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• June 2025
• An offer that can’t be refused
• Every Man’s Battle
• Resurrection scored by John Debney
• A lack of greed…and income taxes
• Michael Jackson’s disappearing hat
• A question asked in 1966

The 50th anniversary of Hollywood’s first summer blockbuster.

• American society designating four days of the year to Jesus.  Including Good Friday and Christmas Eve.
• One day for those who gave their lives in America’s wars on Memorial Day.  Four at the most if you count the weekend.
• One day for fathers on Father’s Day.
• One day for mothers on Mother’s Day.
• One day for those who labor on Labor Day.
• One day for veterans on Veterans Day.
• One day for Martin Luther King, Jr.

CREATING A PERSONALIZED SCROLL TO BEGIN REREADING…

…FROM BIBLE VERSES   (8 Bible verses, mostly from Proverbs)

…FROM DON WHITNEY  (5 journal prompts)

…FROM OG MANDINO  (Several sentences from the last pages of The God Memorandum.  Several from the 1st Scroll.  And one from the 2nd Scroll.)

• Genesis 4:7
• Psalm 119:16
• Proverbs 4:26
• Matthew 3:8
• 1 Timothy 4:15-16
• Titus 2:14

• Bible Intake
• Prayer
• Worship
• Evangelism
• Serving
• Stewardship
• Fasting
• Silence & Solitude
• Journaling
• Learning 
• Perseverance In The Disciplines

“He calls us to rise up, by the power of His indwelling presence, and get the job done.”  –from the last page of chapter 6 from Every Man’s Battle by Stephen Arterburn & Fred Stoeker

• Please pray for anyone with the courage to stand up to a bully or to bullies. 
• And to also pray for those suffering at the hands of a dictator.

“The impulse to pray was overwhelming.” –from a book published on the 50th anniversary of a key battle in history

• His Oscar-winning work helping the future director of “the scariest movie ever” win his Best Director Oscar and the DGA award.
• Starring alongside Terri Garr in a couple of classics from 1974.
• He played the arch nemesis of a caped protagonist in Hollywood’s first comic-book movie. No DGA nomination.  Most comic-book movies don’t receive DGA nominations.  Released in 1978, this was the first of the interplanetary travel movies from 1977 to 1987 on my Star Wars To Predator list to follow Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, a movie with the line “This is important.  This means something.”
• He reprised his role as a villain in the first sequel to Hollywood’s first comic-book movie. Hollywood’s second comic-book movie.  Again, no DGA nomination.  Just pointing out again that most comic-book movies don’t receive DGA nominations.  Anyway, this sequel was the second biggest summer movie at the box-office in 1981.  But you wouldn’t know that according to an online box-office site.  What they have is a lie that they’ve been publishing for years.  “It’s important, Marion.  Trust me.”  Facts scare those folks, apparently.
• Starring in a 1986 film scored by Jerry Goldsmith…an interesting year for that film composer. Interesting for religious reasons.
• Starring with Willem Dafoe in a 1988 film nominated for Best Director…and a DGA nomination as well. 
• Winning his second Oscar in another Best Picture winner (from 1988 thru 1994…a consistently successful string of Best Picture winners, one of which has a very important scene involving television. Some folks in the media have been persistent over the years with their subjective opinions in trashing that particular Best Picture winner. Facts scare those folks, apparently.)

“It is difficult for me to put into words…yet I am positive that certain pieces of music, certain works of art, and certain books and plays were created, not by the composer, artist, author, or playright but by God, and those whom we have acknowledged as the creators of these works were only the instruments employed by God to communicate with us.” –from Og Mandino’s The Greatest Miracle In The World

The first of the Spielberg trilogy (three hit films) that put Spielberg on top of Hollywood.

• 1975.  Hollywood’s first summer blockbuster
• 1977.  “This is important.  This means something.”
• 1981.  “It’s important, Marion.  Trust me.”

*Sidenote about Og Mandino…“If anyone adds another book or experience to the Bible, making it equal in authority to God’s Word –refuse to believe him.”  -from pg 58 of Donald Whitney’s Simplify Your Spiritual Life.  So I might add that my experience is to not place anything before my reading of the Bible, a lesson I’ve had to learn the hard way.  However, I might add the following quote from pg 59 of that same book from Donald Whitney:  “Read Christian books that teach…”  In other words, there is room for Christians to read other books.  But make sure you don’t neglect your reading of the Bible.  (Psalm 119:16  …I will not neglect Your Word.)