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

practice from a reformed Baptist perspective. My name is Joe Thorne. I am the lead pastor

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

Fellowship. So, you know, Jen's gone. Yep. So it's just me and kids and the dogs and my dad.

That's a fun. Yeah, it's been good. Run around, had to do a lot of errands a couple days.

You come by for a cigar? I'd like to, if it's possible. Depends on when you're there.

Yeah, I'm preaching tomorrow. No. Like I'm gonna go after this. No, I can't go after this.

Yeah. Well, you know, I got to do more. I got to do devotional stuff after this. And then I

got to get him home. I got to make sure I got to clean up. I got to get dinner together.

When did Jen get back? Sunday night. Oh, that's a fun trip. Yeah. She's like, I want to go on

three days and like, you're gone a week. She's like, it's three days. I'm like, you're leaving

like what on a Wednesday or something? She goes Wednesday night and I counts as Wednesday.

So you're such a beat. Yeah, man, whatever. So I was gonna tell you that, so you know,

most of the time I like to listen to, you know, Scandinavian death metal stuff like that,

you know, aggressive, but melodic. But this week, this week, there's been a lot of striper.

It really. And old school, old school striper from the 80s. And, you know,

because I actually had a striper album before I was a Christian, because everybody, I mean,

the metal scene bought the striper album. Most people did. And even that, it really wasn't

my style of metal, but it was like, you know, okay. And then when I was converted, I went back

to it and I was like, holy cow. Jesus. Or they're talking about their girlfriend. I can't tell.

But sometimes they were clearly talking about Jesus. Like on the song, more than a man off the

two hell with the devil album. Anyways, I wanted to encourage you to listen to a particular

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