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…will take $22.95.

Today I showed a film to one of my classes. I showed “Hometown Legend”, a current example of “Christian” cinema. The new style Christian cinema is to make a family film rather than one that evangelizes. So “Hometown Legend” is just a nice story. (They even throw in a couple of naughty words to throw us off track—you know, to fool us into thinking it’s not a Christian film at all.)

It lacks balls.

Well, there are footballs…but you know what I mean.

(Well, actually, there is a scene about balls–it’s one of those “throw us off track” scenes.  And they don’t say “balls”, because that would be too vulgar.  They say “nuts”.  But I don’t want to ruin the movie for you.)

Back in the day, Christian films were slap you in the face until you accept Jesus as your savior kind of films. And the best of the best was “A thief in the Night”. What a film!

So I on my way home I got to thinking, hey: these days it’s probably on YouTube, or at least somewhere on the internet. I’ll watch it tonight for some warm and fuzzy memories.

But when I looked for it, I found this: A thief in the night.

Let’s get something straight here: I have absolutely nothing against making money. And I suppose twenty bucks for a “tool” to convert people quickly and efficiently is a bargain of sorts. But you’d think they might consider saving people for even less. I mean, I’d buy the film at Walmart for $5.99. Wouldn’t you? But I ain’t gonna cough over $74.95 to get the Thief in the Night COLLECTION. Well, not today anyway. Might change my mind, I suppose.

I still might find it online. Someone out there must believe that saving people’s souls is worth a copyright violation. If I find it I’ll post a link.

jj

UPDATE!

Well, I guess I should have googled before writing the above post, but I’ll let it stand. Google found the movie and listed it on the third or fourth link or so. You can watch the movie (in poor quality) here: Thief. If I find it in better quality, I’ll post it again. (Now if Icould just find all the old Jamie Summers movies for free….) I also found an excellent review of the film, here: Thief. And just to top off (or bottom off?) this post, here’s a youtube video which uses the original Larry Norman version of “I wish we’d all been ready” here: wish.

jj