2/2/2024 0 Comments Robert amaya ethnicitySide note: I wonder how this is any different from the Promise Keepers of recent memory, other than perhaps that there isn't a big call in Courageous to be better husbands as well as better fathers, but I digress. With that, he persuades the other men in his 'wolf pack': Nathan, Shane, David, and Javier, to join him in a Resolution, a call to be better fathers. Therefore, with the statistics still on his mind, and Dylan still physically if not emotionally with him, Adam reaches a conclusion: he not only hasn't been a good enough father, but fatherlessness both physical and emotional are not Biblical. Emily is conveniently killed off, and within Adam's heartbreak, he finally appears to understand he has another child, a male child, one that he's been neglecting all these long years. Well, as is the case with life, tragedy rears its head. ![]() Just for good measure, Adam asks our Javier something along the lines of whether our Javier has permission to work, thoroughly confusing our Javier gotta be careful with them Mexicans in Georgia, don't we? Will wonders never cease. As is so happens, Shane's Javier isn't the same Javier we have met, but as it so happens, Adam calls out our Javier who just so happens to be standing in the middle of the alley behind Adam's house. As it so happens, Shane knows a guy who can help Adam build his shed, who just happens to be named Javier. He has a wife and two children to support, and while he's extremely anxious, he does have faith in the Lord Jesus that He will provide.Īs it so happens, Adam is building a shed, one which Dylan has no interest in helping with. Into this mix we throw in Javier (Robert Amaya), a construction worker recently laid off and in desperate financial straits. David is young and unmarried, so it looks as if he has no daddy issues, but we find that is not the case. Shane is divorced and only sees his son every two weeks or so. Nathan is happily married with three kids, but he never knew his birth father )whether the fact that Nathan is black has anything to do with that, one can only guess), and his daughter Jade (Taylor Hutcherson) cannot comprehend why he is so strict about his 15-year-old daughter not dating until she's 17. Of course, the other members of the department have their own daddy issues. Adam cannot comprehend Dylan's passion for running and certainly won't participate in a Father/Son 5-K race with his only son. We find that Adam loves his daughter Emily (Lauren Etchells) very, very much, but is removed emotionally from his son Dylan (Rusty Martin). This gets Adam to thinking, not just about the criminals he encounters, but about his own children. In any case, we learn from the captain at the staff meeting that statistics show a majority of the criminals they deal with have one common factor: most come from fatherless homes. In the melee, the truck crashes, the thief escapes, and we see why Nathan was so desperate to keep his truck: his baby son is inside. He rushes to the vehicle, holding on desperately to it as it races all about. And wouldn't you know it, someone tries to steal his truck. ![]() Finding no water at his pump, he walks over to the next one. Just before he leaves the gas station, he sees the windshield is dirty, so he goes to clean it while leaving the truck running. There are four men in the Dougherty County Sheriffs Department: the de facto leader Adam Mitchell (writer/producer/director Alex Kendrick), his partner and friend Shane (Kevin Downes), David the rookie (Ben Davies), and Nathan (Ken Bevels), formerly with the Fulton County Sheriffs Department now back to his hometown. Nathan gets a rude awakening on his return: Courageous opens with him innocently filling his truck up. However, I am an "art before religion" film viewer/reviewer, and on that level I have much to fault Courageous with. I have nothing against the message of both Christ and Courageous itself and can agree with both. For those of us who speak Christianese, when something is a 'ministry', it means that one will use those tools at their disposal to further the message of Christ. I will never fault Courageous for being upfront about its reason for being: the closing credits point out that Sherwood Pictures, the makers of the film, is a ministry of Sherwood Church (emphasis mine).
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