Questions for Your Christmas Gatherings
Doctrine and Devotion
Joe Thorn & Jimmy Fowler
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Merry Christmas, everybody! Joe and Jimmy meet up early in the morning to catch up, and talk about making the most of our Christmas gatherings by talking through Dr. Don Whitney’s article, 10 Questions to Ask at Your Christmas Gathering. Plus, Jimmy is leaving the country—again, and Joe slips into rant mode.
Read Don's article here: https://www.crossway.org/articles/10-questions-to-ask-at-your-christmas-gathering/
Transcript
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| 0:18.0 | Welcome to Doctrine 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 |
| 0:22.3 | in St Charles Illinois. And I'm the lead pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St Charles, Illinois. |
| 0:23.4 | And I'm Jimmy Fowler, Executive Pastor at Redeemer Fellowship. |
| 0:26.0 | Merry Christmas fool! Merry Christmas to you too! Merry Christmas week to everybody. |
| 0:30.3 | Just a few days away and you got all your shopping done? |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, good. |
| 0:36.0 | And presents wrapped? |
| 0:38.0 | Um, I'll check out Michelle later. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, you don't do any of that. |
| 0:41.0 | Nope. |
| 0:42.0 | No, I don't. I do my shopping for Jen I do that that's about all I do yeah but then |
| 0:47.8 | my oldest daughter Catherine wraps those presents for me oh that's well that's you know hey it looks better |
| 0:52.2 | and and she should be contributing yeah absolutely presents for me. Oh that's well that's you know hey it looks better and |
| 0:52.6 | and she should be contributing yeah absolutely doing something around the yeah |
| 0:55.8 | why don't you do something Catherine she doesn't listen Killian listens nobody else |
| 0:59.5 | listens I don't think so yeah yeah you know speaking of of Christmas presents. Okay, you see you see that you see this these things on the on the on the on the table I do see this this plethora these things these things there's a couple things and all we want to say is |
| 1:16.7 | uh Scott and Donna you know what you did oh you know what you did you know you know what |
| 1:21.6 | you did now we know what you did and you know that |
| 1:24.1 | we know that you know what you did and we're very thankful yeah thank you very |
| 1:28.0 | very cool I actually wanted that this one's mine me too yeah I want it |
| 1:32.0 | but Michelle told me I couldn't get it yeah and then I get to come here that this one's mine me too yeah I wanted yeah |
| 1:33.8 | and then I get to come here yeah it is see yeah what she meant for evil |
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