... to us? He’s saying that some of us are letting our circumstances and not our faith dictate how we feel about life. We are letting our fears and our doubts enslave us. God’s ... on the family’s name and to inherit their property. To be adopted was considered a great privilege. Do you understand that you are God’s adopted child specially selected to be part of ... testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.” Comedian Charlie Chaplin once said that the greatest gift that his mother gave to him ...
... it to August, making sure that his month would not be inferior to Julius Caesar's. Augustus was a spiritual ancestor of James and John. Back in the years just before World War II, Charlie Chaplin did a motion picture called THE GREAT DICTATOR. A delightful sequence in that movie takes place in a barber shop. Chaplin as Hitler and Jack Oakie as Mussolini are shown getting shaves in adjacent chairs. The scene centers around the attempts of each to put himself in a dominant position in order to assert his ...
