Christian movies about singers bands
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'Unsung Hero' True Story Of Christian Artists Rebecca St. James And For King And Country
This is an incredible movie based on the true story of Australian Christian artists coming to America. “'Unsung Hero' is the true story of Christian artists Rebecca St. James and For King And Country.
The movie begins in Nashville in The parents get connected with a local church, and they discover that the couple is from Australia. A congregant unknowingly asks if they are from England.
The daughter Rebecca tells her dad that she wrote a song and wondered if she could ask for an audition, but the dad encourages her to slow down. The dad is a promoter who is then motivated to have his daughter share her song for the label. The mother in a powerful scene, shows a jar with money in it.
She says that it is all that they have and that “it can grow and shrink, but it cannot disappear.” The husband works in lawn services. The family is seen around a dinner tabl
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by John Ellis
Christian contemporary music (CCM) didn’t play much of a role in my formative years. My parents, youth pastors, and teachers all believed that there was no real difference between “real” rock and CCM; if Bob Jones University banned it, it was banned in my home, church, and Christian school. It didn&#;t matter if the lyrics were “I believe in God the Father, maker of heaven of earth, and Jesus Christ, his only Son. I believe in the virgin birth” &#; banned!
Apart from Petra, whose lyrics from their song &#;Creed&#; I just quoted, I saw little reason to listen to CCM music (I’m still not sure why I liked Petra). The cost of listening to the &#;fake&#; stuff was as high as listening to the &#;real&#; stuff. Why bother with the &#;fake?&#; Besides, as I’ve explained in the story of how I became a Christian (you can read that by clicking here), rock music was cast in my young life as an identity that helped me escape Christianity. More important than the discipline co
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Electric Jesus and ‘Faith-Based’ Films
TC: Does it seem that the mainstream audiences you encountered on the film-festival tour are more likely to embrace this film and accept it at face value than Christians?
Chris White: We have noticed that audiences in places that are more post-Christian culturally are more eager to laugh and have a good time with Electric Jesus. Places where we’ve screened the rulle where Christian culture fryst vatten more dominant, those have been screening audiences that were a little slow to warm up.
There’s also this thing where Christians who hate faith-based movies, once they find Electric Jesus and watch it, it takes them a minute to figure it out. They’re so on guard against Jesus propaganda films, religious sentimentality, prosperity-gospel movie tropes that when they finally realize Electric Jesus is just a rock-band movie about Christians, instead of feel-good, code-reinforcement for Christians, they are a bit unmoored. Confused. On