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Christian parenting I am Monica Swanson mom to four boys wife to Dr

Dave podcast host and author of Boy Mom, Raising Amazing, and the newly released

Becoming Home Schoolers.

Here on the podcast it is my goal to bring you practical advice and biblical wisdom for raising amazing kids and

building strong families.

You can always find show notes over at Monica Swanson.com forward slash podcast.

I'm so glad you're here and I hope you'll be encouraged.

Hey friends welcome back to the podcast. I hope you're doing great. I'm

excited to share a returning guest with you today and I'm confident you will

enjoy this because when Jordan Rayner has been with us before

people have downloaded it a whole bunch of times and come back for more.

He has a ton of energy and it's contagious so hold on tight I love that but essentially

Jordan encourages us to understand the value of our work how God created us to be

workers in fact one of the episodes all linked to in show notes.

He was talking about his children's book, The Creator in You.

And it just was so helpful and encouraging our kids

to understand the value of work and to celebrate that. And so this is a topic he's spent years studying,

researching, digging into the Bible about and his new book is called The Sacredness of Secular Work and I think this is going to encourage so many of you

Wherever you work if you are changing diapers or as he says you're an accountant or a barista whatever you're doing your work has great value and I love this because I'm always encouraging my boys you know to look for opportunities to share their faith to to talk about Jesus to use their workplace or their school, whatever it might be for ministry.

And he says absolutely yes to that, but also even when you're not, your work still has great value,

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