A bit of a stretch, but do you get Elvis posters and Elvis plates
and Elvis dolls if you sign up? A bobblehead Elvis? Huh? Huh?

THAT is totally uncanny...

madmonk, i think you are on to something here... ah-uh-huh.

But you missed the most important point of all.......

Elvis LIVES!

Jesus LIVES!

Hallelujah! I'm all shook up!! Woah, baby!!!

"~ Jesus lived in a state of grace in a Near Eastern land.
Elvis lived in Graceland in a nearly eastern state."

That one made me laugh the most :D Nice!

This is surely a revelation! Now I'm all shook up. Uh-huh, a-uh-hunh, yeh-yea-aah!

Just when things were looking up for 2007... WHO LET MADMONK OUT HIS CAGE??????

We will keep this ridiculous thread going until someone confesses...

In Texas, Bob Wills is still the King.

lol@ MadMonk @^@

Ozzy rules!

there's only one KING

Monk - Nice to have you back. But if you cooked this up yourself, man, you had WAY too much time on your hands during the holidays!

was thinking the same thing.. MM, please don't tell me this is all your work.. please tell me it was lifted from someone somewhere in the states.. funny stuff in either case.. hehe

You could start your own Church with this one Madmonk.

madmonk If this is what the united church preaches no wonder the pews are empty.

This was a found object from a book I received this Christmas. When I searched online, it was all there so it was just cut and paste.

And for those of you who think I have too much time, or that this is somehow tied in with low church attendence in some places, it was an effort to make you smile. I'm sorry you chose it as a chance to take a swipe at a defenceless monk.

I take comfort in knowing that I am at the very least funnier than you.

*walks away humming Hound Dog*

It truly is amazing how far up their own back passage some people can manage to stick their own head.

Can you email this page to someone? How?

MadMonk,

I think both are King just of different things.

there is no vs. between Jesus and Elvis and both can wear their respective crowns.

;)

RevMatt said "It truly is amazing how far up their own back passage some people can manage to stick their own head."

Thats a very loving comment for a Reverand to make. How do you know Sylviac and I were not just being sarcastic?

I liked your comment, Serena. Thought it was quite funny. Not sure why you would assume that I was talking about you. And sylviac has consistently proven herself to be a nasty, nasty person. The fact that I can easily believe that she meant that comment based on her record here counts for far more than whether or not this was the one time she was joking.

revMatt thanks for saying I am nasty. God bless you also

RevMatt not to throw stones, but may I point out that more people from the U.C have attacked me, than me attacking them. So yes I dont agree with what you teach, I should be able to say so without you people jumping all over me. You could at least ask why I dont agree with your teachings? But no that is not the UC way. It is my way or the highway sort of teachings in the United Church.

Rev Matt said "Not sure why you would assume that I was talking about you."
Oh, I don't know maybe because you either ignore my questions on other threads or make fun of them.

Sylviac, you must get a copy of the new Bible they are reading. In it it is appendaged that the people of the United Church are allowed to ridicule, make fun of, and just be plain mean to outsiders. Like the Pharisees they must get together to form a self righteous gang of bullies. This somehow fullfills the commandments of their agape Jesus.

I heart revmatt

I heart sylviac

So sylviac, I am going to ask you a very sincere question, no sarcasm.

- You have made it very clear time and time again that you really, really dislike the United Church.
- You have called it a social club and not a church.
- You object to female ministers, homosexuals, and gay marriage.
-You claim you were "booted out" of a United Church, or at the very least made to feel very unwelcome.
- You have said that you have cried in church because you were so upset at what you heard and saw going on.
- You perceive yourself to be constantly under attack by unbelieving people on this forum.

So, my question is, if the UCC/Wondercafe environment is so hostile to you and your beliefs, why are you here?

I wonder if you think you are going to change people's minds if you can just find the right Scripture passage to quote.

Or maybe there is some satisfaction in preaching against the heathens.

Really, sylviac, why are you here? I would honestly like to know.

*The Monk de-ignites his lightsaber and waits for a response...*

Hi, Monk. Care for a fried peanut butter and banana sandwich while we wait? It was the King's favorite (and I don't mean JC).

According to his childhood friend Becky Martin, Elvis always wanted to be a preacher. Martin was in touch with him throughout the 1970s and recalls Elvis saying, "Becky, just think what I could have done if I had become a preacher! Just think of the good I could have done if I'd lived my life spreading the word of the Lord." This desire would occasionally manifest itself when he read the Scriptures between songs and hushed the audience into an almost reverent silence to listen to J.D. Sumner and the Stamps sing "Sweet, Sweet Spirit."

Sumner recalls a woman approaching the stage in Vegas with a crown sitting atop a pillow and Elvis asking her what it was. She answered, "It's for you. You're the King." Elvis took her hand, smiled, and told her, "No honey, I'm not the King. Christ is the King. I'm just a singer."

In December 1976, Elvis requested that television evangelist Rex Humbard and his wife Maude Aimee meet with him backstage in Las Vegas. During the show, Elvis had dedicated "How Great Thou Art" to them, but backstage he earnestly asked Humbard if he should devote his entire show to gospel music. "Humbard told him that he shouldn't," recalled Sumner. "He said that by drawing in the multitudes and singing songs like 'Why Me?' and 'How Great Thou Art' he was tilling more soil for ministers like himself than anyone else in the world. He told him that he really would be doing wrong if he sang only gospel."

According to Humbard, "I took both his hands in mine [and] said, 'Elvis, right now I want to pray for you.' He said, 'Please do,' and started weeping."

One of the men standing nearby as Presley and Humbard knelt together was Rick Stanley, Elvis's stepbrother. "Elvis recommitted his life to Jesus Christ on that night," he told me in an interview. "Elvis knew the Lord. He was a modern day King David." Stanley believes that, like King David of the Bible, Presley was a man who pursued God, yet stumbled often into the sins of the flesh.

Stanley has one of the more unique perspectives of all those who were close to Presley. He lived with Elvis for 18 years, moving into Graceland at age 6 after his mother married Elvis's widowed father. Presley was 25 years old at the time.

Stanley worked for Elvis for many years as a personal assistant and part of his security team. As such, he participated in the behind-the-scenes episodes of drug use and womanizing. Today, however, Stanley is a Baptist evangelist who has been in ministry for 24 years, having preached in more than 4,000 churches.

On the day before Presley died, Stanley told Elvis that a friend of his, Robyn, was telling him about Jesus and how she was praying for him. "Elvis Presley, at 42 years old, looked at me and said, 'Ricky, she's telling you the truth.' Then he said, 'People who talk to you about Jesus really care.' I talked with Elvis for a while "¦ then left to run an errand." When he returned to Graceland, he was told by Lisa Marie, Presley's 9-year-old daughter, that Elvis was dead.

Are any of you surprised that Elvis was a professed Christian?

I wasn't. I take a lot of his love songs and sing them to the Lord!

Grab my ol geetar and sing "I Want You, I need You"

IB