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 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 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 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

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 God on the Big Screen written by Terry Lindvall and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Links film history with church history over the past century, illuminating America’s broader relationship with religious currents over time Moments of prayer have been represented in Hollywood movies since the silent era, appearing unexpectedly in films as diverse as Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Frankenstein, Amistad, Easy Rider, Talladega Nights, and Alien 3, as well as in religiously inspired classics such as Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments. Here, Terry Lindvall examines how films have reflected, and sometimes sought to prescribe, ideas about how one ought to pray. He surveys the landscape of those films that employ prayer in their narratives, beginning with the silent era and moving through the uplifting and inspirational movies of the Great Depression and World War II, the cynical, anti-establishment films of the 60s and 70s, and the sci-fi and fantasy blockbusters of today. Lindvall considers how the presentation of cinematic prayer varies across race, age, and gender, and places the use of prayer in film in historical context, shedding light on the religious currents at play during those time periods. God on the Big Screen demonstrates that the way prayer is presented in film during each historical period tells us a great deal about America’s broader relationship with religion.

Download or read book Lessons on Prayer written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 1981-04-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effectiveness of our prayer depends upon our understanding of the meaning of prayer itself. In Lessons on Prayer Witness Lee first discusses the real meaning of prayer: Prayer is the mutual contact between man and God; prayer is man breathing God, obtaining God, and being obtained by God; and prayer is man cooperating and co-working with God, allowing God to express Himself and His desire through man, and thus accomplish His purpose.