Thoughts About the Movie Courageous

Last night, courtesy of the great folks at J103, I had the opportunity to take my family to view a pre-screening of the new movie Courageous. This is the fourth movie being released from Sherwood Pictures, which is a ministry that was started at Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, GA. These are the same folks that produced Flywheel, Facing the Giants and Fireproof.
The Corcoran's have enjoyed each of these movies (and also own them as well!) and actually had a personal experience with one of the stars of this movie.
Several years ago, while vacationing at Disney World, our youngest son recognized Ken Bevel, who had just starred in the movie Fireproof(pictured to the left). We were actually standing in line one morning waiting to get into Animal Kingdom. I casually asked if anyone had told him he looked like the guy from Fireproof? He responded, "Why yes they have, because I am that guy!" He was very nice and somewhat excited that my sons recognized him. He actually asked if he could have his picture made with the boys, which they thought was really cool. As fate would have it, we actually ran into his family the following night at dinner and spent additional time chatting.
Over the last several months we had read about the new movie and had heard that Ken was starring in the movie, so our family was anxious to see it. We had watched the trailers on-line and were excited to be able to watch it early. I have noticed how each movie seems to get a little better. From the screenplay, special effects, acting and writing, their seems to be improvement with each film. Courageous was both entertaining and challenging. I do not want to give the movie away, so I will just say that the premise of the movie challenges dads to do a better job of being daddy's to our children. I was moved, convicted and challenged as I watched the movie. I want to encourage all families to go see this movie and support this great ministry so they can continue to make more movies that are pro-family. They are encouraging families that want to support these types of films to go see the movie on opening weekend to help ensure that it will be played in more theaters for a longer time.
Also, Brainerd Baptist School is promoting a special showing of this movie (in conjunction with Brainerd Baptist Church) on Friday, October 14th at 7:25pm at the Wynnsong Theater off of Gunbarrell Road. Tickets are $6 and are available in the school office.