Biography

As a young man, Jasper “Buck” Livingston made a decision that influenced and forever changed American cowboy culture. Even through disappointment, hardship and failure, Buck’s incredible journey as a north Texas rodeo cowboy, rancher, father, and preacher proves that every life matters, and even ordinary men can live a life filled with extraordinary purpose.

His troubled youth in a rural community led to a life of escalating crimes. Having spent more than half his life in and out of reformatories and penitentiaries, an encounter with Jesus Christ in a cell at Folsom Prison would forever change his life. Five years after his conversion, Judge Wagler of Oakland pronounced Phil Thatcher “The most completely rehabilitated man in the history of Alameda County courts.”

World-famous lifelong atheist Dr. Sol Harkens (Kevin Sorbo) delights in debating and defeating Christians but is emotionally empty. Isolated from Katy (Sam Sorbo), the wife he divorced following the harrowing loss of their first son, and a lousy part-time dad to their two younger boys, his self-destruction culminates in a car crash that leaves him clinically dead for four minutes. The four-word message from that experience challenges his convictions, sending him into a panicked tailspin. Reluctantly leaning on his family’s forgiveness, love and faith, Sol struggles to find meaning and purpose in the words “Let There Be Light.”