Welcome to Doctrine and Devotion. It's a podcast that explores Christian faith and

practice from a reformed Baptist perspective. My name is Joe Thornton. I'm the lead pastor

of Adjima Fellowship in St. Charles, Illinois. And I'm Jim Fowler, executive pastor at Adjima

Fellowship. Sun's out. That's right. Yeah, man. It's a warming up finally. It's supposed

to be in the 50s today. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be the warmest I think on Thursday.

So I didn't plan to be a little outing of some sort. What, you're going to go outside?

Mm-hmm. You? Yeah. Outside? Outdoors. I suggested a park with some hills. What? Yeah.

You? Yeah. Why not? All right. What park are you going? I don't know the names of the

parks. All right. Where is it about? I don't know. I haven't picked one yet. Yeah. No, I just

want in mind that we've taken the family to before. It's got a big hill. I used to run it when

I was a runner. I don't know. Okay. It's like it's Westy West. I don't know what it's called.

All right. Okay. It's like it's not far from Elburn, but it's not the one right outside

of Elburn. So I'm not even trying to get there. I have to ask you in about it. I don't

remember. Yeah. It's been years. It's been a long time. Yeah. So, you know, we used to go

to the dog park more when we just had one dog and we lived close to a good dog. So yeah,

Matt Suns out. It's going to be a warmer week feeling pretty good. Yeah. It's going to

be nice. I was back in the pulpit today. Yeah. Yeah. It was been a couple weeks. Yeah. Back

in black. I was back in gray. I got back in gray. Yeah. Black. You know, that's gray.

Yeah. Well, dark. That's gray. Yeah. So back in gray. Yeah. We had a bird flying around

the sanctuary. That wasn't distracting at all. Yeah. Yeah. Just the sign of the Holy Spirit

and upon us. I don't know. With us sign of the spirit of the air distracting people from

the word. That was good. So yeah. No, it was good. It was good to be back in there. Now

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