The Jack Miller Project Blog

Essays, updates, and reflections on the life, ministry, and ongoing influence of C. John “Jack” Miller — written by Michael A. Graham, author of Cheer Up! and founder of The Jack Miller Project.

  • Christ Crucified for “My Shameful Sins” and “My Everyday Respectable Sins”

    In spite of having been deeply blessed in Africa through meeting the leaders of the East African revival seven years earlier, it was a very dry and needy vicar and ex-missionary who arrived at the conference at Elfinsward, having told the Lord that he could not leave that place unless He did some new thing…

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  • Do You Have The Fruit Of The Spirit?

    Roger and I sat in my car, both of us moved as we reflected on what God was doing in the life of this new Christian. Roger then asked me a question. “Can you be a Christian without the fruit of the Spirit?” I asked him to explain what he meant. He said, “In your…

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  • How Will We Define Faith?

    by C. John “Jack” Miller [H]ow will we define faith? I wouldn’t attempt to try … to give you a comprehensive definition of faith—in a practical way you could say that faith is to know Jesus Christ, to have trusted in Him, but maybe we ought to work it out in a few more divisions.…

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  • Healing Aloneness

    By C. John “Jack” Miller, October 1987, a difficult period immediately after Jack was diagnosed with cancer. It was one of the toughest and yet most wonderful seasons in my life. I had decided for life on Monday, October 19 (the Black Monday of Wall Street fame). I ate more food that afternoon and evening…

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