Welcome to Doctrine and Devotion, the podcast that explores 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 Jimmy Fowler, Elder Candid at Redeemer Fellowship. What's up? Nothing. Getting excited. I'm leaving. Oh, that's right. I'm going. I'm going. What is that? Sunday. You're leaving Sunday? I leave Sunday. After church? Yeah. That's right. That's how you do it. Yep. Go to first service, go home, finish up a couple things, then... Where you off to? Europe. Yep. Work, business stuff. Yep. And then... And then something else. Yeah, 11 year anniversary. Yeah. Gonna go celebrate it. And to the one place Michelle never wanted to go to. Ireland? No, Paris. She doesn't go to Paris? I don't believe that. No, well, I think she's excited to go to Paris. I think she... She's not a big fan of... Parisians. Yeah. Yeah. Well, who is? I know,

which is funny to me because she's Canadian. And I think part of it is because Canadians have an

issue with French Canadians. They got a problem with the Quebec qua. And so they just don't. So it's like,

that's like their racism. Yeah. Along

But it's justifiable. Alongside their other racism. Okay. So they have multiple tiers. Would you say of racism? Well, first there's the first nations. They don't like. Well, I shouldn't say they don't like. They hate. No, they want to. That's not it. That's a exterminate. They have a checkered pass much like us with, with African Americans. I would say it's a lot They have a checkered pass, much like us with African Americans.

I would say it's a lot more than a checkered past.

Yeah, it's pretty messed up.

Okay.

It's pretty messed up.

Pretty messed up.

The residential schools, especially in British Columbia, have,

there's been a lot of, yeah, the church and First Nations don't really get along. Even the, oh, the church and First Nations, okay. Well, that, because the church ran these residential schools that would beat the savage out. Oh, wow. Try to Christianize them. So, anyways, there's, I know. Well, and then there's the, then there's, you know, Quebec.

Yeah, and that's okay to pick on them. So, yeah, so we're going to head there, going to enjoy some time together. And win your anniversary? June 3rd. All right. See, I know. Ours is ours? Actually, yours is May. Oh, when is it? You don't know. I hold on, wait, wait.

No, if you look it up, yeah. I'm looking up on calendar.

May 24th.

Yeah, right there. May. Mm-hmm. Oh, when is it? You don't know. Wait, no, if you look it up.

I'm looking up my calendar.

May 24th.

Yeah, right there. 24th? Yeah. You're wrong. No, I'm not. No. May 24th. It's the 26. No, it's the 24th. I'm looking at the shared calendar. all you want, but it's wrong.

May 26.

Nope,

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