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What's Playing
- The Box Office (home page)
- Keep It Legal (licensing info)
- The Movie Listings:
- Jesus as Movie Star (literal depictions of Jesus)
- Cinematic Parabolic Gospel (finding the Gospel in movies)
- Divine Download (movie, tv, video)
- Director's Cuts (examples)
- Reel Conversion (practical how-to)
- Credits (resource list)
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The Producer
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Kenny Jahng is media director of Cornerstone Fellowship Church in New Jersey.
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This website project is currently part of his postmodern preaching practicum at The Theological School at Drew University. His passion for leveraging technology to share the Gospel can be experienced if you ever see him with his Godvertiser hat on in life. You can reach Kenny Jahng through email via TheaterTheology[at]FingerClickingGood.com
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Theater Theology > Movie Listings > Cinematic Gospel
Finding Jesus (or Parables) within Films
While it might be useful
to literally
depict Jesus on the big screen during your woship service
sermon, the greater
opportunity is to find material within the 600+ films released each
year that bring out the Jesus in various circumstances that touch us
personally.
By finding the parables and methaphors for sermonic messages in movies through which we can preach the essense of the Gospel, our audience can be captivated and catapulted into totally different realms of understanding.
There
are various resources that help to gleam these instances
-- sort
of like topical bible concordance references like Nave's Topical Bible
that organizes scripture into various subject matter covered in the
verses.
Below are just a few suggested starting points to help you begin the process of revealing devine messages within movie moments:
Textweek Movie Concordance
- maps movies to various themes which may be explored from Biblical
perspective
By finding the parables and methaphors for sermonic messages in movies through which we can preach the essense of the Gospel, our audience can be captivated and catapulted into totally different realms of understanding.
There
are various resources that help to gleam these instances
-- sort
of like topical bible concordance references like Nave's Topical Bible
that organizes scripture into various subject matter covered in the
verses. Below are just a few suggested starting points to help you begin the process of revealing devine messages within movie moments:
Textweek Movie Concordance
- maps movies to various themes which may be explored from Biblical
perspective
Daily Reflections for
Movie Lovers - offers one-minute audio broadcasts that
takes movie plots and related them to Scripture 
MovieMinistry
- provides sermon illustrations with suggested scripture references and
exact DVD start/end segments
Hollywood
Jesus
- provides movie profile and reviews along with spiritual connections /
suggested scripture for recently released movies
WingClips
- free
subscription site (paid membership gives better quality video files)
that offers movie clips with suggested sermon ideas/scripture reference
tie-ins. All projection licensing issues taken care.
Just
download and show!Do you know of any other movie sermon reference website or resource? Please let me know and we'll add it to this list!