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Ever since he founded Vision Video (as Gateway Films in those pre-video days), Ken Curtis has brought dozens and dozens of films to the church, but I suspect none have involved him as personally and passionately as this latest Vision Video release. Not only is Dr. Curtis the on-screen host, speaking to us from the …
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This telephone interview with the author is reprinted from the Spring 2007 issue of Visual Parables. The review of the Disney film based on the book is also included in that issue. The release of the Disney film Bridge to Terabithia, based on a Newbery Award book, was the occasion for my interview with its author …
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Rated R. Our ratings: V- 1; L- 3; S/N-3 . Running time: 1 hour 53 min. Hear, my child, your father’s instruction, and do not reject your mother’s teaching; for they are a fair garland for your head, and pendants for your neck. Proverbs 1:8-9 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, in the Lord …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V- 2; L- 1; S/N -3. Running time: 1 hour 48 min. The Lord has made himself known, he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Psalm 9:16 Note: This review and questions might contain spoilers. Woody Allen again stays behind the camera in …
Rated PG. Our ratings: V- 2; L-0; S/N-2. Running time: 1 hour 47 min. Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can …
Rated PG. Our ratings: V- 1; L- 0; S/N – 2. Running time: 2 hours Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was …
Rated R. V – 7; L-3; N-7/S-6 For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace. My heart is stricken and withered like grass; I am too wasted to eat my bread. Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my skin… All day long my enemies taunt me; …
Rated PG-13 Our ratings: V- 0; L-1 ; S-4/N-0 . Running time: 1 hour 46 min. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things… When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I …
Rated R. Our ratings: V- 7; L- 6; S/N-1 . Running time: 1 hour 50 min. They sit in ambush in the villages; in hiding-places they murder the innocent. Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless; they lurk in secret like a lion in its covert; they lurk that they may seize the poor; they …
Rated PG-13 Our ratings: V-6; L-2; S/N-1. Running time: 1 hour 40 min. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness— on them light has shined. Isaiah 9:2 In the same way, let your light shine before others… Matthew 5:16a No one has …