Trivia

Kirk Cameron, a Christian evangelist, refuses to kiss any woman other than his wife. To film a scene in which his character in this movie kisses his wife, the filmmakers had to dress Cameron's real-life wife, Chelsea Noble, as the wife character (played throughout the rest of the movie by Erin Bethea) and shoot the kissing scene in shadow so the difference between Noble and Bethea would not be as evident on screen.

Kirk Cameron accepted a donation to his charity, Camp Firefly, instead of a fee for starring in the film.

Filmmakers originally planned to use mouthwash and Gatorade for the hot-sauce-drinking scene but then decided to use something nonpoisonous in case others decided to try it. At first, both Caleb and Wayne just had tomato juice, but for each take they added more Tabasco sauce to Wayne's, until by the last take it was pretty much entirely hot sauce; when he says "My mouth's on fire!" he really means it, and his running off to rinse his mouth is only too real.

The car used for the car accident had already been wrecked, so a different car was used for the earlier scene. Filmmakers were originally moving it with a wrecker, but they had trouble getting it in place each time as it was falling apart. What they really needed was a forklift truck. Amazingly, a man living right across the track owned a forklift and, having seen both of Sherwood's previous films, was glad to help. there was a man who lived right across the track and owned his own forklift. Producer Stephen Kendrick said, "Only God could make this happen. How many people have a forklift in their backyard?"

While filming the house-fire scene, one local television station showed up, thinking it was a real fire.