Participants: Brenda Walsh
Series Code: KT
Program Code: KT000040
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00:03 It's time to share there's a world out there
00:07 Looking for a friend like Jesus 00:10 It's time to share there's a world out there 00:13 Let's tell them that He loves us so 00:16 Let's tell them that He loves us so 00:20 Kids' Time, Kids' Time, Kids' Time 00:24 Hi, boys and girls. 00:25 Ah, I'm just sitting here, oh, doing my exercises. 00:31 I've been using these things called dumbbells. 00:34 Now, I don't know why they call them a dumbbell really, 00:38 because it's not really a bell. 00:40 Did you hear anything jingling? 00:41 I didn't. And they are not dumb either. 00:45 You know, people use dumbbells 00:46 to help them develop strong muscles. 00:48 Now if I would lift this dumbbell 00:49 several times everyday just like this, 00:53 oh...in a short while I'd probably be stronger 00:57 than I am right now. 00:59 People like to be strong for lots of reasons. 01:01 Some people like to show off 01:02 and they like to flex their muscles 01:06 and just striking poses. 01:07 And some people love to play sports 01:08 and they know that if they-- 01:10 they will play their best if their bodies are strong. 01:12 Still others, you know, they work at jobs 01:15 that require them to be strong. 01:16 Like...um, like a carpenter. 01:18 He has to lift heavy lumber and a bricklayer. 01:22 You know, or a stonemason, 01:23 he handles heavy loads all day long. 01:25 Doesn't he? 01:26 But his back even hurts at night. 01:29 You know, even parents sometimes need to lift 01:31 heavy children and, and nureses must be 01:35 able to lift heavy patients. 01:36 I'm a nurse and I can tell you many times in the hospital, 01:39 I had to lift very heavy patients. 01:42 Well, today's Bible story is about a young man 01:44 who found himself in the middle of a war. 01:47 And it's an exciting story 01:48 of how this fellow named, Jonathan, 01:51 launched a surprise attack on the enemy. 01:54 And was he strong? Yes, he was. 01:57 And God, whom he served, 01:59 used Jonathan's strength for a good purpose. 02:03 It's a good thing for us to take care of our bodies. 02:06 But let's remember, boys and girls, 02:08 that our strong healthy bodies are a gift from God. 02:12 We're to glorify Him and not ourselves. 02:16 Now, today, you're going to hear more about Jonathan. 02:19 But, right now, Ranger Jim is going to share with us 02:22 some facts about tree rings. 02:31 Hi, boys and girls. Ranger Jim here again today. 02:33 We have another interesting study. 02:35 We're going to be learning something 02:36 about identifying trees, their age by the rings 02:40 that are formed as they grow. 02:42 We're growing to start off with the piece of shumac 02:45 that I'm holding in my hand, 02:46 which is very easy to identify. 02:48 The grains show very well on this, 02:50 so we can start from the center counting out. 02:52 Always count the light ring and the dark ring. Okay? 02:55 If you count them individually, 02:58 you'll double the age. 02:59 So we say the dark ring, we have one, 03:01 two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. 03:08 And so we will come up with eight. 03:09 We count what we call the spring wood, 03:11 which is a light color. 03:12 Then we have a darker color 03:14 and so that it represents one year. 03:16 And after we've gotten 03:17 to where we got the general idea. 03:20 If you go for a walk and you see a stump 03:21 that has been cut down, someone's logging off an area, 03:24 go over and check it out. 03:26 And you can determine how old the tree was. 03:29 If you are home schooling 03:31 or if you're going to a public school, 03:33 perhaps, you could suggest to your teacher 03:35 that you could go to a sawmill. 03:37 And ask the sawyer about the tree 03:39 that he's cutting and ask if he would give you 03:42 a slab of wood that you can take back 03:43 to your classroom perhaps two or three samples. 03:46 I've never known a man that wasn't willing 03:48 to do that and to help boys and girls 03:50 in their educational process. 03:51 So, perhaps, he can cut you off some pieces. 03:54 You could make it a class project 03:55 and take it back into your classroom 03:57 and study that and develop that talent. 03:59 I find that very enjoyable. 04:01 We have one here, that's more difficult. 04:05 I'll hold it up, hoping that camera can see it well. 04:08 And as you can see, this tree we call this a hardwood. 04:12 And the reason we call them hardwood 04:14 is because as they develop, 04:16 they are very, very dense fiber. 04:20 The shumac that I just showed you a moment ago 04:22 is very soft wood, grows very rapidly. 04:24 But this one grows slowly. 04:26 So you can see all the way from the center, 04:29 rather uniform growth rings all the way out to this point. 04:32 And then, this tree went through 04:33 a period of severe drought, 04:35 very, very, very slow growth rings. 04:38 Then it had a period here of good years. 04:40 Here's one, two, three, four, 04:43 five, six years of plenty of moisture. 04:45 Then we have another severe drought. 04:48 And this wood, all the way out to the edges of here 04:51 that period of time there, 04:52 I counted them last night with a magnifying glass, 04:55 it had about 42 years when that tree-- 04:58 42 years that tree grew and grew 05:00 less than an inch and a half. 05:02 And then, this continued zone out here begins to grow 05:05 more and more and more rapidly. 05:07 So this tree is about 168 years old, 05:12 if I remember correctly last night 05:14 in counting those rings. 05:15 And it's a relatively small tree. 05:17 It's called a hickory tree. 05:19 And so as you count the rings, 05:22 remember a light ring and a dark ring 05:24 represents one year. 05:26 All right. Now, we have some things here 05:27 I'd like to show you that are quiet a novelty. 05:31 This big spike nail was driven into this tree 05:33 when the tree was about this size. 05:36 And the nail was driven up to about here, all right. 05:40 And so then the tree slowly grows 05:43 around the nail all the way out. 05:45 And if this tree hadn't been cut 05:46 eventually the nail would've been 05:48 completely contained within the tree 05:50 as is the case of this. 05:52 This is an insulator. 05:54 This is glass insulator used for an electric fence. 05:58 This was driven by a farmer on the side of the tree. 06:01 And the tree slowly grew and grew and grew 06:04 until it was completely covered, 06:06 the nail and the insulator. 06:08 This one over here that we have is also one 06:11 that the telephone company in the early days, 06:14 they didn't always put up telephone poles, 06:16 that been treated with creosol to protect them 06:19 to make them last a long time. 06:20 They simply nailed the insulator spikes in to a tree. 06:24 And this was the part containing 06:26 the glass insulator, the wires were attached to this. 06:29 And so I have a friend who has a sawmill 06:31 and he was not happy 06:33 when his saw struck this large spike. 06:35 And his saw was dulled 06:36 and had to go back to the man who sharpened saws. 06:39 Now with modern equipment, those big sawmills 06:42 now are equipped with X-ray machines 06:44 that they can tell what's in the log 06:46 before they saw it. 06:47 And so that's a blessing to them. 06:49 But just an interesting thing 06:50 that the tree continues to grow 06:52 and completely takes that spike into its body 06:56 and is contained within the body. 06:58 We have a large piece here, 06:59 I would like to talk to you a moment about. 07:01 Because it has a special feature 07:02 that I want to point out to you. 07:04 And as you can see there, once again, 07:06 we have rather steady growth rate of rings 07:10 all the way out from the center. 07:11 This is simply a piece of decay here on this 07:14 and a decay over here. 07:15 But I wanted to point this out to you, 07:17 because this is an injury to the tree. 07:20 This is a scar and much the same 07:21 as we human beings. 07:23 If you cut yourself or injure yourself, it heals. 07:26 Doesn't it? But it will always leave a scar. 07:28 And so that's the way with the tree. 07:31 This scar was caused, I believe, 07:33 because of all these very, very small growth rings. 07:37 This tree was having a difficult time in growing. 07:39 It was most likely because of competition 07:41 from larger trees surrounding it. 07:44 But immediately after the injury, 07:46 the tree began to grow quite rapidly. 07:48 So that leads me to believe that this injury was caused 07:51 to the side of the tree most likely 07:53 when the lumber men were pulling the logs out, 07:55 one of the logs jammed up 07:56 against the side of this small tree 07:58 and peeled all the bark off 08:00 and made an injury to the tree. 08:01 And then immediately without competition, 08:04 the tree began to grow and mature. 08:06 And so there is a lesson for us there too. 08:08 If we make unwise decisions 08:11 or if we do things in our life, 08:12 if we make wrong choices, we will have that scar. 08:15 Now, Jesus takes us in and loves us. 08:18 But Jesus doesn't wipe out those scars. 08:20 Many people have made unwise decisions 08:22 all of their life with poor eating habits 08:24 or habits of using the wrong things 08:26 like tobacco or what have you. 08:28 And so, those scars, they will have to have. 08:31 It doesn't mean that Jesus doesn't love them. 08:33 But that is always true that when we do those things, 08:37 we will have to bear the consequences of that. 08:40 The oldest tree surviving today 08:42 is 2500 years old, a bristlecone pine tree. 08:47 And they are a fascinating tree in themselves. 08:49 The only way the bristlecone pine opens 08:51 so that the seed will sprout 08:53 and bring forth a new pine tree 08:55 is if it has a forest fire. 08:57 The seedpod contains very strongly bent splines. 09:02 And when a fire releases that, 09:04 that seed is sometime kicked 70 or 80 feet away 09:07 and lands on the ground outside of the fire circle. 09:10 And then, it replaces the tree 09:12 that burned in the forest fire. 09:14 What a wonderful savior we have. 09:15 What a wonderful creator 09:17 that He makes those things for us to see. 09:19 Always He does the perfect job. Doesn't He? 09:22 So whatever we might do, 09:23 it's that we know that Jesus always does it better. 09:27 So Ranger Jim is always reminding you, 09:30 boys and girls, tell Jesus that you love Him 09:33 'cause He really does love you. 09:42 Hello, boys and girls, 09:44 D'Argio is going to tell us about Ephesians 6, verse 11. 09:48 "Put on the whole armor of God." 09:51 That's right, D'Argio. 09:52 We need to be protected 09:53 because we're in the Lord's Army. 10:00 I may never march in the infantry 10:04 Ride in the cavalry Shoot the artillery 10:08 I may never fly o'er the enemy 10:11 But I'm in the Lord's Army Yes, Sir 10:15 I'm in the Lord's Army Yes, Sir 10:19 I'm in the Lord's Army Yes, Sir |
Revised 2014-12-17