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Near the village of Edwinstowe in the heart of Sherwood Forest stands Major Oak. Major Oak, as you may know, is a huge oak tree approximately 16 metres in height, 3.5 metres in diameter, 23 tonnes in weight and 800-1000 years old. According to local folklore, Major Oak is where Robin Hood and his merry men found their shelter.

Another famous oak tree is Bartek Oak in Poland. Bartek Oak is only 625 years old but it out-heights and widths Major Oak in that it’s approximately 30 metres tall and has a 13.5 metre waistline – a little wide for tree-hugging. Bartek Oak’s crown spans 40 metres and it’s under this tree that King Casimir III was pictured holding his court.

The next oak (see ppt), The King Oak in Denmark, is estimated to be between 1,500 and 2,000 years old. It lives on an island I don’t know how to pronounce  (Sjaelland) and is thought to be the oldest living organism in northern Europe.

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The last couple of days I’ve been writing my sermon for this weekend and if you watch the video when it’s uploaded or you read the transcript below, you will soon realise I have wrestled with the topic of healing for many years. I still don’t profess to have all the answers but I now have peace, praise God, and I want to share what brings this peace with everyone. Read on I say! Or if you can, come hear this sermon in person this Saturday at 11.00am!

Sue Redman – October 17, 2009

It was February, 1986 and it was my older sister’s birthday. For some reason we were only allowed to have birthday parties with more than one friend every seven years as a kid, so being my sister’s 14th birthday, this meant a grand occasion. Grand occasions on wheat and cattle properties usually meant things like Dad teaching our friends how to ride the horses. Or building bonfires and cooking damper on sticks. Or making cakes together and leaving half the mixture in the bowl so everyone could eat the leftovers while the other half cooked.

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Ever wished you could put on God’s glasses and see things from His perspective for a day? Brad preached about the problem we have of spiritual blindness, what tends to make us that way and how we can turn spiritual blindness into spiritual insight.

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Video Note: Jeshua is Jesus

Every so often I stumble across a book or a chapter of a book that I wish everyone could read and Your God Is Too Safe by Mark Buchanan is one of those books for me. This week I was reading Chapter Ten, Holding On To A Holy Must, and it not only had profound significance for my life but I also thought it very relevant to the lives of my church members and many of my friends and associates so I wrote it up into a sermon which I will preach at Chatswood Seventh-day Adventist Church tomorrow.

If you’re someone who finds yourself too busy or anxiously rushing about. If you already feel like you need a holiday and you’ve only just returned to work! Might I encourage you to Read More (as below) or watch the sermon on video when it’s uploaded, and discover the difference between a vacation and much needed holy days/a Jesus Christlike sense of time and timeliness and timelessness!

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Captivating Kids: Placing orphaned and abandoned children into the care of loving foster parents.

Being a Christian is as much about social justice as it is about evangelism. Not one to hold up placards and march in mass demonstrations? You can still play a part in acting justly and loving mercy.

Please note there are two breaks in this presentation: the first is for an additional video (not currently in slide) and the second is for the slide show.

I’m a step ahead of Jeremy today but I’m posting my sermon now because this was what I was writing instead of my blog this week If you’re up for the read, see Read More. Otherwise the video will be up in the next week or so. Blessings! S

The Teachings of Uzzah
Sue Redman – September 13, 2008

It is approximately 1010 BC and we’re on set with King David at Kirjath-jearim in Israel. It isn’t all that long since the Elders of Israel met with David at Hebron and anointed him king, so now David is king of both Judah and Israel. Since this time David and his men have conquered the Jebusites and made Jerusalem their capital city, and today David has gathered another 30,000 men, this time to move the ark of God from Kirjath-jearim to Jerusalem where he intends to build a temple.

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