How to Manage a Crisis | The Writings | Psalm 60

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

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How do you act in the midst of a disaster? Are you able to fight your own battles? What does crisis look like to you right now? In today's episode, Tanya invites you to bring God into your battles like David does in Psalm 60. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Psalm 60

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Tanya Wilmouth.
0:16.0	Have you ever gotten yourself into trouble? And in the moment where you could turn around and get out,
0:19.0	you just dig a deeper hole instead.
0:22.0	In the PR world, they call this bread and butter, crisis
0:26.3	management. It's when companies and organizations need outside communication help
0:31.2	because their own people keep making the whole deeper.
0:35.0	Take for example, the BP crisis, now known as the largest oil spill in history.
0:40.9	While they were drilling on a platform in Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico on
0:45.0	April 20th 2010, 11 people were killed in the initial explosion. Then the rig
0:51.5	sank and over the next month
0:53.7	134 million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf.
0:58.2	But at the beginning Tony Hayward was the chief executive for BP.
1:03.7	And it took almost a year to dig the company out of the PR hole
1:08.8	that he created with some of his comments following the disaster.
1:12.4	He said things like, I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very modest on May 18th.
1:22.1	And he also said, we're very sorry for the massive disruption
1:26.6	it's caused their lives. There's no one who wants this over more than I do.
1:30.8	I would like my life back on May 31st. On June 18th, the BP Chairman fired
1:38.3	Hayward saying, it is clear Tony has made remarks that have upset people. This is when they turned to Edelman, an
1:46.2	outside PR firm to help them with their public relations side of the crisis, and launched a new
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