Explore the Prophetic with Joel Kneedler (Season 3, Ep. 3)
Exploring the Marketplace
Shawn Bolz
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Shawn Bolz interviews Joel Kneedler. Joel has served in the Christian book business as a publicist, a literary agent, and now a publisher. He currently serves as the publisher of Emanate Books, a new spirit-filled imprint of HarperCollins Christian Publishing. Join the conversation as Shawn and Joel discuss the profound encounter he had with Jesus, a moment where God came through in the publishing world that brought breakthrough, and the amazing beautiful story of his birth mother that reconnected him to his true identity in God. You don’t want to miss these power stories of breakthrough!
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| 0:00.0 | Exploring the prophetic is a conversation-based podcast that we want to invite you on this journey |
| 0:06.7 | into people's lives in every sphere of society where they're sharing that how they've heard God |
| 0:11.3 | and what's happened as a result. I want to encourage you to come join the conversation |
| 0:15.6 | and this season, season three, we're specifically focusing on how when God speaks, |
| 0:19.7 | there's breakthrough actions that happen that would have never happened if it wasn't for hearing |
| 0:23.6 | from God in the first place. Before and after moments, what would take 20 years is happening in a |
| 0:28.0 | second because beautiful believers are obeying the voice of God. Come join the conversation, |
| 0:33.6 | come join the narrative, God is speaking to you today. |
| 0:41.4 | Welcome to Exploring the prophetic. I'm your host Sean Bowles and I'm so excited about today's |
| 0:44.7 | show. I love season three. It's all about breakthrough and today we have Joel Needler, who's the |
| 0:49.9 | publisher of my latest books through the eyes of love. Joel was in front of a live studio audience |
| 0:55.0 | as a matter of fact, it was so profound just his storytelling and just the way he's gone after |
| 1:00.0 | publishing and book writing, editing, publicist, all these kinds of things from a spiritual perspective, |
| 1:06.7 | so profound that he's working for Harper Collins and in Harper Collins, they have been known for not |
| 1:12.0 | having charismatic books for a long time. They have Thomas Nelson, Zondorf and they're the largest |
| 1:17.3 | Christian publisher in the world. And Joel was working on different projects like Magnolia with |
| 1:22.5 | Chip and Joanna Gaines and Tim Tebo's book and different books and he was working on these projects |
| 1:27.1 | and just wanted to see people having an encounter with God and so he shifted his whole life towards |
| 1:32.5 | that and as a result we're one of the many people he's publishing which is amazing through Harper |
| 1:36.8 | Collins through M&A, which is also Thomas Nelson brand, which I'm very excited about. Now I say |
| 1:41.8 | that because to be in the publishing world and hear God and actually navigate with God as your |
| 1:46.8 | GPS, to be as God as your your internal guiding system and see what's at stake in that is huge. He's |
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