Welcome to Dr. and Devotion, a podcast exploring Christian faith and practice from a reformed Baptist perspective.

My name is Joe Thorne. I'm the lead pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St Charles, Illinois.

And I'm Jayne Fowler, Executive Pastor at Redeemer Fellowship.

Okay, so it is Thursday, December 26 when this drops that it means it is Kwanza and listen we are how are you going to celebrate the same way I

I celebrate every other non-Christian holiday but not I don't really think aboutza. I just know that it's December 26th.

It's kicking off Kwanza. Hey, so this is the last podcast of the year for us. We're not coming back next week, we're

taken off so you know normally we would drop one on the 30th and on the second. We're not going to be around. I think Jimmy's out of town.

Yip yip yip yip. So we're going to actually take that week off and I don't think we haven't

we've never done that. We haven't taken a week off before.

I think we've taken a week week off we've just not posted yeah but we didn't

intentionally take a week up never a full week we might have missed an episode but

so we will be back January 6th. So look for us January 6th. We'll be coming back.

Hope you guys are enjoying the holiday season and if it's been a painful one I hope that you are persevering I hope

that you are looking to God and allowing him to lift your head as you consider

him his grace and his kindness and his mercy to you in Jesus Christ.

What we want to do today is, since this is our last podcast of 2019, is we want to talk a little

bit about praying for this new year and praying like like so we're not talking

about the planning aspect of it right well we're not talking about like how do aspect of it, right? Well, we're not talking about like, how do you organize your year?

Everybody's doing that.

Or how do you seize the year back in 2017 and it's blank?

And we're entering into 2020.

You gotta bring up the can.

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