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Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... Chaplin was visiting the study of his friend Pablo Picasso. Picasso made a sudden gesture and accidentally spilled some paint on Chaplin’s white slacks. Picasso said, “I’m so sorry, Charles! I’ll get some spirit and remove it.” And Chaplin ... will be yours and do what you want us to do with our lives. If you . . . If you.” And a quiet voice spoke back to Sam’s inner spirit: “No deals, Sam. No deals. No manipulations. I rule over you in all times of your life.” So here they were at this banquet ...

2. Breaking Loose

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... His love. Writes St. Paul, “The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship . . . The Spirit himself 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 was a large view of life. When his mother was eighteen, she eloped with a middle-aged man and they went to live in Africa. The marriage was a failure, so she ...

3. Living as Orphans

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... are not there. He kicks sand over it, and for a while it looks as if his problem has vanished. Thinking he has solved his dilemma, he strides to the end of the chain. Down he goes. At this point, the insight finally dawns. Like a light turning on in Chaplin’s head, he realizes that he can’t solve this problem alone. If he is going to be helped, it has to come from the outside. In the last scene, he is seen looking upward in hope of rescue. (5) When we are in times of distress, that is our hope ...

4. Laugh It Off

I Corinthians 1:18-20, 26-31

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... is why we love to read in the newspaper that the Dodgers are languishing in last place. That is why we enjoy Charlie Chaplin comedies. Charlie Chaplin always portrays a tramp. As a tramp he is an outcast. He is a nobody. He is on the bottom rung of ... a husband, children, and grandchildren. Each one was special, and she loved them all. God looked down, and smiled, and said, "That's good. That's good." But one day Natalie began to realize that she was growing older and that her body was beginning to wear ...

5. Sons And Daughters Of Thunder

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... side of the road ” back windows fogged up and steam pouring out. The driver pulled over, got out of the Rolls and banged on the MG's back window until the driver stuck his head out. "I want you to know that I had a double bed installed," bragged the Rolls driver. The ... '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 ...

6. All-Surrounding Grace

John 3:14-21

Sermon

Elaine M. Ward

... is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1). Charlie Chaplin mixed his comedy with tenderness. In the film City Lights, Chaplin is a tramp whom a rich man, intoxicated, rewards financially, but when he sobers up, he charges ... Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones ... I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn' ...

7. What Will They Think Up Next?

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... tragic dimension in the Bible. I suppose you could say Job is about tragedy. But essentially the Bible is about comedy, because it's about surprises. Comedies are about the impossible happening. Comedies are about the proud being humbled and the humbled being lifted up and exalted. When you see that in a Charlie Chaplin movie, for instance, the humble, lowly, forgotten person being exalted, and the proud people being humbled, you laugh. Have you ever thought about this? The histories of the world, the ones ...

8. Don't Be Afraid

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... of you know the story of Helen Keller, the little deaf and blind girl who, thanks to a loving and dedicated teacher became a world-famous speaker and author. Helen Keller met every U.S. President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain. Not bad for someone who could not hear or see. Do you know the most remarkable thing about Helen Keller? In the midst of her limited interaction with the world, she ...

9. Where God Can Be Seen

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... became very upset by what happened, and her anger grew into hatred. She couldn't look at a street person without blaming him for the officer's death. As a Christian Deborah recognized that she would somehow have to reconcile her anger. She felt that the best way to do this would be to ... world. But love is the central commandment that Christ gives to those who would be his disciples. 1. Mavis Chaplin. "The Perfect Card." GUIDEPOSTS. May 1993, pp. 2-5. 2. Robert L. Short. SHORT MEDITATIONS ON THE BIBLE AND ...

10. Are You Praying or Pouting? (Part IV)

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the film was dragging. Instead of a moving minute or so of prayer and softly falling snow, we would have had Charlie Chaplin-type funny, stiff-legged walking, and screechy sound. Finally, I got the oil warmed by literally holding the camera against my body. I ... of the Roman Empire, but because God had always promised to be an audience of one to him no matter where he was in life''s journey. When Paul prayed in this jail cell, he knew his prayer went to the throne. A small lad in Scotland scribbled a note to ...

11. The Prodigal Son

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Brett Blair

... money so fast that Brady called him into his office one day and had a talk with him. He said that as Chaplin of the school he felt / it was his responsibility to question his spending habits. The student responded: “But what you don’t ... the refrain that we hear on Easter Sunday morning? Isn’t that the glad news of the gospel? It is a marvelous story about God’s redeeming love. Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling. Calling for you and for me. Come home, come home. Ye who are weary come home. Part ...

12. Easter Jogging

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... dead. She is sure that the enemies have come and taken the body of Jesus away. That was a natural deduction. Charlie Chaplin was stolen from his grave. When that happened did anyone propose that he was risen from the dead? Did his family come ... . They do not yet believe that Jesus is risen, but they believe with Mary that he had been carried away. When the disciples confirm Mary's fears, she remains there in tears. Later on when she suspects that it is a friendly person who speaks to her, it had to be ...

13. The Commitment Question: Will You Lay Down Your Life For Me?

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... you are right, for that is what I am. So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. The style is clear -- not only here, ... unless they see Him in us -- unless they see Him in the way we live. One of my favorite theater stories is about Charlie Chaplin, the great actor of the silent movie era. In 1950 he was directing a play at Circle Theater in Hollywood. He became frustrated at ...

14. A Happy Ending

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Brett Blair

... dues ex machina—god from a machine. Whenever the part of a deity would occur in the play a man would be lowered from a box—that’s the machine part of it. After saying his lines he would be pulled back up by the machine. Kind of a God in a Box idea. Unfortunately ... space as he was on earth. In his penetrating book Through the Valley of the Kwai Dr. Ernest Gordon who later became Chaplin of Yale University, tells of his experiences as a POW in a Japanese concentration camp in Burma in WWII. One day, while ...

15. Grade School Dropouts

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... : Andrew Carnegie, U.S. industrialist and philanthropist Charles Chaplin, British actor and film director William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American scout and showman Noel Coward, British actor, playwright, and composer Charles Dickens, British novelist Isadora Duncan, U.S. dancer Thomas Edison, U.S. inventor Samuel Gompers, U.S. labor leader Maxim Gorky, Russian writer Claude Monet, French painter Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright Alfred E. Smith, U.S. politician John Philip Sousa, U.S. bandleader and composer ...

16. There Always Comes an End

Luke 15:8-10

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Brett Blair

... to Brady, he started squandering the money on lavish trips. He would even invite other students to go along at his expense. He was spending the money so fast that Brady called him into his office one day and had a talk with him. He said that as Chaplin of the school he felt it was his responsibility to question his spending habits. The student responded: "But what you don't understand is just how much money I have inherited." Well, that may be so, said Brady, but even to a large estate there comes an end ...

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Charlie Chaplin

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Charlie Chaplin

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