Silence and Solitude - Bonus Episode
Doctrine and Devotion
Joe Thorn & Jimmy Fowler
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Bonus! Joe and Jimmy take on the generally neglected spiritual discipline of silence and solitude. You'll get a more thorough treatment of this subject by reading Donald Whitney's book, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Doctrine and Devotion, a podcast exploring Christian faith and practice from a |
| 0:17.6 | Reformed Baptist perspective. |
| 0:18.6 | My name is Joe Thorne, I'm the lead pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St. Charles |
| 0:22.4 | Illinois. And I'm Jimmy Fowler pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St. Charles Illinois. |
| 0:23.0 | And I'm Jimmy Fowler, Elder Candid at Redeemer Fellowship. |
| 0:26.0 | It's a bonus episode, baby. |
| 0:27.0 | Just for all of you. |
| 0:28.0 | Bonus episode. |
| 0:29.0 | We haven't done one in a while. |
| 0:30.0 | Yeah, we figured we might as well get it done. |
| 0:32.0 | We got Jay Bond in the house |
| 0:33.4 | J-b-J-b-b-b-say what's up J-bahn he said what up guys so we wanted to do a bonnets |
| 0:39.3 | episode we want to do something cool but something wouldn't take a long time and we thought we would cover one of the |
| 0:43.6 | spiritual disciplines let's do it and so you've got a spiritual disciplines like |
| 0:47.0 | like what like reading the word in the word praying the word right you can sing |
| 0:51.4 | singing go into worship and all that all that stuff but what you know what people don't talk about is the discipline of |
| 0:58.1 | Silence if I don't talk about it because they don't know how to do it. We're so like |
| 1:01.8 | Who preaches about it who talks about it? No one does because we don't know how to do it. We're so like... Who preaches about it? No one does because we don't know how to disconnect. We don't know how to just that discipline of just relaxing. |
| 1:13.0 | Being quiet, like we're always, like the TV's got to be on, you know, you people when we do our sermon prep, we got our music blaring. |
| 1:19.0 | Oh yeah, I've got Scandinavia and death metal. |
| 1:21.0 | Oh, it doesn't sound like. |
| 1:24.0 | That's not what it sounds like. |
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