors, and school guidance counselors.

That's the question we explore every week,

and today I'm posing it to Jennifer Allwood,

a super talented painter, turned entrepreneur,

turned coach to other Christian entrepreneurs. turned mining the depths of scripture. We talked about why comparison is yes a thief of joy but also

a helpful teacher for those looking to get unstuck. And finally we talked about how to replace the world's

call to be confident with the biblical call to have courage and what the

difference is between those things. I think you guys are going to thoroughly enjoy this

conversation with my new friend Jennifer Allwood.

Jennifer Allwood, welcome to the Meer Christians podcast.

Jordan, thank you so much for having me.

I'm super excited, honored to be here.

Yeah, I had so much fun on your show recently.

I know that was so much fun.

Thank you. It's fun that we can like kind of

piggyback off each other on each other's program. I love it. Hey you spend a lot of

time helping Christian professionals, mere Christians in the parlance of this podcast,

get unstuck. How can the mere Christians

listening know if they're stuck in the war God created them to do? What are the symptoms

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