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THE GLADIATOR & THE GIANT (1)

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: 1 Samuel 17:1-58
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Title: The Gladiator & The Giant (1)
Series: Grappling With Giants
Text: 1 Samuel 17

"Grappling With Giants" Sermon Series - Sermon 1

I - The Defining of Our Giants (1 - 7)

II - The Dreading of Our Giants (8 - 11)

III - The Deploring of Our Giants (20 - 30)

IV - The Dismantling of Our Giants (31 - 40)

V - The Defeating of Our Giants (41 - 51)

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The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz, American musical film, released in 1939, that was based on the book of the same name by L. Frank Baum. Though not an immediate financial or critical success, it became one of the most enduring family films of all time. Deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" to America's film heritage, it was among the first films selected in 1989 for inclusion in the Library of Congress's National Film Registry. Dorothy Gale (played by Judy Garland), a young girl from Kansas, decides to run away from her aunt and uncle's farmhouse with her dog, Toto, who is in danger of being put down for biting a neighbor. After an encounter on the road with fortune-teller Professor Marvel, a well-meaning charlatan, Dorothy is persuaded to return home to her family.

Before they can be reunited, however, she is knocked unconscious during a tornado. When she awakens, she and her farmhouse, along with Toto, are being transported to the Land of Oz, a magical place inhabited by strange characters, including munchkins, talking trees, and witches. Dorothy's house lands in the midst of Oz's Munchkin-Land, and she soon realizes it has fallen on and killed the Wicked Witch of the East, whose powerful ruby slippers are magically transported onto Dorothy's own feet.

Though the munchkins celebrate Dorothy for her inadvertent act, the evil witch's sister, the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton), vows to kill Dorothy in order to avenge her sister and retrieve the powerful ruby slippers. Glinda the Good W ...

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