New VeggieTales DVD giveaway: The Little House That Stood

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    How fun is this?  A new VeggieTales video!  Here's the newest:  The Little House That Stood. 

    Enter below to try to win a new copy of this VeggieTales DVD for yourself!  (Email subscribers will want to click back through this email to enter the giveaway.)


About The Little House That Stood
    When the Three Little Pigs roll into Cabbageville looking to build some new houses, they meet one builder with a plan and two without a clue! Larry builds with hay, Mr. Lunt with bricks, but only Bob builds his houses on a firm foundation - following the wise plans from the Master Builder's Handbook! Will the Little Piggies make the right choices when it comes to building their houses - and their lives - on solid ground? Find out in this parable that shows kids when they follow God's blueprints, then can stand strong when the storms come!

    Bob the Tomato, Larry the Cucumber, and friends come together to share the parable of 'The Wise and Foolish Builders' from Matthew 7 in their version, The Little House That Stood!

    This DVD teaches a lesson in making good choices and also features a Veggie retelling of the classic Humpty Dumpty story, "The Good Egg of Gooseville." When you go to their website, please be sure to check out all the amazing resources they have too - a discussion guide for parents, coloring pages, trailer, and more!

Julieanne's take on the new VeggieTales movie:

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    What did our family think about it?  We enjoyed the first movie selection of the DVD, a combination of The Three Little Pigs nursery rhyme from Mother Goose and the parable Jesus told in the Bible about the builders that built houses on solid rock and on sand.  It was typical VeggieTales style, all the way. 

    The "Silly Song with Larry", one of the pieces you can count on while viewing a VeggieTales DVD, didn't disappoint us, although it might have been a bit odder than normal.  :)

    The last piece of the video was all about selfishness and helping and serving others.  It combined pieces of many Mother Goose nursery rhymes and poems into the video, which could have been very confusing to many children who haven't been read the nursery rhymes. 

    My girls, however, were not happy about one very obvious part of this movie.  The mayor, whom we don't know if he is a paid government employee or an unpaid volunteer, is getting tired of serving his community and dealing with their problems and complaints.  He decides to leave and go on vacation, leaving his community in disarray.  The final conclusion by him toward the end of the story is that he should be serving his community all the time.  Sounds good - at first glance.  But the kinds of things he's asked to help with sometimes look just like economic handouts instead of gathering friends together to help solve a problem.  My girls noticed this right away and complained about it to us.  "Let's give everyone all these handouts and do everything for them so they don't need to work together as a community," grumbled one of our daughters.  It's true - most, if not all of the help that is given is offered by the mayor himself, and not as people working together to solve a problem of their own.

    You may think we are really reaching far to come to this conclusion, but we all agreed that if the leader in the movie had been a pastor, we would have had entirely different conclusions.  However, since everyone in the community was always whining and complaining to the mayor to solve their problems, this bothered us.  We're not anti-government, but we also believe in churches helping and serving, and in individuals helping and serving themselves and others, not just relying on the government to do it all for them.

    As well, we didn't see anyone in the movie praying and asking God to help them first with their struggles.  Instead, they went directly to the mayor first.  We personally don't think that the mayor was representing God or Jesus, just in case you wondered.  This could have been a great opportunity in the movie to show children how to handle stress and financial difficulties they will encounter.

    Interested in taking a look at a couple of more video clips?  Here you go:

    The DVD is around 49 minutes long.  Starting Tuesday, March 5th, you can buy it at Christianbook.com and other sources that sell Christian, family-friendly DVDs, or you may enter here to win your own copy!

    Click here or on the graphic below to download and print some new VeggieTales coloring pages:

    And parents, how about a discussion guide you may use with your children after watching the movie together? 

Now for our giveaway of one new copy of
VeggieTales:  The Little House That Stood!

    Entrants must be 18 years or older; only U.S. residents are eligible to enter this giveaway.  I will select the winner of this prize using Random.org (via this Rafflecopter entry form, below).

    I will be verifying the winning entrant's giveaway entry options to make sure they are valid.  In the past several months, multiple potential winners were excluded from winning even though their names had been selected randomly as winners, because they said that they had signed up for email subscriptions but had not completed the process, which includes clicking on an email you will receive to confirm your subscription.  An email subscription to Joy In Our Journey.com is not a requirement to enter our giveaways, but if you do use an email subscription option to enter to win, please make sure that you click on the confirmation email that you will receive.  That will validate your entry.  Thank you!   :)

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