Movies Are Prayers

Download or read book Movies Are Prayers written by Josh Larsen and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Movies do more than tell a good story. Filmspotting co-host Josh Larsen brings a critic's unique perspective to how movies can act as prayers—expressing lament, praise, joy, confession, and more. When words fail, the perfect film might be just what you need to jump-start your conversations with the Almighty.

Download or read book Praying the Movies II written by Edward N. McNulty and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2004-01-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "To Kill a Mockingbird" to "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," this collection of 31 devotionals incorporates popular movies with passages from Scripture. Each devotional includes a meditation, questions to encourage reflection, a prayer, and a hymn.

Download or read book Marxism and the Movies written by Mary K. Leigh and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Karl Marx is revered in social philosophy, political science and literary criticism, but there is an area where Marxism seems not to have penetrated. That area is the study of popular culture, especially the cinema, where Marxism provides a useful lens through which seemingly disparate films can be explored. As a whole the new essays assembled here approach a wide cross-section of cinematic history and provide analysis of blockbusters, cult hits, comedies, suspenseful dramas and history-making films within a framework of power, power relations and class struggle. The collection brings to popular culture studies the same scholarly weight that attends the work of Aristotle or Plato or Derrida and, at the same time, presents that scholarship in an accessible style.

Download or read book Bible and Cinema written by Adele Reinhartz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bible and Cinema: An Introduction is a comprehensive examination of how the Bible has been used and represented in mainstream cinema to develop its plots, characters, and themes. The book considers two general types of films: Bible movies that retell biblical stories, such as the Exodus and the life of Jesus, and Bible-related movies that make use of biblical books, stories, verses, and figures, and Bibles themselves to tell non-biblical, often fictional, narratives. Topics covered include: the contribution of Bible and Bible-related movies to the history of the Bible’s reception; the ways in which filmmakers make use of scripture to address and reflect their own time and place; the Bible as a vehicle through which films can address social and political issues, reflect human experiences and emotions, explore existential issues such as evil and death, and express themes such as destruction and redemption; the role of the Bible as a source of ethics and morality, and how this role is both perpetuated and undermined in a range of contemporary Hollywood films; and film as a medium for experiences of transcendence, and the role of the Bible in creating such experiences. This thoroughly updated second edition includes insightful analysis of films such as Noah, Gods and Men, Mary Magdalene, and The Shawshank Redemption, paying attention to visual and aural elements as well as plot, character, and dialogue. The book also includes pedagogical resources including discussions of film theory, as well as key words and discussion questions. Teachers, students, and anyone interested in the intersection of Bible and cinema will find this an invaluable guide to a growing field.

Download or read book Prayers, Declarations, and Strategies for Shifting Atmospheres written by Dawna DeSilva and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday, whether we realize it or not, we enter a spiritual battlefield. There are forces around us that need to be discerned and transformed. These forces create atmospheres. Too many people either tolerate these negative atmospheres or run away from them in fear. As a child of God, filled with the Spirit, you are called to shift these atmospheres by using your Kingdom authority! Based on Dawna De Silvas powerful teaching on shifting spiritual atmospheres, these 90 daily readings will equip you, day by day, for transforming the different environments you enter. See into the unseen. Get more in tune with the invisible realm around you. Get on the offensive. Discern the devils tactics and live a step ahead of his strategies. Claim your victory.Use the weapons of warfare that give you an upper hand in spiritual conflict. Release the Holy Spirit. Learn how to release Gods Presence to change any atmosphere you experience by using your Kingdom authority. You dont have to deal with demonic or tormenting atmospheres. You were meant to carry the power that defeats darkness. Learn how to exercise your spiritual authority on a daily basis and shift spiritual atmospheres through the Presence of God!

Download or read book CONDITIONS FOR ANSWERED PRAYERS written by GODSWORD GODSWILL ONU and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God wants to answer our prayers, because He loves us and wants to bless us and meet us at the points of our needs. And He says, "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened" (Matt. 7:7-8). But are there some things which are required from us in order to have our prayers answered and our requests met? We will see the answer to this question in this book.

Download or read book Prayers from God written by Edward Woodville Dorrell, Jr. and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prayers from God ups the ante on how to pray out loud at church. A methodology is described whereby you can pray prayers that not only glorify God and edify the church but change lives and change the church. The book includes two hundred prayers that have been prayed out loud as part of the life of one evangelical church by one layman in worship services, prayer meetings, etc. over a period of twenty years. What makes these prayers unique is the author's justification for calling them Prayers from God. These prayers display a passion and a concern for the lost you'll find nowhere else and give a glimpse into the life of evangelical church life. You'll not find prayers that cause controversy and make people uncomfortable in most books of prayers, but you will here. You can't just read these prayers; you pray these prayers as you read them