Every man I know will sit through a three-hour movie and won't sit through twenty minutes of Scripture. That used to bother me. Then I started paying attention to what those movies were actually about.
The reluctant man who has to become who he was made to be. The sacrifice that saves people who don't deserve it. The descent, the death, the return. The betrayal by the man closest to him. These aren't Hollywood inventions. They're the oldest story there is, retold by writers who mostly don't know they're retelling it.
Bible and the Movies pulls that code up to the surface. It's a book about film, and it's a way into Scripture through a door most men will actually walk through.
What this book covers
- The redemption pattern, and why it shows up in films with no religious content at all
- Christ figures — the honest ones, the accidental ones, and the ones that don't hold up
- How the enemy gets portrayed on screen, and where that portrayal goes wrong
- Watching with your sons: turning a Friday night into a conversation worth having
- Where a film stops being a doorway and starts being a substitute
They're not stealing the story. They can't help telling it.
Who it's for
Men who love movies and haven't got much use for church. Fathers looking for a way into a real conversation with a teenage son. Small groups that want something they can gather around a screen for and still come away with Scripture.
You don't need to have read Books One or Two. This one stands on its own, and for a lot of guys it's the easiest place to start.