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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Jen want to talk
about laughter and tears.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Um, your jokes make
me want to cry.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Great.
Today, on this delinquent andabbreviated episode, we're
sharing some special news andsome fun bloopers.
Let's do it.
Welcome to the IntimateCovenant podcast, where we
(00:35):
believe the Bible and greatmarried sex both belong on your
kitchen table.
That's right.
We're talking about holycovenant-bound intimate
relationships with hot sex.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We're Matt and Jen,
founders of Intimate Covenant.
We offer biblical teaching andresources to help married
couples achieve a fullerrelationship and an
extraordinary sex life.
For more information, visit ourwebsite, IntimateCovenantcom.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Welcome, friends.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Welcome.
Thanks for joining us on ourIntimate Covenant podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So glad to have you
with us.
If you're a diehard listenerand we know that there's maybe
one two you probably noticedthat this episode dropped a
little later than scheduled.
We try to drop these everyother Monday and that just did
not happen this time.
We had some personal and sometechnical challenges that we had
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to deal with and the podcast,as important as it is to us, had
to take a back seat for thepast couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Right.
For those of you who maybedidn't notice that it was a few
days late, thanks for being here, thanks for sharing this time
with us, and for those of youwho did notice our tardiness, um
, thank you.
We sincerely appreciate yourloyalty, your support and your
concern.
Many of you kind of know what'shappening behind the scenes for
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us and we're getting ready toshare that with all of you.
Um, but we're just.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
We love you guys yes,
thank you, uh, for all of you,
those who may or may not beaware, we wanted to make you
aware of at least one specialcircumstance so that you can be
praying.
We know that we have at leastthe ears of some of you who
regularly listen, and some ofyou may not be aware of this
situation and we wanted to makeyou aware of it.
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But first, we want to make youaware that we leave for China on
April 2nd.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
That's great.
I did say China, the People'sRepublic of China.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Very crazy that we
are heading off to China.
Did not see that.
On what did the kids say?
Didn't have that on my bingocard.
Definitely did not have go toChina on the bingo card.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Do kids say that?
Or do senior citizens say that?
40-year-old women say that?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Right we are leaving
for China on April 2nd.
We've been invited to present amarriage retreat for an
international school group inChina.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
We're going to be
speaking to married non-Chinese
citizens who live and work inChina with this school group,
and we will be in China for 10days, including the retreat,
which will be on an island,Xiamen and I'm sure I'm saying
it very wrong.
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I can't even speak English.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Well, I can't believe
they're letting me go out of
the country but anyhow, most ofthem don't speak English as a
first language anyway, so okay.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
They speak their
language better than I speak
mine, but we will be doing that.
Then we get to go to one of theschools in Tianjin and then
we're going to do somesightseeing in Beijing.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, intimate
Covenant on the Great Wall.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
A very full 10 days.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yes for sure.
So we do want to let you know,because we would sincerely
appreciate your prayers for oursafety and, of course, prayers
for the marriages of thesecouples, that we can benefit
them in some way.
But secondly, and without adoubt more importantly, we are
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desperately begging the prayers,your prayers, for a young man
named Xander Moody.
He is an eight year old boy whowas recently and suddenly
diagnosed with a rare form ofcancer in his leg bone, um, a
cancer called ewing sarcoma.
For those that care or or wouldknow, but if if you've been to
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any of our retreats, you likelymet brent and katieody or you
saw them running around doingall the things that we didn't
have the capacity to do.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, brent and Katie
are our dearest friends, family
really, and they're what wecall the emotional support team
of Intimate Covenant From thevery beginning.
Brent and Katie have been rightthere.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, it is safe to
say that Intimate Covenant would
not currently exist withouttheir support, their advice,
their encouragement.
Their son, xander, beganchemotherapy this week and the
previous following the previouscouple of weeks really has been
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undergoing tests and imaging andbiopsies and lab work and all
of the things associated withthat.
So we have all been reelingfrom the shock and just really
entirely preoccupied withhelping to arrange care for
Xander and for brent and katieand for their three other
children, on top of making thefinal preparations for a 10-day
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international trip whichincludes eight hours of public
speaking responsibilities so wesay all that to say I'm sure
you're gonna uh, forgive us forthe late podcast drop, because
we're real people.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Well, and we have a
real life behind all of this and
, like you said, sometimesintimate covenant, and even this
podcast has to take a back seatso that we are able to love on
those that God has given us tolove.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Sure, we appreciate
your forgiveness in that and we
know that you understand.
Yeah, but uh.
Furthermore, we we know thatyou will be praying for the
moody's and for our very speciallittle friend.
Well, he's not little, is he?
He's?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
he's uh half as tall
as I am, but he's still a little
guy, he'll always be.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
He'll always be
little xander, but but he has
many weeks of treatments to come, including a major surgery in a
couple of months as well.
So we'd just be very grateful ifyou would be praying for them.
We'd also be overwhelminglygrateful if you would be able to
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show your support to theMoody's by donating to help
offset the tremendous expensesthat they're going to be
encountering over the next fewweeks, the weeks, months and
maybe even years.
Loads of expenses just inmeeting deductibles and co-pays
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and prescriptions and thesupportive treatments that
they're getting, the travel, theovernight stays to the
specialty hospitals, caring fortheir other three busy children.
There's just going to be a lotthat they are going to be
dealing with and, financiallyspeaking, that's just not
something that we want them tohave to be struggling with.
So, whatever we can do to helpto support them, we want to do
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that and there's a couple ofways that you can do that.
I'm going to put these links inthe show notes and that way you
can find these options.
But one option is Xander'sbaseball team organization has
just incredibly been sosupportive and they have already
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set up a crowdfunding sitecalled Give, send, go, and if
you go to givesendgocom, slashsupport Xander.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And Xander is spelled
X-A-N-D-E-R.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Right, thank you.
So that is certainly an optionto send funding their way.
Alternatively, there is a 501c3charitable organization called
Blessings Overflow.
Blessings Overflow is run byChristians in Bowling Green,
kentucky, and they have offeredto use their organization to
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help to raise money for Zander.
If you donate to BlessingsOverflow, 100% of the donations
after transaction fees will godirectly to the Moody's.
So you can send them a checkand again I will put the address
.
If you send them a check, andagain I will put the address.
If you send them a check, thereare no transaction fees.
Send a check to blessingsoverflow.
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I'll have that link, thataddress, in the show notes.
Or you can send money via Venmodirectly to blessings overflow
at BG slash sorry, at BG dash,blessings Overflow.
Again, I'll put that in theshow notes as well.
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If you put Xander Moody in themessage that money after the two
to three percent transactionfee will be sent again to the
Moody's directly, to the Moody'sdirectly and all your donations
to Blessings Overflow over $250, you'll receive a year-end
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receipt for tax reportingpurposes if you want to try to
deduct that from your taxes aswell.
So those are some good,efficient ways that you can help
to support the Moody's and wewould just be so grateful if you
would extend some blessings tothem.
Also, if you're interested inthe progress for Xander or if
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you just want to be involved andbe able to send a note of
encouragement to the Moody's, Iknow that Brent and Katie and
Xander all would appreciate youreaching out and showing your
love on social media.
They have set up a Facebookpage Specifically for Getting
updates For Xander's progress.
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So if you go on Facebook andsearch for Xander Moody updates,
You'll find that and weactually posted that on our
Facebook page.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So if you're
following us on intimate
covenant, you will see a postthat we shared.
So you can find it that way,but we would love to see you
blow up their social media andtheir donation sites.
Um, thank you.
Thank you for supporting theMoody's.
If intimate covenant meansanything to you, you owe the
Moody's a thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yes, for sure, for
sure.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And, most of all, we
just beg you to please remember
them before our Father's throne.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Thank you for praying
for them.
Um, next episode while we arein China.
Um, we have planned to sharesome recorded excerpts from some
various live events.
There are so many goodquestions that we get at these
events and we really never haveenough time, uh, in any single
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episode, to share all of them.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So for this episode.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Um, while we're in
China, we're going to share a
bunch of those.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So you can look
forward to that next, next week.
Yeah, um, for this episodetoday, we want to leave you with
something much less heavy thanthe big things that we are
dealing with.
You know, prayer, of course, isthe perfect medicine for
anxiety and for stress.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Been doing a lot of
that.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
But laughter
certainly helps that medicine go
down.
So if you can't find anythingto laugh about, you're probably
not looking very hard, becausemost of us have plenty to laugh
about if we would just simplylook in the mirror.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I mean we can all
laugh about Jen's
mispronunciation of hundreds ofwords so far on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, so we don't
even have to look in a mirror.
We just have to start talkingin a microphone and out it comes
.
That's right.
So if you need help findingsomething to laugh about, our
advice is try starting a podcast.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
You'll find lots of
things to laugh about, you will
learn how to laugh at yourselfvery well.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
So we're going to
close out this episode.
I thought this was just theperfect time to go into the
archives and drag out all of thebloopers that I have been
saving for so long.
There are times that I had noidea the microphone was already
on and was hot and we wererecording and sometimes, when I
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edit this, I just I can't helpbut save that clip that normally
would have been cut out and itjust we're going to share some
of those with you this time.
So we're we're hoping andasking you to laugh at us and
laugh with us.
Check, check.
One, two, three, check.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
One, two, check check
One two, one two.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
This is just a mic
check to make sure that our
voices are coming through.
Okay, to make sure that ourvoices are coming through.
Okay, you're so weird.
Jen was so ready for that.
Hey, jen Want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I can't speak today.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
It's going to take
time for each of you.
Hey, Jen Want to talk aboutnon-sexual touch uh, you can't
touch this for sure it's rightoutside of nashville actually in
galatin.
I guess that's how you say thatgalatin maybe, I don't know, I
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would call it galatin, sosomebody correct us when we get
there, we'll find out, and soit's expected that they're going
to be.
Come on.
Matt, I totally lost where wewere.
Hey, Jen Want to talk aboutspontaneous versus responsive
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desire.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Haven't we already
done this Great?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Today we're going to
discuss Way beyond the Amazon.
Now, most spouses Stop licking.
Hey Jen, Are you ready for somebig announcements about
Intimate Covenant?
I'm just thinking out ofcontext, how horrible that
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sounded, which is why it's goingin the blooper reel.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Okay, let's try again
.
Thanks for listening, thank youfor praying with us and for us,
and thanks for laughing with us.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Hug your loved ones
and find something to laugh
about together.
Until next time, keep strivingand don't sell.