Hi, I'm Kristi Graham, host of On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse.

On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse, brings you stories of how God is working,

and I have the privilege of introducing you to staff, volunteers, and the people we help,

like Alex, who received an Operation Christmas Child shoebox.

I'm looking back and realizing that many miracles that God had done to protect me through the war,

and one of those miracles was that shoebox that I came at a time when I had lost hope.

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During today's conversation on Backpourch Theology, Ali and I are going to talk about some of the

less prominent features, the tucked-away treasures, if you will, in the Christmas story that

illustrate the fact that nothing and no one is insignificant to God. Even the quietest,

often overlooked details of this love story we call the Bible,

bellow the attentive compassion of our Kinsman Redeemer,

from Joseph's gentle and generous ascent to becoming an adoptive father,

to the astral projection that compelled a motley crew of wise men to pack their bags,

and begin a thousand-mile trek to meet a foreign toddler, to the royal specificity

of an ancient substance called fracon sense. That's still royally pricey today if you're one of

those passionate essential oilers. The minutia of Christmas was miraculous, and while they weren't

loud, blow your hair back, kind of supernatural stuff, the finer points of the birth narrative

were perusing today changed the course of history. It kind of reminds me of what a wise dude

named Zechariah said a long time ago, don't despise these small beginnings for the Lord rejoices

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