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Rated PG-13 Our content rating V-0; L-4; S-6/N-1. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself? Luke 9:25 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, I will never fail you nor forsake you. …
Rated PG. Our ratings: V-4 ; L- 1; S/N-1 But the one who had received the one talent went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money. Matthew 25:18 The Incredibles Unlike the fearful servant in Jesus’ parable, Bob and Helen Parr (a.k.a. Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl, superheroes par excellence) …
Rated PG-13 . Our ratings: V-1 ; L-2 ; S/N-3 The righteous walk in integrity— happy are the children who follow them! … The glory of youths is their strength, but the beauty of the aged is their gray hair. Proverbs 20:7,29 In Good Company Set in the world of corporate take-overs, Paul Weitz’s film …
Rated R. Our ratings: V-8; L-5; S-5/N-3 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever. Psalm 9:18 It (love) bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things… And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. …
Not rated. Our ratings: V-4 ; L-3 ; S/N-1 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Yet you have made them a little lower than God, …
What a double bill the next two non-fiction films would make! One is blatantly political, created to discredit and defeat a sitting president who has drawn the ire of the film’s maker. The other seems to be apolitical, but actually is based on a politics very different from that of the first, one perhaps best …
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Not Rated Our Content Rating: V-1 ; L-1 ; S/N-1 Running time: 105 minutes As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. Isaiah 66:13 Dear Frankie Oftentimes silence can convey as much meaning as words. That director Shona Auerbach and screenwriter: Andrea Gibb understand this is …
Rated PG-13 Our content rating: V-5; L-2; S/N-2. Then God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps …
Rated R. Our ratings: V-1; L-5; S/N-5 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart. Psalm 51:6 Truthful lips endure for ever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Proverbs 12:19 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. John …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-1; L-4 ; S/N-4 Speak out for those who cannot speak, for the rights of all the destitute. Speak out, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy. Proverbs 31:8-9 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not …