Fy enw i, i'n fwyaf, ac rwy'n bwynt i'w sr dryf yn ysgrif iawn webinarnau cyffredinol. Rwy'n meddwl gosedd iddyn nhw'n ffordd i'w ishbell yn Y Clwyd. Fy enw'r ysgrif iawn i'w meddwl i'w ishyddol o'r gyfer y bach o'r mewn cyffredinol. Fy enw'r ysgrif iawn i'w webcam i'w ishyddol, sy'n bywch yn ddechrau i'w ysgrif iawn i'w fflawn i'w llwy, pwysig y pwyllfa, i'r ysgrif iawn i'w ishyddol. I am Isabel McLeod, Head of Research and Insights at Hydrogen. We are Scotland's largest specialised social media agency. We are also part of the PA media group, which you might know as the Crest Association. Research from Sprout Social has found that 69% of business leaders say that social media data and insights are underutilised in their companies at the moment. What we are going to talk through in the next half hour is how to make sure that you are not one of these 69% and that you do know how to use data. So, let's start with what actually are insights. Insights help you understand who your audience are, what they need, what they want and how you can help to actually meet these needs. All insights are based on data. Data is the raw material. It's been very useful, but you need to be able to actually build it on something to really make what it is you need. So, this is an analogy that I absolutely love to use when I'm talking about taking data into insights. The LEGO analogy. You start off by data gathering. You collect the data. It can be in a variety of forms. It tends to be a bit for jumble and it can sometimes get underfoot. In this form, data could include things like people's email addresses, how many likes a post got on social media. And although you might not be able to tell much from it at this stage, it's still the building block and you cannot do anything else without it. Once you have the data gathered, you begin to sort it. You organise it by function, by colour, by size. For example, a list of all the engagements you have per social media posts or all the landing pages on your website. At this point, you start to see things emerge. You can see what's bigger, where there's less. You start to see some things come out, but it's only when you begin the actual data visualisation that you can see this in a clearer way. So this is turning it into something like a pie chart or a bar chart. You can begin to spot nuggets of what's working and what's not working. From here, you begin data analysis. When you start gathering data, you might have what you want to build in mind. You might have some pieces that you're thinking about, but it's only when you actually see the data visualisation and start the analysis, you can see what you really have to work with. And it's building different parts and bringing them together. So, for example, your Google Analytics learning might be the tree, or your social media learnings might be the car. And the house is information about the customers. And it's only when you look at those and then you bring them all together, you get the final piece, you get the insights, you get the knowledge. You assemble everything in one big thing and you can see all the context. It's from here you can make informed decisions and take action. Now, if you're not a foreign of the Lego analogy, then here is another way you can look at it. It's data, which leads you to the information from which you can gain knowledge, find insights and create wisdom. So to give an example of this, imagine that you're head of marketing for a shoot-up. And you want to know if social media drives awareness for you, if it leads to consideration, and if it gets conversions. You start off with the data. It's the raw, unprocessed numbers, like your social media impressions, your engagements, what you can see from Google Analytics, such as what pages of people landing on, and what do they do when they've arrived on your website. And finally, using your sales system, such as Shopify, see what people are buying and what process they go to. Once you've got this, you gain information and this is by adding context. You look at the who, the what, the when and the where. So this could include things like what are the most frequently bought products or what is the click through rate. Looking at those metrics and starting to understand what's going on. It's from here that you then gain knowledge by analysing this, the how. It's starting to see the patterns that are emerging. How does your current sales campaign compare to a previous sales campaign you've run? Is there something month on month that's changing what shoes people are buying or how they're looking at things? And this brings you to the why, the understanding, learning how those patterns you've spotted actually works and looking at if there any seasonality, for example. So in your shoe store, you might notice that every April, you begin to see that there's an increase in people looking at and buying trainers. And this could be related to London marathon. People are seeing all these people doing London marathon and are thinking, do you know what I'd quite like to get into running? Or maybe you see a spike in January with people looking at their New Year's resolutions. It's then you take these insights and decide how you're going to use them going forward using wisdom. So see, you did see that every April there was a spike in people looking at and buying trainers. And this came from social media from your website and from sales. Using this, you might decide, OK, let's create a campaign. Let's focus on trainers in April. We'll have blogs on what to do if you're starting running or how to do distance running. You'll showcase certain trainers that do this well. So it's using all the data, how it's worked, how this ties into previous campaigns to gain the wisdom. You might see the last bit at the end of this slide is conspiracy theory. So what do I mean by a conspiracy theory in terms of data? Well, this is not your usual conspiracy theory. It's what happens when you do not use the insight and the wisdom.  Now, as a standalone fact, that makes it seem that cows are more dangerous. But when you actually consider this, you consider what's going into it, you realise that's misrepresentation of data. So going back to our shoe shop analogy. Imagine you work in your shoe shop, your head of marketing, you're looking at all the results, and you're seeing that people are buying two pairs of trainers at a time. The conspiracy theory here might be that people who run have four feet, and this is why they have to buy two pairs of trainers. However, if you look at this along with other pieces of data, what's going on in the wider market, you might find out that runners buy two pairs of shoes so they can alternate between them. This means that they're running 16 miles one day and they want to go for a run the next day. They can go to their fresh pair, which has more bounce, it's got cushioning. And this allows both pairs time to live longer, it lets your shoes live longer, it's more comfortable for your feet. So that's the difference between using data for wisdom and using data for conspiracy theories. But now you might wonder what it is you can actually measure using insights and data. So there's a lot of places you can find data and there's a lot of things that you can actually measure. So first you need to know what you have, what you can track and what you want to track. There are a lot of different types and so what you decide to track will depend on what's important to you and your company. I've broken it down into five main categories here. Customer database, marketing data, conversions data, internal, external, market data and consumer research. When I'm talking through these over the next few slides, I am using it more with a social media angle in mind. However, this can be used for any type of marketing. First up is customer data. This is information on your actual customers. So for example, their demographics, like their age, their gender, where is their base? What are their needs as well? What are their wants? What's the pain points that mean they need you? And what do they value? What's interesting to them? This can be some of the hardest data to collect as it relies on them actually providing it to you. That could be things like filling in a form when they're buying a product or signing up to an email. It could be through filling in a customer survey after they bought something or it could be some third party data. So cookies or maybe they can sign into your website through a social media site and therefore you get data through that. Whatever you use, it's important to make sure that it is GDPR compliance when you're using it. I won't go into too much details on that, but you can also look up online. But this is the one that you do need to worry about for GDPR. And while this data can be the most difficult to collect, it's also some of the most useful. You can really find out who it is that are buying your product, how you can target them, what their needs actually are and get to the heart of that. You can use it to confirm the right tone of voice you should be using to speak to these people. Help decide what key marketing messages will really resonate with them. And also discover who your core audiences are and what matters. Next you have marketing data. If someone says to you, marketing insights, this is probably the thing that will come to mind. It's the social media data from your own outputs. So your impressions, your engagements, your click-throughs. And if you're using organic or paid social media, this can be quite easy to find. So the platforms itself, whether it's Neta, whether it's YouTube, whether it's X, they will all provide you with information close by cost on all these engagements. This is the same for if you're using PPC or email. You can also use social listening. This allows you to track mentions of your brand, what people are saying about you and the competitors. And this can be really useful to find out if there's anything you know that you should be doing. Using marketing data is incredibly useful for you to see what's working. Are there any key messages that really help resonate with your audience that you should be using more of? Are there any platforms that drive better engagement for you or better sales? And are there any days or months there's spikes? So we mentioned before with the London marathon. Is there anything similar to that that you can see with your marketing? For example, at Hydrogen, our performance team, which is our ad team, they check on at least a weekly basis to see how the ads are running. Is there anything they can improve upon? What can they learn from what's happened so far? And how can they use that to improve ROI for our clients? It's the same with organic social. We look monthly to see what's going on, what we can improve, how things are going. Next, you have conversion data. And what you describe as a conversion might be different from someone else. It's all based on your company, who you are and what you do. For example, it might be a sale. Or if you're a charity, it might be someone making a monthly donation or signing up to an email newsletter. Or if you're in a B2D company, it might be a lead is what's also classed a conversion to you. And you might have several different conversion points throughout your marketing funnel. You just need to know what it is you call a conversion and how you can measure that. Things like Google Analytics or a similar web analytics system can be really useful. Maybe you have a sales system you use. Or if you're using ads, you might use UTM tracking, which helps you see what results come from what ads. And using conversion data can help you see what communications and also what customers are bringing you the most revenue to help you drive that ROI. And it helps you understand what's going on behind the scenes. One thing to actually note about conversion data is that a lack of sales might not mean that that piece of content isn't working. So consider what it was you wanted everything to achieve. If it was an awareness post, you might not get sales straight away. So consider what it was you wanted and how that's working down the full attribution funnel. Systems like Google Analytics can let you see if people maybe come to your website from social media, go away, think about it and come back again and make a sale through a different form. So keeping an eye on this and not just deleting or removing anything that doesn't instantly get a sale is important. Next you have internal and external market data. And this is about looking a little bit wider at your target market. So if you've worked on a strategy before and you know the pesto factors, it includes that, it includes looking at what's the new technology, are there things like cost of living or economical issues that might play an effect on if people are buying and what they're buying. It also includes looking at other parts of the business outside of marketing. What are people seeing to the sales team? Is there something that your company is working on building or that maybe you know competitors are building that might have an impact on you? This can help you see how wide your actual marketplace is, what might prevent them from buying from you or what might prevent them from buying at all right now and generally just look outside the marketing sphere. Then finally, you have consumer research and this is wider qualitative and quantitative marketing. This is looking at potentially surveys and focus groups that you do yourself or potentially some external surveys. So looking at YouGov or GWI for example, see what people are thinking about. For example, you might see that more people are interested in sustainability and sustainable products. So you'd want to think, is there something we were talking about in our marketing? Is it something we should be talking about and consider from there? A lot of this might not be about your own industry and maybe more general wider trends but it can really help you see what you should be doing and what makes people tick. In terms of social media, you can use things like Pinterest predicts or TikTok trend discovery to see what people are talking about on social media if it's conversations you should join in on and how you can do that. So those are the main types of insights and as you can see, there is a lot of different things you can learn. So depending on what you want to find and which of these five types you use there might be different data sources. Obviously, I work in social media. So things like Meta and LinkedIn are the main ones for us. However, we use a lot more brand watch for social listening, rival IQ for compressor benchmarking, GWI for doing pulse checks and so on. And these are the data from our funnel before. Moving on to the information and knowledge, you can use again a variety of tools. Some people might like Excel or Google Sheets to get all the data in one place. Other people might prefer a sort of dashboard approach and they look at looker studios or Power BI or Tableau. There's also certain systems that let you create their own dashboards. So for example HubSpot or Hootsuite, you can create dashboards in there. You'll have noticed that I've said the word dashboards quite a lot and to show you why you like dashboards instead of just using it in a sheet. Here is an example. You can see here that it makes it look a lot more visual. It's so much easier to see at a glance what's working and how it's improved month on month. You can see the changes, you can see the spikes just at a glance. For example, you can see here there's one post that's done incredibly well. So it's worth looking at is that post the only reason that everything is up this month or are there other reasons? Has everything performed better? What can we tell? What's worked? What's not worked? Is it anything that we can draw upon in use for future? So dashboards just make it easier to see at a glance and get that knowledge. Once you have that knowledge, you need to get the insight and wisdom and I personally believe that the best way to do that is through brain power, it's through people, it's through you. Some people might suggest AI and while it can help, I don't believe it's there yet for getting insight and wisdom. It can be very useful at getting the data and even turning that into information but because you need all of these different areas, it's very difficult to get AI to do that at the moment in a way that is meaningful. It might be that this does happen in the future but one thing you would need to be aware at that stage is again GDPR issues and if there's anything you can not put in because it's confidential information. So those are all the different data sources you can use and now you might be wondering, okay, there's so much data there but what should I track and when should I track it? Well, it all depends on your company, your goals and your objectives and what stage of the funnel you're at. If you're wanting awareness and attention, you might be focusing on different things and if you're wanting conversions. These are obviously not a full list of everything you can track or the page would be much, much fuller but it's just important to have an idea of what you want to track from the start going forward and it might be that your version looks different from this. For example, although impressions isn't technically a conversion metric, I like to track it throughout just because I think it's something that's good to know. Whatever you do decide to track, it's important that you know that from the start and continue. This is because it can be very difficult to backdate some of this data so knowing and tracking from the start just makes it a little bit easier for you. To finish up today, I'm going to chat through some campaigns. The first ones are ones that use data and insights to actually improve on themselves and to get a better ROI. First up, Databricks. This is based on marketing data. They wanted to drive sign-ups for their virtual conference and to do this, they used LinkedIn messaging apps. The A, B tested copy variants. Two of these began with questions and were a little bit longer and then the third one gave the event details and a link to sign-up right at the start of the message. When they A, B tested those and looked at the results, they found out that the third one, the one that had the link right at the start, performed best and it had a two times higher conversion rate. So off the back of that, they realised that putting the information first worked best for them. It meant people didn't have to scroll to read. It got their attention instantly. So they used this, ended up with over 70% open rate and like I said, a higher conversion rate. So that just goes to show that A, B testing, looking at what's working, what's not and improving on that can really help. A brand which did similar is Duolingo. So you may know Duolingo as being the unhinged TikTok, but they weren't always. It used to be longer form videos with people talking, explaining things about language and how to learn language. However, when they were looking at their monthly reports, they found out that the post that had the old mascot in it performed best. So from that, they began to use the mascot more and more. In the end, it took 39 videos before they found out what actually made a hit, which was for them unhinged. And this led to huge growth as soon as they cracked this. We've grown over 7 million followers. And they've actually noticed that every time a video goes viral for them, they see an uptick in people signing up to and using Duolingo. So that shows that it's not just a funny TikTok. It actually had a bottom line effect on them. Next, let's take a look at some campaigns that are actually based on data and insights. These don't improve with data. They use data to start with. First off is Spotify. This is one that probably everyone will know. It's based on customer data. Spotify Rats, it relies on customer info and personalisation. People will share their data unwillingly. How often can you say that about brands? And it's more than just social posts. In 2016, they started a billboard campaign calling out some strange stats. So, for example, someone who started listening to Christmas music in June or there was a person who was listening to a Alone Forever playlist for four hours on Valentine's Day. So it's calling out some of the fun stats. And as a reminder, low public awareness notice here, Spotify rat data collection ends on the end of October. So, if you are slightly worried about what your top song is and if your playlist might be making one of these ads right now, you've got about two weeks to choose your final song. Monzo actually does something a little bit similar with this in using public data. They're called it the big data thing of the year. And that recently found out that London is the only place in the UK where people go to Britain Monge more than they go to Greggs. It's not very often that you can actually use people's data in a way that they are happy with and are willing to share where these companies have done it. Next, Oatspice. So if you know me, you'll know this is one of my very favourite campaigns. It includes external market data, consumer research and market data. So it covers three of the five elements here. This all came from the insight that 60% of body wash purchases come from women, not men. So this came out at a time when Oatspice was mainly targeted at older men. It wasn't really a cool product. So the agency, Woodland and Kennedy, made an ad targeted at women called the man your man could smell like. And you probably remember this ad. And off the back of this, they then created 185 short video clips. These were all answering questions that came out on TikTok, on Reddit, on Facebook.  But on the back of this, it gained a huge amount of interest. It had 1.4 billion impressions in six months. And it also saw a 107% increase in sales of Oatspice, showing that this really worked in looking at this evidence and this insight gained a fresh perspective on the market.  This bounty and celebrations campaign came off the social listening element that is potentially the most divisive chocolate. So a few years ago in the celebrations advent calendar, bounty was the first chocolate. Behind door number one was a bounty. And people were very angry about this and they were very angry on social media. Some people were tweeting that it ruined Christmas, that they'd never buy celebrations again off the back of this. So their team had to think about this. Now, I did too. Take it to the next level. Last year they launched a bounty free celebrations top in Tesco. And they started a marketing campaign on social media, with the bounty feeling sorry for itself, leaving, and then a huge bring back bounty campaign. It got a lot of coverage. People were talking about it, taking different sides. It was mentioned in the media. In the end, it had a 34% increase in sales of celebrations times, but also an 176% increase in bounty sales on Amazon, which just goes to show the power that actually listening to your customers can have. Now, just in case it's been a bit too much for you, a bit too much data for a half hour period, I've got three key takeaways I'd like you to take. First off, all insights stems from data. Consider your objectives and everything you need to track, but you can't do anything without the data. Second, your consumers and your customers are key. Listen to what they tell the sales team. Listen to what they say about you on social media, what they do. It's all important. Without consumers, your company is nothing. You need consumers, so listening to them is incredibly important. And third, it takes time to gather data and to be able to build insights on it. It won't happen overnight. You need to look at things for a month, sometimes even year on year in order to see some trends emerge. So keep at it. I've just got a few little points on what you can find next. So if you're interested in finding some industry benchmarks to see where you rank, there's some links here you can look at from the PDF download. Or if you want to get in touch with me, asking any questions that you don't feel comfortable asking openly, then do feel free to drop me a line. And I'll pass you back to Pepper. Thanks Isabel. We've had some questions come in, so we'll get started with the Q&A. One of the questions that's come in has asked how often you said to how important the data is, but how often should you check on your data? Oh, that's a really good question, and it kind of depends on what the sources are. So there's some that you should check weekly at the very least. So for example, with ads, it's important to see what's happening, what people are saying and what's working. So for ads, you would want to check at least once a week. If it's the first day of a campaign, you would want to check in more often just to see that everything is working and everything is taking place okay. However, there's some things you can check left frequently. So for organic social, we tend to check once a month and just check in sporadically throughout. If it's something wider than that, so for example, consumer data, that you would want to check a little bit lower, sorry, a little bit more longer to do, once every quarter. So it really depends on what the data is, but setting yourself specific times to look in. So if it's once every Monday morning or the first Friday of a month, setting yourself set times can really be helpful to make sure that you do check in. That's great, thank you. And another question that we've actually had a couple of questions that relate to this. So I will try and kind of wrap them into probably a couple of two prongs answer. It's about insights and how you can get buy-in from management to spend time on insights. And also how you can explain or educate colleagues on the importance of insights and whether you've got any top tips on how to actually do that, how to do that education piece around insights. It can be a very difficult one and I am very lucky that I'm in a company that has a specific insights department. I know a lot of people, it's just a small part of their job and so explaining why they need time for it and why it's not just something you can pull in five minutes can be quite difficult. I think what's important is actually showing what data and insight can do and that can take some time, but it might be showing where you rank against competitors to say actually we're not doing well and we need to take time and look at these insights so we can improve at the moment we're ranked five and we need to get up here. Or social listening can also be a great way to show that you need insights, showing what people are saying about you and how you can't do that and you can't improve without looking at that. So those unfortunately do take time to do in the first place. I think as well some of the links I gave to rival IQ and Implify they're very good at showing at a glance how you're doing compared to competitors. So you can see for example if you're in the financial space you can show actually our cost per click is a lot higher than other companies. That shows we need to do something and in order to do something what's happening I think that's something that can show to bosses or to colleagues in the first place that actually it's something you need to focus on and having a small proof point can be very helpful. Really fascinating thank you and another question still possibly linked to this so what would you say are the most relatable insights to share with senior management or leadership teams is it would you argue that that's perhaps related to their industry sector or is there something that can show something that they would be able to relate to more easily whether it's engagement rates or click-throughs? Yeah I think it again it depends on what it is that's most important to them. So some sales teams and some bosses are they're just focused on the sales in which case showing how everything leads to sales can be useful what is your cost per acquisition but at the same time if they are interested in a wider picture then looking at things like follower growth can be useful it's sometimes a vanity metric but looking at it by itself can help you see things also engagement rates to show how many people are engaging as opposed to just looking at engagements by itself can be very useful because you can see what percent people are actually paying attention to you and things like web clicks are one of the most important for knowing how many people are actually then clicking through and seeing more about you so it does depend on what your key objectives are so having smart objectives sets that you can then track maybe two or three metrics back to and show those at a glance can be great and what I find particularly useful is showing how those change so saying has it gone up, has that gone down because they might not know what that means by itself but if you say we've gone up 3% that is something that's actually more tangible for them to understand right thank you and a couple of questions relating to industry sector so can insights be as useful in B2B marketing as there's less data than B2C and also how can insights help if a company doesn't perhaps have any social media presence those are really interesting questions so in terms of can it help B2B definitely I think there might not be as much you can find but when you think about it B2B you're still you might be talking to businesses but it's still people that businesses so for example the data bricks example that was a business trying to sell to other business people to get them to come to an event and they were looking at what is it that people are looking for and they found that the message that performed best for them was the one that had the link at the start and that might be because they were looking towards directors and directors are notoriously time poor so getting to the heart of the issue was important there that's why some of the consumer data in understanding their pain points can be very useful for both B2B and also for if you don't have social media presence their pain points are what is it that they're looking to solve that you can do so if it is they don't have time then you want to make sure that your marketing and your messaging help you even if you don't have time this is quick it will save you so much time and you see a lot of brands are doing that a lot of brands will focus on either people being time poor or they're wanting to save money economically so it's saying what it is that your audience are interested in and what they need and what they're struggling with and for B2B that is how insights can be very useful finding out what it is that they need and if you don't have your own social media channels and you're looking to do that then something like a survey or using tools like Yougov can be very useful to find out some external data you can also just do wider research for example marketing charts with again one of the links I had up there and I really recommend that they do have some good links for B2B in general but also just what people are looking at what they're interested in and what ads they are most likely to click through on so that can be useful to draw from external data and what other people are doing that you can then learn on even if you don't have your own baseline great thank you another question that popped in again looking at different industry sectors is social listening a valid tool for insights within charity sector I think it can be yes it would obviously depend on your charity name sometimes because there are some that are easier to track than others for example cancer research if your company was just called cancer research then that could be hard to narrow down but by looking at what people are talking about both about your charity yourself potentially using your at handle but then also about the area in general so if it was cancer or maybe Alzheimer's care or a hospice using those keywords can really help you understand what people are talking about in the industry and if there's anything that you should do so it might be they might not be mentioning your brand in particular but actually when they're talking about that particular topic there's some keywords that come up and this can teach you you might want to talk about that more are there questions that you can answer or problems that you can help with it might be there's an issue that people are facing and you learning that and seeing what people are talking about both positively and negatively can help you decide what you're going to write content on even what you do as a company or what your next project is going to be on right thank you another question we've had just come in is asking how much data would you say you need to be able to identify a trend and do you have recommendations for optimal campaign links on social media in terms of how much data you need it can depend on what kind of data it is so for example if you're looking at customer data then you would need more people if you just have three people you can't really tell a trend from that it's normally I'd say at least 100 people you'd want in order to be able to start to see what is working but obviously the more the better ideally over a thousand but I know that's not always possible sorry Pippo it was the second half of that question again and do you have recommendations for optimal campaign links on social media that will depend on what type of campaign it actually is your running and what platform it's on is trend based that will depend on what kind of trend it is is it a reactive post that you will only really have three days or is it something that's more longer to do our performance team are afraid we'll be able to give you a much better answer so if you'd like to email me I can get in touch with them and see if they can give you something more concrete but normally I would say at least a few weeks if possible for something this gives you time to really it lets systems test and learn so all systems whether that is Facebook, Instagram, TikTok they'll see what's working and begin to serve the ads to better people so and people that are more in your target audience based on what they do so giving it actually time to work helps you perform better helps you look at the insight and see what is working in order to give the most time and the most budget to the people who are really your target audience it's great thank you and I think we've probably got time for one more we've had a question what is the best way to measure brand sentiment well one of the great ways to measure brand sentiment is again through social listening so various tales allow you to see how are people talking about you when they're mentioning you are they being negative, are they being positive are they being neutral so that might just be saying oh yes CIM is a company whereas you can tell if they are being positive or if they are talking about you in a more negative or drug-stufli way this can help you see what brand sentiment is about you you can also use certain tales such as YouGuff this is better for larger companies they track brand sentiment and also brand fame so you can see how many people know you and also if they like you or dislike you this again it's only for bigger companies but it's a great way of seeing overall fame and sentiment whereas if you're smaller and so you're not on the list of who YouGuff tracks then social listening is the best way to do this thanks Isabel that's great we've had some really good questions so thank you for taking the time to answer those and go through them with us unfortunately that's all we've got time for today I would like to thank Isabel once again and also the CIM Scotland committee for organising the webinar so that just leaves me to say a final thank you for joining us today we do hope you've enjoyed the webinar take care everyone and we look forward to seeing you again soon


i can't seem to focus and you don't seem to notice i'm just a mute check your complexion to find your reflection so welcome to my new apartment and to the first reading log in it i feel like the camera is very far away we'll come closer to you is that better well maybe you don't want to see me up close but sorry so yeah today i have off from work because it is better in today because you can see we take our holidays very seriously and do a lot to commemorate them i've been living here for like just over a week a week ago last this past friday i was moving day it feels like i've been here longer not in a bad way like i'm not sick of it it's just like it's you know been what i've been about moving for so long and then i mean of course because pandemic i'm just here all the time just like i was all the time in my old apartment still have to go back to my old apartment to like final clean it whatever not that chapter is almost done but not quite but that affects this reading blog not at all today i will be hopefully getting some reading in i hopefully understandable i didn't get a ton of reading done while i was mid move so tail end of january beginning of february like i didn't manage to listen to some audiobooks but reading was definitely not a priority and not an option but since then i mean i've been getting back into reading reading vlogs are always good for that however i also the other thing that wasn't really an option mid move was filming videos so today i do need to film a couple videos one of which i'm kind of like i don't know if i want to do it i want to do it but i don't know if i want to do it because it's a subject that came up in my tag video that i posted this past saturday where like it's something that i didn't even plan to talk about but it came up and the response that i got on it was unexpected and intense so i do think it's a subject that i want to talk about i want to make a video about but i'm still fresh off of being irked at the response i got um at being so uh aggressively misunderstood so i definitely want to make that video basically is what i'm saying like it's not deciding whether or not that video should be made at all it's i don't know if i need if i should do it today and i also don't posting it so soon after like i don't know it's better to do it right after the tag to be like by the way let me explain or if i need to like let that breathe and come back to it fresh and let my audience come back to it fresh they're not conflating whatever their impression of what i said was in that video with what i will now be saying in my planned prepared i say planned and prepared i'm not scripting anything but i mean like being more intentional about going in deciding to discuss this because it was a tag video so it just like came up while i was answering a tag question where i was like i guess this so i didn't plan to talk about that but now i will be planning to talk about that so i don't know if i'm ready to film that today um i might put it off just to again so that i'm less like and so that my audience is less it's better for everybody we need to take five so yeah i do need to film again some videos that are just like regular old videos so like what am i filming my blade itself review which is a long time coming for my fourth raid you know it's about time i finally finished the broken earth trilogy by nk jemisin um so i'd like to finish or not finish a film a series review the other video that i had in mind was my spicy discussion which i might be punting i hate makeup to go to waste though so i may i think well there was another video there is another video that i've been planning for some time i still don't think i'm ready to film it because it's going to be a lot of work so not bad but i think i had a when i was batch filming before my move i had like 50 billion videos like written out as ideas and i managed to film like 10 of them but i had like a read a likes on that list that i might film today need to check it see if i still agree with myself from a month ago so yeah oh and what am i reading right now that's probably what i should have opened with um i finally started reading gardens of the moon which as if you don't know i'm buddy reading with my father he's actually a farther along than i am which is to be expected because he reads faster and because he hasn't been as busy as me and he was like waiting to start until i started and i was like look i started it but like i don't have a ton of time to read so like no rush and he's like pacing himself we're getting only like only four times as fast as i do instead of 10 times as fast as i do seems to be enjoying everything i'm enjoying it so i'm not that far into it but so far so good um then i'm also reading shadow of night which is the sequel to a discovery of witches um it's not very far into it all within the first 30 pages i'm already like having similar like different but similar issues to my issues of the first one where i'm like it's entertaining but like the way you speak and the way things are going i'm just like you wouldn't though they wouldn't though this wouldn't though but so far it's at least entertaining at the setting which is the main reason that i picked this up in the first place the setting so far is like it's what i wanted i wanted to be in this where this is i'm not saying because it's far the rate for the first book but you know i feel like most people probably already know because all the trailers for the show give it away but uh that's why i'm being all cryptic and i dnf'd these violent delights yesterday so i'm not reading that i need to read from blood and ash before the live show but i have some time i like to read the blades and modifiers book club books like the week leading up to if possible because then it's freshest in my brain i've been putting off my re-read of before they're hanged because i wanted to film my review of the blade itself and have like that as crystal as it can be crystal and separate from the second book before i dove in so if i do finish i mean if i do film my blade itself of you today which i plan to then i can finally dive into my re-read of before they're hanged just generally on deck for the month i still got girl in the tower and deathless divide which are both body reads because every fucking thing i'm reading this month is a body read this is not on my tbr but i bought the queen's gambit because i would like to read it before watching the show since i learned that it is based on a book but i don't know i mean i don't think i'll have time to finish everything since my tbr anyway so it's irresponsible to pick up something else as well what idea enough to be smiling delight so it can replace that maybe any who yeah i'm just gonna read a little bit this morning while i drink my coffee and then film some videos and then i'll check in with you cool okay well i finished filming two videos per my plan as you can see i'm all made up now i think i i mean i know i filmed uh me setting up my camera don't know if i'm including that footage you know more than i do um yeah so i filmed my blade itself review and my broken earth review both of which are quite choppy because i think it's garbage day nearby so i had to keep stopping speaking because of trucks my new apartment is definitely like way quieter than my old apartment but i still live in downtown l.a in fact i live more downtown than i used to but i don't live near the freeway on ramp anymore so it's not constant sirens and this building is sturdier so like i can still hear my neighbor sometimes because like that just comes with the territory and it is an old historic building so the like heating system is like steam heat so like i can hear it coming on and clicking like the pipes and stuff and all of my neighbors use it but again compared to where i live before it is so quiet but today has been especially noisy which of course it was because i'm filming today so people driving by with their radios on full blast garbage trucks particularly with my broken earth review i had to stop for like four minutes and the cameras kept rolling because i was like it'll stop it'll stop it'll stop and by the time i started talking again i was like what even was i saying so i feel like that the video is gonna be quite like i'm afraid it's gonna be apparent that there was me and then there was me four minutes later being like where was i what those books in particular like it's not the kind of book you want to be discussing and losing your train of thought so hopefully it's fine it is what it is um what time is it it is almost 11 30 so i think what do i think i mean i have the rest of the day to myself now i'm gonna oh where's my book jacket oh all crinkly can you see probably can't eat but oh wow the books a bit and the bottom of it it's like wet well i guess i'm keeping it whatever yeah i think i'm gonna have tea and read um i will be doing no further cooking today because i have so many leftovers from the weekend i have three kinds of pizza and i have nacho fries so those must be eaten i also have like a lot of avocado that i'm afraid is gonna go bad so pizza with avocado nacho fries with avocado toast with avocado tea with avocado doing everything with avocado now for right now i'm kind of hungry i'm not gonna lie that smoothie bowl was good but i want salt i always want salt so i might have some pizza no i'll wait i'll wait until noon even though it's a clearly irrelevant when you're eating lunch but i'll wait i'll have tea and read some more of this or if i want to read gardens of the moon i've been mainly doing this on audio um partly because of convenience partly because i like this narrator and partly because i'm an auditory learner so uh i know people have said that like they'll they'll do audio books but if it's a really complicated book that they'll purposely read it like the physical book because they don't want to miss anything if it's a really complicated book i often choose specifically to read it on audio instead because i'm an auditory learner and i retain a lot more um from an audiobook than from reading a book physically so it is because that it is more complicated than that i'm reading it on audio because that's how i function but that said i kind of want to like try out reading it like on page for a bit maybe um or i'll just sit on the couch drinking tea and listening i don't know i know people like to listen and read along and i cannot do that i've tried it but it's so distracting because all i'm thinking about is matching what i'm hearing to the words and then it becomes like an activity like a matching game instead and i'm not paying attention to what's going on at all i'm just like matching matching matching oh it's not i think wait where did he go wait matching matching matching and that's all i'm thinking about so that is not an option i can read it or i can listen to it but yeah okay cool let's make tea and read some books yep it's reading vlog putting lamps on tables and whatnot would be such hard work i guess i had a lot of hot tea or before i started and i'm wearing sweats brilliant but um this is not my new lamp this is an old lamp can it focus on that instead of my face cool anyway um i didn't know where to put this so i just had it in a box still but i decided to move the lamp that was there on my vanity the lamp you just saw me put together if i included that footage is on my work desk which is in my bedroom for like work work stuff um and that yeah and then i finally put a bulb in my salt lamp which has been bulbless for like a year um and i have another lamp like this on my bedside table so i've had that one in for a while i was like i don't know where to put the second one i was like i want it where i can see it when i'm not in the bedroom i mainly did this because i thought like that amber colored lamp that i just got didn't go with that lamp like it looked weird together um and this goes better with that and it makes the amber colored one makes my work desk look more homey instead of just like because it's covered in just like pc monitors and like machinery so having that warm amber lamp over there helps it feel homeier this room already feels quite homey so i could put in a more industrial lamp here anyway that's my what's the word i'm looking for interior design update for you um it is now quarter after two i'm sweating from doing all that um so what do i need to tell you okay it's a reading vlog so let's talk about what i've been reading i read a bit of gardens of the moon and i read a bit of shadow of night um i read a teeny tiny bit of rogue of one zone and i was like i'm not feeling this right now i was like it's valentine's day weekend i should read that and then i was like nah i want to read gardens of the moon i think i think i think through all that hot tea i'm gonna have a ice cold beverage now so that i can get cold again and then i can snuggle up with probably shadow of night i think i don't know we'll see what i'm feeling and that's my update for you you're welcome so originally i was planning just to vlog today um but i think i'm gonna extend this vlog into tomorrow because i didn't really get far enough into any book that i was reading to really talk about it so i mean yeah i've read about a hundred pages of shadow of night and where am i in gardens of the moon i'm 70 pages into gardens of the moon so like that's almost 200 pages of reading today which is you know not amazing but not bad but yeah it's like it's too early in both books to really say anything um yeah so tomorrow is a work day unlike today but um i have been as of like four days ago gotten or been getting into the habit of waking up earlier so that i can like make coffee and read a bit before i start work so i intend to read tomorrow morning um i intend to read tonight a bit more too i just like wanted to tell you this now that i decided it because i kind of kept thinking tonight i was like man i need to like talk about what i'm reading but i'm like i don't have anything to say right now so now i'm like you know what it's fine you can have stuff to say tomorrow so yeah i'll read before i start work tomorrow i'll probably read during my lunch break and i'll read tomorrow evening after i finish work those are pretty much the options so yeah uh just wanted to update you let you know the situation okay see you later so originally i wasn't planning on filming anymore tonight but um i decided to go through some mail that my mom brought over for me yesterday and uh included in the mail which i didn't realize was something that i've been waiting for for quite some time and then i also was excited to show you guys um so now last minute i'm going to show you i'll show you again um either tomorrow in the daylight or i am also planning to do a video that's kind of related to it so i'll show it off then but it is pretty freaking cool okay so it's uh this viking jewelry and it comes uh each piece comes in a wooden box that says vikings on it um again i'll show you in daylight it'll look better um but anyway i got a ring and an arm band um and they're very viking so i got this raven ring i got it in a larger size so that i could wear it on my um pointer finger my pointer finger is very fat so i got it kind of big but you know you can get your size obviously it's a ring uh and they come in different uh you can get it like silver or gold or um kind of oxidized like this um anyway i'll show you in daylight i don't know why i'm showing you now so i'm also going to show you in daylight but it's because i'm excited and then again same thing you can get the arm band in uh gold or silver or this kind of oxidized style which this is quite latvian looking even though this is not a latvian design but this is very similar to a latvian design so and it has i got the wolf one so you can see it looks like howling wolves on the ends and it goes on like that so now i have the hand of a viking shazam back to reading a robe of one's own which is what i decided to read by listening to classical music and being all girly and fancy okay bye just popping by because i'm almost done with work uh not quite but almost before the daylight fades i'm gonna show you my bling it's pretty epic is it not i've been wearing it all day and it's been clanging against my desk all day but it's worth it um i had a bunch of packages arrive you see you can kind of see normally if i wasn't vlogging i would spend the rest of my evening putting together the furniture that is in those boxes but i extended my reading vlog into today so that i could read so my haul is just gonna have to be filled with boxes and furniture until this vlog is done tonight so yeah my hair desperately needs a wash but i got dressed today and everything so i wanted to like show you my bling my clothes my boxes my hair before i hop in the shower after i finish work and then heat up some leftover pizza and read what i need to figure out is what i'm gonna read tonight we'll see what i'm feeling when i get out the shower work has been finished hair has been washed pizza has been consumed not necessarily in that order and now it's time to read this morning i don't know if i told you i don't think i did because i don't think i told you anything this morning when i was getting like cleaning in the kitchen and making breakfast i was listening to before they were hacked by joe bercrom because as previously stated i didn't want to start that reread until i had filmed the review for the blade itself which i filmed yesterday so i was like great let's get right into it um so i low key i just want to read that but no no no no must read something new so yeah last night i read not terribly much i read like 40 pages of a robe of one zone and then prior to that i had read about a hundred pages of shadow of night and then prior to that i had read about 50 pages of the gardens of the moon so they're all options um i think um in the military but i also don't know what i'm in the military none of these appeal to me right now like they don't sound terrible but they don't before they're hanging sounds the best okay i will i should have done this before y'all know my trick of putting in like checkpoints to keynotes so that like the prospect of reading an entire thing isn't so daunting i'm like oh no i just gotta make it to my checkpoint gotta make it to my next checkpoint so i'm gonna set some checkpoints for gardens of the moon and i'm gonna read that until i reach that checkpoint and then continue on if i feel like it or switch to something else good plan oh also bethany told me that she started girl in the tower which she and her buddy are eating um but it is really warm in here right now i think it's because like these windows face uh west west ish so when the sun is setting you're like right before sunset like a lot of sunlight hits this room so it's pretty warm in here in the evening gardens of the moon checkpoints read that great cool yes that's what i'm doing nailed it well my friends i do believe that we have reached the end of this reading vlog i have made it to chapter six of gardens of the moon which is page 148 in this edition of it and i i feel like i am both like i want to say that i'm really confused but i'm not confused but i am confused so like i within each scene i know what's going on but at the same time i just generally don't feel like i know what's going on i don't know if that makes any sense maybe if you've read it that makes sense like like what i'm in the middle of the scene i'm i'm like yeah i know what you're talking about i'm i'm not lost about your dialogue you know who you are know what you're trying to do know what you're saying to each other like i'm with you but then when i like if i think about like how if i was going to try to explain to somebody like what this is about so far and like where i'm at i i feel like i haven't read it and i don't know what's happening i think it's it's like uh it feels like if i was like at the park or something and like i kept uh overhearing conversations with people and like um and i happen to know their names which you know i wouldn't but um and like while i'm listening to their conversation because like you know i know what's going on in the world like i know what they're talking about and like i can i can eavesdrop and be like totally sure i know what they're talking about but also i don't know who they are as people and you know what i mean kind of like i know that they're humans in my world in the park but i don't know more than that i don't know if that makes any kind of sense that's how i'm feeling about this like i feel like at any given moment i am home there i know what's going on but overall not so sure i know what's going on like i don't know maybe it will crystallize as as we go on hopefully it will it's weird i knew it would be i knew it would be difficult and complicated i knew that going in so like i'm not entirely surprised that i feel this way i will see i do like the writing style i really do it's kind of uh a little more flowery which i like um i really hate when fantasy pros is like super basic and modern it just doesn't feel like fantasy like it'd be so like watching you know queen elizabeth the first to say hey what's up you know what i mean like she doesn't go like uh so i like the the more formal poetic kind of style of the writing i do and i feel like it also helps me to to take magic more seriously like when people talk about magic casually with like modern speech i'm like that sounds dumb but when you say it all like highfalutin and magic like the magic sounds more like philosophy something that's like mysterious and unknowable as opposed to like whether with a stick on the spell i don't know if that makes any kind of sense that's how i feel so yeah i think i'm enjoying it hard to say when i also don't know what's happening yeah i do also like the names they're just fun names that like i like i just like hearing them and i feel like i'm going to enjoy saying them if and when i review it whiskey jack and anameter rake you just like they you just want to say them i don't know why i feel similarly about the names in dune the names in dune are names that i like i find excuses to say like i instead of using a pronoun i'll say the name again because i just think it's a fun name like fave ratha and leto atreides they're just like they're real namey names and i got some good syllables i don't know there's just something about the names in this tatter sail whiskey jack doesn't even sound like a fantasy name i just like whiskey so i think i like hearing the name whiskey jack repeatedly because i'm like whiskey and like it's just it literally sounds like somebody is named after jack daniels but i'm fine with it the anameter rake is probably my favorite name so far like it sounds like something from dune okay that's my expert analysis on gardens of the moon so far clearly i need to go to sleep so yeah let me know in the comments down below whatever you want to let me know about whatever i've said in this vlog i don't even remember what's happened i feel like i've been vlogging for days but it was mainly just yesterday that's yep okay well i'll see you when i see you bye


Good morning friends. Hey brother Mike back on a Sunday morning podcast. I apologize. I got a late start today and Thank you for tuning in. I'll have this Podcast on my Facebook page Michael W. Smith and on our Facebook group hardcore christianity calm on Facebook and also we're on as you know twitch.tv You just put in the code HCC ADC that stands for hardcore christianity Arizona Deliverance Center Thank you for tuning in Again, I apologize for being late this Sunday You can contact me directly Mike at hardcore christianity calm anytime you need to I always answer all my emails You can go to the website hardcore christianity calm. You'll see all of our services We have two live services every week Thursdays and Friday nights at 7 p.m. Mountain Time at The Arizona Deliverance Center. We have a live Deliverance service Over zoom every Wednesday at 6 p.m. If you send me an email. I Will send you the ID? Code and the password Every Wednesday night at 6 p.m. Mountain Time that'd be 5% 5 p.m. Pacific and You can get healed and delivered right on the zoom with brother Rick and the hardcore ministry team. It's powerful When you go to the website you'll see all of our ministry services got a bunch of seminars coming up the women's seminars in February the children's healing and deliverance service is in March if you own a child who needs to be delivered or healed and They're their preteens up to age 12. Please bring them to the Deliverance Center Saturday at 10 o'clock in March the schedules and the times are all on the website. I wanted to share with you some interesting things today about Christians and judgment Christians and judgment and I want to start off by reading some interesting scripture out of 1st Timothy chapter 3 as you might recall this section of text is extremely powerful it's a Qualification test You have to take a test in order to become a Bishop or a deacon in the church or God you have to Take a test and Paul outlined his test of things that needed to be done for you to qualify For this type of service to God and he goes down a laundry list of Things that people have to do In our society in the United States As you know, there's a bunch of people running around the country Who are claiming to be prophets and apostles and seers and all kinds of other nonsense You'll be shocked to know that these people that say these things or the hand you your business card and said I'm on a prophet I'm a seer. I'm an apostle Haven't even gone through the qualification list to be a bishop or a deacon That Paul outlines in 1st Timothy chapter 3 If you somebody claims to be something Gives himself a certain title Always red flag that person and Always red flag that person. There's another false doctrine going around out there called the apostolic order There's so many met so many messed up things out there, it's unbelievable But the simplicity of Christ is always the best way to go and you can't get any simpler Then Paul's qualification list for being in the ministry It's right here, but in verse Five Paul explains that you're not supposed to go into the ministry if you've got a jacked-up family If a person Doesn't know how to Paul said rule their own family their own house. He said How in the world are you going to take care of God's house? So he says a person it is To be an elder or a deacon in the church has to have Their family under control so to speak and he said in verse 6 now listen to this carefully They must not be a novice a novice a Neophytus in Greek is a rookie He must not be a rookie Lest being lifted up with pride Lest being lifted up with pride now that Greek word is really interesting in that verse To follow my is the Greek word it means to blow smoke in front of somebody so they can't see straight Or see clearly Yeah, it doesn't say blow smoke up a certain area, but you kind of get the gist of it Okay, that's what these people are who claim to be prophets Apostles and seers from a special apostolic order of something The whole thing's ridiculous. They're blowing smoke In your ear Which isn't good. Okay, that's not good Right Please be careful with that But Paul says to be an elder or a deacon not a prophet or a seer you have to have your house in order and You cannot be a rookie because if you if you put a rookie in a position of authority, what's going to happen is They're going to be lifted up with pride. Okay They're going to be filled with Self-conceit is what that Greek word means to follow my and he will fall into the condemnation of the devil This is the King James version the Greek word for condemnation. There is crema And it means judgment the judgment of Satan when you become a born-again Christian the Christian is Continuously judged Not by God But by Satan says it right here 1st Timothy 3 verse 6 the judgment of the devil Diabolus Satan this is more over he must have a good report of Those who are outside Lest he fall into the reproach Onnidismus Onnidismus means verbal abuse Unless he fall into the reproach the verbal abuse and the snare of Diabolus The devil Satan the Greek word for snare there is really interesting. It's it's a geese. It means a Trap you fell into you didn't see coming You were walking along and then but almost like a cartoon where you have a trap door The spirit of rejection is the most prolific demon in the United States I see him all the time in my ministry and half have seen him for years I was loaded with rejection demons years ago when I was Before I became a Christian and then hat and carried that spirit into my Christian life And I struggled for years until I went through deliverance in 2004 But that rejection demon is brutal Because he's always telling the born-again Christian. Hey, God's mad at you.   He's lying to you.  He was slaughtered for us and That was a judgment of God Falling upon humanity it missed humanity and it fell on Jesus Jesus as your pastor once said paid the price For your son sin for he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace the Hebrew word there is punishment the punishment for our peace fell upon him and by his mollups wounds From the whips By his wounds We are healed Utterly amazing God is not judging you anymore He already judged you you were found guilty I Was found guilty and the judgment of God fell on us, but was intercepted By Jesus on the cross of Calvary it was intercepted and God Judgment fell on Christ and Did not fall on you you got mercy you got salvation you got freedom you got forgiveness The Greek word for forgiveness as you know as a family it means to release to be released When you received Christ as your savior and When you put your faith in the blood of Jesus God released you from your sins and Is no longer judging you for your sins a? child of God is Not being judged by God, but as I read in 1st Timothy just a minute ago All Morning and Christians are judged by Satan and it comes through the law of sowing and reaping The law of sowing and reaping as real as gravity Says that whatever a man or woman sows That's what they will also reap That's the law of God That applies to sinners or saints Unbelievers or believers doesn't matter That's the law but God is not judging you anymore He already judged you you've already been judged at Calvary and God The Holy Ghost in John chapter 8 Went out of his way to put this story in the New Testament. It's only in there once of what God's talking about When he talks about mercy for you John chapter 8 verse 1 Jesus went To the Mount of Olives and early in the morning. He came again to the temple and As you know, Jesus would go into Herod's temple in the Outer Court and he would teach and And massive crowds would follow him there and it says quote all the people came to him and he sat down He sat down and taught them and the scribes and Pharisees it says Brought a woman Greek word goonae Goonae is the Greek term used to describe a wife. Okay, so they found some woman that was cheating on their husband And it says she was taken in adultery Okay, and they set her in the midst In front of everybody including Jesus they just brought her and set her right in the middle and The Greek word for to to set her in the middle there histony means to stand and face somebody So they brought her and they stood her in the midst facing Christ and They were going to use this woman as a tool This guy's wife was sleeping with another guy and How do we know it was another guy because the Greek word?  It says here.  They pull her up and stand her there Accusing her and judging her and they said to Jesus Didosculous Didosculous is a Greek word for teacher They didn't call him. They didn't seem as anything other than a teacher very disrespectful teacher this Gunay this one this wife was taken in adultery and In the very act of adultery So they caught her in bed with a guy Now Moses and the law commanded us Moses commanded us that we Should stoner and that's true Moses did do that Leviticus 20 and Deuteronomy chapter 22 If you were caught committing Moikia adultery you were committing a capital offense and You were to be stoned to death Then they said but what do you say? Okay, they're trying to set him up. They think they've got him by the throat Because if he says no then he contradicted the law of Moses Proving he's a false prophet and a false teacher and If he says yes, he's going to damage This glorious message that God was now sending to you now them there then Mercy I Desire mercy and not sacrifices Says Jehovah says Yahweh says Jehovah the Lord and Now Jesus is in a in a quandary here They got him cornered so to speak but friends understand and know this that the Holy Ghost is never cornered He's never been cornered He's not about to start now So the Spirit of the Lord the Lord Jesus Bends over it says he stoop down. It says cup toe means to bend forward cup toe Down he stoop down on the ground and with his finger. He writes on the ground. What's he writing there? Well easy to figure out He's looking up at one person through the gift of knowledge and he sees this person and knows that he's a thief So he writes down Jacob Clepto a thief and he sees another guy picks out his sin writes that down and He's only doing it to the adults The adults that brought her and stood him In front of her stood her in front of him. He's doing it to them the ones that brought her And he's writing in the sand there their sins Then he mentioned sin this whole thing is about sins And he said he that is without sin let him first throw a stone at her He then immediately goes back down it says here. He stooped down cup toe. He bends forward. He's riding on the ground with his finger and He writes on the ground once again. He's writing Another guy's name another guy's sin This guy's name this guy's sin. He's riding it down there Proving and showing to them that there isn't anybody standing there who is without sin At which gives you the divine understanding of mercy The divine understanding of mercy. What is it? There is none No one's sinless all has sin There is none righteous. No not one Why is that important because mercy Is meant for people who've sinned He again stooped down he writes on the ground and it says and they which heard it being convicted of their sin elenco is the Greek word and it means to be Convinced or admonished for something saints. I want you to listen to me carefully Conviction of the Holy Spirit is one of the greatest blessings you'll ever receive in your life. It's it's hard to believe how beautiful it is Admittedly I'm with you on this one. It's painful when it happens It's always been painful for me too because Conviction is meant to point out something You said or did that was wrong And that god is not pleased with But the demon of rejection always says that's god condemning you creamo creama judging you It actually isn't it's god loving you Conviction is love, but condemnation is demonic It says they were convicted Elenco of their by their own conscience So natus is now your conscience is the seat of your morality And that's where the Holy Spirit convicts you of your sin You cannot become a born-again Christian or a child of god if You have not had any conviction of sin if you become a Christian And you haven't been convicted of your sin.  He bent back up straight. He was bending over writing on the ground that he bent back up straight like that And saw nobody But only the wife he says to her gunei Woman wife, where are your accusers? isn't Where are your accusers?  Has no man condemned you Now this is the greek word catechrino The previous greek word was crema That means to evaluate a certain situation Catechrino means to evaluate the system situation come to a conclusion and pass a judgment Translation Evaluation of adultery Decide it's a sin Execute the judgment stoning Jesus said to her Where are your accusers? Is there anybody else here catechrino?    I'm getting mad.  I'm not supposed to be doing that Lord, please forgive me While you were sinning, okay when you said that when you reacted like that when you felt that when you responded that way That was a sin Why you were doing that?  You can't conceive or believe I want to tell you a rejection is demon something today number one.    There's no way that's a rejection demon You're not being judged by god. You might be judged by the devil if you keep sinning Absolutely, you're going to reap what you sow, but Your heavenly father is not doing it to you And immediately when you come back the moment you ask for forgiveness It's there because there's no judgment from god There's no judgment from god Does that make any sense to you today? I hope it does because it's so important this rejection demon.  He is faithful You can trust him you go back into your sin.   He's not upset with you He's not hurt Because he dislikes you or disappointed in you. Yeah, he's hurt that you're hurting yourself Now that's a different story.   He took his rage out on jesus The anger of god fell on the cross of calvary The judgment of god fell on the cross of calvary It was heading toward us and it jesus jumped in And took the bullet for you so to speak And because of that you can repent now bank You can do it anytime you want to And on wednesday night at the zoom service thursday and friday nights at the arizona deliverance center Or you can watch our services on you our youtube channel youtube.com slash house of healing az You can cast that rejection demon out of you in 2023 and you don't have to condemn yourself ever again You don't need to condemn yourself ever again See you next time


Hey everybody, welcome to the Waldoch Way. I'm Jessica. Today's video is going to be an Usborne haul. Usborne recently released some new titles, which meant that we of course had to place an order and so that's what I'm gonna share with you today. Our recent Usborne order. Now the first few things that I have to show you are not for our homeschool, they're not even for our family and I just really wanted to share them because number one, they were things that I purchased and number two, I was not doing a YouTube channel at the time of Emily being in preschool and so let me tell you the story of why I purchased these. A really great friend of mine messaged me and she was just really curious about starting preschool with her kiddo, which of course I told her she didn't need anything but the more I thought about it, the more I just kind of wanted to give her like a get started gift package if you will. I just kind of wanted to give her some fun things that they could do so she could check the boxes, feel like she was doing preschool with her kid but make sure that it was like fun and not boring and schooly. So the first thing that I did was print off my alphabet and number fun pack for her. So if that's something that you don't know about, I will leave a link in the description box if you have a preschooler or you have an upcoming preschooler so you can check that out and then I did get a few things from Usborne for her because I think they have fantastic things for that age group. So the first thing I got was the Usborne Wipe Clean Alphabet Cards. And then I also got the Usborne Wipe Clean Number Cards. In addition to the Number Cards I went ahead and also picked up the Usborne Big Book of ABCs. I just really like number one how big it is and it's pretty indestructible. I mean it's got nice thick pages so we didn't have to worry about it being ruined. And then the Usborne Big Book of Numbers, again, really big, really colorful, those really sturdy pages for little hands. And then I love games, you guys know I love games. So these were no-brainers, the Alphabet Matching Game. It comes with this cute little book and then it's kind of like a little bingo. There's multiple different ways to play though in that book. And then I also got the Number Matching Game. Same thing, it comes with an adorable little book and little cards, multiple ways to play. And the Alphabet Book and Jigsaw Puzzle. I love these sites, you guys. They come with a book and a jigsaw puzzle. They're like $15, they're such great quality. I get them for everybody for birthdays and Christmases and holidays. And then the Number Book and Jigsaw Puzzle as well. Now these puzzles are 25 pieces so perfect for three to five year olds. So that is what I got her for starting preschool. So like I said, I really wanted to share it mainly because I wasn't sharing stuff on the YouTube channel back when Emily was in preschool. So if you have a preschooler and you're wondering what can I order from Usborne, those would be some of my top recommendations. Now I love all of the matching games. Now I didn't get this for her, I actually got this one for my niece and my nephew. But these matching games are amazing. They come with a book, they come with multiple different ways how to play four boards, 36 cards and so educational and they're $13. They make a perfect gift. This is actually going to be my niece and nephew's Valentine's Day gift for me. I have gotten them the Under the Sea, the Dinosaur and the Bug one and they absolutely love them. So when Usborne released the animal one, I knew I had to have it. So I grabbed that one for them very quickly. And then I was super excited to see that they released one that Emily could finally play and it was Time's Tables. So again, it comes with a little book, the four boards, the 36 cards, multiple ways to play. So I'm very, very excited that we can have a little game to review multiplication facts with her. All right, I'm just gonna jump into the rest of this. So everything else is for our homeschool. Fairy Unicorns is a series Emily absolutely loved. There was six books in the series. They recently released a seventh. So I picked the seventh one up for her because it looked really amazing. It's the Kingdom Under the Sea. What I love about the Fairy Unicorn books is there are pictures and colors, but the colors coordinate to the cover. So you can see that this book is blue. So all of the pictures inside are that same blue color. That's my visual learner coming out. But that is about, let's see, let me find a really good page. This is the reading level of these books in case you're curious. They have approximately 110 pages. I actually read the first six aloud to Emily when she was like five or six. And then she reread them when she was probably seven or eight and she loves them. So she's gonna be super excited to read that seventh one. And then I knew that I had to get these books for Emily too. This is Marie Curious Girl Genius. So far there are three in the series. There are approximately 250 pages in each of them. And this is what the reading level looks like. The first one is Marie Curious Girl Genius Saves the World. The second one is Marie Curious Girl Genius Undercover Gamer. And the third one is Marie Curious Girl Genius. Rescue's a Rockstar. Another set of books that screamed Emily to me. The covers look a little scary, but they didn't sound super scary. I think she's gonna love them because she loves everything Unicorn. And that was these two new releases. So let's see, they have approximately 350 to 360 pages. This is about what the reading level looks like in them. The first one is the Midnight Unicorn. And the second one is the Darkest Unicorn. They also released a new Illustrated Stories book. And I love these Illustrated Stories are absolutely gorgeous. So we grabbed the Illustrated Stories of Mermaids. So it's all of the mermaids you can think of from like the little mermaid to ones from places you've probably never heard of. I just really like that it's kind of like mermaids from around the world. Just in case you're curious, this is the table of contents in that one. I thought it would be a really fun one to read this summer. Okay, let's see what else. A hundred things to know. We have all of the books in this series so I had to add this one. So a hundred things to know about food. I like that these just have like random facts but are super educational. They're little like tidbits of information. They're colorful, they're fun. They're perfect additions to your morning basket because you can read like one each day. And then same thing with this, the Usworn Understanding series. We have all of them. So we had to get the new one, which is physics. And I think this one might be my favorite, you guys. I mean, I love them all but this one is exceptionally bright. Tons of information and it's gonna be so much fun. Perfect addition to a homeschool. And the write your own story word book. So we have like the poetry one and the first story and the story and the comic book and all of the other ones similar to this in this series. So I thought this would be a really great addition. I love having these on hand for language arts so that we can just kind of have fun. She can enjoy her stories. Here is the table of contents for this particular one. So you will set the scene and choose words and create characters and pick different words for stories. I just think it's less intimidating for kids than a blank page. So it's more fun, kind of guided. I don't know, I just really like it. We haven't done any of these that we haven't enjoyed. And then magic painting books are some favorites around here. And so I grabbed a few new ones for spring. So we have bugs and Greek myths. These weren't new releases. They were just some that Emily asked me to grab for her. She loves the magic painting books. So we added those in. All right, back to some of the other new releases. This series is probably one that Kevin was the most excited about. I mean, I'm super excited, but he was really, really excited. And it's the Kid Engineer series. You can buy each of these books individually or you can buy them in a set. There are six of them in total. And they're just really cool because you go through and it has all of the different information. And then at the back, there's a glossary. But then there's also like, here you are the engineer. And so you get to do something like a project. So this one is working with buildings and structures. Then we have working with computers and robots, working with energy, working with machines, working with materials. And the sixth one is working with transport. So I just wanna show you inside one more time because like I said, I think it's really cool. So like here's automotive engineering. And then it talks to you all about different things, but like here's one where you get to be the engineer after you've learned about automotive engineering and you're gonna build a balloon car. Now, yes, you could totally research this and do Pinterest and you wouldn't even need any of this stuff. But I think it's just really cool to have it all in one book. Like the next page is Railway Engineer. And then after you're the Railway Engineer, you get to engineer your own thing. So it's like you're reading about it and then you're making it. I just really like that it's all in one book. It's super easy. So Kevin will be adding those to his science section for them to do on STEM days. These fold out ones are some of our absolute favorite because they are super big. And to see the timeline is really cool. This new release is a Planet Earth timeline because I know people are probably gonna ask me. It does have the big bang on it. So let's see if I can show you this way so that you can make an informed decision. Let's see. And it is double-sided. So that was one side and then here's the other side. I just think these fold out ones are really, really cool. So there's that one. Plus we have all the other ones. They released a new puzzle this go round. So I went ahead and grabbed it too because like I said, I love these books and puzzles. It's the Cities of the World. So you get a 24-page Cities of the World book and then you have the 300-piece puzzle. And we are down to our last stack. I was probably the most excited about these two. So there's already a USA Activity book that they have and we already own it. And these are kind of along the same lines. You have Animals of the USA Activity book and Spirit of the USA Activity book. And these are going to make such great additions to Traveling the States. I'm so excited about that. They're just tons of fun. I mean, it's like 50 fun activity puzzles and quizzes. I just think it's gonna be a great way to do even more with Traveling the States. I also think these would make great additions to car schooling. If you were traveling, like if you were driving across the USA, I think they would be really fun. So this one is 50 fun puzzles and activities as well. And I love the quality of them. Like the pages are really high quality and they're not gonna rip when they're trying to write on them even in the car. And lots of fun and super educational. Asworn Lift the Flap Trees. So all the Lift the Flaps are absolutely beautiful. And I don't think there could be a more fun one than trees. I mean, it's tropical trees, cold trees, watery trees, extraordinary trees. So super fun way to learn more about trees, especially if you have a learner who needs to be hands-on, like kind of kinesthetic, because they can lift those flaps and be interactive with it. This is another Asworn Lift the Flap. It's their Question and Answer series and it was How Does It Work? And I know Emily is going to love this because it is just tons of things. So here's the table of contents for all of the different how it works.  Why is traffic so noisy? What is the internet? How do keys unlock doors? Why do birds lay eggs? How does medicine make you better? So they ask the question and then to get the answer, you will lift the flap and the answer is underneath. So again, kind of helps really cement that learning because they're being interactive with it. And I also got the Lift the Flap Question and Answer music. I did not realize until we placed this order that we already have this one. So we have a duplicate. I'll probably give this to my niece and nephew for Valentine's Day along with the game. But again, it just asks those questions, like will my pet enjoy this tune? Do my sing? Can people make music on the spot? And then once they've asked the question, lift the flap and the answer is underneath. So super interactive. The last two things were just picture books that were new releases that looked super adorable that I couldn't walk away from. This one is How to Make a Book. All books begin with a brilliant idea. I liked the premises behind it. I love anything that encourages Emily to be creative in her own writing. So I thought that would be really fun to kind of go through how a book is made. I mean, because it talks about how the author even does a happy dance. And then here's the illustrator drawing for the book and their process. And it goes through publishing. I just thought it would be really, really fun to add to our homeschool library. And then the last one was just way too fun because Emily is not the biggest fan of math. So anything I can do that's gonna make math fun, I'm all about it. And so this is Never Ever Teach a Stegosaurus to do sums and she's obsessed with dinosaurs. So it is dinosaurs and math. What could go wrong? And it's just cute and colorful. And I don't think you're ever too old for picture books. So that's it. That is our Usborne Hall, or at least our most recent Usborne Hall. But I did want to leave you with some really, really exciting news. If you saw all these titles and you were like, oh my gosh, I would love to add this to our homeschool library, but I just don't have the funds to do that right now. The exciting thing is that currently, if you're watching this when it's released, I am hosting a book and a game giveaway with Abby from Rooted and Rest. And we are giving away a $250 Usborne gift card, as well as a $250 Amazon gift card. So if you saw tons of titles that you want to add to your homeschool library, we want to help you do that. All of the details on how you can enter to when will be in the description box. And good luck.