Show Me the Father Movie Review and Giveaway

 

Everyone has a unique father story. Whether positive or painful, it’s always personal and can deeply affect the core of our identity and direction of our lives. SHOW ME THE FATHER is the first documentary film from the creators of WAR ROOM, OVERCOMER, FIREPROOF, and COURAGEOUS Legacy. Featuring a variety of amazing true stories, this captivating movie takes audiences of all ages on an inspiring and emotional cinematic journey. Providing a fresh perspective on the roles of fathers in today’s society, SHOW ME THE FATHER invites you to think differently about how you view your earthly father, and how you personally relate to God.

 

 

The film is a documentary put together by the Kendrick Brothers. The film features Filmmakers Alex and Stephen Kendrick, Focus on the Family President Jim Daly, NFL player Sherman Smith, pastor Dr. Tony Evans, NFL player Deland McCullough, and NFL player Eddie George. The movie releases in theaters on September 10, 2021.

 

 

 

My Review:

 

I would recommend this awesome life changing movie especially to all of the men and women who are longing to connect to their Heavenly Father. They may have not had a great father in their own lives but there is still hope that their loving Creator will make them whole and redeem them and assist them in changing future generations. This movie would make a wonderful documentary movie to be used in the church. I immensely loved all of the five stories presented in the movie. I liked how they all had come from different backgrounds, some of them had loving fathers and some didn’t but they all still were affected. I loved how the movie showcased the effects of a positive or a negative father and how that can influence our identity and direction in life. The whole purpose of the film is to help watchers to come to know their Heavenly Father and to be changed from the inside out. Fathers can choose to change the future generation right now even if their own dad wasn’t the very best. They have the power to change the cycle. I also loved the twists and turns in one of the major storylines in the film and watchers will be greatly surprised by how was able to turn their lives around and bring everything back to together for His good and glory. I also enjoyed seeing more of the background of Stephen and Alex Kendrick and how their father, Larry influenced their own lives. The film also showed how their dad had a lot to overcome to choose to be a good dad when he didn’t have a good example himself. I was also in awe in hearing about the adoption story that Stephen shared in the movie and how God led them to the little girl they were supposed to adopt. All of the stories were very touching and I believe everyone can find a story that they can relate to and connect with in the film. 

 

Quotes about the film:

 

“Amazing!!!”

 

- Dr. Gary Chapman

 

“SHOW ME THE FATHER is the film our nation needs to see. We have become a society that devalues and mocks fathers, but God created the role of fatherhood for a very specific purpose. Many of our children feel unwanted and unworthy because half of their identity is absent. Fathers are necessary for the next generation to heal.”

 

- Nona Jones, Author, Pastor, Speaker, and Executive

 

 

SHOW ME THE FATHER is a film your whole family needs to see together. There is something for everyone. Get your tickets today at www.showmethefathermovie.com and join me and my family at the theater beginning September 10th!

 

Many thanks to Sony Pictures for providing this product/product information for review. Opinions are 100% my own and NOT influenced by monetary compensation. I did receive a sample of the product in exchange for this review and post.

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Over It: Forgetting Who You’re Expected to Be and Becoming Who You Already Are by Kelsey Grimm Book Review

In Over It, Kelsey Grimm is determined to help readers to overcome their expectations that are holding them back from living their lives. Many people are dragged down by feeling they aren’t enough and they broke down by their pasts. She explained how she is over it and she described how she was able to deal with her own past and move forward. She first encouraged readers to think of their “it” and what this is that is holding them back from living. These can include: betrayal, dark secrets, diagnosis of a disease, lost dream, addiction, body image issues, and much more. 

 

 

In the book, she opened up about how she grew up as a pastor kid and how she started singing. She shared how she learned at an early age the expectations that was placed upon her. In college, she thought she would be able to perform and sing whatever she desires. But the music program was more classically inclined. She failed at every single audition and wasn’t ever picked because she wouldn’t fit into the classically mole. She explained how before college that she was always told she was special and that she could sing. She had high dreams of becoming a singer. Instead, she was getting told in not so many words that she wasn’t good enough. She revealed how she met a boy that forever changed her life. He abused her mentally and physically and, in the book, she opened up about some of the details. She also explained how she began to develop more of a personal relationship with Christ. She also revealed a personal story about how she considered killing herself when she was at an all-time low in her life. She also opened up about how she became an artist with her husband, Caleb and they have formed Caleb+Kelsey. 

 

 

 

 

I would recommend this life changing book to anyone who is over it and all of the expectations that ourselves and others have place on us. This book is more geared towards woman but men could always benefit from the message enclosed in this book. I immensely loved how open she was in sharing some of her painful past about her past relationships. She described the horrible events with grace and how she was eventually able to give forgiveness. I also appreciated how she explained how she was saved from suicide thoughts and how she hit rock bottom and was able to redirect her life. I loved how she shared how she developed more of a personal relationship with Christ. She was able to seek healing, get counseling, and break free from the expectations that are holding us back from living openly and freely.  

 

 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Hachette Book Group/Faithwords for my honest review.” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you would like to purchase a copy of Over It, check it out on Amazon.com:

 

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Over-Forgetting-Expected-Becoming-Already/dp/1546015663/

Powerful Thinking by Joyce Meyer Book Review

In Powerful Thinking, Joyce Meyer has written a brand-new resource to help readers in getting their minds right and to develop twelve new mindsets. She explained the importance of thinking and how this has the power to change our lives. She shared how whatever we think about tends to come out of our mouths and this can affect the course of our lives. She revealed the powerful scripture of renewing our minds and how we can be transformed and changed see Romans 12:2. She has included in this book twelve new mindsets people can mediate on and choose to reply on in their lives. This included, “I can do all things through Christ, I am love unconditionally, I will not live in fear, I am difficult to offend”, and much more. Each chapter also included three questions to assist readers into digging deeper into the message. 

 

 

 

 

One of my favorite topics was the one that discussed fear. This chapter scripture was on 2 Timothy 1:7. This one how God has given us power, love, and a sound mind. She explained how fear cause us to become paralyzed and how satan uses this against us to stop us from living our lives. Some of us fear people, rejection, pain, failure, fear of the future, and much more. She went into detail about how we can choose to not be led by our feelings and we don’t have to let fear control us. Joyce described how she had to choose to pray and say countless times that she will not live in fear. She revealed how we can have faith and believe that God is with us through whatever we may be facing in life.

 

 

 

 

I would recommend this life changing book to anyone who is ready to change their lives and to develop healthy mindsets. I immensely loved how the book contained a vast collection of scriptures where readers can mediate on them and renew their minds. I really enjoyed the chapter on making a decision to not be offended. She shared the truths found in Matthew 24:10 and how many will become offended and how people will betray and have hatred towards each other. This is something we are seeing a lot in the last days. She included the benefits of forgiveness and how we can choose to not to be offended. I loved how the book can be read and studied and applied to our everyday life and I appreciated how Joyce opened up about her own life and included examples to teach the principles in this book. 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Hachette Book Group/Faithwords for my honest review.” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you would like to purchase a copy of Powerful Thinking, check it out on Amazon.com:

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Powerful-Thinking-Joyce-Meyer/dp/1546015981/

Built to Belong: Discovering the Power of Community Over Competition by Natalie Franke Book Review

In Built to Belong, Natalie Franke has written a new book about we were all created to be a part of a community and to help one another out. She begins the book by discussing how even before we were born, we were all created and designed to belong. She also shared how we struggle with balancing between cooperation and competition. She opened up about how she started her own photography business. She realized that she also had to rely on others and how she wanted a true community that would support each other. She revealed how she battled loneliness and how being isolated can lead to depression, dementia, cognitive decline, and even suicide. She shared how she dealt with it and how she started to build her own community around the globe and this paved a way for her to connect with others. In the book, she goes into detail about how she was able to kick the comparison wheel to the curb. She helped found the Rising Tide Society in 2015 with three other people and this is a group of entrepreneurs that have a goal of cultivating communities. She faced some backlash from other people saying how other businesses won’t help one another because the business field is supposed to be competitive. She looked at how being so competitive can have major disadvances and they lose the sight of serving their customers and they stop focusing on forming meaningful relationships. She explained how success builds upon success and how much more we can benefit, if we would work together as a collaboration.

 

 

She also in the book shared how when she was newly married that they discovered that she had a tumor in her pituitary gland. She shared about how she was afraid to tell people because she didn’t want to be treated any different. Most of all she was struck in the denial phase. She explored how the changing times have also allowed us to hide behind a screen and how easier it is to put up a mask about how we are feeling. In 2017, after five years from being diagnosed, the doctors finally recommend that they perform surgery to remove it. She decided to tell people and she wrote about it on her blog. This taught her the importance of vulnerability and how others were also living their own lives in silence and they began to take their own masks off. She also opened up about her struggle with infertility and how she was eventually blessed with having a son. 

 

 

I would recommend this life changing book to anyone who is ready to build a community and they are seeking a place to belong. I immensely loved the principles she included and how she encouraged readers to start with themselves. She taught readers how to get past our own insecurities and to learn to love yourself. Then we can focus on discovering and identifying what community we need. One of my favorite areas, she discussed was how to overcome first time phobias and how critical and life impacting it is to remember people’s names. I liked how she shared the whole story about how she started her own photography business and how she was able to also start another business that has helped over seventy thousand small businesses to also choose community over competition.

 

 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Hachette Book Group/Faithwords for my honest review.” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you would like to purchase a copy of Built to Belong, check it out on Amazon.com:

 

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Built-Belong-Discovering-Community-Competition/dp/1546017682/

 

 

 

 

Check out Natalie Franke’s Website:

 

 

 

https://nataliefranke.com/book

30,000 Stitches: The Inspiring Story of the National 9/11 Flag Written by Amanda Davis Illustrated by Sally Wern Comport Book Review

 

30,000 Stitches is a true story based on an American flag recovered from the Twin Towers in New York City on 9/11. This book was written 20 years later. As many people know, this was the day the twin buildings collapsed and thousands lost their lives. This book is the story of how construction workers hung an American flag up and it was thirty feet wide and twenty feet tall. They eventually took it down after it faded to gray and was torn. Six years later, there was a massive tornado that hit Greensburg, Kansas and volunteers come from NY to help rebuild their town. They were asked to bring a memento from Ground Zero and they decided to bring the flag. People from the town saw the flag and came up with an idea to use their own torn flags to stitch and repair the flag. They decided to send the flag to all fifty states and let the whole country help stitch and repair it together as one nation. Veterans, active-duty soldiers, members of Nasa, and everyday people helped to repair it. The book also showed the flag being repaired by the family of Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King in Georgia. Ten years later and 30,000 stiches later it was finished by tornado survivors in Joplin, Missouri. It was returned to New York and is currently in a museum. 

 

 

I would recommend this awe-inspiring children’s book to anyone who is looking for a book that helps explain the fabric of America and provides hope in the midst of a terrible event. This is the first time that I have ever heard the story about the 30,000 stitches on the American flag and it was very heart touching. I don’t even recall hearing this discussed on the news. I loved the background story the author included at the end of the book to go more in detail about the flag and the history behind it. I liked how in depth it was and how it showed real life photos showing the real true flag. I also loved the illustrations and the colors of the book. It all appeared gray and darker colors that looked like stiches in fabric to showcase the story of the torn flag and the restoration process.

  

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Hachette Book Group/Faithwords/ Worthy Kids for my honest review.” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you would like to purchase a copy of 30,000 Stitches, check it out on Amazon.com:

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/30-000-Stitches-Inspiring-National/dp/1546013695/

Dozers Don’t Doze Written by Melinda Rathjen and Illustrated by Gareth Williams Book Review

Dozers Don’t Doze is a children’s book about bulldozers and how they are unliked any other kind of equipment vehicle. They don’t sleep and they just keep going on. Tractors take breaks when they are finished plowing their rows. Race cares make pit stops along the way when they are on the race track but dozers work harder and don’t need naps. Tow trucks get tired and they begin to just drag along. Backhoes don’t because they are stronger because they have to dig in the dirt. There are many more examples included in this book to engage our children. 

 

 

I would recommend this awesome children’s book especially to any little boys they would greatly enjoy reading the story about dozers and how they are strong diggers, hard workers, and they just keep going through whatever. I love the illustrations of all the different vehicles and how they showed many different types that will keep the attention of little boys. Girls could always read this book if they have an interest in dozers and cars. The book was very colorful and a very easy read. I liked how the book was also in a hard cardboard material and I think these books are great for babies and younger kids since we know they love to try and chew them. 

 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Hachette Book Group/Faithwords/ Worthy Kids for my honest review.” 

 

 

 

If you would like to purchase a copy of Dozer’s Don’t Doze, check it out on Amazon.com:

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Dozers-Dont-Doze-Melinda-Rathjen/dp/1546013822/