Fireproof: Never Leave Your Partner Behind

Sunday, 15th March 2009

Continuing from my blog entry yesterday, thought I would like to share with all of you about the movie we watched on Friday night, which brought all of us to tears because it was so touching and inspiring.

It is called Fireproof and was produced by the same group who made the movie Facing the Giants.

Here's a synopsis of that movie, which was released in Sep 2008:

Lt. Caleb Holt lives by the old firefighter's adage: Never leave your partner behind. Inside burning buildings, it's his natural instinct. In the cooling embers of his marriage, it's another story.

After a decade of marriage, Caleb and Catherine Holt have drifted so far apart that they are ready to move on without each other. Yet as they prepare to enter divorce proceedings, Caleb's dad asks his son to try an experiment: The Love Dare.

While hoping The Love Dare has nothing to do with his parents' newfound faith, Caleb commits to the challenge. But can he attempt to love his wife while avoiding God's love for him? Will he be able to demonstrate love over and over again to a person that's no longer receptive to his love? Or is this just another marriage destined to go up in smoke?

Here is the movie trailer...



The lead character is played by Kirk Cameron. Those who are in your 40s (like myself) may remember him as the teenage heart-throb who acted in the 1980s hit comedy Growing Pains. Well, he is now a born-again Christian :-)

My favourite scene was the part when his colleague glues the salt and pepper shakers together. When he tries to take them apart, he is told, "No, don't do that, because it is going to cause both of them to break."

And that is exactly what happens when a man and woman comes together in holy matrimony before God. The Scriptures tells us that the two are considered to be one-flesh. Since God is the one that has joined them together, taking them apart is the work of the evil one.

I'll be clearing my last year's annual leave over the next 2 weeks, and will be going to SKS Bookstore or Trumpet Praise to get myself a copy of the DVD to lend to friends. I do not know Glenn and Jamie personally, but feel led to get them a copy too...