Jesus Film Project
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What’s So Important About Loving Your Enemies?
It seems like everything Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount could be considered revolutionary. But what He said about loving our enemies might top the list. When it comes to our adversaries, Jesus’s words are both inspiring and challenging, simultaneously encouraging and convicting us. You have heard that it was said, “Love your…
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What is the Meaning of the Parable of the Weeds?
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What Is the Parable of the Wandering Sheep About?
About halfway through Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus offers a parable about shepherding: What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, truly I tell…
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Why Does Jesus Talk about Money so Often?
It’s almost alarming how much Jesus talks about money. He discussed the topic of money more often than He spoke of faith and prayer combined. Jesus typically taught in parables-and 11 of His 40 parables were about money or used money as a way to teach us spiritual truths. For instance, the parables of the…
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Why Was Jesus so Angry with the Religious Establishment?
When we see a conflict in the Gospels, it’s usually between Jesus and the religious leaders of His day. And we don’t have to look too hard to understand why Jesus was so frustrated with them. Mathew records a sequence of seven woes that Jesus calls down upon the Pharisees and teachers of the law…
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How Can Our Righteousness Surpass the Pharisees’?
Jesus often found Himself locking horns with the religious establishment. Many religious leaders represented a version of the law that, instead of drawing people closer to God, pushed them away. This angered Jesus and led to many conflicts. During the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus made a statement that would have startled His listeners: “For…
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How Should I Respond When People Criticize Missionaries?
In late 2018, 26-year-old John Allen Chau was killed trying to bring the gospel to an indigenous community on North Sentinel Island. This small island in the Bay of Bengal-home to the Sentinelese people-is one of the last groups who maintain no contact with modern civilization. The Sentinelese tribe is known for attacking anyone who…
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What Is the Kingdom of God?
If you were to put all the words of Jesus into one document, one of the first things you’d notice was how often Jesus talked about the kingdom of God. In fact, it’s such an essential element of His ministry that we can’t entirely understand the New Testament without it. But it’s a topic that…
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What Is the Meaning of the Parable about the Unmerciful Servant?
After a discussion about sin in the church, Peter approached Jesus with the following question, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” (Matthew 18:21) Knowing Peter, he was likely looking for Jesus to give him an “atta-boy.” After all, forgiving someone seven times…