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'm the lead pastor

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

Fellowship. So I'm looking at you and I'm thinking to myself, okay, he looks different.

Okay. I'm thinking he looks, you're just like your smile is brighter. I hate you. It's like

your teeth are white. I don't even know why I'm just I'm looking at you. I'm just being

honest. You're nothing very white. I can never share anything. Are you using some kind of special

why are you doing this? Like charcoal powder. Why do you do that? Why is it that I share

something? You're so fancy. I share certain things with you. Yeah. And then I share

with everybody else. It's called triple down sharing. So you were telling me today. Okay.

I guess let's talk about it. Okay. I've been using charcoal powder for some time. Okay.

And I enjoy it. I like it. Well, let's back up. Okay. Okay. So you brush your teeth with

a powder, not a paste. Yes. Okay. And it's a charcoal powder. Yes. So activated charcoal.

So is this because you have bad breath and it like filters it? Probably. Okay. Or is it

for whitening? Both. Okay. Now, what made you choose charcoal powder versus just like

crest? You know, I don't know. I'm just I don't want to talk about the fluoride epidemic.

It's always this is this. Yeah. Okay. I was just curious. I thought there might have been

thing. You know, as I know you like to do fancy things. You know, it's like a little bit

of a fancy thing. So anyways. So I I confide in Joe this morning. Okay. You know, I've

been doing the charcoal thing. It's great. But like I'm traveling. And so I don't want to

carry around the powder because it makes a mess everywhere you go. You got to clean it.

You know, it makes no sense. It does make a mess. If you it's that it wouldn't be any different

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