{"id":5805,"date":"2015-01-20T15:01:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T20:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2015-01-20T15:01:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T20:01:01","slug":"dvd-review-welcome-to-inspiration-delivers-a-great-sermon-in-a-mediocre-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2015\/01\/dvd-review-welcome-to-inspiration-delivers-a-great-sermon-in-a-mediocre-movie.html","title":{"rendered":"DVD review: &#8220;Welcome to Inspiration&#8221; delivers a great sermon in a mediocre movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3341172633MsoNoSpacing\"><strong>Out on DVD today (1\/20): <em>Welcome to Inspiration<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Welcome To Inspiration (Official Trailer - Short)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pQiGm6bR0KI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3341172633MsoNoSpacing\"><strong>Synopsis: <\/strong>After their car breaks down, a freelance journalist (Britt George) and his wife (Whitney Goin) spend time in a small town where a simple street sweeper (Jackie Stewart)\u00a0 imparts the <span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1421772199535_8540\"><i id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1421772199535_8538\">\u201cSeven Revelations of Irrefutable Success&#8221; <\/i>as revealed in The Bible. Directed by Erick Henson and Ryan Ramos, both of whom co-wrote the script with Scott Brooks. Inspired by the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Street-Sweeper-Tim-Enochs-ebook\/dp\/B007TNY1SS\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1421780642&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=The+Street+Sweeper\"><em>The Street Sweeper<\/em> by Tim Enochs<\/a>. T<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1421772199535_8548\">he movie features performances from a diverse line-up of artists including Larry Gatlin,\u00a0 Jason Crabb, Christy Sutherland,\u00a0 Regina McCrary <i>(The McCrary Sisters),<\/i> Andrew Greer, Andrea Thomas, Kaitlyn King, Terri Sharp and a score by Mike Viola <i>(That Thing You Do, Walk Hard)<\/i>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Foundational verse of the Story (<a href=\"http:\/\/welcometoinspiration.com\/about-movie\/\">per the film&#8217;s website<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Lord our God has secrets known to no one. We are not accountable for them, but we and our children are accountable forever for all that He has revealed to us, so that we may obey all the terms of these instructions.<\/em><br \/>\n\u2013 Deut. 29:29 NLT<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3341172633MsoNoSpacing\"><strong>Review:<\/strong> Those principles are timeless and great.\u00a0 Who can argue with Biblical truths like &#8220;Seek and you shall find&#8221; and &#8220;It is better to give than to receive.&#8221; They definitely warrant reinforcement via good storytelling. And a movie in which the sophisticated-but-lost journalist sits down for a long and deep conversation with the lowly-but-wises street sweeper might have made for a good faith-driven take on<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/My_Dinner_with_Andre\"><em> My Dinner down with Andre<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Conversations about simple-yet-cosmic idea can be amazingly compelling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3341172633MsoNoSpacing\">But, unfortunately, the street sweeper and the journalist nearly disappear in a <em>Crash<\/em>-like collection of stories in which the seemingly-endless residents of the small town confront various crises while each receiving Biblically-based wisdom from those they happen across (i.e. a nurse, a prisoner in a jail or Larry Gatlin for some reason playing guitar in a dark alley).\u00a0 Unfortunately, it all doesn&#8217;t come together in a way that is very interesting. As the Street Sweeper might agree, sometimes simpler is better.\u00a0 And, BTW, I personally think <em>The Street Sweeper<\/em> would have made for a better film title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3341172633MsoNoSpacing\">Bottom line: In the end, <em>Welcome to Inspiration<\/em> offers a very good inspirational sermon wrapped up in a fairly dull movie.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1421772199535_8548\"><\/span><em>Encourage one another and build each other up \u2013 <\/em><strong>1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Out on DVD today (1\/20): Welcome to Inspiration Synopsis: After their car breaks down, a freelance journalist (Britt George) and his wife (Whitney Goin) spend time in a small town where a simple street sweeper (Jackie Stewart)\u00a0 imparts the \u201cSeven Revelations of Irrefutable Success&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,24],"tags":[7834,7822,7821,7815,7819,7828,7831,7832,5698,7823,7818,7825,7827,7820,7830,7829,7816,7824,7817,7826,7833],"class_list":["post-5805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-christianity","category-movies","tag-welcome-to-inspiration","tag-andrea-thomas","tag-andrew-greer","tag-britt-george","tag-christy-sutherland","tag-deut-2929-nlt","tag-erick-henson","tag-jackie-stewart","tag-jason-crabb","tag-kaitlyn-king","tag-larry-gatlin","tag-mike-viola-that-thing-you-do","tag-my-dinner-down-with-andre","tag-regina-mccrary-the-mccrary-sisters","tag-ryan-ramos","tag-scott-brooks","tag-seven-revelations-of-irrefutable-success","tag-terri-sharp","tag-the-street-sweeper-by-tim-enochs","tag-walk-hard","tag-whitney-goin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DVD review: &quot;Welcome to Inspiration&quot; delivers a great sermon in a mediocre movie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2015\/01\/dvd-review-welcome-to-inspiration-delivers-a-great-sermon-in-a-mediocre-movie.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DVD review: &quot;Welcome to Inspiration&quot; delivers a great sermon in a mediocre movie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 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