Hey everybody 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 were not religious professionals,

but who work as surgeons and lifeguards and real estate agents.

That's the question we explore every week on this podcast.

And today I'm posing it to my friend Marcus Brotherton.

He's the New York Times best-selling biographer of a crazy

number of books, co-author of a lot of books with Louis Giglio and Gary Sinise

and many others. Marcus is one of the few repeat guests

we've ever had on the podcast,

but I wanted to bring him back for a very specific topic.

We're talking about discouragement and dismay at work and

specifically seven questions Marcus recommends we ask when we're discouraged in

our jobs.

Throughout this episode we talked about examples from both of our careers,

including mind about how God has used professional trials

for our sanctification.

And we also talked about why Marcus left 10 years of pastoral ministry

to become a journalist and a full-time biographer.

I think you guys are going to love this different super

practical, super encouraging episode with my friend Marcus Brotherton.

Welcome back to the podcast. This is very rare that we have returned guests on the mere Christians podcast back then called the call to

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