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 do work as seamstresses, journalists, and

bakers? That's the question we explore every week.

And today I'm posing it to my friend

Monica Swanson.

She's an author, podcaster, but first and foremost a mother whose adult children are faithfully walking with

the Lord. Now listen guys, you guys know this podcast is all about how the gospel influences the work

the air Christians doing the world.

This is not a general Christian living podcast

and trust me that's intentional.

And so for almost four years we have managed to not have a single episode of this show about parenting.

But of course parenting is work, right? It is the hardest work.

And so this week we just celebrated Mother's Day, my team and I

wanted to recognize that truth and talk about how the gospel influences the work

that many of us do inside of our homes raising our children.

Specifically, we're going to talk about how to access the Holy Spirit's power to stop outbursts of anger at your colleagues, read

kids, but this is certainly relevant to those of you without kids. We talked about

how we can be as intentional about the work we do in our living rooms

as the work we do in our offices and we talked about the importance of surrounding our kids

with impressive Christian professionals and how practically to do it.

I think you guys are going to love this episode with my friend, Monica Swanson I've been so excited about this.

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