I love Christian movies. They always lift you up in a way that other movies don’t.

This movie stars Ving Rhames, one of my favorite actors, as a ex convict and reformed pastor who just finished serving 15 years in prison. He comes back home to try and help out in his community and take over his father’s church.

He reaches out to Norris, a drug dealer, and tries to help him get away from his old life and start a new one.

It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, but you will enjoy it.

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Saving God
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Christian Movie Previews

I love Christian movies, and there are a lot of really good ones out there. When you take out the graphic sex, graphic dialogue, and all of the other graphic garbage that simply doesn’t need to be on screen, you find some great movies.

These are movies that focus on plot, character, and things that are really important.

I’ve posted a link to Christian Movie Previews for you.  This is a new site where you can find previews for all of the best Christian movies, as well as new releases. You definitely want to check it out. Here’s a preview to get you started:

Kings – Hulu

The NBC series Kings is a modern day retelling of the story of King David (before he became king), and Saul, the first king of Israel.

Although some of the elements of the original story have been changed to update the story for a modern setting, it is essentially the same.

It really is too bad that this series was canceled. It’s so rare now to see characters on TV struggle with issues of faith.

All of the episodes are posted on Hulu, and it’s definitely worth watching. This series is available until September 2010.

Below is the trailer:

This post contains the trailers for the movie “The Book of Eli,” starring Denzel Washington. For those who want to see the movie, it’s currently available in theaters.

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I have seen a lot of movies in my time, but I’ve never seen one like this one. This movie takes a look inside something that most of us never think anything about: what happens when a US military service member is killed in battle.

I’m sure that many of you have seen the pictures of the caskets as they come into Andrews Airforce Base in Dover, Delaware. It is a sobering reminder of what happens when a country is at war.

The question is, what happens to those caskets after they come in? This movie answers all of those questions, and it does it in a very moving way.

The story is based on an essay written by LTC (Retired) Mike Strobl. Strobl volunteered in 2004 to escort the remains of a young man killed in Iraq.

This is about Strobl’s personal journey. Strobl is working at Quantico, Virginia as a manpower-deployment analyst. He feels guilty because although he served in the first Gulf War, he hasn’t deployed overseas this time. He volunteers to escort the remains of a young marine from his hometown.

The young man he escorted was Chance Phelps, a marine killed in the April 2004 surge, one of the bloodiest parts of the war. Although Strobl doesn’t know Phelps, he wants to do something to honor this young marine because they’re from the same hometown.

What I liked the most about this movie is that it gives a rare glimpse into what really happens behind the scenes when a US service member dies. Each set of remains is treated with the utmost respect. Service members are carefully prepared for burial, and they are buried in a perfectly prepared uniform regardless of whether the service member is viewed during the funeral or not.

I have to say I cried. As a veteran, these are my brothers and sisters who are dying. As a parent, this could have been my child.

By the end of the movie I felt like I knew the people in this story, who they really are/were, and what their lives were really like.

Regardless of your feelings on the war, this movie is a reminder of the high cost of war, and what our service members have done for us. It is a relief that at least in death we are able to render them a type of respect they might not have received in life.

This movie is not to be missed.

Taking Chance
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If you are a Christian, and you have seen the Secret, you may feel like I did: there’s something missing. It also didn’t help that Rhonda Byrne made it sound like some big conspiracy had been hatched to keep all of us from knowing the truth?

After all, what Byrne teaches is from the Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles, a book I might add that outlines the process from start to finish, including the fact that God is involved. It’s nothing like the Secret where all you have to do is think your way to success. No action required.

Regardless, after reading The Secret, I have to say that I was severely disappointed. It took longer to watch the movie than it did to read the book, and there really wasn’t any difference between the two. Even worse, it was a lot of metaphysical garbage. I’ve learned that without God in the process, The Secret may work, but it certainly won’t lead to the level of happiness, joy, and peace we achieve in following Jesus Christ.

That’s why this movie is so vitally important. It goes beyond The Secret to reveal what the Bible has to say about how we are to really live our lives. Too many today get Christianity wrong and because of it, they lose out on the life God really wants them to have.

For me it was understanding how to operate within God’s laws and live the life I want. What we sometimes don’t understand is that the life we really want is the life that God really wants to give us. God made each of us for a purpose. When we avoid living that purpose, we often fail to reach our full potential.

One thing I liked about this movie that the Secret just completely failed to cover is the information on relationships.

The Secret originally comes from the Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Watttles. The problem with The Secret is that the author only focused on a small part of what Wattles was saying. She also put a metaphysical spin on it, and although Wattles studied metaphysics and philosophy, he was still a Christian minister, and there was no escaping what he knew the Bible said about money, relationships, and how we were to live our lives.

In order to fully live the life we were created for, we have to learn how to get along with others. We also have what makes good relationships if we want to have the kind of relationships that will bring us satisfaction and joy in life and enrich our lives. Although money and personal satisfaction are important, ultimately relationships are the thing that make or break us.

The bottom line is that this movie covers everything that Rhonda Byrne failed to include in the Secret and kept the Secret from being anything more than a bunch of metaphysical BS. What this movie clearly shows is that there’s no need for us to be afraid of living the life God created for us to live. God has our best interests at heart. When we live the life he created for us, we get a life better than we can even imagine. We can trust God with our lives. He is the one who created the healthy desires of our hearts in the first place.

If you want everything that The Science of Getting Rich/The Secret type books can provide for you, then watch this movie. Filled with scripture and step by step instructions, you’ll go the rest of the way to finding the life you want.

This is also available as a video. You’ll find it on Amazon.

The Secret Things of God: Unlocking the Treasures Reserved for You
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Warning: ‘Antichrist’ movie tricking Christians

If you really want to protect yourself from being fooled by garbage like this, it’s a good idea to read your bible. Then you won’t be fooled.

I’ve included the link to the story above, as well as the trailer for this movie. Don’t be fooled.

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(As far as I know, this is not a Christian movie. I put it in the movie category because it’s a movie.)

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As a Christian, it’s really hard to find good movies to watch. There are just way too many movies nowadays that glorify lifestyles and actions that simply shouldn’t be glorified.

When I stumbled across this movie, I decided to watch it because I had already read the book of Revelations. This movie sounded interesting, and so I gave it a try.

This movie tells the story of the last years of John the Apostle. John was the youngest of Jesus’s disciples and the only one who wasn’t martyred. John is also the only one who lived to a very old age (He didn’t die until he was in his 90s).

Most of the story takes place on the Island of Patmos where John lived out his last days in exile. During this time he gets the visions he writes about in the book of Revelations.

What I liked so much about this movie, other than Richard Harris as John who is a very fine actor, is the very human face it puts on the events in the Bible. Many people don’t want to believe that the Bible is true. Instead, they want to believe that it is a book of myths and fairy tales even though much modern scholarship has proven much of the Bible to be historically accurate.

There are many scenes in this movie that will bring tears to your eyes, especially if you are a Christian. When John gives his food to another prisoner to replace what a guard had thrown out, it’s deeply moving to see the compassion of someone who has so little materially and yet has everything spiritually.

The whole experience really deepened my faith and softened my heart to want to be more compassionate to other people. It brought into perspective the lessons Jesus was trying to teach us. It really doesn’t matter what the world thinks about you. What’s important is how God sees you and your relationship with Him.

Although the Biblical references to the Book of Revelations, John’s visions, are hard to understand unless you’ve studied Revelations, they are still visually appealing, and will arouse your curiousity about what Revelations really says.

This is both a very spiritually and emotionally appealing movie that accurately follows both what the Bible teaches and what history says about the persecutions of Christians at this time, as well as the incarceration of John.

I highly recommend this movie to anyone who wants a movie that will touch your heart and make you think.

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Another independent Christian movie out on DVD

“Come What May” Hailed by Pro-Life Movement Nationwide

Not too long ago I got into a debate on You Tube with some pro abortionists. This is nothing new because I can tell you that I don’t mind one bit hammering these murderers with the truth about what abortion really is.

If you want to have blood on your hands, then fine, whatever, but I would never kill an innocent person for the sake of my own selfishness, and that’s exactly what happens when a woman goes into an abortion clinic.

Anyway, this is the first time I have ever heard someone say that a baby is not a baby. The woman I got into the discussion couldn’t tell me what was in the womb of a pregnant woman, but it wasn’t a baby or a human being. At least that’s what she said.

Let me explain something here: I don’t need God or the Bible,  or religion, or the Catholic Church to prove that a baby is a baby. All I need to prove it is a little science in the way of an ultrasound machine, and an ultrasound will clearly prove that it is a human being, a life.

And that is what the heart of this movie is all about: the one argument that could once and for all destroy Roe VS Wade: is it a human being? If it is, then we are bound by the Constitution to protect it.

The question, then, at the heart of the entire debate is simple: when does life begin? In other words, does it begin at conception or not?

On the one side is Caleb Hogan, a member the local moot court team. Caleb argues for what he truly believes. Now his debate team is arguing in favor of ending abortion, an argument they are making in a state competition. Caleb is afraid to argue it because teams that have argued this issue before have lost.

At the same time his mother is before the Supreme Court arguing a case from the pro abortion perspective.

Caleb has a clear choice: he can argue abortion from the pro life stance and lose the support of his mother or he can argue from the pro abortion perspective and win the competition. The price is that he will lose the girl he loves, Rachel, a pro life member of the moot court team.

What will he choose?

This truly is a great movie and definitely worth watching. It states the argument from both sides very clearly, as well as stating the facts. For those who don’t understand this issue, or want to know the truth, this movie will clear it all up for you.

The best part is that this movie is very well acted and made with a well written story. It will make you laugh, and cry, and it will definitely touch you heart. Not to be missed.

Movie Over Abortion Battle Streaming Over the Web

To get more information on the movie and the distribution of the movie, read the article above. If you would like to view actual clips of the movie, then visit the website below:

American Family Association Website

I want to see Roe vs Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision making abortion legal, overturned. With all of the science we now have available to us, there’s absolutely no doubt that we can prove that this is a human being in the womb, and to abort this babies is to commit murder.

The really sad thing is, the women who have abortions, and those who support abortion, obviously don’t care that it’s a human being. If they did, they would neither support abortion or have them.

I’ll be honest; I’ve never had an abortion. When I was pregnant with my third daughter, my grandmother tried to talk me into having one because she didn’t think I was capable of taking care of another child even though I was married.

I said no. Years later I divorced my daughters’ dad and raised them on my own. Quite frankly, I think that women who opt for abortions are weak. In essence, what they are saying when they have an abortion is that they’re not capable of taking  care of a baby. The other side is that these women are selfish. A baby might get in the way of what they want.  97 percent of abortions in America are done for convenience. Because the woman doesn’t want that baby. Only three percent of abortions are done to save the life of the mother, rape, or incest.

100 abortions are done every year because the sex of the baby is not what the parents wanted. 8,000 are partial birth abortions. 90 percent of Down’s Syndrome babies are aborted. 49 percent of the women who have abortions didn’t even bother to use birth control.

Some of the statistics I’ve reported here came from the Atlanta Journal and Constitution back when the right to life groups were meeting here in 1988. Others are from my reading over the years.

Here are more statistics: Abortion Facts

The Guttenmacher Institute is the most reliable source for abortion statistics. You’ll find those here: Guttenmacher Institute

As you can see from the statistics on birth control, abortion is largely preventable. You can go to any health department in the nation and get birth control.

If you claim to be Christian, YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE. IT’S MURDER.

It’s time we started holding people within the church accountable for this. I know these women find out when it’s too late that they’ve made a mistake. Live with it.

I don’t mean to sound mean, but it’s murder, and it needs to stop. We have to stop this, and this is an evil that needs to be stamped out in the Church right now.