Praying the Movies: Daily Meditations from Classic FilmsPraying the Movies is a collection of thirty-one devotions that connect movies with the spiritual life of moviegoers. Each devotion contains a passage from Scripture, a description of a scene from a popular film, and a meditation connecting the themes in the scene to the Scripture passage. Also included in each devotion are questions to encourage further reflection, a suggestion for a hymn, and a brief prayer. |
Contents
The Great Santini | 42 |
Costly Grace Entertaining | 52 |
SweetSounding Grace | 58 |
From Heel to Hero Star Wars | 62 |
Waters of Mercy Schindlers List | 67 |
Pig in the City | 72 |
The Wounded Healer The Spitfire Grill | 81 |
Ennobling Grace Dead Man Walking | 87 |
The Grace of a Personality Beautiful Dreamers | 111 |
Cheap Grace and Costly Grace The Mission | 116 |
No Greater Love The Deer Hunter | 122 |
Like a Child To Kill a Mockingbird | 126 |
Any Sign of Change? Tender Mercies | 131 |
Grace Returned The Color Purple | 136 |
Riding Grace Pulp Fiction | 141 |
A Meal of Grace Babettes Feast | 147 |
Easter Means a Second Chance Field of Dreams | 92 |
A Fathers Love The War | 97 |
Blessed Are the Merciful The River | 101 |
She Stoops to Conquer Out of Africa | 106 |
When Grace Is Rejected Romero | 154 |
A Place for Everyone Places in the Heart | 159 |
Appendix | 165 |
Common terms and phrases
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