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1. The Loveless Love Goddess
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King Duncan
... Mrs. Gladys Baker, was periodically committed to a mental institution and Norma Jean spent much of her childhood in foster homes. In one of those foster homes, when she was eight years old, one of the boarders raped her and gave her a nickel. He said, 'Here ... a person too not just a body or a pretty face but a person. "Then Norma Jean went to Hollywood and took a new name Marilyn Monroe and the publicity people told her, 'We are going to create a modern sex symbol out of you.' And this was her reaction, 'A ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... that appeared at her door one Halloween. She called it the scariest creature she’s ever seen. The rubber mask, covering the young man’s face and head, had twisted features, a pulled-down mouth and a bright red “wound” on the cheek. Quickly, Marilyn dropped a couple of home-baked cookies into the young man’s sack and he hurried away. A couple of days later, when the paper boy came to collect, he said, “Those sure were good cookies you gave out on Halloween!” You guessed it. He was the young man ...
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King Duncan
... write their own language and has aided in the formation of a strong church. One day, a canoe loaded with 15 people from a distant village arrived to receive medical help. They stayed for a week in Marilyn’s village and attended services where they heard the Gospel for the first time. Before they returned home, the visitors asked, “Could you come to our village so that we might know about God, too?” Several weeks later, some Christians set out for the village. They arrived to find a new building, very ...
4. Don't Be Afraid
Matthew 14:22-36
Sermon
King Duncan
... , and their wives and children, with just five small loaves of bread and two fish. Now the Master needed some time alone. He sent the crowds home and the disciples out in a boat on the Sea of Galilee while he went to a mountain to pray. The Sea of Galilee is a ... loved one dealing with illness or a teenager dealing with an assortment of issues, don’t be afraid. Christ is with you. Marilyn Hedgpeth was brought up in the Moravian Church. She says that it was the custom in that church for members to post daily ...
5. Don't Be Ashamed . . .
2 Timothy 1:1-2:13
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King Duncan
... Anderes tells about a friend of hers named Cheryl Stephens who definitely had the inner witness of the Spirit in her life. She was a young mother struggling with cancer yet determined to continue ministering to others. Cheryl went home to Jesus on November 19, 2003 at age 44. According to Marilyn, Cheryl lived out Philippians 1:21, "For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain." The following is a poem Cheryl wrote in 1984, long before her bout with cancer. Remember me not for who I was /But for who ...
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King Duncan
... as a father, a special ed teacher, a stockbroker, a data entry clerk, or a mechanic. Someone wrote in to the "Ask Marilyn" column in Parade Magazine (July 30, 2000) and asked her to answer the age-old question: what is the purpose of our life ... purpose to it all. That's good news! There is a purpose to our lives. We were made to glorify God. A little boy came home from church looking visibly upset. His mother asked what was wrong. "We learned a stupid song in Sunday School today." "What was the song?" the ...
7. The Teacher
Mark 1:21-28
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Will Willimon
... -- at the end, she is more powerful even than they. How often, when my children were young, they would come home saying, ''Mrs. Brown told us.....'' and they would proceed to tell me something their teacher had told them -- something I ... their growing estrangement, her paranoia, and her dependence on barbiturates. One evening, after a doctor had been persuaded to give Marilyn yet another shot, she was sleeping. Miller stood watching her, reflecting: "I found myself straining to imagine miracles. What if ...
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James Merritt
... In all my reading and experience, I have never known of one sexually disoriented person who had a warm, loving, and affectionate father."12 I think a classic example of all of this was the sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe. You may or may not be aware of the fact that during her early years she was shuffled from one foster home to another. She gave an interview once and a reporter asked her, "Did you ever feel loved by any of the foster families with whom you lived?" Miss Monroe thought about it for a moment, and ...
9. Children Of The Light
1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11
Sermon
King Duncan
... Five months before, James' daughter Shirley had died in a fire. And James had walked up and down the sidewalks outside the funeral home, begging strangers to come and attend the funeral service. There was no family. Shirley's mother had been dead since the child ... ? Because we are children of the light: watching, witnessing, working until the whole world is aglow with his light. 1. Schwartz, Marilyn. A SOUTHERN BELLE PRIMER (New York: Doubleday, 1991), p. 28. 2. From a sermon by Wayne Brouwer 3. E-zine: BILL ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... to Mary's class one day and when the Christmas holidays came, told Mary to keep her, they didn't want her any more. Talk about cruel. So, Pearl has exchanged her home with one of the students to a home with one of the teachers. But that's OK, Pearl, she's a guinea pig by the way, fits into the menagerie of pets in our family quite well. You see, we ... -2990), May 1986 2. Heroic Stories #554: 5 October 2004 www.HeroicStories.com 3. "If Only For This Life" by Marilyn Anderes, Good News, March/April 2004, p. 44.
11. Is God Still God?
Isaiah 44:6-23
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John R. Brokhoff
... comes first and what comes first in life is a person’s god. Others make a god out of sex. Though dead for many years, Marilyn Monroe is still a sex idol for many. In 1983, a porcelain replica of Monroe, dressed in diamonds and mink and selling for $6,000, ... cleansing. This was expressed by Bobby Ewing in the popular TV serial, Dallas. He had just engaged in blackmail. When he returned home that night, he told his wife Pam what he had done and remorsefully confessed, "I feel dirty inside." As a people, we ...
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Carl Jech
... But when John's Gospel has Jesus say "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life," the personal nature of truth is being driven home. Truth is a person, not a set of ideas! To know God through Jesus Christ is to know God in a personal way. Professor William ... nature of the Gospel of Jesus, we will take the time to read a book like Please Understand Me by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates, in which we can learn how different personality types interact with one another. We might begin learning to get along much better ...
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James Angell
... shattered by that turn of events. I would have been surprised to have been chosen, given my very junior qualifications. But I remember walking home from the council chamber that night with a new lightness of spirit, with some feelings of freedom that seemed to say, "If you're ... ways of Kentucky for a new position where the pastor's study was only about 100 yards from the gravesite of Marilyn Monroe. The first year was a time of adjustment, but we stayed with it. The Golden State has been, now, the anchor ...
14. Wade In The Water
2 Kings 5:1-27
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Frederick C. Edwards
... problems and griefs that you and I experience. Stop and think for a moment of a few in the public eye. Marilyn Monroe spent her life with the gnawing pain of feeling unloved, and eventually committed suicide. Howard Hughes, for all his intellect ... the power of God to bring healing and life to us in other ways. If Naaman had not been cured he probably would have returned home thinking the God of Israel was powerless after all. If the Galilean leper had not been healed he might have thought Jesus a fraud, or ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... today, like the fellow on the plane, belief comes easy. These days it seems that people seem willing to believe almost anything. Marilyn Monroe is supposed to have said, “I believe in everything...a little bit.” That’s us. Many people today remind me ... word, a more characteristic Biblical word. Jesus again and again exhorted His disciples to have faith. Faith is belief, plus action. A homely illustration occurred to me years ago. I may visit a pond in midwinter and ask a bystander if the ice is thick enough ...
16. Christ Arose
John 20:1-9
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King Duncan
... flu-like symptoms. Feverish and sick, he made it through the service, but he was deathly pale and obviously not well. As they headed back home, the funeral director suggested the pastor stretch out in the back of the hearse since it was now empty. It had curtains and nobody would ... . 4. Cited by Dr. James L. Wilson, http://www.freshministry.org/alameda/10.htm. 5. Marilyn Omernick, http://www.stjohnslaverne.org/SermonReadingArchive/OmernickEasterSundaySermon2006.rtf. 6. Franklin Graham, The Name (Nashville, TN ...
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King Duncan
... Squires, “he doesn’t throw the ball down. He doesn’t just stop. He doesn’t announce, ‘I’m taking my ball and going home if you are going to play that way.’ What does he do? He keeps his legs going when he gets hit, he keeps ... they are stunting their growth. We learn our greatest lessons and experience our greatest growth during times of testing, during times of pain. Marilyn J. Abraham wrote a book titled First We Quit Our Jobs. In it, she makes a fascinating observation. She says that she once ...
18. Take Some Lessons
2 Timothy 3:10--4:8
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Robert R. Kopp
... room. I watched Mr. Moore, our science as well as home room teacher, take out his false teeth to gum graham crackers. Then I looked over at Donna who exchanged penny candy for kisses in the cloakroom. She was winking at me. I winked back. I always liked licorice. Melvin had another puddle under his desk. And Marilyn who was in her third year of fifth grade started rubbing my back. I didn't stop her. And I thought to myself, "Everybody in here is messed up." Then it hit me! "If everybody in here is messed ...
19. Believable Light
2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4
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William F. Dunkle
... be lived in the twilight zone. Lines of demarkation between right and wrong, good and evil, seem so often blurred or fuzzy. Marilyn Monroe said wistfully, "I believe a little of everything." That's the same as saying, "I don’t believe all of anything." ... days that followed, he contemplated suicide in his hours of despondency. One evening, he dragged himself to the porch of his home and, while looking at the heavens over Puget Sound, he remembered that his training had really been for teaching Astronomy. ...
20. What Would It Take?
Philippians 3:1-11
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King Duncan
... turned against him. He became the victim of the same persecution that he used against the Christians. Paul never again had a home of his own. Many times, he didn't know where his next meal was coming from. He spent years in prison. He ... found in Jesus was worth more than any possession or title ever could be. Joe DiMaggio, commenting on the suicide of his former wife, Marilyn Monroe, said, "She had everything to live with but nothing to live for." What a sad epitaph. Paul's situation is the exact opposite ...
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King Duncan
... some relevant statistics. According to this survey: There are 3 billion women who don't look like supermodels and only 8 who do. Marilyn Monroe wore a size 12. If Barbie were a real woman, she'd have to walk on all fours due to her proportions. ... weren't," she said with disgust, "then who put all the Band-Aids on the bathroom mirror?" We joke about it--but in a number of homes it is no joking matter. There are many women who would trade in their handsome husband for one who is faithful, one who is sober, one ...
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James Merritt
... camera and give this disclaimer: “Kids, don’t try this at home.” The following story I am going to tell you is true, but if you are single and contemplate getting married one day, don’t try this at home. On my very first date with Teresa I told her that ... walk into the Central Perk or heard Justin Timberlake come on the radio. And, if you’re my age, there was something about Marilyn Monroe you still can’t get out of your mind. Somebody said that teenage love is a feeling you feel when you feel ...
Drama
Dr. Raymond Bailey
... that have an image of people your nation wishes to honor? A side issue for me, from a first century perspective, is -- I do wonder about your culture -- is the best you have to honor on postage stamps Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley? Do you not have family portraits hanging on the wall of your home? Do you understand the kind of narrow-mindedness I had to deal with? Secondly, even if you do object to graven images, is there not a place for tolerance of differences? You should have seen the squabble that ...
24. Spin-masters Need Not Apply
1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5
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King Duncan
... what if we don't? What do you do? Comedian Jeff Foxworthy calls these unfortunate children, "Hi babies," because when you meet a kid so homely that you can't say anything nice to its parents you say, "Hi, baby." (2) Or you might say, "Oh, what a cute outfit." Where' ... any place belongs to us Christians." Christian faith does not need defenders, for it is never in conflict with truth. Marilyn vos Savant, the brilliant woman who reportedly has the highest I.Q. ever recorded, writes a syndicated column in which ...
25. The Power of God
Ephesians 1:15-23
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Rick Brand
... set in the past. Current NBA stars are now being set against the stars from the last fifty years. Madonna versus Marilyn Monroe. John Updike compared to Nathaniel Hawthorne. And when you compare the preaching and praying of the public church, the church ... world to be honored for her act of love. She has flown in airplanes for the first time, stayed in the finest homes, eaten whatever her heart might desire, met governors, mayors, and celebrities who have all wanted her autograph. There is a frightening and ...
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