Welcome back to the coffee and Bible Time podcast.

For those that may be listening for the first time, our podcast is an offshoot from our main platform YouTube.

Our channel is called Coffee and Bible Time,

where our goal is to help people delight in God's Word. We also have a website in storefront

with Bible studies, prayer journals, and more. I'm Mentor Mama, and today we are going to be

talking about faith and work since the beginning of time.

Our guest today, Jordan Rayner, author of the upcoming children's book called The Creator in You,

will be giving us a fresh perspective on the creation account from the Bible's first book,

Genesis, that helps readers see

that the sixth day wasn't the end of creation. It was just the beginning. Jordan has written

several books that give adults insight into the meaning of the purpose and value of work.

You know, in fact, it was Jordan's book called The Master of One that I picked up during

the pandemic that has really encouraged my decision to step out of corporate America

and into doing full-time ministry at coffee and Bible time.

And so his book just taught me to imagine how different my life would be if I spent my

time doing the very thing that brings me the greatest joy.

So I'm going to put that link to the book in our show notes as well.

But I just wanted to give you that backstory.

So to let you know just how much I respect

Jordan and his ministry and his value of work. Well, in preparation for this interview, I went back

and I reread the story of the creation in Genesis. And interestingly enough, I found a post-it note that I had put on the page

quite some time ago, which is actually a quote from A.W. Tozer, and it's referring to Genesis

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