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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
359 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
At the peak of his career, Johnny Cash had done it all: a rags-to-riches sensation singing alongside Presley and performing for presidents. But in 1971 the middle-aged icon was searching for peace. At the end of his life, Cash was speaking openly about his "unshakeable faith." Laurie and Terrill dive into Cash's inner demons, triumphs, and gradual return to faith, and reveal how the singer's true success came through finding the only Person whose...
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xiii, 255 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Full of beautiful, heart-wrenching, and hilarious stories, "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" details one man's opportunity to edit his life as if he were a character in a movie, showing how to get a second chance at life the first time around.
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
280 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
When two childhood friends die of cancer six weeks apart, the shared experience of loss brings their grieving spouses together. After months of late-night phone calls, family dinners, and countless dreams and tears, this unlikely pair builds a trust, a love, and a shared life. They discover that God can restore the darkest circumstances-- and even from death, He can bring new life.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In Anne Lamott's new book, she confronts the harsh truth that many of us grapple with every day: How can we recapture the confidence we once had in the world and in the future as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad news piles up every day -- from climate crises to threats to democracy to daily assaults on civility -- how can we mere mortals cope? Where, Lamott asks, "do we start to get our joy and hope and our faith...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvii, 201 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Beginning with his earliest memories of growing up a shy boy in New Orleans, Perry recalls the moments of grace and beauty in a childhood marked by brutality, deprivation, and fear. With tenderness he sketches portraits of the people who sustained him and taught him indelible lessons about integrity, trust in God, and the power of forgiveness: his aunt Mae, who cared for her grandfather, who was born a slave, and sewed quilts that told a story of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvii, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
Join Greg Laurie as he takes a cross-country drive in his 1968 Highland Green Ford Mustang 390 GT through the canyons of Malibu, the alleys of Hollywood, the wide and open roads of the Midwest, the streets of New York, as he traces the wooly geography of actor Steve McQueen's life, relationships, career and spiritual journey. This iconic muscle car was the vehicle McQueen drove in his most raucous and enduring film, Bullitt. In the 1960s, McQueen...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In this searing meditation on the bonds of family and the danger of extremist faith, one of today's most celebrated Christian writers recounts his unexpected journey from a strict fundamentalist upbringing to a life of compassion and grace-a revelatory memoir in the tradition of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy. Raised by an impoverished widow who earned room and board as a Bible teacher in 1950s Atlanta, Philip Yancey and his brother, Marshall, found...
29) Steve McQueen: American icon : the untold true story of the spiritual quest of a Hollywood legend
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An avid fan of the actor, and owner of a replica of McQueen's car in the classic film Bullitt, Pastor Greg Laurie hits the road in his mint Mustang, traveling the country in search of the true, untold story of McQueen's redemption-filled final chapters, in a true faith journey.
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