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Brant & Sherri Oddcast

December 1st Podcast!

Brant & Sherri Oddcast

Brant Hansen

Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2014

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Topics:
 
Best Christmas Story, A Generosity App, Weight Shock Bracelet, Holiday Safe Place, The Voting Sticker, Uptight Christians, Texting on the Movie, Christmas Gift Help, Private Sin
 
Quotes:
 
"Sherri, why don't you just move back to Communist Russia?"
 
"I still wear my voting sticker because I still voted."
 
"We're always trying to move up. The Christmas story is about God moving down to us."
 
"This is a safe but jocular place"
 
"Jesus is scandalously graceful"

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Brand and Sherry podcast.

0:04.0

So how about this?

0:05.0

A little girl is in the Philippines and she gets one of those Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes that people pack.

0:12.0

Yeah.

0:13.0

Just to show love to people.

0:14.0

Mm-hmm.

0:15.0

And she's seven years old and she gets one and it means so much to her and she looks at the little picture of a guy, a little kid that's packed it. Okay. Put a picture of him with his lariat. He likes to be a cowboy. Okay. And he was seven. So she wanted to be pen pals. Okay. And she sent a note back because he sent his address to whoever gets this. All right. So he packed the box. He was seven. She's seven years old. She received it.

0:37.9

She's seven years old in the Philippines. He doesn't get her letter. It gets lost or something. Never

0:42.6

reaches him. Okay. Well, 11 years later, she goes on Facebook and still, it meant so much to her.

0:49.2

She just wanted to say thank you. She never made contact with the kid that packed that box.

0:53.3

She said, it changed my life

0:54.7

to know somebody loved me so she found him on facebook and said hi and they said hi and then they

0:59.4

started communicating and they just got married what seriously and that is really he's from

1:07.3

Idaho and he just got he just married her and he wound up traveling to the Philippines to meet her. Her dad's a pastor. Wow. And when they met the family and he got to hang out with a family for like 10 days, they loved him. And so he proposed and the dad said, you got it. That is amazing. I know. I'm telling us an amazing story. So they're really sweet couple. So what they did for their wedding is they had everybody pack. Oh, I know. It's a great story. I'm telling you. It's a great story. That everybody packed these shoe boxes. That's so sweet. I know. I thought, well, I thought. Thank you. Like I'm responsible for it. Like you wrote it. It's such a good story, though.

1:45.2

It's just a crazy idea.

1:47.0

But every now and then, I do get an idea for an app that I think would be really helpful and that we could invent.

1:53.0

Okay.

1:53.7

So here's app developers.

1:55.3

Please come up with this.

1:56.4

I see people on Twitter, especially always taking stands for people to give to the poor, which I think is wonderful.

2:04.6

Yes.

2:05.1

Love it. I agree. Totally behind it. But I'd like an app that connects to your bank account.

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