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Strophe 1:Weit durch die Weiten der Worte,trägt unser Echo den Klang,fragen, forschen, erzählen,mit Wahrheit in unserm Gesang.Hier sind Gedanken zuhause,frei von der Fessel der Zeit,ein Band aus Stimmen und Träumen,aus Mut, aus Wissen, aus Sein. Refrain:Für den Bartocast, für die, … Weiterlesen → The post Bartocast – für die, die hören first appeared on Bartocast.

Raus aus emotionaler AbhängigkeitÜber die Hälfte ihres Lebens konnte Diana Knoob nicht ihre eigene Wahrheit leben. Sie saß sprichwörtlich in einem „goldenen Käfig“, der nach außen hin wie Freiheit wirkte, doch in Wahrheit eine unsichtbare Fessel war. Die emotionale Manipulation ihrer Mutter ließ sie an sich selbst zweifeln und nahm ihr die Möglichkeit, wirklich sie selbst zu sein.Als sie dies erkannte, fing sie an sich Schritt für Schritt aus den unsichtbaren Ketten zu befreien – ein langer, schmerzhafter Weg, den sie ganz allein gehen musste.Es war ein Kampf gegen Schuldgefühle, gegen Angst und gegen tief verankerte Muster, die sie klein hielten. Doch sie gab nicht auf. Mit jedem Schritt fand sie mehr zu sich selbst, entdeckte ihre eigene innere Freiheit und begann, endlich das Leben zu führen, das wirklich ihr eigenes war.In diesem Video gibt sie Einblicke ihre bewegende Geschichte – ehrlich und inspirierend. Ein Weg aus der Manipulation, hin zur Selbstbestimmung. Ein Beweis, dass es möglich ist, sich selbst zu befreien und das wahre Selbst zu leben – auch wenn es der härteste Weg ist, den man jemals gehen muss.Heute gibt Diana Knoob als Expertin für Bewusstseinstraining ihre Erfahrungen und ihr Wissen an andere weiter. Sie unterstützt Menschen, die ihren eigenen Weg finden- und ihre eigene Wahrheit leben wollen, um endlich unabhängig und frei von den Meinungen und Konditionierungen anderer zu sein. Mehr über Diana findest Du hier: https://expertenportal.com/diana-knoob Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ein Pariser Gericht hat Marine Le Pen für fünf Jahre von Wahlen ausgeschlossen. Die Rechtspopulistin will nun ein rasches Berufungsverfahren. Kann sie so ihre politische Karriere retten? Anfang der Woche, nach ihrer Verurteilung wegen Veruntreuung von EU-Geldern, schien die Lage für Marine Le Pen noch aussichtslos. Ein Pariser Gericht hatte entschieden, dass Le Pen, Frontfrau des rechten »Rassemblement National«, von der Wahl 2027 ausgeschlossen werden sollte. Und da die Gerichte in Frankreich langsam arbeiten, schien ein frühes Berufungsverfahren ausgeschlossen. Doch nun könnte es doch schneller gehen. Der amtierende Justizminister, Éric Dupond-Moretti, der der Macron-Regierung angehört, sagte, er fände es gut, wenn Marine Le Pen die Möglichkeit bekäme, noch vor der Präsidentschaftswahl das Berufungsverfahren zu durchlaufen. In der aktuellen Folge von »Acht Milliarden« spricht Moderator Juan Moreno mit Britta Sandberg, Korrespondentin des SPIEGEL in Paris, über ein Urteil, das wie eine Bombe einschlug. »Le Pen ist politisch sicher nicht am Ende, aber Fakt ist auch, dass sich die Justiz fast zehn Jahre Zeit gelassen hat für dieses Urteil und es sehr gut vorbereitet hat. Selbst wenn sie jetzt durch diesen Berufungsprozess in die Lage versetzt werden sollte, 2027 zu kandidieren – wollen die Franzosen dann eine Präsidentin, die eigentlich zwei Jahre lang eine elektronische Fußfessel tragen müsste, nur von 9 Uhr bis 16 Uhr auf der Straße sein könnte und sich nicht aus Paris wegbewegen darf, weil sie Meldeauflagen hat?«, fragt Sandberg.+++ Alle Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern finden Sie hier. Die SPIEGEL-Gruppe ist nicht für den Inhalt dieser Seite verantwortlich. +++ Den SPIEGEL-WhatsApp-Kanal finden Sie hier. Alle SPIEGEL Podcasts finden Sie hier. Mehr Hintergründe zum Thema erhalten Sie mit SPIEGEL+. Entdecken Sie die digitale Welt des SPIEGEL, unter spiegel.de/abonnieren finden Sie das passende Angebot. Informationen zu unserer Datenschutzerklärung.

Das Urteil gegen Marine Le Pen sorgt für Wirbel in Frankreich. Wir sprechen mit unserer Korrespondentin Michaela Wiegel und unserem Innenpolitikchef von Altenbockum über die Lehren, die sich daraus für Deutschland ziehen lassen.

Heute im Fokus: Als erstes Bundesland plant Schleswig-Holstein einen elektronischen Schutzschirm für Frauen, die von häuslicher Gewalt betroffen sind oder von Stalkern verfolgt werden. Doch es gibt rechtliche Hürden.

2023 gab es in Deutschland 360 Femizide – statistisch gesehen also fast jeden Tag einen. Der Einsatz einer elektronischen Fußfessel nach dem spanischen Modell könnte das ändern. Damit wird überwacht, ob Gewalttäter das Annäherungsverbot einhalten. Waltz, Manuel www.deutschlandfunk.de, Hintergrund

Für KI und Digitalisierung sind global andere Regionen bekannt als Deutschland oder Europa. Aber warum ist das so? Haben wir mehr hidden Champions als wir denken? Und wie müssen wir die Weichen stellen, damit wir hier für die Zukunft gut aufgestellt sind? Darüber spricht Christian Krug, der Host des Podcasts „Unf*ck Your Data“ mit Maik Außendorf, Mitglied des Bundestages und Digitalpolitischer Sprecher der Bundestagsfraktion von Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen.Ja die USA sind in der Innovation besser als Europa, denn Innovation heißt die Erfindungen an den Markt zu bringen. Aber oft stammen diese Erfindungen dann aus Deutschland. Das war in den 90er Jahren mit MP3 schon so. Unsere Erfindungskraft und auch die kostenfreie Ausbildung sind der Grundstein unserer Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Damit aber diese weiter hier bleiben und nicht ins Ausland gehen und dort groß werden, müssen wir in einigen Bereichen nachlegen.Ein Schlüssel kann hier paradoxerweise der EU AI Act sein. Denn während viele sich öffentlich beklagen über die „Fessel“ und Überregulierung, könnte dieses Regelwerk tatsächlich ein Vorteil sein. Gerade zeigt sich in den USA nämlich, dass KI Startups sich gezielt in den Bundesstaaten ansiedeln, die eben eine Regulierung haben. Denn so entsteht eine Rechtssicherheit, wenn Unternehmen innerhalb dieser Grenzen entwickeln.Natürlich ist nicht immer als Gold, was aus Brüssel kommt und ein Konstrukt wie die Europäische Union lebt auch von Kompromissen. So mussten auch beim EU AI Act einige Kompromisse eingegangen werden. Bei der biometrischen Erfassung im öffentlichen Raum zum Beispiel. Während Deutschland hier vehement gegen eine Generalüberwachung ist, so haben unsere französischen Nachbarn eine andere Ansicht und wollen KI genau dafür einsetzen. Auch das Thema Nachhaltigkeit kam Maik im EU AI Act etwas zu kurz.Eines ist jedoch sicher, wenn wir mit den USA oder China mithalten wollen, so kann uns dies nur auf europäischer Ebene gelingen und nicht als Deutschland. Dafür braucht es eine echte Zusammenarbeit bei der KI Infrastruktur und Digitalisierung in Europa.Auch wenn der Föderalismus in Deutschland an sich ein gutes Ziel und Vorteile hat, so steht er uns hier im Weg. So lange eben jedes Bundesland nur sich selbst das Nächste ist, wird es schwer übergreifende Initiativen voranzubringen. Hier sind wir alle gefragt, auch die Politik, jetzt anzupacken und auf den gelegten Grundlagen schnell auf- und auszubauen.▬▬▬▬▬▬ Profile: ▬▬▬▬Zum LinkedIn-Profil von Maik: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maik-au%C3%9Fendorf-208a495b/Zur Homepage von Maik: https://maik-aussendorf.de/Zum Instagram von Maik: https://www.instagram.com/maikaussendorf/ Zum TikTok von Maik: https://www.tiktok.com/discover/maik-aussendorfFoto von Maik: Heide PrangeZum LinkedIn-Profil von Christian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-krug/Christians Wonderlink: https://wonderl.ink/@christiankrugUnf*ck Your Data auf Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unfck-your-data▬▬▬▬▬▬ Buchempfehlung: ▬▬▬▬Buchempfehlung von Maik: Horst...

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Staatliche Überwachung der Gesundheit – und Weitergabe der sensiblen Daten an Behörden und gar Politiker. Das sieht der E-Impfpass vor, der in Österreich bereits beschlossen wurde. Der Verein „Wir EMUs“ reicht nun gemeinsam mit den beiden Ärzten Professor Martin Haditsch und Dr. Andreas Sönnichsen Beschwerde beim Verfassungsgerichtshof ein. Doch welche Gefahren drohen konkret? Das berichtet der Sprecher von „Wir EMUs“, Bernhard Costa.

"Das Ich wurde eine zeitlang dringend gebraucht, und ist jetzt überflüssig und eine Fessel geworden."

Herr Giesler ist für die Oma ein undurchsichtiger Mann. Jetzt ist er wieder unter die Naturschützer gegangen und kümmert sich um Steinkäuze. Das ist doch komisch. Mit Ricarda Klingelhöfer, Christian Maatje, Michael Quast

Gehörlosigkeit ist – wenn keine gegenläufigen Maßnahmen getroffen werden können – ein schweres Schicksal. Ein normaler Spracherwerb kann nicht stattfinden und begrenzt die Kommunikationsfähigkeit des Betreffenden erheblich. Er wird als unfähig sich mitzuteilen wahrgenommen und ist gesellschaftlich isoliert. Die spontane Reaktion ist, ihn zu übergehen, um keine Mühe mit ihm zu haben. Heute gibt es dank Gebärdensprache und besonderer Ausbildung die Möglichkeit, Gehörlosen ein weitgehend normales Leben unter weniger schweren Bedingungen zu ermöglichen. Die eigentliche Ursache der Gehörlosigkeit jedoch kann meistens nicht beseitigt werden.Als man einen Gehörlosen zu Jesus brachte, konnte dieser ihn vollständig heilen. Er berührte die Ohren und benetzte die Zunge des Geschädigten mit Speichel, blickte zum Himmel und sprach das Wort »Hefata« (= »Werde geöffnet«). Dann heißt es: »Sogleich wurden seine Ohren geöffnet, und die Fessel seiner Zunge wurde gelöst, und er redete richtig.« Die im Tagesvers beschriebene Reaktion der Zuschauenden bringt es treffend auf den Punkt: »Er hat alles wohlgemacht.«Die Umstände dieser Heilung legen nahe, das Handeln Jesu an diesem Menschen auch sinnbildlich zu verstehen: Von Natur aus sind wir taub in Bezug auf Gott, zu ihm reden wir »nur mit Mühe«, wenn überhaupt. Doch durch Jesus können wir ihn verstehen, erfahren und begreifen, z. B. seine Liebe zu uns, und finden dann endlich Worte, um ihm zu danken, ihn zu loben und zu preisen. Der Blick zum Himmel und die Bitte, dass unsere Ohren geöffnet werden, wird zu einem Verstehen für alles führen, was Gott in seinem Sohn Jesus Christus getan hat, um uns aus unserem jämmerlichen Zustand der Kommunikationsunfähigkeit mit ihm zu befreien.Joachim PletschDiese und viele weitere Andachten online lesenWeitere Informationen zu »Leben ist mehr« erhalten Sie unter www.lebenistmehr.deAudioaufnahmen: Radio Segenswelle

Sie ist It-Girl, Diebin, hat Streit mit der US-Einwanderungsbehörde und trägt deswegen eine Fußfessel. Das alles hindert Anna Sorokin (Künstlername Delvey) aber nicht daran, bei einer Promi-Tanzshow in den USA zu starten und sich dort zu inszenieren. Klocke, Vera www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Kompressor

Ein Fesselballon fliegt übers Haus. Wie ein Wink, sich auch von anderer Fessel zu lösen, die den Alltag beschweren, findet Autor Christoph Neumann.

In jener Zeit verließ Jesus das Gebiet von Tyrus und kam über Sidon an den See von Galiläa, mitten in das Gebiet der Dekápolis.  Da brachten sie zu ihm einen, der taub war und stammelte, und baten ihn, er möge ihm die Hand auflegen. Er nahm ihn beiseite, von der Menge weg, legte ihm die Finger in die Ohren und berührte dann die Zunge des Mannes mit Speichel; danach blickte er zum Himmel auf, seufzte und sagte zu ihm: Éffata!, das heißt: Öffne dich! Sogleich öffneten sich seine Ohren, seine Zunge wurde von ihrer Fessel befreit und er konnte richtig reden.  Jesus verbot ihnen, jemandem davon zu erzählen. Doch je mehr er es ihnen verbot, desto mehr verkündeten sie es. Sie staunten über alle Maßen und sagten: Er hat alles gut gemacht; er macht, dass die Tauben hören und die Stummen sprechen.  (© Ständige Kommission für die Herausgabe der gemeinsamen liturgischen Bücher im deutschen Sprachgebiet) 

Bruder Christian Effata – Öffne dich! Die Heilung des Tauben, dem Jesus die Hände auf Ohren und Mund legte, damit er hören und sprechen kann, ist heute als Zeichenhandlung in der Tauffeier präsent. Die Neugetauften sollen das Wort Gottes hören und seine Botschaft verkünden. [Evangelium: Markus, Kapitel 7, Verse 31 bis 37] In jener Zeit verließ Jesus das Gebiet von Tyrus und kam über Sidon an den See von Galiläa, mitten in das Gebiet der Dekápolis. Da brachten sie zu ihm einen, der taub war und stammelte, und baten ihn, er möge ihm die Hand auflegen. Er nahm ihn beiseite, von der Menge weg, legte ihm die Finger in die Ohren und berührte dann die Zunge des Mannes mit Speichel; danach blickte er zum Himmel auf, seufzte und sagte zu ihm: Éffata!, das heißt: Öffne dich! Sogleich öffneten sich seine Ohren, seine Zunge wurde von ihrer Fessel befreit und er konnte richtig reden. Jesus verbot ihnen, jemandem davon zu erzählen. Doch je mehr er es ihnen verbot, desto mehr verkündeten sie es. Sie staunten über alle Maßen und sagten: Er hat alles gut gemacht; er macht, dass die Tauben hören und die Stummen sprechen. Abdruck des Evangelientextes mit freundlicher Genehmigung der Ständigen Kommission für die Herausgabe der gemeinsamen liturgischen Bücher im deutschen Sprachgebiet; Evangelien für die Sonntage: Lektionar I-III 2018 ff. © 2024 staeko.net Mehr Podcasts auf www.kapuziner.de/podcast

Die Heilung einer verkrümmten Frau am Sabbat (Lukas 13,10-17)

Walter H. trägt bis heute eine elektronische Fußfessel. Der 75-jährige Sexualstraftäter aus Diefflen beschäftigte über Jahrzehnte Polizei und Gerichte im Saarland. Darüber sprechen wir in der neuen Folge „Tatort Saarland“​

In der Podimo-App findest du schon jetzt drei Staffeln von "12 Leben". Um direkt alle Folgen zu hören, kannst du Podimo 30 Tage lang kostenlos testen unter https://go.podimo.com/leben Berlin, 14. Februar 1999: Die 34-jährige Sylke ist auf dem Weg zu ihren Eltern. Aber dort wird sie nicht ankommen. Denn: Auf einmal wird sie von hinten angegriffen. Sie versucht sich zu wehren, kann der Gewalteinwirkung aber nicht standhalten. Der Mann zerrt Sylke zu seinem unweit geparkten Auto, zwingt sie einzusteigen und wirft eine Decke über sie - damit sie keiner sehen kann. Dann stoppt das Auto stoppt vor dem Haus des Mannes. Sylke wird von ihrem Entführer in die Kellerräume geschleppt. Dort sieht sie Gitterboxen, Fessel- und Folterwerkzeuge, ein Andreaskreuz, einen gynäkologischen Stuhl und vieles mehr, was ihr Angst macht. Ihr Entführer, Dieter H. verlangt ab diesem Zeitpunkt, dass sie ihn nur noch “Meister” nennt. Für ihn ist Sylke seine “Sklavin Eva”, die in den kommenden Tagen von ihm für seine sadistischen Neigungen mehrfach missbraucht und vergewaltigt wird. Wer war Sylke, was hat die Tat mit ihr gemacht und was hast den Täter zu dieser grausamen Folter veranlasst? Darüber sprechen wir in dieser Folge mit der Kriminalpsychologin Lydia Benecke und der Leiterin der Trauma-Ambulanz in Göttingen, Ulrike Schmidt. Außerdem reden wir mit Jörg Kinzig über den Anspruch der Resozialisierung. Er ist der Direktor des Instituts für Kriminologie der Uni Tübingen.

Karen Fessel, executive director of the Mental Health and Autism Insurance Project, returns to our National Council on Severe Autism webinar series to explain how insurance coverage works for children and adults with severe autism. She goes into detail about the governing laws and about how you can fight at several levels to obtain the coverage your child needs. Followed by Q&A with the audience. Links: https://mhautism.org

In dieser Folge werden wir ermutigt, neue Wege zu gehen und alte Muster hinter uns zu lassen. In der Bibel werden wir aufgefordert, wie ein Bauer auf einem brachliegenden Feld zu sein, bereit, neu zu säen und Gott um seine Führung zu bitten. Doch bevor wir uns tiefer in das Thema stürzen, werfen wir einen Blick auf Retromanie und Nostalgie. Während Retromanie eine Fixierung auf vergangene Objekte und Trends beschreibt, steht Nostalgie für das emotionale Gefühl der Verbundenheit mit vergangenen Erfahrungen. Wir erkunden, wie diese beiden Konzepte unser Leben beeinflussen können und wie wir eine gesunde Balance finden können. Denn obwohl es wichtig ist, unsere Vergangenheit zu schätzen und aus ihr zu lernen, dürfen wir nicht zulassen, dass sie uns davon abhält, neue Wege zu beschreiten und uns weiterzuentwickeln. Nostalgie kann wie Klebstoff sein, der uns in der Vergangenheit festhält, während Gott uns dazu aufruft, nach vorne zu schauen und Neues zu gestalten und zu erkunden. Lasst uns also wie Pioniere sein, die bereit sind, neue Abenteuer zu wagen und Brachland zu bestellen. Lasst uns unsere Vergangenheit als Lehre betrachten, aber nicht als Fessel. Denn nur wenn wir bereit sind, uns von alten Mustern zu lösen, können wir die Fülle des Lebens erfahren, die Gott für uns bereithält. Bleibt dran und lasst uns gemeinsam entdecken, was es bedeutet, mit Pioniergeist in die Zukunft zu schreiten! Folge 68 Loslassen lernen https://open.spotify.com/episode/24nFOYyvQGWFuYGJaYXrxd?si=ji-jElmzS1i1Gxyth565PA Folge 69 Festhalten lernen https://open.spotify.com/episode/7aG3ffutKNTZTtmnkzAmmo?si=o66DJB0ITiK7QA71vPvSfQ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lebenjetztundhier/message

In jener Zeit verließ Jesus das Gebiet von Tyrus und kam über Sidon an den See von Galiläa, mitten in das Gebiet der Dekápolis. Da brachten sie zu ihm einen, der taub war und stammelte, und baten ihn, er möge ihm die Hand auflegen. Er nahm ihn beiseite, von der Menge weg, legte ihm die Finger in die Ohren und berührte dann die Zunge des Mannes mit Speichel; danach blickte er zum Himmel auf, seufzte und sagte zu ihm: Éffata!, das heißt: Öffne dich! Sogleich öffneten sich seine Ohren, seine Zunge wurde von ihrer Fessel befreit und er konnte richtig reden. Jesus verbot ihnen, jemandem davon zu erzählen. Doch je mehr er es ihnen verbot, desto mehr verkündeten sie es. Sie staunten über alle Maßen und sagten: Er hat alles gut gemacht; er macht, dass die Tauben hören und die Stummen sprechen.

In jener Zeit verließ Jesus das Gebiet von Tyrus und kam über Sidon an den See von Galiläa, mitten in das Gebiet der Dekápolis. Da brachten sie zu ihm einen, der taub war und stammelte, und baten ihn, er möge ihm die Hand auflegen. Er nahm ihn beiseite, von der Menge weg, legte ihm die Finger in die Ohren und berührte dann die Zunge des Mannes mit Speichel; danach blickte er zum Himmel auf, seufzte und sagte zu ihm: Éffata!, das heißt: Öffne dich! Sogleich öffneten sich seine Ohren, seine Zunge wurde von ihrer Fessel befreit und er konnte richtig reden. Jesus verbot ihnen, jemandem davon zu erzählen. Doch je mehr er es ihnen verbot, desto mehr verkündeten sie es. Sie staunten über alle Maßen und sagten: Er hat alles gut gemacht; er macht, dass die Tauben hören und die Stummen sprechen.

In dieser bewegenden Predigt erleben wir, wie die Salbung des Heiligen Geistes jede Fessel sprengen und uns in wahre Freiheit führen kann. Entdecke gemeinsam mit uns die transformative Botschaft aus dem Buch Jesaja, die zeigt, wie Gottes Kraft alle Lasten von unseren Schultern nehmen und jedes Joch zerbrechen kann. Lass dich inspirieren durch die Erzählungen von Jesu Wirken, seine unermüdliche Liebe zu uns und wie er heute noch durch den Heiligen Geist in unser Leben eingreift, um Heilung, Befreiung und Wiederherstellung zu bringen. Erfahre, wie du durch Verzweiflung und Glauben Zugang zu Jesu umwandelnder Kraft finden kannst und warum es so wichtig ist, die Geschenke, die Gott für uns bereithält, aktiv zu ergreifen. Diese Predigt lädt dich ein, die Decken deines Zweifels zu durchbrechen und die offenen Arme Jesu zu erreichen, der bereit ist, dich in jedem Bereich deines Lebens zu heilen und zu segnen. Bist du bereit für deine persönliche Begegnung mit Jesus? Höre dir die Predigt an und lass dich neu mit der Hoffnung und Liebe erfüllen, die nur er geben kann.

Das Verfassungsgerichtsurteil stelle die Ampelregierung vor eine historische Aufgabe, so Michael Hüther vom Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW). Die Schuldenbremse sei eine Fessel für den politischen Gestaltungswillen und gehöre angepasst. Barenberg, Jasperwww.deutschlandfunk.de, InterviewsDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

Das Verfassungsgerichtsurteil stelle die Ampelregierung vor eine historische Aufgabe, so Michael Hüther vom Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW). Die Schuldenbremse sei eine Fessel für den politischen Gestaltungswillen und gehöre angepasst. Barenberg, Jasperwww.deutschlandfunk.de, InterviewsDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

An die Menschengesichter - von Gottfried August Bürger

In manchen älteren Filmen, die in Gefängnissen spielt, sieht man die Gefangenen gefesselt respektive mit Ketten gebunden. Da sind die Füsse in Ketten gelegt, mit Fussfesseln versehen, so dass die mögliche Schrittlänge enorm verkürzt wird - damit wird verhindert, dass der Sträfling fliehen kann. Es hat etwas Entwürdigendes, wenn man mit etwas Abstand einfach die Situation betrachtet: ein Mensch von anderen Menschen in Ketten gelegt, verwahrt, der Eigenständigkeit beraubt und bewusst in seiner Freiheit massivstens eingeschränkt. Dies einmal unabhängig davon, was diese Person zuvor getan hat. Einschränkungen, Fesseln und Bindungen entwürdigen uns. Sie berauben uns unsrer Identität als frei geschaffene Geschöpfe. Wir kennen leider nur allzu gut eigene Bindungen wie schlechte Gewohnheiten, Süchte und andere Bindungen. Auch diese entwürdigen uns. Wäre es heute vielleicht Zeit, Dich selbst aus so einer Fessel zu befreien und frei zu geben? Schaffst Du das? Ich wünsche Dir einen aussergewöhnlichen Tag! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/audiostretto/message

Shirley Fessel is an advocate for women who have experienced religious-domestic v!olence. As a former minister's wife, she understands the challenges faced by women in these situations and the lack of support from institutional churches. As a former minister's wife, she found herself trapped in a situation where the institutional church and the people in it failed to provide the support she needed. Determined to reclaim herself and protect her children from the horrors of @buse, Shirley decided to create a workbook that would help women in similar situations navigate the confusing tactics used against them, such as manipulation, gaslighting, and exploitation of faith concepts. Through her own experiences, she learned the importance of leaving @buse without guilt, listening to her intuition, and not allowing others to minimize her connection to God. Shirley's work continues to support and empower women to overcome the attacks they face and honor their intuition.  This episode will be useful to anyone, but especially those who still identify as Christian and wish to understand where God is in their journey. Relevant Links:  - Shirley Fessel's Book, Redemption from Biblical Battering, for Christian women: https://redemptionbb.com/book/  - Shirley Fessel's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Fessup44/ - Grant, (must Read the book to be considered): https://redemptionbb.com/grant/  - Text message service: To sign up, text the word "courage" to 917-809-7311 - Courage 365: Facebook Group - www.facebook.com/groups/courage365 3 key takeaways for this episode Religious Abuse can be a complex and damaging form of domestic v!olence, often justifying @busive behaviors through religious beliefs and scripture. It is crucial for survivors to recognize the manipulation and seek support to break free from these toxic environments. Women in abusive religious settings may face unique challenges in seeking help, as church authorities and religious beliefs may discourage them from seeking professional assistance. It is important for survivors to know that they have the right to seek professional help and should not be limited to only biblical counseling. The guest, Shirley Fessel, offers a practical resource in the form of her self-help workbook, "Redemption from Biblical B@ttering," which explores the seven levels of confusion and provides tools for women in religious domestic v!olence situations. This workbook can help survivors navigate the complexity of religious abuse and empower them to create a new life after leaving an abusive relationship. [00:02:58] Workbook empowers women escaping religious abuse. [00:09:38] Domestic abuse tied to religious beliefs and manipulation. [00:12:45] Religious beliefs compound fear and control, manipulating trust. [00:16:24] Levels of confusion, abused women, finding strength, leaving abusive relationships. [00:23:49] Churches funding non-affiliated organizations for control? [00:28:41] Detachment, charting, and redefining for abuse recovery. [00:33:44] "Courage to be yourself, despite adversity." [00:36:47] Thank you for tuning in. Check out Shirley Fessel's book and social media. Follow Courage 365 on social media. Need help? Visit courage365.org. Sign up for inspirational text messages.

Das Ehegattensplitting ist ein ewiger Zankapfel: 1958 wurde das Steuergesetz von der Adenauer-Regierung eingeführt, um die Ehe und Familie unter einen besonderen Schutz zu stellen, sprich: sie steuerlich zu privilegieren. Inzwischen haben sich die Zeiten geändert und selbst für CDU-Mitglieder wird es immer schwieriger, beim Splitting auf die Familie zu verweisen. Ehe und Kinder müssen schon lange nicht mehr zusammengedacht werden – allein zehn Millionen Ehen in Deutschland sind kinderlos und die Zahl der außerehelichen Kinder steigt. Inzwischen wird fast ein Drittel aller in Deutschland geborenen Kinder außerhalb von Ehen geboren – 1966 waren es gerade einmal 5,7 Prozent. Will man also Kinder und Menschen mit Kindern unterstützen, ist das Ehegattensplitting der falsche Weg. Nicht zuletzt deshalb haben die SPDler Kevin Kühnert und Lars Klingbeil dem antiquierten Steuermodell den Kampf angesagt. Sie wollen eine Abschaffung. Auch schon Jahrzehnte zuvor haben Sozialdemokraten gegen das Modell gekämpft – erfolglos. Und in der Tat sollte man nicht vorschnell in den Chor derer einstimmen, die für eine Abschaffung sind. Mehr dazu von Ole Nymoen und Wolfgang M. Schmitt in der neuen Folge von „Wohlstand für Alle“. Literatur: Zu der aktuellen Debatte um das Splitting: https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/streit-um-ehegattensplitting-sommerlochdebatte-oder-mehr,TjhHDpp. Die „Stuttgarter Zeitung“ über die Einkommenssteuer: https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.einkommenssteuer-vergleich-wer-zahlt-am-meisten-steuern-in-europa.5fa47782-24a4-4ff5-a93d-130060abb858.html. Stefan Bach: Unsere Steuern. Wer zahlt? Wie viel? Wofür? Westend. Gerhard Schick über die fehlende Erbschaftssteuer: https://www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2021/dezember/erbschaftsteuer-wie-von-oligarchen-bestellt. Maria Wersig: Der lange Schatten der Hausfrauenehe. Zur Reformresistenz des Ehegattensplittings. Verlag Barbara Budrich. Ihr könnt uns unterstützen - herzlichen Dank! Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/oleundwolfgang Konto: Wolfgang M. Schmitt, Ole Nymoen Betreff: Wohlstand fuer Alle IBAN: DE67 5745 0120 0130 7996 12 BIC: MALADE51NWD Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/oleundwolfgang Steady: https://steadyhq.com/de/oleundwolfgang/about Social Media: Instagram: Unser gemeinsamer Kanal: https://www.instagram.com/oleundwolfgang/ Ole: https://www.instagram.com/ole.nymoen/ Wolfgang: https://www.instagram.com/wolfgangmschmitt/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@oleundwolfgang Twitter: Unser gemeinsamer Kanal: https://twitter.com/OleUndWolfgang Ole: twitter.com/nymoen_ole Wolfgang: twitter.com/SchmittJunior Die gesamte WfA-Literaturliste: https://wohlstand-fuer-alle.netlify.app

Konzept, Texte und Sprecherin: Helga UtzSprecher: Aart VederTon: Jörg Behrens/klanggestaltung.de In dieser Folge rücken die Seiten des Hundes in den Blickwinkel, die wir fürchten. Zwar bezeichnen wir den Hund als besten Freund des Menschen - aber immer noch schlummert in ihm die urzeitliche Seite des mordgierigen Wolfes, und so finden wir im griechischen Mythos Kerberos, den bösartigen Höllenhund, oder in der germanischen Mythologie Fenris, dessen wahnsinniges Wüten die Endzeit einleitet.Episodenfoto:Herakles präsentiert Eurystheus den von ihm im Kampf besiegten und aus der Unterwelt entführten Höllenhund. Caeretaner Hydria um 525 v. Chr. (Louvre, Paris)Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus#/media/File:Herakles_Kerberos_Eurystheus_Louvre_E701.jpgDeed: Public DomainPodcast-Titelmusik: Kostas Bezos, „Stin ypoga“, Aufnahme 1930 von T. Dimitriadis in Athen (for Victor USA shellac record) Used with kind permission by F.M. Digital Tunes Ltd. FM Records - Podcast-Logo: Icon: „Junger Satyr mit Silen-Maske“; es handelt sich um eine antike Skulptur, die Alessandro Algardi 1628 restaurierte und ergänzteWir freuen uns über Kommentare via Email an: utz@oper-unterwegs.athttp://www.oper-unterwegs.at

Im Gespräch mit Philipp Wenk gehen wir der These auf den Grund, dass evangelikale Grundüberzeugungen nicht einfach direkt der Bibel entsprungen sind, sondern ganz stark von den Denkmustern und Überzeugungen der Moderne geprägt sind. Und so wie die Moderne angesichts der Postmoderne an ihre Grenzen stößt, stößt auch der Evangelikalismus an seine Grenzen. Gelingt es dem Evangelikalismus, sich von mancher Fessel der Moderne zu lösen, um sich in die Zukunft entwickeln zu können? Ausgangspunkt ist die allgemein anerkannte Definition des Evangelikalismus durch den britischen Christen und Historiker David Bebbington. David Bebbington definiert den Evangelikalismus in seinem Buch "Evangelicalism in modern Britain : a history from the 1730s to the 1980s" (1.Aufl. 1989) folgendermaßen: Biblicism: a particular regard for the Bible (e.g. all essential spiritual truth is to be found in its pages) Crucicentrism: a focus on the atoning work of Christ on the cross Conversionism: the belief that human beings need to be converted Activism: the belief that the gospel needs to be expressed in effort

In der achtundsiebzigsten Episode unseres erstmals jugendfreien Medien- und Presse-Podcasts „Voll in die Presse“ geht es betont gesittet zu: Wir vermeiden Genitales und Unflätiges, um einmal auf die gewohnte „explicit“-Markierung bei Streamingdiensten verzichten zu können. Außerdem holen wir uns beim rüpelhaft-ehrlichen DeppGPT des sehr geschätzten „Postillon“ eine KI-generierte Selbsteinschätzung ab. Wenig schmeichelhaft, aber dafür mit bodenständigem Sprachduktus. Die vollständigen Shownotes mit allen Bildern und Artikel-Links findet ihr unter: www.benanza.de/2023/podcast/vidp78-kaese-rennen-profi-hartzer-und-hochsitz-fessel-fsk-edition

Diesmal sind die Bondage Guys zu Gast. Am Montag sprechen wir über Bondage und wie facettenreich der Fetisch sein kann. Freut euch auf spannende Gäste mit einem spannenden Thema.

Sätze und Wörter können krasse Auswirkungen haben - positive, aber leider auch negative. Manche Aussagen bleiben uns für immer im Kopf und verletzen oder verunsichern uns das ganze Leben lang. Was muss ich also bei meiner Wortwahl bedenken? Und warum greifen bestimmte Aussagen manche Menschen mehr an als andere? Diese und andere Fragen klären wir mit Dinc Sacik. Er setzt sich als Sozialpädagoge bei SOS-Kinderdorf Hamburg ganz viel mit Jugendlichen und (deren) Sprache auseinander.  Außerdem hat er selbst schon als Junge erfahren müssen, wie es ist, wenn andere mit ihren Aussagen beleidigen und einen in Schubladen stecken, in die man doch gar nicht hineingehört.  LEXIKON ZUM PODCAST: Rassismus N-Wort - Die Abkürzung N-Wort dient dazu, den rassistischen Begriff nicht zu reproduzieren. Der Begriff sollte nicht ausgesprochen oder ausgeschrieben werden, da er in Rassentheorien sowie der Versklavung schwarzer Menschen verwurzelt ist und Schwarze entwürdigt  Z-Wort - Das Z-Wort wird von den meisten Sint*ezze und Rom*nja als rassistische Fremdbezeichnung abgelehnt.  ”Schlitzauge” - Rassistische Beleidigung für Menschen asiatischer Abstammung und geht gar nicht im Wortgebrauch! Ableismus bedeutet, dass Menschen mit Behinderung nur auf die Merkmale ihrer Behinderung reduziert werden  “behindert” - “Behindert” sollte auf keinen Fall als Schimpfwort verwendet werden  “An den Rollstuhl gefesselt” - Im Normalfall erleichtert der Rollstuhl das Leben des Menschen, der im Rollstuhl sitzt. Ist also vielmehr eine Befreiung, als eine Fessel.  “Spast”/”Spasti” - kommt von Spastiker, einer Form der Behinderung. Sollte deshalb also auch nicht als Schimpfwort/Beleidigung verwendet werden  Viele Wörter haben eine ungute Vergangenheit z.B. “Idiot” oder “Asozial”. Diese Wörter stammen aus dem Nationalsozialismus und sollten nicht reproduziert werden. Wörter die wir nutzen und gar nicht wissen, was wir damit anrichten: “Du bist behindert”  “Honk” steht für “Hauptschüler*in ohne nennenswerte Kenntnisse”  “Du bist voll das Mädchen” “Du bist voll die Pussy” zickig, hysterisch impliziert, dass Frauen/Mädchen angeblich schwach und/oder anstrengend sind

Was hindert dich daran, charismatisch zu sein? In der RedeFabrik glauben wir daran, dass es drei Fesseln gibt, welche dich hindern können in deinen charismatischen Ausdruck zu kommen. Heute sprechen wir über die zweite, große Fessel, die Apathie. Teilnahmslosigkeit, Gleichgültigkeit und der fehlende Zugang zu deinen Emotionen ist sicher etwas, das dich hindern wird, charismatisch zu sein. Hier erhältst Du heute wertvolle Tipps, was Du dagegen tun kannst. Viel Spaß wünschen dir Daniel & Sascha Schick uns dein Feedback per Whats App! +49 160 774 708 6 oder an podcast@redefabrik.net Wir freuen uns auf deine Meinung, Ideen und Anregungen. Hier der versprochene Link zum Buch von Viktor Frankl Weitere Infos: Hier findest du noch mehr von der RedeFabrik... RedeFabrik.de RedeFabrik auf YouTube RedeFabrik auf Instagram Song: Floatinurboat - Spirit of Things [NCS Release] Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds Free Download/Stream: http://ncs.io/spiritofthingsWatch: http://youtu.be/LY1ik-Do_MU

Was hindert dich daran, charismatisch zu sein? In der RedeFabrik glauben wir daran, dass es drei Fesseln gibt, welche dich hindern können in deinen charismatischen Ausdruck zu kommen. Heute sprechen wir über die erste und vermutlich größte Fessel, die Angst. Was es damit auf sich hat und wie du dich davon löst, erfährst du, wenn du reinklickst. Viel Spaß wünschen dir Daniel & Sascha Schick uns dein Feedback per Whats App! +49 152 579 298 25 oder an podcast@redefabrik.net Wir freuen uns auf deine Meinung, Ideen und Anregungen. Weitere Infos: Hier findest du noch mehr von der RedeFabrik... RedeFabrik.de RedeFabrik auf YouTube RedeFabrik auf Instagram Song: Floatinurboat - Spirit of Things [NCS Release] Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds Free Download/Stream: http://ncs.io/spiritofthingsWatch: http://youtu.be/LY1ik-Do_MU

In jener Zeit verließ Jesus das Gebiet von Tyrus und kam über Sidon an den See von Galiläa, mitten in das Gebiet der Dekapolis. Da brachte man einen Taubstummen zu Jesus und bat ihn, er möge ihn berühren. Er nahm ihn beiseite, von der Menge weg, legte ihm die Finger in die Ohren und berührte dann die Zunge des Mannes mit Speichel; danach blickte er zum Himmel auf, seufzte und sagte zu dem Taubstummen: Effata!, das heißt: Öffne dich! Sogleich öffneten sich seine Ohren, seine Zunge wurde von ihrer Fessel befreit, und er konnte richtig reden. Jesus verbot ihnen, jemand davon zu erzählen. Doch je mehr er es ihnen verbot, desto mehr machten sie es bekannt. Außer sich vor Staunen sagten sie: Er hat alles gut gemacht; er macht, dass die Tauben hören und die Stummen sprechen.  (© Ständige Kommission für die Herausgabe der gemeinsamen liturgischen Bücher im deutschen Sprachgebiet)

Ein «Espresso»-Hörer möchte zu seiner Freundin und ihren Kindern nach Thailand auswandern, kann sich dort aber seine ausserordentliche IV-Rente nicht auszahlen lassen. Deshalb kann er sich den Wohnsitzwechsel nicht leisten. Er empfindet die Gesetzgebung als «ungerechte Fessel». Aber: Das IV-Gesetz verbietet den Export seiner Rente, obwohl sich der Staat dann die Ergänzungsleistungen sparen könnte. Weitere Themen: - Migros-Cranberries: Wieso gesüsst billiger als ungesüsst?

Wir sprechen heute über Bondage, Erniedrigung und Puppy Play. Was sind unsere Erfahrungen, worauf stehen wir und was hat ein BDSM-Test bei uns ergeben? Was ist für uns persönlich anturnend und was können wir uns überhaupt nicht vorstellen? Manches ist für uns Neuland und manches haben wir ausprobiert.

Shirley Fessel is a religious domestic abuse survivor advocate with Masters in both Counseling and Education from Wichita State University. Raised Catholic, Shirley married a Baptist minister who suffered from mental illness and abused Shirley and their children. Shirley was eventually able to flee with her children and begin building a safe life for herself with no help or support from her religious community. Putting her counseling and communication expertise to work, Shirley developed the Redemption from Biblical Battering workbook, a self-help workbook for abused women of faith which provides a faith-based path to freedom from spiritual and domestic abuse. CONTACT SHIRLEY:https://shirleyfessel.com/Twitter: @fessup2 and @redemptionbbTo contribute to Shirley's RBB Thriver financial grant (helping women rebuild their lives after DV), her Venmo is @Shirley-Fessel. Mark donation “Redemption from Biblical Battering.”Resources mentioned in this episode:Redemption from Biblical Battering Workbookhttps://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/ (Marie Fortune)If you are suffering from Domestic Violence in the United States, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or text “START” to 88788Support this podcast on Patreon and get access to bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/janiceselbieSPECIAL THANKS to our latest patrons: Sheila, Paul, Anne, and Sacha!Subscribe to the audio-only version here: https://www.divorcing-religion.com/re...Get your free consultation with Janice or sign up for the Divorcing Religion Workshop here: https://www.divorcing-religion.com/Get your tickets to the Shameless Sexuality: Life After Purity Culture conference here: Support the show

Man könnte meinen, die heutigen Themen sind aus einer KuH-Folge aus den Neunzigern entsprungen, aber tatsächlich geht es um “Jeopardy”, “Herzblatt”, “RTL Samstag Nacht” und Richterin Barbara Salesch. Verrückte Zeiten! Dazwischen sprechen Körber und Hammes aber auch über den ESC 2023 und seinen Austragungsort, verraten, wieso Kai Pflaume scharf auf einen 25-stündigen Stream ist und wer denn wohl unter Goldi, No Name und der Zahnfee bei “The Masked Singer” stecken könnte. FERNSEHEN 00:03:30 | Austragungsort “Eurovision Song Contest” 2023 00:09:35 | SAT.1 zeigt “Kultshow-Wochen” mit vier Retro-Sendungen 00:26:02 | RTL gibt Barbara Salesch mehr Arbeit 00:27:58 | Ausstrahlungstermin für “RTL Samstag Nacht”-Neuauflage 00:32:14 | Collien Ulmen-Fernandes räumt bei RTLzwei auf 00:38:29 | Kai Pflaume macht 25-Stunden-Stream mit “Wer weiß denn sowas?” 00:44:58 | Körbers wilde “The Masked Singer”-Tipps 00:49:49 | ProSieben tritt gegen Joko & Klaas an WEIDENGEFLÜSTER 00:52:18 | Euer Viehdback zu Folge 417 01:07:39 | Danke für Euren Support und Hinweis Affiliate FILM 01:09:32 | Kino-Charts und -Starts 01:13:33 | Heimkino 01:21:31 | “Star Wars”-News der Woche QUOTENTIPP 01:29:48 | Letztes Mal: “Bares für Rares” (Mittwoch, 5. Oktober 2022, 20:15 Uhr, ZDF) 01:32:10 | Dieses Mal: “Mario Barth deckt auf!” (Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2022, 20:15 Uhr, RTL) Alle Wortbeiträge dieser Folge sind eigene Meinungen – teils satirisch – oder Kommentare. Foto: Screenshot ZDF

Die Themen: Zerstörte Existenzen in Pakistan | Monsun und Klimawandel in Südasien | Der Irak bald gescheiterter Staat? | Parteienproporz als Fessel in Bagdad | Shanghai und die Guotie

Wussten Sie schon, dass es Millionen Menschen in unserem Land gibt, die mit Ängsten zu tun haben? Bei manchen ist es so schlimm, dass sich daraus eine richtige Angstneurose entwickelt. Da hat sich die Angst in ihr Leben eingeschlichen und wie eine Fessel um sie gelegt. Und sie schaffen es einfach nicht, davon loszukommen. Vor [...]

It's time for Autism Live! Our host Shannon explains what task analysis is for the jargon of the day before asking our live audience the question of the day and the covering the topic of the week! After that, our host is joined by the founder and executive director of the Mental Health & Autism Insurance Project, Karen Fessel! #Autism #AutismInsurance #AutismPodcast 9:11 Autism Jargon of the Day: Task Analysis 10:54 Task Analysis - Actual Definition 11:18 Task Analysis - Working definition 17:31 Question of the Day - What's the hardest part of the day? 21:30 Topic of the week - It has to be fair 24:28 Karen Fessel - The Founder of the Mental Health & Autism Insurance Project joins us! 27:40 About Karen Fessel and how she came to be the founder of the Mental Health & Autism Insurance Project 35:10 What are some of the laws that we can hang on to so we can protect ourselves? 40:41 What does the the Mental Health & Autism Insurance Project do and what kind of things can they help with? When and how should people come to them? 55:37 How Karen's Son is Doing 56:39 What are some of the hardest parts and some of the most rewarding parts of working in this field? 59:57 Tomorrow on Autism Live Pre-Order Shannon Penrod's Book https://www.amazon.com/Autism-Parent-Sanity-Saving-Spectrum/dp/1949177858  

It's time for Autism Live! Our host Shannon explains what task analysis is for the jargon of the day before asking our live audience the question of the day and the covering the topic of the week! After that, our host is joined by the founder and executive director of the Mental Health & Autism Insurance Project, Karen Fessel! #Autism #AutismInsurance #AutismPodcast 9:11 Autism Jargon of the Day: Task Analysis 10:54 Task Analysis - Actual Definition 11:18 Task Analysis - Working definition 17:31 Question of the Day - What's the hardest part of the day? 21:30 Topic of the week - It has to be fair 24:28 Karen Fessel - The Founder of the Mental Health & Autism Insurance Project joins us! 27:40 About Karen Fessel and how she came to be the founder of the Mental Health & Autism Insurance Project 35:10 What are some of the laws that we can hang on to so we can protect ourselves? 40:41 What does the the Mental Health & Autism Insurance Project do and what kind of things can they help with? When and how should people come to them? 55:37 How Karen's Son is Doing 56:39 What are some of the hardest parts and some of the most rewarding parts of working in this field? 59:57 Tomorrow on Autism Live Pre-Order Shannon Penrod's Book https://www.amazon.com/Autism-Parent-Sanity-Saving-Spectrum/dp/1949177858  

Wenn Mann und Frau heiraten, dann werden in der Regel feierlich Ringe ausgetauscht und beim Treueversprechen einander angelegt als sichtbares Zeichen des gegenseitigen Versprechens. Mit dem Ring wird auch nach aussen signalisiert, dass sich die Person einer anderen gegenüber zur Treue verpflichtet hat. Der Ring dient also quasi als sichtbares Zeichen nach aussen der Erinnerung für die Ehepartner, dass sie sich einander gegenüber Treue versprochen haben und der Umwelt gegenüber, dass da ein Bund und Versprechen bestehen, die nicht gebrochen werden sollen. Manch einer oder eine tut sich in Zeiten der Krise jedoch schwer damit, diesen Ring weiter zu tragen. Er wird dann als Fessel statt als Bundeszeichen empfunden. Gibt es in Deinem Leben zur Zeit vielleicht Dinge oder Engagements, zu denen Du Dich mit einem Versprechen verpflichtet hast, bei dem Du aber nur noch halbherzig bist? Wäre es an der Zeit, Dich da vielleicht neu innerlich aufzumachen und wieder mit ganzem Herzen Ja zu sagen? Manchmal kosten gewisse Dinge Überwindung und Mut - aber in aller Regel sind sie es dennoch wert. Ich wünsche Dir einen aussergewöhnlichen Tag! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/audiostretto/message

Goodreads is a social platform where readers congregate. Are the ways in which we can market our books to these people without being sleazy? Jesper has no idea about Goodreads, so he asks all the stupid questions, while Autumn tries to convince him that Goodreads is a good platform. (For the record, Jesper did claim his author profile on Goodreads the day after the recording of this episode) Tune in for new episodes EVERY single Monday.  SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST! Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review.  Join us at www.patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy. For as little as a dollar a month, you'll get awesome rewards and keep the Am Writing Fantasy podcast going.  Read the full transcript below. (Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion). Narrator (1s): You're listening to the Am Writing Fantasy podcast. In today's publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need an literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing. Join two best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them now on to the show with your hosts, Autumn Birt and Jesper Schmidt. Jesper (30s): Hello, I'm Jesper. And I'm autumn. This is episode 112 of the Am Writing fantasy podcast. And we're going to discuss a topic today where, eell, I'm a total noob. Autumn (46s): That's very honest stuff, you know? Jesper (48s): Yeah. But luckily, well you autumn, you're not. And so we're going to talk about how to use good reads as a promotional tool to market books. So I don't know anything about that. Autumn (1m 3s): Yeah. You've never even claimed her author profile on there. You probably have reviews that you've never even looked at, but I can't imagine I enjoy. Goodreads is one of those things, I, I want to be on it more than I am. So maybe this will be another reminder to myself to get back on there and do something now maybe. Jesper (1m 24s): And I I'm hoping that I will learn a thing or two today as well. Autumn (1m 28s): Maybe I'll inspire. You. You'll have to tell me if I inspire you to maybe think about claiming your author profile by the end of today's podcast while you're setting yourself a very high goal. I, I took persuasive Fessel philosophy in my persuasive psychology actually in my college days. So we'll have to see if it comes out. Jesper (1m 52s): Yeah. Yeah. Just don't get disappointed. Autumn (1m 57s): Right. I'll try. Maybe I can convince you to give me your author profile. Jesper (2m 2s): Well that you could probably yes. Autumn (2m 4s): Okay. We'll have to see how it goes. Jesper (2m 8s): Yeah. Yeah, indeed. Yeah. I know you have a crazy times on your end. How's it going with all your jinxing of electronic stuff and destroying computers and have you screwed something else in the meantime? Autumn (2m 21s): Oh yes, absolutely. Besides destroying battery operated water pumps, I managed to, for some reason, make Adam's Mac, my husband's at Mac air unstable. So it stopped connecting to the internet. I just, my phone's. Okay. Thank goodness. It must be as no, we have a life case on that and it is, we've been joking because yeah, I've told you, my husband knows the, the Fe and my next series, I'm releasing, they cannot touch and they actually end up putting electronics and Faraday cages. Autumn (3m 3s): And it's like, my husband's now talking about making me go. I'm like, Oh, I can brand that for my books. So I still think he thought I'd be that excited about hearing. I can get my very unfair day cage from my laptop. Jesper (3m 19s): That would be a very interesting author image. And try to explain why, why you're sitting inside a cage. Autumn (3m 29s): I might need it. I do not know why things go scurry around me, but I've been extremely cursed racks the last couple of weeks. But I did just pick up my laptop like 45 minutes before we needed to get into recording today. And the student Q and a. So I'm I actually got it online and all my files were actually there. The logic board had been toasted somehow, but it didn't destroy my files. Just the logic board go figure I broke logic, but it's feels so good to have it back. And it's working and they replaced the keyboard and it's also fancy and nice. Autumn (4m 13s): It almost looks new for the memory was only decent. I'd be happy. It'd be perfect. Jesper (4m 19s): I honestly really hope that you're going to get out of your jinxing cycled quite soon so that you can just, you know, don't break things and just get back into your group without all this stressful stuff. It's Oh my God. I feel bad for you. Autumn (4m 37s): Yeah, it definitely had a few days where I've closed up shop early and just gone and read by Kindle, which thank goodness it hasn't broken on me yet either, but my husband actually knows I'm accident prone. So he got me like the most indestructible Kindle that you can buy. It's called a Voyager and it is like shockproof waterproof, you know, drop, kick it proof. I don't know if it's me proof, but so far so good. Knock on wood. Yeah. Jesper (5m 4s): Maybe Amazon will learn something that it was not as proven as they thought it was. Autumn (5m 9s): Oh yes. Well, if anyone ever wants to test something to see if it's, indestructable send it to me, I've broken indestructable glasses before, so please let me have a try. Jesper (5m 22s): Not even from trying, it's just not, you just use it normally and then you will break it. Autumn (5m 27s): That's true. I confess that as true anyway, but how are things on your side of the ocean? Jesper (5m 36s): Well, nothing as exciting as on your side, that's for sure. Yeah. I don't really know if there's that much to share since last week's episode. It's just been one of those working weeks where I've just been focusing on getting my words in these, the first draft of the reader magnet is done now. Yeah. Autumn (5m 55s): Yes. You sent that to me, at least your, I still have to do Jesper (5m 58s): My edits and add to it, but yeah, we've been writing. It's been exciting. Yeah. Yeah, indeed. And as we said before, we not very good at celebrating. You actually pointed this out to me in an email, you said like, remember to celebrate, like, and, and honestly I did actually think about it when I sent you the last chapter. I did stop for two seconds to think maybe I should celebrate. So, and then I went onto the next thing on its dupe list, but so he had a two second acknowledgement of an achievement. And then, but I always, I almost would say that those two second is already an improvement because before I didn't even have those. Jesper (6m 40s): So it is slightly better, but not a, not a lot better. I could also mention that the, I just wrote up a whole post for our patron supporters on how the new iOS 14 rollout that is coming here early 20, 21 might affect Facebook ads. So this is, yeah, this is a pretty big deal for us authors who rely heavily on Facebook ads and the new iOS 14 will actually block some ad stuff or I would say not blocked, but it's, it's more to do with the fact that previously Apple operated with an opt out methodology, so that if you did not want the phone to share information with Facebook, for example, you had to actively go in and opt out via settings. Jesper (7m 35s): And the Apple is changing that with the new iOS so that you have to opt in. So you will actually be prompted by your phone to say, do you want your, your, the phone to share information with, for example, Facebook? And of course, most people will say, no, we don't want that. And then some of the ads becomes a problematic to run because Facebook cannot collect the data that they could before. So yeah, I wrote up a whole post on Patrion for our supporters on how I view this, what are the consequences, how to deal with it. So that was sort of a scary and interesting thing all at once there. That is, that sounds interesting. Autumn (8m 16s): Cause I know for me, I actually run Firefox and they have a Facebook corral, which blocks you from the Facebook pixels on websites. And I always feel sneaky by doing that, but I also feel like I'm undermining someone else's data. Oops. Narrator (8m 34s): A week on the internet with the Am Writing Fantasy podcast. Jesper (8m 39s): To welcome back Jeffrey on Patreon. Autumn (8m 42s): Yes. Thank you, Jeffrey, for coming back, you had a little glitch where you're gone for a little while and you've returned to us. So thank you. Yeah. Thank you so much, Jeffrey, for your continuous support of the am writing fantasy podcast. We really appreciate that. And I dunno, I feel like saying a few words about Patreon here or Yeah, that's, it's, it's a very wonderful platform and it really, it is what supports this podcast and lets us pay for the recording and the hosting and all of those things that is actually all paid out of pet pantry on every single month. So thank you for everyone who supports us there. Jesper (9m 22s): Yeah. And I fully understand that, you know, we live in a media reality right now where podcasts are free and that's fine. The reality though is also that we can't make a living from something that is free. So that's where we use patron and we are not running any ads on the podcast either. So we're not getting any money from there. So we entirely funded by patron as, as autumn just said, I could also mention, for example, that we just, we did have a, this week, one of our very strong patron supporters leave us on Patrion or the last week due to the person's financial situations. And that is fully understandable people. Jesper (10m 2s): So changes, you know, circumstances can change in your financial situation. And first and foremost, you have to take care of yourself. So I'm just saying this because supporting us on patron doesn't mean that it has to be forever. If you have the capability support with maybe just $1 a month for now, that is awesome and it makes a difference. And then if you laid on your circumstances might change, then don't feel bad about it. It's perfectly fine. If you don't have to drop out and spend your money somewhere else after all, you have to take care of yourself and your family before anything else. I think that the one thing I would like to point out autumn here is just that I think that the trouble with this kind of thing is that most people always think that somebody else will take care of the supporting stuff, you know? Jesper (10m 54s): And in truth, if everyone just stopped thinking that and pitched in with a dollar, then I wouldn't have even have to mention this at all, because then it would be fine. Yeah. At the end of the day, Autumn (11m 7s): The Wikipedia often says the exact same thing. And I always do think, you know what? I can sit there asking for like two bucks, I always send Wikipedia something when they ask. I admit it. Jesper (11m 18s): Yeah. I mean, the thing is that this podcast is not just recorded for the fun of it. We actually do take it quite seriously. And we're trying to give you very useful and also some, sometimes just entertainment but useful advice. And if you do appreciate that, if you find it helpful in any way, please go and check out Patrion and you can follow the link in the show notes and see if, if maybe it would be something you could support us a bit there. Yeah. Autumn (11m 49s): Don't forget with our new website rebuild, which is finish by the go check out and writing fantasy.com. But if you go to am writing fantasy, fantasy.com/writing hyphen tips, or just go into the website and go into the blog, we actually added a button just to donate. So if for some reason you don't want to do patchy on you don't want to do. I mean, there's rewards there and hundreds of posts at this point and writing tips and marketing tips. But if for some reason you don't want to do that, but you would like to help us out and be able to, you know, support the podcast. You just want to do a one-time little gift. We made that possible on the website. So go check that out and we appreciate that as well. Autumn (12m 31s): Thank you so much because it does really help keep the lights on here, especially when you have one, half of your tribe is electronic accident prone. Yes. Okay. Anything else to add to, or should we move on to our conversation on Goodrich will only, I can say that it's not true of the moment, but by this time this is released. We will be over 3000 members on am writing fantasy Facebook in our group. And we're so close right now. We're, we're literally a day or two away. So, but definitely by the time this is released. So come join us on am writing fantasy Facebook, because it's just growing like insane. And when everyone there is wonderful. Autumn (13m 15s): Excellent. Yes, please do that. So there's probably something like a hundred million readers on Goodrich. I believe autumn probably close. I think the last time I'd seen was 95 million was the stats they had released when I took a webinar with them a year ago. So it's probably gotta be a hundred million readers, not just members, readers, people who love books. It's some million people look, I love books website. And I think this is one of the reasons why I'm a newbie to good reads because you know, in our little, let's say publishing company here, you, you and my publishing company advertising is sort of the stuff that I do, but good Reese has like considering you have your, okay, let me just put out a good read CEO here. Autumn (14m 13s): All right. So I'm an in, I'm in a meeting with the other executives and it's like, how many people do we have on the platform now? A hundred million. Okay. That sounds good. How do we capitalize on that? Well, so we don't why, well, I don't know. We don't have any ways to put any ads or monitor these people. So they're just using our platform and it's scrape. Yeah. Okay. Maybe it's great, but is I just don't get it. I mean, why can you not place apps on Goodrich? For example, with that many people, it would, it's like the most obvious place to advertise, but you, you can a bit, Jesper (14m 52s): And we're going to talk about that, but it's very limited. Autumn (14m 55s): It is very limited and it used to be a little less limited. I used to run good rates ads, but compared to AMS ads, they actually didn't perform that well, which is just to me crazy because these are people who love books, but yeah, use only so many ways you can actually give good reads money, which is probably why those ways that you can get good reads money. It costs quite a bit of money, but in its own way, from the author perspective, that's actually awesome. It's hard to give them money. You have to, there's other ways that you can go talk to these readers and find them. Autumn (15m 35s): And so it's all free. It's kind of cool. Jesper (15m 40s): It is cool. But I have a feeling that a lot of stuff that we're going to talk about here, or rather that you're going to talk about and I'm going to listen. But I think a lot of it has to probably do with there's a lot of time investment involved here. I have a feeling Autumn (15m 56s): There could be, but I mean, I guess if you're going, if you consider it a social media platform that is a hundred percent readers, why would you go to Facebook where it's like your aunt, Betty and your cousin, and they don't even read your books or do you want to go where there's readers, who you can go in, like sort through by the genre and find them and connect with them and have a great fan base. Where should you be spending your time? If you're going to spend some time on social media, it's not, you know, or looking at political tweets. Jesper (16m 31s): Yeah, no, I understand that. But maybe just before we get into all of those things that you can do, do you have any, because as you said before, it's even when you could run ads, they were not converting very well. And given that there is a hundred million or 95 or whatever, I don't think those 5 million makes a difference, but let's say around a hundred million readers on good reads. Why, if no, let me rephrase that. If it was very effective in terms of selling or marketing your books, I would think that every author would spend quite a lot of time on good reads, but I spent quite a lot of my time brushing up on the latest marketing things and, and ad strategies and all I do that all the time. Jesper (17m 24s): And I never ever hear about you should be spending time on good reads. So I'm just wondering now that I've never really used good reads. So of course I'm, I don't have any, let's say I don't have any standpoint in terms of arguing why or why not, but I'm wondering if you have any reflections on why is it not converting that well, w w what is it is it's to do with the audience that is Andrea or Autumn (17m 50s): Why? I think it's the, I think it's sort of almost like talking about a Kindle unlimited. If you, I know some authors who are a hundred percent Kindle, Kindle unlimited, and they're making a living wage off of that. And I know some authors who are on good reads and they are invested, it is their number one social media platform. It's where they spend all their time and the ones who are doing that. I mean, you're talking directly to readers and they're doing well. They, the webinar I took with good reads said that, you know, if they showed some books, that's like, this is a new release. This is one that basically went on fire on good reads. Autumn (18m 31s): And because of that, it was very popular across the board. Got the New York times bestseller lists all of these things simply because it started on good reads and got that burn going. So it can be an incredibly powerful platform, but I think most authors are spread out or they're not concentrating enough on just one platform and doing really, really well in it. And I mean, I have to say, like, I, I love good reads, but I also hate it because it is owned by Amazon now. And they have not put much money into it as it is like a 1990s platform. It looks terrible. Yes. Autumn (19m 11s): It's a really old, outdated, it's a forum. I don't even particularly like forums. You can't, you have to know HTML to even put in an image much less an image and a link. So you have to know a little bit of coding. Yes. You actually have to know coding to you mean you could just do stuff kind of blandly, but if you want it to make it look pretty again, that's probably my graphic designer decide coming out there that, you know, I, I know HTML coding whenever I'm on there and I want it putting in post photos and things. So it's so archaic and everyone keeps trying to create the next good reads. You know, a lot of platforms are trying to create a new version of good reads, but no, one's managed to knock it out of the number one spot for readers. Autumn (19m 54s): And I think there's a few reasons there, and maybe it's inertia because everyone's already there and until it explodes or Amazon takes it away, or it makes it a paid for platform. They're just going to say on good reads, because right now, even though Amazon owns it, it's kind of, it's got its own people, its own personality. It has librarians that manage the data and stuff. And they're fun to talk to. I've had to, I've had the fun of asking them a few questions. So it's got its own kind of thing going. I think, I think if you really, if even me, if I really invested the time and got going, the number one thing you can do as an authored to change your book sales is to go and talk to readers to go and build up your reader base Emma's are good. Autumn (20m 40s): Reads is a fantastic place to go and do that, but you have to be invested and dedicated and not just jump in and out and in and out, you got to go in and be part of the group. And the membership know that that part is perfectly fair. And I understand that, but I guess my question is, can you get them and maybe we're going to get into this so you can save the answer. If it's something we've got to get into any way. But as I said, I'm a new PSO. I'm I'm asking the stupid questions. Fair enough. But can you get people off of good reads and onto your email list in any easy way? Short of there is I think one or two ways and we will get into that. Autumn (21m 20s): So, yes. Okay. But let's go. Not as easy, it's not as easy as adding a button to your good reads author profile. It's not that easy, but there are other ways that you can do that. Okay. Well, what do you want to stop them? Well, I think we should start with the obvious ones. And one of them we've already touched on is that good reads used to do advertising, used to do self-service ads, almost the same as AMS ads, except it was actually a little more archaic and old fashioned AMS is like so much more sleek compared to what you could do on good reads. And I have used them and it took for ever to even spend $50 there. Autumn (22m 4s): It just was, it was really, I can see why they stopped doing it because they were not serving very well. They did not generate a lot, but I thought it was funny because just to double check before we ran this today is I did check on what their advertising says and it says no longer doing it, but they did say that this is literally for quote, for larger budgets, looking to drive maximum awareness on good reads, contact our advertising team to learn about our customized book, launch packages from larger budgets. So if you're a brick and mortar publisher or JK Rowling go to Goodwill. Yeah. I would think it was something similar to because Amazon also has it, the advantage program. Autumn (22m 47s): If you get into that, you, you can get not the investors program itself, but I forgot what it's called, but they have some, some branding banner stuff that you can get posted on, on Amazon. And I think if I remember correctly, I think the minimum spend to get into that program is 50 K. Oh my goodness. I was like, you don't just do that, right? No, no, no, no. So you, you were a serious publishing house or an author who is amazing. Yeah. When you can say, Oh yeah, 50 K nut up problem. So there is that. And I think the other thing that most people know good reads for is book giveaways. Autumn (23m 27s): Because if you're a reader, you know, there is a way it's so easy to sign up for either an ebook or a paperback of giveaway. And I remember the day where they were actually, I think the cheapest $50, maybe it was more, but there was a time they were super cheap to run. But now the minimum, the starting price is $119. So they're not that cheap anymore. That's not horrible. And if you're going to run a Kindle one, it has to be, you have to be published through Amazon. So through KDP and you can give up to a hundred books of an ebook giveaway, or if you want to do a print book giveaway, you can have a smaller, you know, just do like five print books or even 10. Autumn (24m 10s): So those two options are there. And I think most people know about them. And I did them once upon a day. But now that they're a little more expensive, I save up for maybe a big splash, like the final book of a series or something like that. You want know, do something special with it, but those are great, great and popular ways of actually quickly connecting with readers. So if you want to give one a try, I would highly recommend it. Jesper (24m 39s): Yeah. And the one thing I do understand about these giveaways is that one of the key benefits of it is the, there is like a social amplification built in meaning that I think everyone who enters a giveaway automatically has that book added to their, want to read shelf, which then creates a story in the newsfeeds for all their friends and followers. So that's pretty neat. You know, that, that way it's sort of that amplifies the word of mouth basic. Autumn (25m 9s): Yes, exactly. It is. And that's what, I don't know if, if most people realize like that's how good reading works. It took me a while to figure out because good reads has a couple of different areas. It has the forum area, the groups. So you can go into groups and forums and get to meet people and chat. There's like an archaic version of Facebook. If people are not used to forums, I they're not picture related enough for me. And I think that's why I don't like them. They're all textual and I'll go, my husband loves them and I just find them appalling. So I'm just not a good on forums, but I should spend more time there. But then they have a side that is like sorta like Facebook newsfeed, where it's an ongoing feed and you get to see things posted by your friends. Autumn (25m 50s): So the more friends you have or the more friends someone else has, you know, they, it gets shared more widely. And you would like to be just like Facebook. You would like to have your feed, something about your book, show up a couple of times, maybe a day. So all of the things I'm going to suggest are basically ways of getting your book, something you're sharing to show up, just so that people see it. But obviously the number one goal is to get basically as many friends as you can. And the best way you can do that, as you can either go friend, everyone who say likes a book that you like, which is probably a perfectly way of doing it. Cause you want to stick into your genre. You want to, you know, keep people who, you know, go everyone who reviews your book, ask them to be your friend. Autumn (26m 34s): You can do things like that. Or obviously you can share with your newsletter, your list on social media, other platforms. That's why you go into Twitter and you'll see someone say, Hey, I'm a good reads author. Find me here. That's because they want people to follow them. And so if they're following you on Twitter, you want to get them over to good reads as well. You're going to have to bring people into the platform, even though it already has a hundred million readers, you know, you have to find them and connect with them. It's a lot of networking. But to do that, that gets the amplification that you just mentioned. You want to spread your message to everyone's newsfeed on good reads. Jesper (27m 11s): And that's where I'm getting slightly nervous here, right? Because you're not in terms of having to bring people in. And I understand that all that, but building a reader list, so to speak on somebody else's real estate, that's like the number one thing we talked about in the self-publish sex success course that you should not do. You know, you have to get them onto some email list, meaning that you own the list of readers and they're not built on a good reads or the same thing applies to Facebook groups. There was people who build up a huge Facebook group and that's the only place that they can connect with those readers. And what happens to data at Facebook decides that, well, maybe now we're going to charge you to be able to post our stuff in your own group. Jesper (27m 57s): Otherwise we're only going to show it to 10% of them or whatever, you know, you never know what's going to happen. And that's why at least in the self publishing costs that we always say, you have to get people onto your email list. That's the only way you can control your own customer list. And that was why I was asking before, can we get them out of so, okay, let's say we get them into good reads then, but how do we get them out of there and onto our email list? Autumn (28m 25s): Well, we will, there's a few places where we can look at doing that besides obviously, you know, by getting them to shelve and buy your books. Even if you disappear off of good reads, for some reason, the fact that they have your books and hopefully in all your books, they have links to where else they can find you. So that is one important thing. But yeah, this is definitely using another platform to build. Hopefully you want to pull them into your own list, but I do think occasionally with something that it is book dedicated and reader dedicated. It's not bad to have a presence here because these are readers. These are active, hungry readers. These are people who really love books. Autumn (29m 6s): And if you're going to spend some time, you know, any time, this is a place to be better than Facebook, better than anywhere else. This is definitely an audience you should look at because there's a lot of people who love books and will be active on this and have been active for years and years. Jesper (29m 26s): Hmm. Okay. Fair enough. Autumn (29m 29s): I know I haven't convinced you got the wool work on it. We'll work on some of this sharing and I'll see if we can get some stuff that's over, you know, how you can move them into your newsreader list, how you can get them off of that. I mean, I have to admit, I had a following on what, what Pat and I haven't been back there for ages, but it is interesting to see like where you can build up reader relationships and which are the ones that are worth keeping or which are the ones that are going to go and then buy your books. And I will say on good reads, these are the ones that are going to go buy your books. These are ones you want to make friends with. Jesper (30m 3s): Interesting. Why the ads never worked very well then, or maybe it was more to do with how the ads were served and stuff rather than the actual audio Autumn (30m 11s): You were really, you could only ever use your book cover, which kind of makes sense. I mean, it's your book cover? And the copy was very limited. And I think where they show up the website, just being as old styles as it is, they just weren't being served well. No. Okay. I would say, I think Amazon has too many ads, but Oh my goodness. They're not going to slow those down anytime. So I think they're going to add more, to be honest, especially now that I do have a Kindle and you see how they, the ads come up on your Kindle and it's something that the Regenera can I at least choose which books are going to show me anyway. So let's get into choosing that, but yes, exactly. Jesper (30m 56s): But I can get a lot of weird ones on my Kindle as well. It's like, I don't know why you advertising this to me. I'm never going to buy it Autumn (31m 2s): Exactly. Not the right audience. Right. So sort of I mentioned the forums. So sort of going onto the forums and being the troll that, you know, every time someone says, I want a book recommendation and you're just sharing your own book, which I don't recommend. Don't do that. This is not, we're going to just skip the forums. As I mentioned, that is not my forte, but you can go and join the forums and you should be there as a participant, as a reader. And also, you know, occasionally maybe once every 1 million posts mentioned, you're a writer to get people over to your side. But once I told her, that's probably not that bad. Autumn (31m 43s): It seems like it, like, they never want to hear that you're a writer in these groups, but you should go and be active as a reader. And that's fine, but we're here to talk about how you can help your author platform. So let's look at that and we'll go through some really quick ones that are really easy and well, these are ones you most people should know about, but if you start an author profile, you actually go and claim it. If you've already published in Amazon, you have an author profile over in good reads. And so what you do is actually claim it. You don't create it. It's kind of, it's different that way. It's already there. It's already there. You, if you have, you probably already have books that are not only there under your author profile, but have reviews. Autumn (32m 28s): People have already been doing this for you. So it's a matter of going in there saying, Hey, that's mine and setting up your profile and adding your pictures and doing things like that. And you can link your blog if have a blog outside of good reads, you can link it. So you can post they're very similar to your Amazon author profile. Jesper (32m 45s): Yeah. Well, I was just about to say, why don't they just, I mean, it's all owned by Amazon. They should just pull it from the author central on Amazon. That then done. I mean, Autumn (32m 55s): Yeah, you, we won't talk about why they haven't done this stuff, but yeah, that would make things a little bit easier. Okay. Jesper (33m 1s): Well, what if I wanted to talk about that? Autumn (33m 4s): Do we want to give tips or do we want to complain about Goodreads. Jesper (33m 7s): Okay. Let's give tips then. Autumn (33m 8s): Okay. One of the things I think is pretty cool though, is you can actually upload videos. These will show up under your author profile so that when readers go and like, look at you as an author, which is a lot easier to do than on Amazon. You know, it's something you actually tend to go to people's author profile a lot more than the book profiles, so you can upload videos. So if you have a book trailers, if you have videos of you reading, if you have audio books and you've made some cool Clippy things, I have shown some to you. I love doing those. So if you do some stuff like that, this is a great place to go ahead and post them. And then they show up on your author profile. They have a nice little, I mean, nice for good reads. Autumn (33m 49s): Okay, nice for the 1980s little spot that they sit and they can show up and you can go share them. Another really kind of thing. As you're setting up your author profile, you can actually add a spot for favorite quotes. And so I know most people think of like, you know, life savings. Like one of my favorite ones is when life, when all is said and done, there's more said than done. Well, that's a great quote, but it has nothing to do with my books. What you want to do is on your author profile, share some of your favorite quotes from your own book and have them up there as your favorite quotes. And obviously say the book it's from it kind of will check people's interest. Autumn (34m 31s): If they see something they think is pretty cool as well. And so there's another one you can do is you can join groups, which I've mentioned with the forum. So it's just like Facebook and they get to know you as an author, but you can also create your own fan group. So if you wanted to create your own group dedicated to, you know, maybe a genre, maybe a certain type of book, or just simply your own books, you can create something like that there. And that is where I think you can really work on bringing authors or readers over to your profile because you have a lot more control. The forums have usually one or two threads that are, you know, the ones that people are introduction. Autumn (35m 16s): And that's where you can say, Hey, dream, join my newsletter list to get a free book or get a free book here. So this is where I think you can really get into the control and directing people to say, Hey, I have this freebie. If you sign up here, you can get people over into your newsletter. And that's one I think is an important one, but of course you need to get people over good reads and then over enjoining to your fan group. But the nice thing is the groups that you've created as well as the groups that you're a member of show up on your author profile. So it's not like it's hidden. It's, it's very clearly posted that says, Hey, there's this fan group for my books go here. Autumn (35m 56s): And plus you can post it on your blog. And every time, the nice thing about good reads is every time you touch something on there, you share something, it shows up in the newsfeed. So you need to do like, you know, go in once or twice a day and update something, update a book you're reviewing just one little, one little thing as much as you would do do and do a tweet of course, with good reads. I don't think there's any scheduling platforms. It's like, HootSweet, I'm trying to think there's nothing where you can go and push a post through. So you actually have to go to the good reads platform and type in physical letters and share things by being there physically in person. Jesper (36m 38s): But what if I only want to run? I don't want several, you know, fan groups or where, whatever we want to call it or read a group. So I don't want that. I just want one. And for example, in our case, it is on Facebook. We have that group. So what then, so in order to leverage the people who are on good reads, so do you then have to create a group and have it here, or can you create a group and just point them somewhere else or something? Autumn (37m 8s): I think it would have to have something active on good reads, otherwise people forums and stuff. You see things float to the top that are active and people are asking questions. And so if no one is actually in it, it's just going to drop to the bottom to the abyss and will not be shown. So you would actually have to have people in here and posting questions, but then you're all Jesper (37m 30s): Of a sudden running two different groups Autumn (37m 32s): There is. And then, so it's a choice of where is the best place to be hosting, hosting your readers? You know, is it Facebook or is it good? Reads? Yeah, indeed. Okay. And so, and I've mentioned, you know, reading books. So being an active reader, if you read books, you should do your good reads reviews should add them to your own shelves. All of those touches, like I said, they show up in your timeline. And so that way people will see them. They'll see who you are. They'll see that, Hey, I like that book too. They might come and check you out, but let's get into the more interesting things that most people I don't think realize are available on good reads. And one of my favorite is that you, most people go in, they claim their book from Amazon. Autumn (38m 18s): That is one thing that does feed through. So if you publish a book on Amazon, it feeds through to your good reads profile. Was you doing anything? That's you just go and say, yep, that's mine. Yep. We're good. But you don't have to do it that way. You can, even if you don't have a pre-order, you can, as long as you have a blurb, something you're got and maybe a coming soon image, you can actually go ahead and create your book in good reads with like a coming soon image. And then you can use that to post updates on the book, using a general update option. That's under your author profile, or you can post it as if you're reading up reading the book or review update. Autumn (38m 58s): So all those things will make it show up and they'll have this coming soon image, and then it'll get people to go. And like, they can go ahead and shelve it. So they know when the book does become live, it's actually going to show up on their shelf. So that's a great way for they'll see all the updates. And of course there's some, there is a small problem with is if you're not good with computers or if you're good with computers like me, but you destroy them. When you touch them, you break them. You there's some backend things like once the book is live, you have to have the addition. You know, you want the pretty cover, the one of the proper edition. And that is stuff that every author is perfectly capable of doing, but you have to know where to go to do this. Autumn (39m 41s): And again, this is a 1980 style website, so it's not the most intuitive, but once you figure it out, you can do that because I know I've had some book cover changes, and you got to change, which edition is the one that readers will see. And sometimes you have to combine additions and it's some backend stuff it's not exciting. It's only if you like being a librarian is fun, but it is fun. It is possible. And it is a neat way of saying, Hey, I have these books coming up. They are here. They're splashy. They'll show up. It's it is nice way of promoting a book that's coming up. Jesper (40m 18s): Yeah, for sure. And I was also thinking, well, the stuff you said before about, you know, adding some sort of updates on a regular basis, I think, and if I'm incorrect here and correct me, but I think what you can do is I think you can link. I don't know how to do it, but I think you can link between your Kindle and your good reads author profile. And then if you are making highlights or notes on your Kindle, as you're reading a book, it will pop up on good reads as updates. Jesper (40m 60s): Is that right? Autumn (41m 1s): That is right. That is my favorite feature. And I'll get to in just a second. I have like two other ones I want to get to. But yeah, that is, that is one of my favorite things. And I can't even put my finger on why, but Jesper (41m 14s): That helps a bit in terms of you having to go down, post something, then, you know, if you're just reading and highlighting something you like, and that's automatically a post right data. So that's nice. Autumn (41m 23s): It is nice. And it's, there's a few cool features with that as well. And that's called Kindle notes and highlights. So, Whoa. Yeah. But speaking of that, so part of what you should do when all your books make sure your Amazon ASN number are in the book information, because by doing that, that opens up a feature that allows people to look inside just like they can do on Amazon. So that's a good way of getting readers to be able to open it up. And it's a quick little change that a lot of people don't even realize that you have to go and make sure the ASN number is there. It sometimes doesn't come through automatically or it's on the wrong edition. You need to go and check these things out and it works great. Autumn (42m 7s): And so before we get to my favorite one, there's also, there's something called the, ask the author questions. And these are a lot of fun too, because I have gotten readers who have read my books and then they go in and they ask questions and it's right there under your author profile and heavily good reads. It does give you a few generic ones that you can answer. And plus you can put in a prompt. So if you have a book you're coming out with, that was just released, you can say, Hey, ask me questions about my new release, blah, blah, blah. So you can put that in there. So it'll help inspire people to ask questions, answering the questions, makes them show up in the newsfeed, which is very useful. Autumn (42m 48s): And also it shows up permanently under your author profile. So, so people go into your author profile and they can see other questions that you've been asked and that you do answer them that you're an active author on good reads. So that's, I always love it when I see a new question in there from someone, and then I feel bad if it's been a couple months or something, because I'm on a good read slope. And I'm like, so sorry, but it is, it is great. And yeah, it's also fun. It's one of those things where you try to get your newsletters, you know, anyone to go and ask you a questions because it does give you an excuse to show up on timelines and it gives you something to talk about. And plus it's always fun to find out someone has questions about your books. Jesper (43m 28s): Hmm. I agree. Autumn (43m 30s): So Kindle notes and highlights. That's I guess that I don't know why this is my favorite, but so this is one of those things, like you've mentioned, if you're reading in your Kindle and you come across a section and you see where someone's highlighted something, that is actually something that becomes a really cool feature specifically on good reads. So if you click on it, you know, you'll often see comments we'll open up as well. Well, as an author, if you write the comments, they will show up on top. So I think that's actually kind of a cool feature. So as an author, you can go in and they say the most powerful and impactful. One is the first one you do in a book. And obviously the last one you write in a book, but you know, depending on how long your book is, you don't want to do dozens of these, but maybe five, 10 per book, you can go and highlight. Autumn (44m 22s): And you can say, what inspired you to write the scene or what this meant to you? Just anything about that setting that moment, why it's in the book and you can do a little explanation there, or just say, Hey, you know, or you could do a little teasing, hint, whatever you want to do and readers can actually comment on it. But then once you sync it with Amazon, it goes up to good reads. And there's a special page called your Kindle note and highlight page. And I will admit, it's not as easy as just thinking you actually have to go in there. And once it's sinked, you have to say, yes, please share to good reads. But again, so if you do five or six of them, you can, once you do that, you can just do one a day. Autumn (45m 6s): Then you don't have to do all five or six at the same time. You don't want to, you know, you want to spread this out. So you get a whole week out of this. And then, you know, people ask, they comment back on it. You know, they share it. You can have a whole conversation about it. And that's what I think is kind of, kind of a fun way. It's you get to interact with a reader directly in your book and that makes it kind of fun. Yeah. I can see that. No, you don't sound convinced at all, but it is funny. Cause I don't know why, like I said, I don't know why I like it, but I do think it's funny cause I've had a good reads. Autumn (45m 48s): Amazon representative actually reached out to me directly saying, Hey, you know, can you we'd love it. If you would do this on your first, your debut novel and stuff like that. Jesper (45m 57s): And I'm like, geez, it's not everyday. You get an email from a platform that says please, and maybe they were emailing everyone, but it made me feel special. So yeah. That's fair enough. Yeah, but I don't know. It just, I don't let's say look down upon good reads in any way. And I can definitely think that there, there's probably a lot of authors who get a lot from it. And, and I don't question data such that the only thing that why I'm hesitating and why I'm not sounding very convinced, I think is because it sounds to me like good reads in the census very much like Reddit in the sense that it's a place you need to participate as a reader there or in Reddit, you have to participate as, as one of the people in the group, you know, you not on read. Jesper (46m 50s): If you go, if you just start going down and promoting your own stuff, they will go crazy at you. But it, and it sounds a bit like it's the same here. You know, you have to engage as a reader and then maybe some people will start checking out your stuff. And maybe you can, you can sort of build up some POS around your books in that way. And of course there are those examples where somebody has made it onto the New York times bestseller list, as you mentioned before, but that's probably the lightning in the bottle kind of things, you know, there's very, very few who will do that. So I can, I can recognize that it is a real relationship Autumn (47m 31s): Slash community building tool, nothing wrong with that, as I said, but I think you just, you have to like to spend a lot of time on good reads and you cannot, at least in my mind right now, I think you can not view it as a marketing tool because it's really not. The marketing is like secondary. At least that's how I feel about it. I would think I don't disagree. But I think the difference is that even though the marketing is separate secondary, your books and buttons to buy your books are right there in front of the reader. So they're on, they're hungry for books. Autumn (48m 13s): So on Reddit, they might not be on there looking necessarily for books unless you're in the one that's, you know, is for books as a reader here, they, these really are people looking for new books. And I mean, we didn't even get into there's like lists. You can add your books to, and have people vote on them. There's let's Topia. There's so many different avenues of getting your books out to different people. And they're looking for them actively on this website. And that's why I think unlike Facebook, unlike a lot of other places, if I was going to tell one author who like what social media platform should I start on? I would probably say, do, do spend time on good reads. Autumn (48m 54s): It really can make a difference. You can connect with actual readers. And often these are serial readers. These are hungry readers who will read, you know, 12, 20, 30, 50 books in a year easily. They, they have reader challenges annually on how many books you can read. So this is, this is the population you want to be hungry for your book. So I would leave it at that. If you're gonna start out as an author and you want, you don't know what social media platform to start at, try this one, see if you can make a difference because this one could actually really help you. Okay. Show. Yeah. Autumn (49m 33s): Maybe some people got inspired to do a bit of good reach. Yeah. So she will leave it at that. Let's leave it at that. Okay. So next Monday, I should have a very interesting interview for you where we are going to share some inputs on how to get a traditional publishing deal. 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0 (2s): Christmas every month. And if you're getting in the holiday spirit, welcome to Harvest Church my name is Cheryl and I'm so glad you're here. Yeah. Feel free to stand if you're able and during Us hello to everyone on campus and those watching at home, we're so glad that you are worshiping with us together this morning. Let's just take some time to go into his presence and prayer and just welcome him. And we do welcome you today. As we make room in our hearts and help us to sit still all of the noise in our hearts. 0 (42s): So we can hear your voice this morning. We want to hear from you. Jesus. We want to learn from you want to come in and do your prisons. There's a boldness in our hearts, Thanksgiving, the, this morning, you know that sometimes we think we have to like have ourselves all like cleaned up and perfect to come into God's presence. But I was reminded that he came as a baby into a stinky manger, surrounded by animals and a noisy chaotic barn. 0 (1m 22s): And that's our savior. He comes into the mess into the chaos and his presence is here. Love is available for you in the midst of whatever's going on in your heart and life right now. And so father, we just say, come and have your way in this place. We've come to adore you. Praise the Lord. 0 (1m 48s): 1 (11m 56s): . 1 (12m 43s): 2 (16m 52s): Praise you this morning. It gives us great joy to worship you by your Holy spirit. Thank you Lord, for giving us your gift, give to the Holy spirit. We pray that you would fill us, continue to lead us thankful for this place to gather place, to be safe. 2 (17m 34s): And in the shadow of your wings, worship you in jesus' name. Amen. 1 (17m 45s): Thank you 2 (17m 45s): Guys for singing coming this morning. Let's all take a little 3 (17m 50s): Time to love one another fellowship with one another. We'll you're back here with announcements, the pinnacle of the day, just momentarily. 4 (18m 3s): All right. Good morning. Go ahead and find a seat. That'd be great. All right. One a welcome, everyone. Those of you that are gathered in the sanctuary in the loft, in the patio, I want to welcome everyone. That's viewing online as well, and also want to let you know, we do have a new venue that we've just opened up recently, and it's a mask only venue, and it's in the parsonage. So if, if you, or you know, someone that's inclined to you, you still want to be around other people that are wearing masks and things. 4 (18m 43s): You can venture up to the parsonage. And that's what that is dedicated for up there. And so again, if, if it's your first time to Harvest, Church, we're really happy you're here today. Maybe you've been visiting a few times. If you make your way up to the information center, we have a gift for you. So go ahead and head up there, introduce yourself. And then also, if you would like you can fill out a communication card. We want to be really diligent about communicating with everyone, all the things that are going on, changes that are happening. We sent out a weekly email update to make sure that everybody knows exactly what's happening here at Harvest Church and I'm okay. I got a F did you hear what Jim folk had said a moment ago about the announcements being the pinnacle of the, of the service? 4 (19m 26s): Did you guys catch that? That's true. And one of the announcements that I have for you is there's a men's breakfast that's planned. So men would love to have you show up this next Saturday. So Saturday the 12th show up here at Church and eight o'clock. We're going to gather in the loft, which is the building right behind us here. We're going to have breakfast together. We're going to have just a fun time of fellowship there's you don't need to sign up. You don't need to bring any money. How good is that? Just show up and be hungry. And we're going to have a great time of fellowship with the men. So with that, there's a men's retreat. That's also planned. The men's retreat is scheduled for January 8th and ninth, and it's going to be held up at the granite Ridge camp. 4 (20m 9s): It's up in Creston. So just North of us a little bit, you need to get signed up though. So the deadline to sign up for the men's retreat is what is it? December 15th. Okay, there you got it. December 15th is the deadline. So guys would encourage you to get signed up for the men's retreat. You can sign up at the info center, or you can go on our Church app, go online, or you can go directly to granite Ridge camp ground, and you can sign up that way as well. So guys would love to have him be a part of that. So every year in the village, there's a parade and there's this whole big hoopla thing that happens Christmas. It's not happening tonight because of the shutdown and stuff. 4 (20m 52s): So one of the things that happens during, during the parade and, and those events typically is the tree. The tree in front of the sanctuary is the village Christmas tree. And so we're still going to have a little bit of a get together tonight, a ceremony, if you want to call it that, where we're going to, here's what we're going to do. We are going to have some caroling. We're going to have a nativity reading, and we're going to have the lighting of the Christmas tree right up front here. It's going to be at six o'clock tonight. Love to have you bring the whole family. It's going to be outside. So it's probably going to be cold. So dress warmly, guaranteed. Not to snow though. I will let you know about that. So come on out tonight, it would be really great to have the whole family gathered together. 4 (21m 32s): So for Christmas, we are collecting some donations for some food baskets that we're putting together through our pantry ministry. So if you would like to donate some items, you can go up to the info center and they'll let you know what items we're going to be collecting. Or if you get our weekly email, the list is in there as well. And you can bring the items and they're due. When are they do? They are due next Sunday, which is December 13th. So if you'd like be a part of that, you can bring them by the office as well. And we'll go ahead and collect those. We've been announcing that we're doing a coat drive. In addition, the coat drive actually has been canceled because of the event that they were going to do to hand, hand the coats out to the needy in our community. 4 (22m 16s): It's been canceled. So if you have some codes that you've been collecting, you could go ahead and take them to the thrift store. Just give them to somebody on your own. That'd be fine. So the last thing I want to share with you, probably the most important of all there is a new year's Eve young professionals, pajama party and game night. Okay. So I asked this question to one of the planners. What is the age group for a young professional? So they told me 20 to 40. All right. Pretty pretty broad age. This again, this is a 5 (22m 50s): New year's Eve. Yup. 4 (22m 52s): Professionals, pajama party, and game night, you guys need to get signed up and it's going to be from six to nine is can mean the loft it's going to have a taco truck is going to be catered with a taco truck. So there is a price involved it's 10 bucks. And if you want to sign up, you can do it on the app, go online and, and, and all that good stuff. But one last thing, I was cleaning out one of my closets in my house this week, and I found my son's dinosaur one Z say a head to toe one Z pajama suit. So I announced it at first service as well. So if you want the dinosaur one Z, you gotta let me know. It's it's, it's, it's a F it's free to the first person who wants the onesy, but okay. 4 (23m 36s): You're, you're older than 40. I'm sorry, sir. Okay. 5 (23m 42s): I will not 4 (23m 43s): Be wearing the dinosaur suit, but thank you for asking. All right. So with that, I'm going to invite Dave to come up and he's going to be in first Thessalonians chapter two. So if you want to go ahead and turn in your Bible to first Thessalonians chapter two, that'd be great. Let's welcome, Dave. 6 (23m 58s): 7 (24m 9s): There we go. You know, and at times like this, that we're facing now, it's, it's easy to feel afflicted, you know, it's with COVID and shutdowns and, and being told that we shouldn't be gathering together and, and that we shouldn't be connecting with each other and that, and it just, and the fact that it's been going on for nine months now just kind of feels oppressing. And, and, but yet this is nothing like what the Church and Tesla Annika felt that we're Paul is writing to hear. 7 (24m 49s): And, and this time I'm going to cover quite a bit of ground today, because most of what this is, is narrative. I'm starting with the chapter two verse 17, and I'm going to preach all the way through chapters three. And I hope to be done by three o'clock. But the, but the whole thing in here is looking at it being it's mostly narrative, but there's still some, some great stuff in here. Paul Paul is very personal in this letter, if you read it. And there is, there's just a ton of narrative. There's some teaching, but it's mostly, he S he's writing words of comfort. 7 (25m 30s): He's writing words of, of hope. He's writing words, just telling him how he's feeling and how he's hoping they're doing. Whereas Romans is very theological. And first Corinthians and Galatians are very much dealing with problems and the church. This is so personal. And we really see a lot in here about Paul and about the Thessaloniki. And Church Paul is he's got deep affection for the people there. And, and, and, and Paul's affection for them is, is just mirroring. God's love for them. And, but in the midst of this, what he's so concerned about, and this is what persecution is, what Afflictions, they might be enduring. 7 (26m 17s): The things that they're experiencing as a followers of Jesus in a very, very intolerant situation. A very, very matter of fact, antagonistic situation. If you remember, Paul was driven out of Fessel, Anika, they, they had, when they couldn't find him, they pulled somebody else who was in the Church out and they, they beat him up and they took him before the, and made them pay a huge bail to get out and all of this while they investigated. And, and the Church said, DePaul, better scoop need to get out. And so they left, but so we see Paul's affection. 7 (26m 59s): We see their affliction, which we all face. We face the same kinds of Afflictions today. And, but through that, we see God's Affirmation that we are loved. We are cared for even when things are hard. And We, we might ask the question, where is God, when we're going through this, and he's right there with you, and he loves you and nothing can separate you from his love. So I'm going to break this passage up into three parts. The first part is going to be starting with a, in chapter two. And I'm just reading the starting at verse 17 and reading through the end of the chapter, please stand let's let's pray before we get started with this. 7 (27m 48s): And we'll go from there, Laura, God, I thank you so much that you are God, that you are the Lord of all that you love, the creation that you have made, and you especially love mankind 6 (28m 8s): Because 7 (28m 8s): You made us in your image and likeness. You set us up to be the caretakers of what you have made the stewards of, of your kingdom, of your creation, the stewards of all that you have set apart that we might have dominion, and then we spit in your eye. So God today we come to you as broken. We come to you as those who don't deserve to receive your love, but nonetheless are loved through Jesus Christ. 7 (28m 52s): Come speak to our hearts today, Lord, come speak and, and, and we desire Lord God, to be transformed by your word at living and active word that is sharper than any two-edged sword to divide soul and spirit joints and marrow. And to reveal the intentions of our hearts 6 (29m 18s): Come 7 (29m 19s): Revealed the intentions of our hearts today, Lord, and shape us more into the image of Jesus. God use me as your vessel here to speak your truth. And I pray Jesus, that you would have your way with what is spoken here and with what received here. And I know from all the years, I've preached that there are so many who hear something that I didn't say because you were speaking. So say to our hearts, what it is that you know, We to here, fill us with your spirit and the joy that comes from knowing we are loved in your name. 7 (30m 7s): We pray. Amen. And amen. So today I'm calling this a CA I say, I always used to just give one word titles are very, you know, very brief phrase, but Steve does these long ones. So, so I got to come up with something has lots of words in it, but that really highlights what it is we're talking about here. And, and so today's sermon, I'm calling God's Affection Overcomes Our Afflictions and Gives Us Affirmation That we are His God's affection. Overcomes Our Afflictions and Gives Us Affirmation that we are His. So peer, we see this, this first piece, this Affection of that Paul has for the Thessaloniki sins that is mirroring God's love. 7 (30m 55s): So I'm going to read verses 17 through 20 here of chapter two. This is God's word. Since we were torn away from you brothers for a short time in person, not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face, because we wanted to come to you. I Paul, again and again, but Satan hindered us for what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus. It is coming. Is it not you for you are our glory and joy. 7 (31m 35s): It's talking to you folks. Paul is writing this, but the Holy spirit is speaking to you. You remember from acts 17. As I mentioned before, Paul was, was driven out of vessel, Anika by jealous and, and wicked men who were threatened by the message of the gospel and jealous of the following that Paul was getting, they were the, wanted to be the arbiters of the truth. They wanted to be the ones who determined what was right and what was wrong. And then those who were idolaters were just livid and, and trying to drive them away because they were cutting into their profits. 7 (32m 17s): But this is what he was referring to. And he said he was torn away from them. It was like a That in the Greek. It literally means T he was orphaned from them. Just like if a conquering force would come in and they would rip the children out of the parent's arms and cause those children to become orphans, because then the parents would just sense this great loss. And the children would be who was whose, where are my parents what's going on with them? Or they might even see them cut down in front of them. And so the children automatically become orphans than hauled off into slavery. This is what Paul was feeling. I feel as if I've been orphaned from you, I am so cut off. 7 (32m 58s): I'm so taken away from you. And he feels that this, this deep love that he has for them, this deep concern that he has for them is just tearing it as hard, because he's concerned about what they're facing. This is Paul, the Pharisee of farracies, as he says, in his pedigree and one of the other epistles. And, you know, as to the law, I was blameless. I was, I sat at the feet of Gamaliel. I was the one, he was the greatest teacher and to sit at his feet was to be the greatest pupil. This is Paul, he's the Hebrew of Hebrews and lover of everything, Hebrew and hater of everything Gentile until God got ahold of him and God transformed his heart, that he might show his love through Paul, to those that around him. 7 (33m 51s): And he had this special affection for the Fessel onions. There is Are next to His except the message of his gospel and God's demonstration of its power. Through Paul, they caused, they caused him to love them with a deep and abiding love through Paul came. He had come through Apollonia and Hierapolis I think is the town from Philippi had been run out of Philippi, went through two towns to get to festival. And nothing happened in those two towns. And it wasn't like he just was passing through. I'm sure everywhere, every place he went, Paul tried to share the gospel, but there was nothing there, nothing recorded about what, what happened in those cities. 7 (34m 37s): But when he got to Fessel and ICA, he went and he reasoned in the synagogue and he reasoned there and people were being transformed. People were coming to faith in Jesus. People were receiving the gospel with their whole heart, and it was started taking effect until the point that people got jealous, their religious folks got jealous. And so all of this stuff started going on and, and all this persecution and, and Paul so loved them that he said, you are my glory and my joy, because I'm going to present. You say, these are the ones you gave me. God, isn't a great, they stayed strong. 7 (35m 17s): Isn't it great. They loved you. Isn't it great. They just hold fast to Jesus. Isn't this super. And thank you that I got to be part of their coming to faith in you. That's Paul's love for them. And it's the same Affection God has for you as his dearly beloved child. See, when he removed you from the kingdom of darkness and adapted, you adapted you to be his own. He did. So because he loves you. If he does and says he chose you from before the foundation of the war, 6 (35m 59s): Isn't that amazing. 7 (36m 5s): And he does. So because he loves you and wants you to know that he loves you. You see the, the Affection here. We think about God's unconditional love. God's love. God's so loved the world and this overarching love. But sometimes that can feel kind of distant. Sometimes that can feel like we're really, God loves us, but he's kind of out there, but there's a real affection here. Something that that's so close and that love that you have for your children. You get that little baby and hold him in your arms for the first time. 7 (36m 44s): When, when, gosh, I remember that when our girls were born, kind of, cause I'm getting old, but I do remember much more recently when our grandsons were born. And when our first grandson was born, Cyrus is 13. And we met him when he was about 45 minutes old. And, and I held him and I just looked at this little one that I had not seen or ever met before anticipated is coming, but, but just had never seen him. And I had so much love for this little one that I just put my eyes on for the first time. 7 (37m 25s): And what was really great about that is I had none of the responsibility for him, but, but I had this little one that I just so deeply loved. And that's the way Paul felt about the Thessaloniki as they were his children in the Lord. And they, he loved them deeply and was so concerned about all that we're going through. See God took you out of that kingdom of darkness. He wants you to know that you are loved. And Paul writes in Romans, Romans eight, 15, he says for you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you've received the spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry Abba father, he says, God is, is our loving father who loves to pick us up. 7 (38m 17s): And dandle, Us on his knees and, and hold us clothes. That's the affection that we're seeing here. And he says, you're not slave subject to God's whim. You're not those who are forced to do things outside of your will, but he loves you so that you want to love him back. You want to do what he wants. He wraps you in his arms of loving care and his passion for you is 8 (38m 44s): Deep. You know, even 7 (38m 47s): To Israel, the prophet, Jeremiah spoke and remember Jeremiah, the weeping prophet, Jeremiah didn't have a whole lot of good stuff to say about God's people other than what could be if they would repent. But he preached to them a lot about just how they are falling away, how they're neglecting, God how they are turning their backs on him and following after idols. But it's what does he say to them? God speaks to Jeremiah in Jeremiah 31, three and says, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore, I have continued my faithfulness to you. 7 (39m 27s): See, he still loves us. Even when we mess up, he still is faithful to us, even when we are desperately in need of discipline. 8 (39m 37s): And he does 7 (39m 37s): Discipline us if he loved, because we are 8 (39m 40s): Loved. See, 7 (39m 42s): Paul reminds them that even though they're physically separated, his heart will never leave them 8 (39m 49s): Because he loves them. So his heart 7 (39m 52s): We'll never leave the Fest Slovenians and neither physical distance nor Satan's hindrances. He's remember, he says, Satan hindered me from coming to you can, they CA, nothing can keep Paul from loving them and desiring their good and their wellbeing. 8 (40m 9s): That's that's 7 (40m 10s): What Paul is so concerned about that they would, 8 (40m 13s): That they would find 7 (40m 16s): Good of life. They would find the best of life or not. And I'm not talking about stuff and, you know, comfort and that sort of thing. Talking about their relationship with Jesus, their relationship with knowing him and standing with him and knowing that we're going to spend eternity with him. 8 (40m 35s): Sorry. 7 (40m 35s): Note here about Satan's hindrances. This is a little excursus we're going to set over to this side. You can put it in your hip pocket. We could probably spend several weeks talking about Satan's hindrances, but just, I want you to know, and I want you to hold onto this. 8 (40m 51s): Satan 7 (40m 52s): Can only hinder us with God's permission. 8 (40m 57s): We tend 7 (40m 57s): To give him far more power than he deserves. It is not two equal forces fighting one another. This isn't yin and yang. This isn't, you know, one pit it against the other and hopes that the scales are gonna fall on God's side. 8 (41m 15s): Okay? No, 7 (41m 18s): God is in control and Satan can do nothing that is not allowed by God. 8 (41m 26s): And if he allows it, it's so 7 (41m 29s): Holy to accomplish his divine purpose and his divine plan in your life and in his kingdom. And it's as true today as it was in the first century and has been from the beginning, remember Jobe, Satan couldn't do anything to job that God didn't allow. And he said, you can go this far and no farther and Satan, didn't not because he's obedient, but because that's all he can do Is Martin Luther. The great reformer once said after all he is God's devil. And so Satan's hindrance of Paul here was allowed by God for the Thessaloniki and Christians ultimate good. 7 (42m 15s): And for Paul's good. And his hindrance is hindrances towards us is for our good, 6 (42m 25s): Remember 7 (42m 26s): All things work together for good, for those who love God and are called according to their purposes. That's why in everything you can give. Thanks because God is using everything for your advancement and just the same way he was doing for the Fessel Aloni church here. And Paul was busy being mother hen. I'm so worried about you. I don't want you to fail. I don't want you to fall. See Afflictions can't diminish. God's love for us. His his deep abiding affection. It cannot eliminate it. Can't delete it. Paul says this in again in Romans chapter eight, this, this passage is so familiar to all of us, but think about it in the context that when we face hardships, this is His, God what God does. 7 (43m 19s): What shall we say then to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him graciously give us all things who shall bring any charge against God's elect it's God who justifies, who is to condemn Christ. Jesus is the one who died more than that, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us, who shall separate us from the love of Christ, shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword as it is written for your sake, we are being killed all day long, were regarded as sheep to be slaughtered for God's sake because it's accomplishing his purpose. 7 (44m 9s): Knowing all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us for, I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come nor powers nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord, hallelujah. Those Afflictions come to make us stronger. So the next thing we need to look at is the Afflictions of the Thessaloniki and Church as they pertain to our lives today. So let's look then, and now at chapter three, verse one, we're going to read the first five verses. 7 (44m 49s): Therefore, when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind it, Athens alone. And we sent Timothy our brother and God's coworker in the gospel of Christ to establish and exhort you and your faith that no one be moved by these Afflictions for you yourself. Know that we're destined for this for when we were with you. We kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction just as it has come to pass and justice. You know, for this reason when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith for fear that somehow the tempter attempted you and our labor would be in vain. Paul says, I know what you're going through because it's the same thing. 7 (45m 31s): I was going. 6 (45m 31s): 7 (45m 39s): Bullying violence, persecution of all kinds. And Paul wanted to make sure that none of these new believers were moved is the word he uses here and moved by these affections. And you know, when you can imagine moved to, you know, taken off of, off of base and knocked off a center, moved sideways, move backwards or forwards or up or down, but somehow or another, not standing firm. And this word moved really kind of has three levels to it in the Greek. And first, the first level is kind of be seduced to compromise, seduced, to compromise your beliefs. 7 (46m 19s): seduced to step away and may be not commit so much only commit this much instead of everything, Just to refer to it as having just enough, Jesus got just enough Jesus to be saved. That's all I need. That's all I'm going to worry about. And then I'm going to live, just live in my life. I think one way we really see that happening in the church today in America is we're seduced to think that, 6 (46m 59s): Well, 7 (46m 59s): We can go to church when we can get there. And I always joke about it and say, unless we get a better offer, but it's, it's not that as much as this world has us so busy and so concerned about other things and creature comforts and schedules and all that kind of thing that we kind of think that, well, you know, we can't make it this week, cause this has come up, but Church will always be there. It'll be there next week, this to the point where in our culture today and evangelical Christianity, the pillars of the faith make it the Church twice a month, 15 years ago, it was 60% of the time. 7 (47m 44s): It's down to less than 50% of the time now. And we're seduced into thinking, well, that's okay. The second level of that is where to be per perturbed or agitated into confusion. We start, you know, darts start coming in and saying, well, I was telling selling, did God really say, is this really true? Or can things like the, I CA, I can't remember his first name Dawkins. He's a famous atheist. Is it Richard Dawkins? I was thinking Richard Dawkins was, you know, a family feud, but state, well there's Stephen Hawking, but then there's somebody Richard Dawkins Are yeah. 7 (48m 33s): Well, whatever, whoever he is, this famous atheist who I can't remember, his name tries to yeah. Tries to tell us that faith is foolishness that trusting in God is believing in the fairytales. You know, and that's, that's a, that's a pretty good job. And then, you know, lays out all of what he calls evidence. And it gets to the point where we can kind of say, Oh, you know, and we get agitated. And it says, well, I know the scripture says this, but all the, the evidence here seems to be pointing towards that and what am I going to do with this? 7 (49m 15s): And it shakes us. And then the third level of this is literally, it means to be the way it was described in my lexicon is to be wrought upon, which means to be put in the fire and hammered on an Advil to reshape us into something different. And I think that's kind of what you see. You go to places like China and North Korea, where they send you to reeducation camps. If you become a Christian 8 (49m 40s): And shaped into something else. 7 (49m 44s): So you, because of Paul's affection for them, he was deeply concerned that the persecution they would face would be driving them away from their faith and that they would have walked away due to incessant opposition. You know, at time where you just say, I'm just not going to put up with this anymore. Heck with it and leave it behind. And I'm tired of this hard road Lynn and I will often say to each other, and boy, I just hate that. I have to take the high road all the time. And I just want to take the low road for once. You know? And, but no, you get tired of that. And it would be so easy to walk away, but Paul had warned them that they would be facing this kind of thing. 7 (50m 30s): Verse three of this passage, this is for you yourselves know that we are destined for this. It's going to happen. This is not the kind of verse that you have printed on a magnet and put on your refrigerator. This promise, no, it's, we're destined for this. When we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction just as it has come to pass. And just as you know, See persecution of the church is four told in the new Testament, Jesus himself, and in John chapter 15, you know, they're on their way to the, the garden of gets Semini. They've left the upper room. They're on the way to the gardener gets Semini where Jesus is going to pray and then be betrayed. 7 (51m 14s): And Jesus says to them, if the world hates, you know, that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own, but because you're not of the world, but I chose you out of the world. Therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you? A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute 6 (51m 39s): You 7 (51m 42s): Again. Another verse we don't put on the refrigerator at home, You know, we've been so blessed to live in a country where we're free to follow Jesus and public who publicly worship. That's a great blessing. Unfortunately, that blessing as becomes a means of weakening the resolve for orthodoxy among those who followed Jesus. Grace has become easy. Grace has become cheap. 6 (52m 19s): Okay? 7 (52m 19s): I wish I had taken up the time to look at the quote of the definition of cheap grace that Dietrich Bonhoeffer Bonhoeffer gave in one of his books where he talks about, you know, it's, it's the crown without a cross it's Jesus without repentance. It's, it's all of these things because, and we get at that and then we have no foundation and no strength to stand. I would say in modern day, American culture, we've been moved by That seductive pers persecution and affliction we faced. 7 (52m 59s): And we're starting to get some of those jabs coming in, but it's not, we're not being on the put on the Advil yet. And we might be, 6 (53m 12s): Yeah, 7 (53m 12s): We don't want that to happen. Folks. If we want to see our country turnaround, if we want to see people changed by God, we want to see revival come in. Then we have to go with what God spoke to Solomon. When he was dedicating the temple. If my people who are called by my name, humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. You know, we forget about the turning from our wicked ways part. We like to leave that one out, humble, humble myself. 7 (53m 53s): And while maybe I'll pray. How's that I'll pray and seek God's face. I just love being with Jesus. Don't tell me anything about sin. Don't tell me anything about repentance. Don't say anything about humbling myself, but God I'm praying. So fix it. No, it's it's it's it's that recognition that we don't deserve. God's love. We don't deserve God's ability to save, but acknowledging the love that he has 2 (54m 27s): For us, 7 (54m 29s): You might still face persecution. Even if we do this, even if we follow that admonition from God, but you'll receive an affirmation that you are 2 (54m 43s): Loved, 7 (54m 45s): That God will care for you, that God will sustain you. That God will uphold you. That God will give you the strength to face, whatever it is that comes your way, he will give you the grace that is necessary to face the trials and tribulations. Even to the point of martyrdom, he will give you the grace for that. If you have to face it, he will give you the strength. In the moment. God told Israel when they were coming through the desert desert as your day. So shall your strength be whatever it is you have to face. God will give you the strength for it. 7 (55m 26s): And remember that these Afflictions are actually beneficial to your faith because they help us to appreciate and comprehend the truth of God's word more fully. Ken Martin Luther said the devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the scriptures by experience and practice without trials and temptations. We should never understand anything thereof. No, not. Although we diligently read and heard the same, because when you experience those difficulties, when you experience those hardships, when you experience persecution, when you experience sickness, when you experienced trials, when you experience the bad things that can come from the world at you, it opens the door to the scriptures to appreciate God's promises. 7 (56m 22s): It opens doors to the scriptures. So I can S I can look at that and say, Oh God, yes. Now I understand what this is, and I'm going to hold onto you. I'm going to hold fast to you. I'm going to stick with you and God. I know I can't do that in my own strength. Give me the power of your Holy spirit. Let that be enlivened. Inmate. Let it be quickened in my heart that I might stand with you, that I might hold fast to you. That I might remain unchanged and be faithful, no matter what it is that I face. See. So as we live our lives and the promise of God's affection, that he shows toward us and the certainty that we will face affliction in this life. 7 (57m 13s): And if, for no other reason that we live in a fallen and sinful world, It's hold fast to the Affirmation of God. That he's pleased with us when we hold fast to him and, and know that he, 8 (57m 34s): He keeps us as we stick with him. 7 (57m 41s): So let's look at this last section here 8 (57m 45s): Told you 7 (57m 45s): I'd be done by three. 8 (57m 49s): This is brief. Okay. 7 (57m 51s): But now that Timothy has come to us from you and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us. As we long to see you for this reason brothers and all our distress and affliction, we have been comforted about you through your faith for now. We live, if you are standing fast and God Paul felt as if he was dying, because he wasn't sure about 8 (58m 21s): Awesome. 7 (58m 25s): What Thanksgiving can we return to God for you for all the joy that we feel for your sake before our God, as we pray most earnestly night and day, that we may see you face to face and supply. What is lacking in your faith. Now may Are God and father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you. And may the Lord make you increase and abound and love for one another. And for all, as we do for you so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before Are God and father at the coming of our Lord Jesus, with all his saints, Paul's almost giddy because they're standing firm. 7 (59m 8s): He felt like there was so much left for him to teach them when he, when he had to leave, but they're standing firm and the faith that they've had, and he had sent Timothy back and they had preached more to them and they saw great 8 (59m 24s): Results 7 (59m 25s): On the part of the festival Ionians to, to stand firm in their faith. And so Paul's joy, overflows, and even more love for them. He wants to go back and see them again. He wants that all the more to be with them and knowing that they could have come to hate him because of the message that they gave him and that he gave them, I should say. And the persecution that followed that transforming method message, they could have come to despise Paul, that look what he brought on Us but no, they love it 8 (59m 57s): Of Paul, because look what he gave to us 7 (1h 0m 2s): Brought the message of the gospel. He brought the message of hope in Christ Jesus, and they held fast to the gospel, just like the 12 disciples did in John six, when the rest of the crowds deserted him, remember in John six, Jesus is talking about, if you want to, any part in me, you have to eat my flesh. You have to drink my blood and to the Jews, that was an abomination. And they left. This is a hard saying, and they left and it says, starting in verse 66, after this, many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. So Jesus said to the 12, do you want to go away as well? 7 (1h 0m 44s): And Simon, Peter answered him Lord to whom 8 (1h 0m 47s): Shall we go? You have the word 7 (1h 0m 50s): Words of eternal life. And we have believed and have come to know that you are the Holy one. 8 (1h 0m 56s): God 7 (1h 0m 59s): I see Paul bringing the message of the gospel, the message of Jesus Christ gave the Thessalonians the very words of eternal life. Every time you share the gospel with someone, you're giving them the very words of eternal life. And this is the joy that we bring to God. When we stand in the face of persecution, when we continually draw our strength for him to withstand Satan's on the slot, 8 (1h 1m 27s): Whether 7 (1h 1m 27s): It's subtle or an obvious jab or a full-out frontal assault, God affirms his deep love for us. 8 (1h 1m 35s): Always, always. Yeah. 7 (1h 1m 39s): Whether the conditions of our lives are smooth sailing or in the middle of a hurricane, 8 (1h 1m 46s): God is 7 (1h 1m 47s): Still with us affirming his love and his promise that he'll never leave us or forsake us stands most strongly when we're clinging to him in the midst of our Afflictions, 8 (1h 1m 60s): He even, 7 (1h 2m 0s): And pronounces a blessing on us in the midst of their trials. Look at the verses 11 through 13 here, once again, now my Are God and father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you one so that Paul can come in and share with them. And they, because he loves them and wants to see them face to face. And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before Are God and father at the coming of our Lord Jesus, with all his saints, see God will cause us to be into increase and abound and love for him for Are brothers and sisters in the church for our community. 7 (1h 2m 43s): And even for the world that brings our Afflictions upon us. God will cause us to love him. And he'll establish our hearts blameless in a holiness before him keeping us steadfast to either the end of our lives or until Christ returns. Whichever happens first, You have the assurance that God has genuine affection towards you today. 8 (1h 3m 13s): Are you walking with Jesus? 7 (1h 3m 16s): If you Are, he does have genuine affection for you. He loves you and loves to be with you and loves to fellowship with you. If you don't know Jesus, 8 (1h 3m 31s): He's as close as the mention of his name. He's right here. 7 (1h 3m 37s): Say, Jesus. I want to know you. I don't know. I want to know what this assurance of your love is. I want to know that you have affection for me. And even when I go through difficult times and affliction, you give me an affirmation that I am yours. That's what's available to you in Christ. Jesus. You come to him and say, Lord, I know I'm a sinner. And, and I can't do this on my own. 8 (1h 3m 58s): I need you. That's what's set before you right now. 7 (1h 4m 5s): God does have affection toward you. And if you're facing difficulties and hardships and trials and persecution of any kind, even so he will never stop loving you. If you're saying right now, where is God? He's right there. Because if he wasn't with you right now, you think you're going through difficulty. Now, if God wasn't with you, I can't even begin to 8 (1h 4m 31s): Imagine 7 (1h 4m 36s): What are the Afflictions that you're facing at the moment? Is it That clever seduction? Did God really say, is it kind of an obvious jab? You're getting poked. Your faith is getting poked. Your faith is getting challenged. Are you on the Advil? Somebody trying to reshape you and take you away from being shaped like Jesus, 8 (1h 5m 5s): God still with you. Nonetheless 7 (1h 5m 8s): Affirming his love for you, affirming that you belong to him and that nothing can pluck you out of his hand. 8 (1h 5m 19s): Have you opened your eyes, 7 (1h 5m 20s): Heart to receive the blessing of that? Affirmation because sometimes we get to the point where we feel well, I'm not worthy. God well, you're right. We're not. But he says, I love you anyway. I love you anyway, because of Jesus. When I look at you, I see Jesus. When I look at you, I see the righteousness of God poured out all over you. I see you as if you had never even had a sin nature, let alone committed a sin. I see you as Adam and Eve in the garden before the fall. That's the way Jesus looks at. Are God. The father looks at you because of what Jesus did for you. 8 (1h 5m 60s): He loves you and he's offering it to you. You're the Apple of his eye. 7 (1h 6m 11s): And he has established you as a joint heir of his kingdom 8 (1h 6m 16s): And with our big brother, Jesus, let's pray 7 (1h 6m 25s): Lord our God. I thank you. I thank you for your love. I thank you for your care. That never stops. That even when we don't see you working, even when we can't feel your presence, even when it seems like you're a million miles away, you still love Us and you're still here in those times, help us to stand on there. The faith that you have given us that marvelous gift of saving faith in Jesus and God. I pray that when we face affliction, that we would cry out to you, knowing that you will hold us fast. That even if we face all the way up to martyrdom, you will give us the grace and the strength necessary to face whatever trials come before us and help us never to be so overcome by the world. 7 (1h 7m 17s): And so it feels so afflicted in that we get tired of it and say, forget it. I'm walking away. Keep us close, help us to keep our eyes on you and for any here today, Lord who need to know you just give them the assurance that they are loved as they turn to you and repentance that you indeed will make them your own to the praise of your glory in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. 2 (1h 7m 54s): Stan. 0 (1h 11m 22s): 2 (1h 17m 48s): We can never deserve it. You never forsake us. It gives us peace. During these times to know that you are trustworthy, that your word will come to pass. And then we have no reason to fear. Pray that you'd be with each one of us, give everyone here strength that each one would have with the peace that only comes from knowing you being filled with your spirit. 2 (1h 18m 34s): Praise, the Lord Jesus name. Amen. 3 (1h 18m 43s): Yeah, guys, for coming to church, 2 (1h 18m 47s): It's an amazing thing. 3 (1h 18m 51s): Amen. And if anybody needs a prayer come forward, we'll have people up here that can pray with you. Have a great week.