Between Heaven & Hollywood: Chasing Your God-Given Dream

by David A.R. White

Overview

Between Heaven & Hollywood is David’s inspirational journey from the wheat fields of his Mennonite home outside of Dodge City Kansas, to the bright lights of Los Angeles. This story of perseverance will assure you that your dreams aren’t frivolous. They might be the most important part of your life. 

White has starred in more than twenty-five movies and produced forty films, including the blockbuster God’s Not Dead. He serves as a Managing Partner of Pure Flix, the largest faith-based movie studio in the world. With his signature wit and sidesplitting hilarity, David’s story of faithfulness, grounded in the biblical truth that no dream is too big for God, will inspire you to relentlessly pursue your dreams, and in the process, bring the reality of God’s kingdom a little closer to the here and now. 

God has planted a dream in your heart that is both unique to you and essential to the world. White reminds us that there is no one too common, too uneducated, too poor, too inexperienced, or too broken that he or she cannot be used by God.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780310345954
Publisher:	HarperCollins Christian Publishing
Publication date:	12/19/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	182
Sales rank:	466,346
File size:	754 KB

About the Author

David A.R. White is an actor, writer, director and producer in Hollywood. Though he has many credits to his name, White’s career hit new heights with the release of the blockbuster film God’s Not Dead, in which he also starred. He is currently the most visible actor/producer in faith films, having starred in and produced over forty films. When he’s not producing, acting, or writing, White is sharing his message of encouragement, inspiration, and humor at conferences and churches around the country. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Andrea, and their three children.

Editorial Reviews

David’s story will inspire you to honor God by pursuing the dreams He places in your heart. Between Heaven and Hollywood gives you a roadmap of how to overcome the challenges you will face if you seek to be a witness for Christ in the public arena.

Author of t he book God’s Not Dead Dr. Rice Broocks

Between Heaven and Hollywood elucidates the hidden tension within each one of us between the ache to pursue a dream and fear that we will fail. David A.R. White courageously challenges us to dream bigger and trust God more boldly. White masterfully draws us into his very personal struggle of dreaming big, relying on God more severely, and wrestling with fear of failure. Between Heaven and Hollywood inspires us to leave trepidation in the dust and hand our biggest passions to God.

Meg Meeker

David A.R. White is a preacher’s kid from a small town next to nowhere, with God-given dreams that pushed him naively and courageously into the Hollywood abyss. I trust and I have enjoyed working for and with David and was surprised because I thought I knew much of his successful journey into “The Business.” I was pleasantly surprised to read of his trials and tribulations as he has proven to be a significant Hollywood player while armed with his faith and trust in God. Between Heaven and Hollywood is filled with inspiration from a man who grew up on a wheat farm in Kansas without a single connection in Hollywood . . . except perhaps his connection to God. After reading this book I’m reminded of how deep his faith is, and why he was making Christian movies long before it was considered “good business.” He has accomplished a small miracle: honoring the Lord while making successful profitable films of faith in Hollywood. This book is an inspirational guide to following your God-given dreams and reminds us that it’s our unexceptional ordinariness that make us so uniquely extraordinary. Take a chance and read this book . . . it could change the way you see yourself, your faith, and how you go about pursuing your life and dreams.

Actor and Star of Do You Believe? Ted Mc Ginley

David A.R. White, in his book Between Heaven and Hollywood, has touched the human heart as he strikes a familiar chord with all people who desire to see their dreams fulfilled in their lifetime. In his popular movies God’s Not Dead and God’s Not Dead 2, we see him stand firm and fearless in his faith; being bold in his presentation of God’s infinite character to a world who blatantly denies His existence. As with his work on screen, this book will enthrall the reader to aspire to the heights he has reached. He is a man who has defied the odds and demonstrated his persistence in pursing his dreams according to God’s divine purpose.

Raul Ries

David’s story will inspire you to honor God by pursuing the dreams He places in your heart. Between Heaven and Hollywood gives you a roadmap of how to overcome the challenges you will face if you seek to be a witness for Christ in the public arena.

Author of t he book God’s Not Dead Dr. Rice Broocks

I met David when we worked together on the set of the Pure Flix film Redeemed. This book and how David lives his life are an inspiration to me and many others who feel called to work in the entertainment industry.

National TV Reporter; Author of Faith in the Spotl Megan Alexander

Reading David’s story, I felt at times I was reading about myself because our stories are similar in many ways. Citizens of Heaven, working in Hollywood. As he points out so eloquently, each of us is a deliberate creation of God, with a God-breathed dream inside us. And each unique, with a wonderful future—if we let Him lead us. I wish every young dreamer would read David’s story; it’s entertaining, sometimes funny, often inspirational, and eventually thrilling. And it’s chock full of God’s Word and will for all of us, but employed in individual and surprising ways. You’ve done big things, David—but this book may well be your best production.

Entertainer Pat Boone

As a child I could daydream with great ease, and so many of the things I dreamed were realized with equal ease. But then as a child my trust in God also came so easily . . . then, I had a childlike faith. As time went on, as it undoubtedly will . . . the challenges of life . . . the many stumbling blocks and heartbreaks called into question that faith, demanding all the while that I deepen my relationship with God and strengthen my dependence on Him, if once again, the dreams He placed in my heart were ever again to become a reality. I only wish I had this “gem of a book” to encourage me along my journey and make the path a bit more clear, as I surrendered the dreams in my heart to His purpose for my life. But I have it now. This book not only reawakens our ability to dream, it can reintroduce us to the greatest relationship of our lives. Dreams are but a vision of His Plan for Our Lives.

Actress and Author Robin Giv ens

Hollywood is the place of dreams—people dream of being famous stars, writers, and directors. One in a million actually breaks through in the industry and makes it. David A.R. White is one in a million. But because he’s done it without abandoning his Christian faith, which is part of his life since his Kansas childhood, he’s one in 10 million! His remarkable story of dreams coming true without surrender to the secular is now captured in his fascinating book, Between Heaven and Hollywood. Funny, earthy, and real—it’s as good as his movies!

Governor Mike Huckabee