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

How does the gospel influence the work of Meer Christians, those of us who aren't pastors or

religious professionals, but who work as archivists, blacksmiths, and SEO

strategists. That's the question we explore every week and today I'm

posing it to Noah Sanders. He's a farmer and the author of Born Again Dirt

farming to the Glory of God,

Noah and I recently sat down

and had a terrific conversation about why faithfulness in our work

requires focus and killing things that are working as an act of

worship to the Lord we talked about how dreaming about work on the new earth makes it

easier much easier in my case, to focus on the work we believe

that God has called us to in the present.

And we talked about why you should stop asking what you can learn from a particular person and start asking what is God teaching you through that person?

My mind was blown at this section of the episode. I thought it was such a brilliant question and way of

thinking guys trust me you're gonna love this conversation with my new friend, Noah Sanders. Noah Sanders, welcome to the Mir Christians podcast.

Thanks so much, Jordan. what an honor to be on here

with you. I'm super pumped about this. Hey so did you grow up on a farm like what's a

story here did you grow up in this business? No I didn't I come from a bit of a legacy of farmers in Indiana, but like so many family farms, you know, by the time

it got to my granddad's generation, he was just doing it part-time, and then by the time it got to my dad's generation,

the farm had to be sold off for inheritance taxes, so there was no farming.

When I was growing up, we grew up in town, but we did move out to 11 acres when I was around 10

because my dad did want to have some place for us kids to run around and

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