In a cinematic journey, explore the Lord’s Prayer across the landscapes where Jesus first spoke it. Hosted by Brad Gray and featuring insights from N. T. Wright and other scholars, learn about the prayer’s cultural, historical, and spiritual depth.

The Sacred Thread

This episode explores the Lord’s Prayer through its historical and cultural context, tracing its roots from ancient Egypt to the time of Jesus and revealing a God who sees suffering, knows his people, and acts to deliver them.

Episode 1

Our Father

This episode explores how ancient Israelites saw “the heavens” as God’s supreme rule over creation. Drawing from biblical cosmology, it reveals a God who reigns from on high yet stays intimately near—present, active, and closer than we imagine.

Episode 2

In the Heavens

This episode traces the weight of holiness in ancient Israel and shows how Jesus called followers to represent God daily. Holiness meant responsibility within the world—not separation from it—but living to truly reflect who God is.

Episode 3

Holy Be Your Name

This episode shows how the Lord’s Prayer clashed with Roman rule and Jewish hopes for deliverance from Genesis to Matthew to Revelation - making it a bold prayer for God’s reign to break into earth.

Episode 4

Your Kingdom Come

This episode explores how “daily bread” echoes Israel’s wilderness dependence on God, teaching trust, humility, and releasing control to a God who provides for real needs in real time.

Episode 5

Daily Bread

In the ancient world, forgiveness intertwined with debt, justice, and covenant loyalty. This episode shows how Jesus linked it to restored relationships and communal healing—the prayer’s toughest ask.

Episode 6

Forgive Us

The season finale examines temptation, evil, and suffering, and how Jesus taught his followers to pray for deliverance through hardship. It shows how he lives out that teaching at the climax of his life and mission.

Episode 7

Season 1

Context is everything. Through cinematic storytelling and accessible scholarship, The Sacred Thread invites viewers into the world of the Biblical text. The series cuts to the heart of Scripture, exploring the historical, cultural, geographical, and literary contexts behind the Bible’s most iconic stories.

Through cinematic storytelling and accessible scholarship, The Sacred Thread immerses viewers in the Biblical world, exploring the historical, cultural, geographical, and literary contexts of Scripture's most iconic stories.

Context is everything. Encounter the Bible’s most iconic stories in their full context.

The Lord's Prayer

This film journeys through the ancient world to explore the Lord’s Prayer in the places where Jesus first spoke it. Hosted by Brad Gray and enriched by insights from N. T. Wright and other scholars, it reveals each line as an invitation to live God’s kingdom in everyday life. Through vivid landscapes and thoughtful scholarship, it uncovers the cultural, historical, and spiritual depth behind the prayer and invites viewers to rediscover its enduring power.

A cinematic exploration of the Lord’s Prayer across the landscapes where it began.

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The Sacred Thread

The Sacred Thread

The Lord's Prayer