This 2,000,000 hit Youtube Viral video on abortion just hit SkyAngel on NRB! God bless NRB for showing this film! For SkyAngel viewers it just aired at 19:26 EST and will air again at 01:30am EST(10:30 Pacific). If you haven’t seen this yet please carve out the time to watch it now or when it is on 48hr playback! Please spread the word for the lives of unborn children! DirecTV owners also get NRB. I’m not sure about Dish. Check your local listings! Please spread the word! God bless!

See Preview Here –> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Tcmj9d6Vo&feature=relmfu

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I really enjoy Whitestone pictures. I’ve watched almost all of their offerrings and some more than once. This is a great short film about breaking bonds of slavery and a distinctive Christ focus. I love the beat to the song and the performance as well. In one word the presentation is, powerful. Check out all that Whitestone has to offer. If you have a good stereo system and like intense music, play this loud! God bless!�

The Smile of a Child network is a great channel that has dozens of Christian and family friendly shows for kids. My kids are always finding shows they enjoy! I have noticed recently that Smile of a Child tends to have several family and children’s movies on Saturdays throughout the day. With the 48hr playback feature you can enjoy them for a few days. Last Saturday they had three movies: A Dog of Flanders, Torchlighters: Gladys Alyward, and Heidi. We watched the first two and enjoyed them both. A Dog of Flanders is an older movie in color that is based on a classic children’s book. This story is about a young Dutch boy who is very poor and living with his Grandfather. It is quite a dramatic tale of friendship, loyalty, loss, finding his talents as an artist, and of course there is his dog. Dog of Flanders is a bit dramatic and is probably best for six and up. The second one we watched Torchlighters: Gladys Alyward is about a young missionary women in China during World War 2. This cartoon tells the story of her risking her life by walking for 31 days through the mountains with over 100 children in order to save them from the Japanese invasion. It also shows how she was used by God to touch many lives. It is an amazing story and definitely worth checking out with your children. Gladys Alyward is one of a series of cartoons put out by Torchlighters that highlight the lives of Christian missionaries. If you go to the SkyAngel VOD section under Kids you will find four other cartoons by Torchlighters about: Amy Carmichael, Jim Elliot, John Bunyan, and William Tyndale. All of these are very well made and amazing stories. Some of them are more dramatic than others and may not be suitable for very young children.

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Watching Fox News station last week, news commentator Hannity was talking about the Bronco’s quarter-back Tim Tebow. Hannity recited one of Tebow’s favorite Bible verses… John 3:16, talked about his own Christian faith, and discussed how the media seems to slam Christians. I thought that this was very impressive since this is a secular news station we‘re talking about here! I grew up watching NBC news(only station we had out in the country), and I remember being extremely annoyed by their media’s anti-Christian slant. Hannity seems to feel at ease in expressing his own Christian beliefs, and though I don’t agree with everything he has to say, this world needs to hear that Jesus is the Answer and not politics! Let’s get back to John 3:16!

I just saw some very funny programs — Thou Shalt Laugh 2, 3, 4, and 5.  You can find these programs at the following location:

Video On Demand / Movies / Comedy

I was disappointed not to be able to find Thou Shalt Laugh 1, because these shows keep you laughing from beginning to end.  Each show features several comedians who (1) are very talented and (2) keep it clean.  In fact, all of the comedians seemed to be Christians, as they all included at least a little bit of “Christian humor” in their acts.

Taylor Mason is one of my favorite comedians, and he and his puppets were in all of the Thou Shalt Laugh programs.

One feature I liked about these shows was that in most cases, the host was a comedian himself; and in between acts, the host would keep you laughing with his / her own monologue.

If you’re bored, or if life is not too good for you these days, watch the Thou Shalt Laugh series.  You will definitely be cheered up!

Do you like baseball movies? Do you like Christian films that are not just clean or family friendly but actually tackle tough subjects in a biblical manner? Well you’ll probably like “Milltown Pride”. Think of it as a low budget Christian version of “The Natural” with Robert Redford. OK so maybe that’s a stretch. It is a turn of the century baseball movie with a kid who has a natural talent for baseball. Rather a God given gift.

Will is the “Town Boy” from the right side of the rail road tracks who joins a mill baseball team from the other side of the tracks in hopes of catching the eye of a big league scout. Will is raised in a Christian home and always considered himself a Christian. Yet when the famous Billy Sunday comes to town he begins to recognize that maybe he’s not sure about his Christianity.

This movie contains a love story as well as other side issues. Some big ones are false conversion/false Christians, alcohol and prohibition, lying, and friendship. Each topic is handled pretty well. That is to say they were pretty biblically well handled. I especially like how they showed that while alcoholism is wrong, Proibition was not a “biblical” answer to the problem.

I really enjoyed the sermon delivered by the Billy Sunday character. He called people to turn from sin and follow Christ. I believe Billy probably would have just told people to repent back then, yet with even much of the American church sadly ignorant of the term it was good that he spelled it out for the film. Billy was passionate but not throwing Hellfire and brimstone! All in all it was a good Gospel presentation. Overall the film did a good job presenting solid biblical relationships and theology without getting preachy.

You might see this as a film like something Sherwood Pictures would have made(Fireproof, Facing the Giants, etc.)yet without the polish. Overall a good and safe family film. God bless!  

Trailer –> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWNRWEWLXYY

Hey all! If you’re like me you like good Christian and family friendly films. If you’re even more like me you like to watch them cheap…or FREE! Don’t get me wrong. The convenience and variety of SkyAngels VOD section is awesome! The new Christmas section is better than last year by far! That said if you’re willing to do a little hunting you can find a lot of movies on regular channels. I sometimes give more specific detail but for a short post this really is just hints. Check out GMC,TBN, JCTV, INSP, and Cornerstone regularly. These have various movies on them all through the day. When browsing through the awesome 48hr playback feature of SkyAngel make sure to look for any movie an hour and a half or longer. It may just say “Movie”, but it is often a hiding gem. In recent weeks greats like Fireproof, Facing the Giants, Flywheel, Jesus of Nazareth, What If?, and many more have played. So do some browsing and enjoy the gems you uncover. Then, spread the word! God bless!

Family Issues & You:

10 Ways to Help Your Kids with Sexually Saturated Media

Dr. Linda Mintle wrote a recent post on Beliefnet.com that includes some surprising statistics along with sensible suggestions for parents:

 “I sound like a broken record when I harp on all the sex in media. Pick a week of TV – Fox’s Glee–the characters are deciding whether or not to have sex; CW’s 90210 is a steady stream of hookups; Two and Half Men – is there even a plot without sex as the main theme? And one of my favorites, the Big Bang Theory, has characters hooking up even though the non-sex story lines are very funny.

According to the University of Michigan’s Health Systems web page:

The number of sex scenes on TV has nearly doubled since 1998, with 70% of the top 20 most-watched shows by teens including sexual content.

Fifteen percent of scenes with sexual intercourse depict characters that have just met having sex.

Of the shows with sexual content, an average of five scenes per hour involves sex.”

Read the entire article here:

http://blog.beliefnet.com/doinglifetogether/2012/01/10-ways-to-help-your-kids-with-sexually-saturated-media.html

Do you agree with Dr. Mintle’s 10 suggestions?  Have you tried any of them? Let us know by commenting on our blog or here on our Facebook page.

Yesterday evening as I was browsing Skyangel for a movie that the family could enjoy I came across Anastasia on Family Net! This animated movie has appeal for boys and girls, because it includes plenty of action/adventure as well as princess dresses, a bit of romance, and singing. In fact some of the songs are actually award winning. None of my kids had seen this movie before, but I do remember watching it many years ago. They all very much enjoyed it! The best part is you can still go back to yesterdays listings on Family Net to check it out for yourself. Anastasia is loosely based on the true story of the Romanov’s but is almost entirely fantastical. It is a bit scary and contains some magic performed by the bad guys. So you need to decide for yourself whether or not it is good for your family to view. I did find it a bit funny that Family Net kept saying it was their movie date night. I’m not sure that I would qualify an animated cartoon as date night material but it could be. I would say it makes for a fun family night though! You can read more about Anastasia and watch a preview here. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118617/

For my “Explore Sky Angel Fridays” today, I am listening to praise music on The Word in Praise (211) and All Worship (208). I like to take some time on Fridays to check out channels/programs on Sky Angel that are not part of my “regular” choices. There’s a lot of great programming out there waiting to be discovered…take some time to explore!