UNCONDITIONAL by Eva Marie Everson, Movie - UNCONDITIONAL written and directed by Brent McCorkle, Unconditional - The Bible Study, FIREBIRD by Brent McCorkle and Amy Parker

About Book

What if God’s love were like the sun, constant and unchanging? What if one day you realized nothing could take that away?

Firebird is a bright orange baby oriole who just loves the sunshine. But whenever a storm blows in, he frets and asks Mama why God allows the rain to take the sun away. When Firebird is finally old enough, his mother gently instructs him to fly up through the thunder and lightning to see what’s on the other side.

It’s a rough flight, and just when he’s about to give up, Firebird rises above the storm to discover the sun shining where it always had been.

God never lets the storm take the sun away. With that truth in his heart, Firebird continues to bask in the sunshine, but just as important, he learns to rejoice in the rain.

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About Author

Amy Parker has written more than twenty books for children, teens, and adults including the best-selling A Night Night Prayer and three Mom’s Choice Awards winners. Amy and her husband have two children.

About Author

Brent McCorkle wrote and directed the film Unconditional. His previous movie, The Rift, a metaphoric story about adoption, was a winner in The Doorpost Film Project 2009. Brent and his wife have five
children. 


Firebird is a children’s book that parallels the life of Samantha Crawford, a storybook artist in the inspiring new film Unconditional (scheduled for a theatrical launch in fall 2012) who has lost sight of God’s love.

About Book

Samantha Crawford, an acclaimed storybook artist, seemingly had it all until losing the love she cherished most. Now fighting despair, she is obsessed with tracking down the murderer of her husband. With no leads and no hope, Sam prepares to take her life until providence intervenes and she is reunited with her childhood friend, Joe Bradford.

Dying of kidney disease, Joe spends his last days serving fatherless children in an under resourced community. Observing Papa Joe’s tireless love for “his kids,” Sam begins to find new purpose until she comes face to face with her heart’s desire. The innocence and hope of a child competes with the lure of revenge in an effort to show Sam how, even in life’s darkest of circumstances, Love is above all.

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About Movie

Brent's feature directorial debut is Unconditional, in theaters September 2012. It stars Lynn Collins (John Carter, Wolverine) and Michael Ealy (Takers, Seven Pounds). Brent wrote, directed, and edited the film. He composed the majority of the music for the film as well. We will be adding some of his music/scores to the site soon. Brent is currently writing/developing two original scripts. In addition, he and his team are putting together a multi-picture film slate, scheduled to announce in mid-2013. Stay tuned!

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Unconditional - The Bible Study

Using movie themes, clips, and group interaction, this study will help small groups better see the needs around them, and begin to live a life of unprecedented generosity.Available Now

Heart of the Country by Rene Gutteridge, John Ward - Review of Book, Movie's Contest

About Book

Faith and Luke Carraway have it all. Faith is a beautiful singer turned socialite while Luke is an up-and-coming successful businessman. After taking his inheritance from his father’s stable, lucrative business to invest in a successful hedge fund with the Michov Brothers, he’s on the fast track as a rising young executive, and Faith is settling comfortably into her role as his wife.

When rumors of the Michovs’ involvement in a Ponzi scheme reach Faith, she turns to Luke for confirmation, and he assures her that all is well. But when Luke is arrested, Faith can’t understand why he would lie to her, and she runs home to the farm and the family she turned her back on years ago. Meanwhile, Luke is forced to turn to his own family for help as he desperately tries to untangle himself from his mistakes. Can two prodigals return to families they abandoned, and will those families find the grace to forgive and forget? Will a marriage survive betrayal when there is nowhere else to run but home?


ebook
Published February 10th 2012 by Tyndale House Publishers
ISBN 13 9781414367712


eBook is available for $2.99 at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, $2.39 Christianbook.com, iBooks

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Movie   2013

Genre   Family Drama

Studio   Bayridge Films and TBA

About

Heart of the Country is writer/director/actor John Ward's follow-up to the highly successful, I AM, which was released by 20th Century Fox in October 2010.

Description

A modern re-telling of "The Prodigal" story, in the form of "Wall Street" meets "Sweet Home Alabama" meets Nicholas Sparks.

Plot Outline

A love story between a father and his daughter paralleling the famous parable, The Prodigal Son, enhanced by a portrait of the challenges of modern marriage and family.

Starring

Jana Kramer, Gerald McRaney and other cast TBD

Directed By   John Ward

Written By     John Ward

Produced By Wayne Thompson & Anne Hawthorne

Website http://www.heartofthecountrymovie.com

About Rene

Rene Gutteridge is the author of eighteen novels, including Listen, the Storm series (Tyndale House Publishers) and Never the Bride, the Boo series, and the Occupational Hazards series from WaterBrook Press. She also released My Life as a Doormat and The Ultimate Gift: The Novelization with Thomas Nelson. Rene is also known for her Christian comedy sketches. She studied screenwriting while earning a mass communications degree, graduating magna cum laude from Oklahoma City University and earning the Excellence in Mass Communication Award. She served as the full-time director of drama for First United Methodist Church for five years before leaving to stay home and write. She enjoys instructing at writers conferences and in college classrooms. She lives with her husband, Sean, a musician, and their children in Oklahoma City.

 Visit her Web site at www.renegutteridge.com


My Thoughts


Faith Carraway is a country girl turned socialite.  She is married  to Luke Carraway and madly in love. She wants for nothing.  Before she married Luke she lived to sing but no longer has time for her passion of song or for her family back home.  Luke's brother is not to accepting of Faith in the Carraway family and does not think this little country girl fits into the Carraway's social circles.  


Faith and Luke live the fairy tale relationship until Luke decides to leave the family business and invest in a hedge fund with the Michov Brothers.  Then the fairy tale turns into a nightmare when the Michov's alleged  Ponzi scheme threatens Luke's livelihood and his marriage. 


Faith feels betrayed by his lies and possible involvement in this scheme. Without even a backwards glance she leaves her socialite life behind and heads back to her country life to stay with her father and get her life back on track. Her sister is not too happy to have Faith return home like the Prodigal daughter.  But her father is ecstatic to have his little girl back home.


There is so many facets to Faith's story.  The pending lose of her marriage, her estranged relationship with her sister  and the nurturing relationship with her father.  She finds her roots to be healing and it draws her into a renewal of her spirit. She struggles to accept God's will in her life and can't seem to figure out where she belongs or where she is headed in life.  


So many people go through these same trials in their life.  God has a plan and we don't always agree with that plan. But if we just let go and let God do his job His plan will be fulfilled.


I highly recommend this book.


I rate this book a 5 out of 5.


Disclosure


I purchased a copy of this book from Barnes and Noble and reviewed book  for Tyndale House Publishing .  I was in no way compensated for this review it is my own opinion.