She thinks he is just buttering her up to get more in the divorce settlement, so she ignores and fights everything Caleb does.
He always responded to Caleb’s pleas for help and made concerted efforts to bring the truth to bear in Caleb’s life.Fire Captain Caleb Holt (Kirk Cameron) and his wife Catherine (Erin Bethea), a hospital administrator, are on the brink of divorce when Caleb’s parents suggest that he take “The Love Dare”, a 40-day challenge that will save their marriage.Ĭaleb’s parents took the dare a few years ago, and they say it saved their marriage and led them to become Christians.Ĭaleb reluctantly accepts the challenge, which calls for him to talk and act with care towards her, but Catherine is skeptical. In addition to John’s exhortation to Caleb to take a disciplined approach to the material in the journal, John followed up appropriately. John’s helping of Caleb wasn’t a formula it was a relationship. Effective discipleship demands gracious listening and follow up. Heart change and action without truth is more than likely just selfishness.Ħ. Truth with heart change but no action is a dead faith. All three must be present! Truth and action without heart change is hypocrisy. John wanted Caleb to connect truth to heart change to visible action. These weren’t intended to be the only outworkings of the Scriptural truths, but simply common sense ideas about what to do next. True life change continues with heart change and then action! In addition to the biblical meditations in the journal, the entries also suggested a course of action. Most importantly, the entries in the journal provided a window of opportunity for John to witness to Caleb and get to the deeper heart issue of whether Caleb was trusting in Jesus Christ as Savior.ĥ. Caleb kept the journal with him and read it on schedule. Each journal entry contained a verse of Scripture along with some commentary - truths for Caleb to consider in handling his marriage. True life change starts with thoughtful meditation on the Word of God. Producing such a journal obviously took time and demanded significant thought and careful penmanship.Ĥ. While the notes are simple and clear and personal, they resound with wisdom and truth. Caleb, although in despair over his marriage and perhaps a bit doubtful about the content of the journal or his dad’s purpose in sending it, at least seems to understand its significance. John’s journal was a simple notebook with a leather cover containing pages of his handwritten notes. Personal and significant gifts are better gifts. Who doesn’t enjoy receiving a package in mail? Especially when you’ve been told that something’s coming - something important and valuable and helpful.ģ.
Caleb received and could hold this item in his hands. It arrives, Caleb gets it out of his mailbox and opens it, and … The point is that John took time to wrap an object of value and mail it to Caleb. John told Caleb he was going to send him something in the mail. Sending a package by mail demonstrates commitment and investment to the recipient. Thankfully, Caleb mostly heeded his father’s advice and, unlike the stereotypical man, even called his father to vent his frustration and get help.Ģ. John Holt’s care and concern for Caleb manifested itself in long conversations on the phone, long trips to visit, and long walks in the woods - all underscoring the need for and effectiveness of face-to-face communication and significant amounts of time when truth and love needed to be dispensed.
The older generation must lovingly and patiently declare the truth to the younger generation. Six Lessons from Fireproof gleaned from the strong relationship between Caleb Holt (Kirk Cameron) and his dad, John Holt (Harris Malcom):ġ. It was worth the wait…it was a great movie! Its central focus is on covenantal marriage, and the work and sacrifices involved in being a great spouse, but there are other themes as well that are worth looking into.
The book for fireproof the movie movie#
My husband and I waited a long time to see this movie (it was not playing in any of the hundreds of movie theaters within an hour of where we live, and netflix had a huge back-order on it because it was so popular). Fireproof, by the Kendrick brothers, was such a wonderful movie that I would be disappointed to see its impact decrease so soon, but as time goes by and other (less worthy) movies come out, this tends to happen.
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