We introduced Home Alone to our little ones over the weekend and ended up watching it five times.
This movie is incredible on so many levels (imagine making a children’s movie with a John Williams’ score today), but the reason I think it resonates with young children — as it does with our little boys (almost 5 and 3) —is that Kevin is treated like a young man with responsibilities. He is never treated like a child by anyone except a store clerk who asks where his mother is. The only people who doubt him are the robbers, and they’re punished severely for it.
The world lets Kevin be independent, creative and brave— and he does the things a man is supposed to do: protect his family and his home.
That it’s been universally beloved by children for 35 years should tell us something.
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Here, Brooks proses an order to flesh and spirit recalling service as a must.
There’s just something about Russell Brand, a former Hollywood degenerate, leading thousands of young people in prayer and closing in Jesus’ name at the Oklahoma Turning Point Tour stop.
Wow. God really is moving in America.