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Rated R. Our ratings: V- 5; L-6 ; S/N-5 Running time: 113 minutes For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12 Then Peter began to speak to …
Rated R Our content rating: V-6; L-5; S/N-1. The wicked plots against the righteous, and gnashes his teeth at him; but the LORD laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming. The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows, to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those who …
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 R. Our ratings: V-2 ; L-3 ; S-4/N-2 Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.’ Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist …
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 …
Rated R. Our ratings: V-8 ; L-2 ; S-8/N-7 So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me. Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and …
Rated PG Our content rating: V-3; L-1; S/N-1. Two Brothers Although this film stars Guy Pearce as hunter and tomb robber Aiden McRory, the real stars of Jean-Jaques Annaud’s environmentally concerned story are two tiger cubs. As with his wonderful 1989 The Bear (reviewed in the Dec. 1990 VP), the director use live animals, enhanced …
Rated PG-13 . Our ratings: V-1 ; L-1 ; S/N- 1. Running Time: 1 hour 31 min. “On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD seven days; on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and …
Rated NR. Our ratings: V- 3; L- 5; S/N-1 . Running time: 1 hour: 18 min. Deal bountifully with your servant, so that I may live and observe your word. Open my eyes, so that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. I live as an alien in the land; do not hide …
Rated R. Our ratings: V-6; L-4; S/N-3 Running time: 1 hour 25 min. Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power—with no one to comfort them. And I thought the dead, …