Welcome to Dr 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 Valle, lead pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St Charles

Illinois and I'm Jimmy Fowler Elder Canda at Redeemer Fellowship. Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to you. We're sitting here on Christmas morning we got our PJs on

got a little Santa hats on.

That's right, we want you guys to come on over here,

sit on Uncle Joe Foes Lapp, and let us tell you a story.

Yeah, it's gonna be good.

So we're recording this way before Christmas.

Yeah. And because that's how we roll we do things in advance

we plan well we try to plan yeah we plan we plan things that we plan like hey

let's we record it all the way up like I don't even

know what the date is but it's what is it's like October right now right no so

no it's December December 6 so you know we are we're ahead and so we know that this is going to drop on Christmas

morning and we wanted to do something different. You know, you're going to be

celebrating with your family, you're going to be opening presents, and you're going to you're going be opening presents and you're gonna you're gonna be have a lull in your day

and you're gonna realize wait a minute it's Monday did the joe foe give me something

did joe foe give me a present today?

Oh, we gave you a present.

And you got it.

And so now you can go, oh wow, I can listen to it.

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