Welcome to Doctrine and Devotion, a 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 candidate at Redeemer Fellowship. Now Jimmy,

you're feeling good. Yeah, we're in our happy place, which is Laveta.

We're at the cigar shop. cigars we're drinking suburban we got

Paul Maxwell in the house yep and we've got some really good cigars now you're

comfortable you're smoking a lot

Duro. Okay, people always want to know...

All right, so I'm smoking. We had an event.

The four Délas Antaeus Maduro, which is really good. Now you're smoking a big boy the lebejou the lebejou so I'm glad you're comfortable because I'm gonna spring this on you I know you're already a little apprehensive I am apprehensive because I actually don't I don't know what we're talking about

I'm I so I told Jimmy I want to spring it on you and we'll just talk about it

So it's a Thursday episode nobody cares if I sound dumber than usual guys it's because I didn't have any idea ahead of time

Well, I'm not prepping either I just I thought like there's been a lot of talk about this later

No, I'm not all right Oh you know everything we're recording.

I'm like I'm I'm I'm like and Joe will be like oh hold on and look at his

bookshelf you're like, uh, he'll grab a book. He'll go to a certain

chat and be like I'm ready. Okay. don't have any books here and the only preparation

I have is preparation H okay so now let's let's get on with this. I felt like you were going to go

with that direction. Yeah you knew I was I'm trying to talk over my joke I wasn't going to

let you I was going to bring it back okay so go

pass me the letter the Billy Graham rule the Billy Graham rule do you know what the

Billy Graham rule is no what's the Billy Graham Rule is? No.

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