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Free Easter Videos Download

March 20, 2008 Mark Edwards Leave a comment

The above terms have bought about 120 hits to my site today…..
If you want the Good Friday and Easter Sunday Videos I have made, go to my Blip TV site (link on sidebar), go to archives…then click on file you want, go to files, right click on the link. If I could work out how to post the direct link here, I would!

(Edit…please now go to this link where you can now view and download what I have done)

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Easter Sunday Video

March 18, 2008 Mark Edwards Leave a comment

Here is the video I have made up for Sunday.
I have used a lot of stuff from a video I had, but changed it greatly for my context.

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Good Friday Video

March 18, 2008 Mark Edwards 2 Comments

Here is a video I have made up for our Good Friday Service. The music and some of the video have come from Reel Worship. You can download their copy there. If you want a good copy of this, go to my BlipTV site (Link on sidebar)

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Good Friday Message

March 17, 2008 Mark Edwards 1 Comment

Speaking on Friday (God willing)….here is a couple of quotes from my message….

“Whether it is our parents mortality or our own old age, all of us will one day, die.
Now while I hope all of us are remembered, and have a fitting tribute given to us, I seriously doubt that any of our deaths will receive the same amount of attention as the death of Jesus Christ.”

“Sometimes preachers get up and say that God is waiting for you, God wants to be your friend, God wants to offer you grace…..and that is all true…but quite frankly its good that its all true, because you need it. As the soldier stood there and was terrified, full of terror he realized that this guy dying on the cross was the only hope he had….how amazing, unbelievable is that, what a paradox it is. And as all of us head towards our own mortality, head towards death, all of us need God, God does not need us, Jesus does not need us, He created us, He made us, He expects us to follow Him, He is in charge of everything, including death, and we need Him, as you face your own mortality, you need God. “

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Footy predictions for 2008

March 16, 2008 Mark Edwards 8 Comments

I notice that the Eagles have been given pretty generous odds of $2o to $1 to win the premiership, while the Freo Dockers are favoured by many to finally have a break through year being installed as third favourites at $11 behind Geelong and St Kilda.

My prediction? A Freo verses St Kilda Grand final. With the loss of King and Nathan Ablett, Geelong will still be strong but after the incredible celebration of last year (justified) I suspect they may drop off in intensity this year.

The Saints have got a decent coach, who seems to have worked out how they play best, and with ‘no kneck thug’ Gherig back at FF, and Dal Santo in the midfield, they look pretty good. They also have at least one sniper in the pack and no one on the team wants to see their captain cry again, so they have the motivation.

I do think Freo can do it this year, but as always, it depends on them. Hasleby was a big loss, and with him, I would be more confident. But I think many people forget we were without Michael Johnson for the first four games last year, Farmer for half the season and the tallest ruckman in the league for much of the last half of the season with groin issues.

We have the best centre half forward (better than Brown who is injury prone and not as flexible), three great ruckman, a excellent back line including the best back pocket player (Hayden) and the most underated back player (Grover). With the addition of Schammer who missed most of last year and has been in great form during the pre season, Black, who missed a lot of the year and Des Hedland looking like he might start to fulfill his potential, it is possible.

Some other predictions….

1. Wallace will get the lemon and sarse by round 20 and Richmond will win the most unwanted spoon in the AFL

2. Worsfold will continue to say nothing to the media, while being fawned over by channel 6peagle

3. North Melbourne will continue to suprise us, but will again fall short, you need money in this game to get that extra 5%

4. The AFL will declare that Eagles are on their last chance for the 23rd time

5. Brisbane and Hawthorn will challenge for the top four

6. If he can stay away from taxi aerials and horse chaff….Daniel Kerr will win the Brownlow

7. Farmer will have his best year ever, kicking 50 goals and prove to the footy world what every Freo fan knows, he is the ultimate team player. (To those who know he kicked more goals during one stellar year at Melbourne, this will be his best year as a team player)

8. Rhys Palmer will win the rising star award.

9. Pavlich will win the Coleman

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Quaffable Quote from Seth – Persistence

March 16, 2008 Mark Edwards 1 Comment

Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over.

That’s just annoying.
Persistence is having the same goal over and over.

Seth Godin

The goal or vision stays the same, but the church needs to modify or completely change its way of achieving it. Thats if what it is doing stops working. This applies to all models of church, no matter how new or old they are. I think some very traditional churches are achieving their mission, and some new ones are not, so its not about what you do…its what you achieve.

What is our goal, what is our vision?

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One way to lose weight…and then put it on again

March 14, 2008 Mark Edwards 4 Comments

Regular readers of this blog might remember severe abdominal pains which I suffered over 12 months ago which meant a forced stay in
RP Hospital for 3 or 4 days. They never really did know the cause at the time.
Well yesterday was the culmination of this particular journey when I had my appendix removed.
Apparently it was pretty inflamed and in my surgeons words, “definitely the cause of the pain”. This was a real suprise to me because the last month has been pretty pain free…….The past two days has not been. It hurts….at the moment I am sitting comfortably with my laptop, but if I stand up, or need to go to the you know what….mmmmm….it hurts.
I asked my doctor pre-op if I could play volleyball this coming Monday night, he laughed, and I can tell why.
But he has told me that my recovery has gone really well, despite the appendix being a ‘difficult one to extract’……..

Can’t complain though, the food at St John of God’s Murdoch was pretty filling, and any weight I lost through having my appendix removed, has been put back on!!!