Welcome to Dr. 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 in St. Charles, Illinois. And I'm Jimmy Fowler, Elder Canda of Redeemer Fellowship in St Charles, Illinois.

And I'm Jimmy Fowler, Elder Canda at Redeemer Fellowship.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, it is cold here.

It is not that cold.

I just think you're bit of a baby.

We left Illinois where it was cold and it's nasty up here

You know here's the here. They're right what they say. Yeah, they do say dwarves can't really handle they don't say that they say that's not a thing That's not a say that's not a thing.

The cold and this is the dumbest thing.

All right. And I think for you right there, this is not cold.

What are we talking about? Can we just tell people where we're at? What are we doing?

We are up in Minneapolis. We are going to the Bethlehem conference for

pastors and church leaders. Yeah. That just rolls off the tongue. Oh my gosh they couldn't do like

you know it's it's you know it's it's it's piperian. It's not it's not gonna be it's not it's not gonna be like it's you know it's it's piparian it's not it's not gonna be like it's a bit longer winded is that

it's not gonna be a conference called like context it's not gonna he's not gonna do that

empire that's not gonna happen so we're here and you know we're excited to see some of our friends and meet some people and we last minute got a chance to sit down with somebody that I've been reading for a long time, somebody

that's influenced me a great deal, Dr. Don Whitney.

Now, Don is the founder of the Center for biblical spirituality and you can find that at biblical

spirituality.org. But he is also the the dean the associate dean of the School of Theology

and the Professor of Biblical Spirituality

at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

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