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I'm the producer, Caleb Keith, and I'm joined by our hosts, Dr. Rod Rosenblatt, Scott Keith, and Adam Francisco.

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Welcome to the Thinking Fellows. This week we're talking about kind of extending into the means of grace

and a more specific topic. This week, confession and absolution. Dr. Keyes, why don't you start

us off kind of defining what we're going to be doing here? Well, I will. But first off,

this will hit probably much long, much after this has happened, but I think congratulations

sir, in order to Caleb, right?

We recorded last week, and then you had a baby.

Yep, yep.

And you're a granddad.

Yeah, and I'm a granddad.

And then your baby, Esther, she was baptized on Sunday, which is sort of appropriate for the flow of the

show because we just did baptism. And then three days later, your daughter, my granddaughter

was baptized down at Faith Lutheran Capo Beach. Beautiful service. I mean, just gorgeous. I think I cried

more than your mother probably. Other than that, and then beyond that, just as a matter of kind of business,

I wanted to give a little bit of a shout out to a group that's doing some work.

It's another podcast called Front Porch with the Fitses.

What I wanted to tell people is if they need something completely different than

what we're doing and they just need um the one of the reasons I love it is because it's a family

that gets together once a week and they report a record a podcast and you kind of get to you get

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