E260 | Between Trend or Truth | The Debrief Podcast with Matt Brown
The Debrief Podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown
Sandals Church
5 • 781 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Debrief Podcast, Matt and Tammy Brown respond to thoughtful questions from listeners about spiritual practices that are popular in today’s culture. From traditions rooted in emotional healing to symbolic numbers and cleansing rituals, they explore how these ideas relate—or don’t relate—to a biblical worldview. If you’ve ever wrestled with where culture and Christianity overlap or conflict, this conversation is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the debrief podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown. |
| 0:06.0 | On this show, Pastor Matt sits down with his friends to answer your questions about life, Jesus, and the Bible. |
| 0:14.5 | Let's get into the episode. |
| 0:25.3 | Hey, everybody, and welcome to this episode of The D Brief. Before we get in today's questions, I have two things for you. |
| 0:28.3 | One is that so many of you have been riding in or catching Matt and I in the grocery store |
| 0:34.9 | or in the lobby at church just saying how much you're |
| 0:37.9 | enjoying this. And we're super excited that it's been so meaningful for you guys. So we love that. |
| 0:44.1 | And then the other thing is I just, before we get into all these questions, want to catch up a |
| 0:50.2 | little bit about us and what's going on with us, which in this season is this very new |
| 0:56.5 | role that we're doing for the first time in real time, which is grandparenting. |
| 1:00.9 | That's awesome. |
| 1:01.7 | And our little guy is just about four months old right now. |
| 1:07.2 | Tell me what you're learning about yourself as a grandpa yeah i think it's my life is about legacy now |
| 1:13.8 | it's thinking beyond me because so clearly he's going to outlive me which is my hope and my desire |
| 1:18.9 | and uh yeah but just thinking about you know you know when you're younger you're trying to pay |
| 1:25.0 | rent you're trying to make your marriage work you're trying to pay rent. You're trying to make your marriage work. You're trying to establish your career. I feel like there's so much work involved in that, and there should be. I don't want anybody that's young to not try your best and try to establish a career. I think you should give it your best effort. But in that, right, you're exhausted. You and I were learning about each other, you know, your brokenness, |
| 1:45.4 | my brokenness, our brokenness, trying to raise kids. We'd never done that before. We didn't |
| 1:50.5 | know what we were doing. You lost your dad, right? It was, um, and for those, her dad died. I mean, |
| 1:56.4 | you were 29 years old when he died. So things were really, really hard. You're 26? Sorry. I was 30. |
| 2:03.0 | You're right. I was 29 when you got sick. You were 20. There we go. So things were really, |
| 2:08.7 | really difficult for us. And now, you know, the church is established. You know who you are. I know who I am. |
| 2:14.9 | I told you the other day. I feel, like, mostly. Yeah, I feel like |
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