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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy, Albom goes back to his nonfiction roots and becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. A timely, moving, and inspiring look at faith: not just who believes, but why.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With one voice illuminates the unity of humanity through the single message and mystical tradition that binds all faiths together. The film features mystics from many great traditions around the world who discuss spiritual awakening, world peace and love.
3) Matrix
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In You Are Never Alone, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado will show you that you're stronger than you think because God is nearer than you know. You'll be comforted by the living, loving, miracle-working God who doesn't think twice about stepping into the thorny thickets of your world to lift you out.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
For years, Tim Keller has compiled a list of the most frequently voiced "doubts" skeptics bring to his Manhattan church; here, he dismantles each of them. Written with atheists, agnostics, and skeptics in mind, Keller also provides an intelligent platform on which true believers can stand their ground when bombarded by the backlash. This book challenges such ideology at its core and points to the true path and purpose of Christianity.--From publisher...
6) Summer
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Sunrise volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Dayne Matthews finds the perfect solution to his on-camera love scenes--his wife, Katy, will star in his next film--but in an effort to appease the press, the couple agrees to a twelve-episode reality show, which creates trouble for the newlyweds.
7) Kumare
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A provocative social experiment-turned-documentary, Kumare follows American filmmaker Vikram Gandhi as he transforms himself into a wise Indian guru, hoping to prove the absurdity of blind faith. Instead, he finds himself forging profound connections with people from all walks of life -- and wondering if and when to reveal his true self. Will his followers accept his final teaching? Can this illusion reveal a greater spiritual truth? Winner of South...
9) Fireproof
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
On the verge of divorce, a fireman takes his born-again father's suggestion and attempts a forty-day "love dare" to save his marriage.
10) Courageous
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When tragedy strikes, four police officers struggle with their faith and their roles as husbands and fathers, and together they make a decision that will change all of their lives.
11) The chance
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vowing to meet eleven years after sealing letters they wrote to each other in an old metal box, best friends Ellie and Nolan both have reservations about seeing each other again as loneliness, personal tragedies, and a lack of faith haunt both of them.
12) Faust
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Newly restored. Inspired by the German legend and by Goethe's classic tale, Murnau's Faust tells the story of an alchemist (played by Gösta Ekman) who, struggling with his faith amidst a devastating plague, is offered the power to cure and the gift of youth ... in exchange for his soul. As the diabolical Mephisto, Emil Jannings (The Last Laugh) delivers a performance of operatic scale and intensity, by turns charming, comical, and horrific.
13) The grace card
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011, 2010.
Language
English
Description
Officer Mac McDonald loses his faith and becomes bitter towards his family after his son is killed in an accident, and now must cope with the fact that his new partner happens to be a part-time pastor and a loving father.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A triumph. This novel's haunting strength will hold the reader until the very end and make Faith and her story impossible to forget."
-Richmond Times Dispatch
"Extraordinary."
-Orlando Sentinel
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes, Change of Heart, Handle with Care) comes Keeping Faith: an "addictively readable" (Entertainment Weekly) novel that "makes you wonder about God. And that is a rare moment,...
Series
Publisher
Feature Films for Families
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Claire Kelly's much loved WWII pilot husband survived his B-24 crash but lost his memory. Clair is determined to find him but never guesses that finding him will require tremendous courage, understanding, loyalty and the possible sacrifice of his ever coming home." --Container.
16) Snook alone
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Through the power of faith, a monk named Abba Jacob and his loyal rat terrier, Snook, are reunited after being separated by a ferocious storm.
17) The shack
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After the presumed death of his daughter, a man receives a letter he suspects is from God, telling him to return to the Shack where his daughter may have been murdered.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The inhabitants of a kingdom that has fallen on hard times discover the value of faith when they learn to consider that which might be and labor to make it so.
20) Breakthrough
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Based on the inspirational true story of one mother's unfaltering love in the face of impossible odds. When Joyce Smith's adopted son John falls through an icy Missouri lake, all hope seems lost. But as John lies lifeless, Joyce refuses to give up. Her steadfast belief inspires those around her to continue to pray for John's recovery, even in the face of every case history and scientific prediction. A reminder that faith and love can create a mountain...
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