Confessionalism, Satanism, And Cigars: The Joe Thorn Interview
The Babylon Bee
Seth Dillon
4.4 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle talk with pastor and author Joe Thorn. Joe is the founding and Lead Pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St, Charles, IL, the author of several books (such as the Life of the Church, The Heart of the Church, and The Character of the Church), and co-host of the podcast, Doctrine and Devotion. Kyle and Ethan ask Joe tough questions in a round of Sin Or Not Sin, discuss his former Satanism, and talk cigars.
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Kyle and Ethan ask for pastoral advice in a round of Sin Or Not Sin:
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Vaping like a total cheesebag
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Throwing up the sign of the horns while listening to heavy metal
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Jazzercise
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Well-done steak
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Reading a Doug Wilson article
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Tattoo of John Piper’s face
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Sprinkling a baby with water for some reason
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Following Beth Moore on Twitter
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Following John MacArthur on Twitter
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Reading Relevant Magazine
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Reading Pulpit & Pen
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Drinking IPAs when there’s perfectly good bourbon nearby
Topics discussed
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Thoughts on Reformed Theology and what the benefits may be of finding a church which subscribes to a historical confessional document
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Satanism
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Joe's openness about smoking cigars since he has written on Christians smoking cigars
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Joe's latest hot take: “I want my kids to stay away from Christian Twitter almost as much as pornography.”
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| 0:00.0 | Real People Real Interviews |
| 0:04.0 | I just have to say that I object |
| 0:07.0 | Strain you as late to your use of the word hilarious. |
| 0:10.0 | Hard-hitting questions. |
| 0:12.0 | What do you think about feminism? |
| 0:14.0 | Do you like it? |
| 0:15.0 | Taking you to the cutting edge of truth. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, well last Jedi is one of the worst movies ever made |
| 0:21.0 | and it was very clear that Ryan Johnson doesn't like Star Wars. |
| 0:25.0 | Kyle pulls no punches. |
| 0:27.0 | I want to ask how you're able to sleep at night. |
| 0:30.0 | Ethan brings bone-shattering common sense from the top rope. |
| 0:35.0 | If I may, how double dare you? |
| 0:38.0 | This is the Babylon B Interview Show. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello there. Welcome to the Babylon B brand new interview show |
| 0:48.0 | that we're doing with basically, by the way, his Ethan, that's Kyle. |
| 0:53.0 | Hi. |
| 0:54.0 | We are splitting our show up into a show that's more kind of the weekly news |
| 1:00.0 | and kind of talking about topics. |
| 1:03.0 | And then our interviews are going to get their own show. |
| 1:06.0 | So what this means for you is we're going to be putting out two podcasts a week generally |
| 1:10.0 | whenever we can get an interview for the week, but we always have our new show. |
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