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Rated PG-13. Our Ratings: V -3; L -1; S/N –2. Running time: 1 hour, 45 min. Now if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are …
Reviewed by Eric Larsen Rated PG. Our Ratings: V-3; L-1; S/N-2. Running Time: 1 hour 58 min. Themes: Identity, Family, Belonging My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.’ So I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. …
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Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V- 4; L-1 ; S/N -1. Running time: 2 hours 2 min. but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.” Genesis 2:17 If they plan evil against you, if they devise mischief, …
Continue reading “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)”
Rated R. Our ratings: V-7 ; L- 2; S/N-1 . Running time: 1 hour 50 min. The Omen When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. Another angel with …
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 …
A small-town man sets forth from Oregon to walk to NYC to fight on behalf of his gay son against LGBTQ bullying.
I can’t believe it’s been such a long time since my last entry. Aside from my usual writing for Visual Parables, LectionAid, and Lectionary Homiletics, I’ve been engrossed in finishing the book Blessed Are the Filmmakers, outlined below. It was inspired by reading Daniel Buttry’s inspiring collection of 60+ minibiographies of peacemakers, living and dead, …
Rated PG R. Our ratings: V -6; L -2; S/N -1. Running time: 2 hours 25 min. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ‘Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely* on my account. …
Continue reading “For Greater Glory: The True Story of the Cristada (2012)”
French-born director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire has gifted us with the most harrowing parable about an ambulance medic since Martin Scorsese’ 1999 film Bringing Out the Dead. That title fits the newer film as well, with so many of the victims treated by the two medics in this story dying before or just after arriving at the hospital, …
The story of the last years of Janaican reggae singer/composer Bob Marley who sought to bring peace to warring dactions through his music.