Movies For the Family to Watch this Holy Week
Are you and your family staying home this Holy Week? Maybe you can teach them about your religious beliefs by just watching Christian movies at home. You have all reasons to that as we are in this time of the year remembering what Jesus Christ did for us more than 2,000 years ago.
Here are 3 movies for the family to watch together:
1. The Gospel of John – Hollywood 2003. Screenplay by John Goldsmith. Narrated by Christopher Plummer. Henry Ian Cusick played the part of Jesus.
I saw this film on the big screen years ago and I was totally amazed. I thought the movie would deviate somewhere, like they do Hollywood-style to make some dramatic enhancement or not to agitate some sensitive sectors. This 3-hour film is good for the family, at least giving them some insights on who Jesus is.
The film is true to the Gospel, and emphasized the purpose of John’s Gospel: John 20:31 (New International Version) “But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”
2. The Passion of The Christ – Hollywood 2004. According to the Christianity Today’s movie review, “The Passion of The Christ may be the most artistically and commercially ambitious feature film about Jesus to come out of Hollywood since the 1960s. It is certainly the most devout, though at first it seems odd that Mel Gibson should be the one to produce, write, and direct a film about the Prince of Peace.”
I also watched the film on big screen and there certainly are obvious deviations from what I’ve read in the Scriptures. But then, in general, the film is good enough to depict how our Savior Jesus Christ suffered and died for our sins.
3. The Ten Commandments – Cecile de Mille’s 1956 Epic is still shown on TV and now available on DVDs. 220 minutes of running is not boring as I enjoyed watching it many years ago. How much do we know of Moses? Why the 10 commandment? I think this one would be shown again on TV.
Of course the TV networks will have their religious shows too. I believe that it is good to for the children to know about Jesus, not just the cute little child in a manger. Teaching them the basics of Christianity is essential so that they will not forget about it when they grow up. Maybe they’ll grow up thinking that Naruto is real, or that Robots and aliens will rule the world someday, because of the quantity of the animes they watch. I just couldn’t imagine that.
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