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.
Article Index — All posts by year
Article Index
2026
- Aug 8, 2026 — Handing It On
- Aug 8, 2026 — Read Your Bible
- Aug 2, 2026 — Pray Constantly
- Jul 22, 2026 — Aseity — the Gift of Dependence and the Wound of Dependence
- Jul 19, 2026 — How We Receive New Life — Handed Over to the King
- Jul 11, 2026 — God’s Solution — Perfect Record, New Heart, Good Master
- Jul 3, 2026 — Bad Record, Bad Heart, Bad Master
- Jun 27, 2026 — Self-Centered, Not God-Centered
- Jun 22, 2026 — Graham Family & Ministry Update
- Jun 15, 2026 — A Loving God Sent His Son
- May 21, 2026 — The Gospel Poured Out
- Apr 8, 2026 — Cheer Up! Come On, Let’s Die Together: It’s a Great Way to Come to Life
- Mar 26, 2026 — The Website Is Rebuilt — and a Word About Rose Marie Miller
- Mar 14, 2026 — A Higher Life Theology in Old School Clothing: What Jack Miller Wrote to His Elders About the OPC, the PCA, and the Unity of the Church
- Mar 11, 2026 — Graham Family & Ministry Update
- Mar 7, 2026 — How Beautiful Are the Dirty Feet
- Mar 5, 2026 — How to Build on Your Justification: Jack Miller on Romans, Justification, and the Life of the Justified
- Jan 28, 2026 — Representation and Reality: Reading Scripture Through the Lens of Another Gospel
- Jan 28, 2026 — Having Begun by the Spirit: Artificial Intelligence (AI) as Another Gospel
- Jan 25, 2026 — The Remnant of One: From Remnant Theology to a Theology of Abundance
- Jan 11, 2026 — What Is Grace? (And Why ‘Undeserving’ Isn’t Enough) — A Second Follow Up
- Jan 11, 2026 — Repenting of Being Right: Why Grace Matters More Than Ever Right Now — A Follow-Up
- Jan 9, 2026 — What’s So Amazing About Grace … Especially Right Now!
2025
- Dec 3, 2025 — Master List of Publications at The Jack Miller Project (with Hyper-links)
- Dec 3, 2025 — The Jack Miller Project and the Gary North Challenge
- Nov 24, 2025 — “Faith Working by Love”: The Relationship of Faith and Works from God’s Perspective and Ours
- Nov 11, 2025 — Faith vs. Magic: A Biblical Theology of Science, Culture, and Discipleship in a Disenchanted World
- Nov 1, 2025 — Pentecost, the Sins of Jeroboam, and the Words of Jesus at the Well
- Oct 19, 2025 — When the Word Comes and Speaks: Elijah’s Cave and the Voice of the Living God
- Oct 18, 2025 — When Prophets Cheer for Kings (or Presidents)
- Sep 15, 2025 — “I Do Not Count My Psyche as Precious”
- Sep 9, 2025 — Grazie Mille! Our Final Update from Italy and Croatia
- Aug 29, 2025 — David, Consecration, and the Greater King
- Aug 27, 2025 — From God’s Gospel to My Gospel: The Preached Word and the Revealed Mystery
- Aug 15, 2025 — The Three Priorities of the Church: Guarding the Gospel and Walking in the Obedience of Faith
- Aug 8, 2025 — Real People, Real Grace — The Four Common Features of a Fruitful and Effective Ministry
- Jul 29, 2025 — Recovering the Gospel We Left Behind: Evangelism, Discipleship, and the Harmony of Life in Christ
- Jul 7, 2025 — Returning to God in Truth: Pretense, Half-Heartedness, and the Call to Whole-Hearted Repentance Unto Life
- Jun 24, 2025 — “Let Go and Let God?” When Surrender Isn’t Surrender
- Jun 17, 2025 — The Covenant of Words: How the Gospel Changes Our Speech
- Jun 5, 2025 — The Presumptive Position: How Justification by Faith Alone Topples the Powers We Build to Avoid Christ
- May 26, 2025 — A Hard Decision
- May 22, 2025 — Reformation in Context: Political Power, Ecclesial Authority, and the Gospel
- May 17, 2025 — Popes, Presidents, and the Kingdom of God: Why Christ Still Wears the Only Crown
- May 5, 2025 — When Empathy Becomes a Stumbling Block: How a Modern Virtue Collides with the Cross
- Apr 21, 2025 — Is “Natural Theology” Fallen Theology? Recovering God’s “Natural” in Light of the Resurrection
- Apr 8, 2025 — Why I’m Sharing Jack Miller’s Story Again (and Why I Hope You’ll Share It Too)
- Apr 4, 2025 — Why People Don’t Want Justification (And Why We Preach It Anyway)
- Mar 30, 2025 — “Beware of Me When I’m Right”—Presumption (Self-Confidence) or Faith (Christ-Confidence)
- Mar 11, 2025 — Entering God’s Community of Love: The Gospel That Frees Us from Ourselves
- Mar 6, 2025 — God’s “Faithful Presence” in “The Negative World”
- Feb 27, 2025 — The Unveiling and the Unmasking: Apocalypse and Elenctics in Biblical Theology
- Feb 25, 2025 — “Take Care Then How You Hear”: Hearing, Faith, and the Holy Spirit
- Feb 21, 2025 — Pulling on the Biblical Theology Thread of Levi’s Scattering, the Priesthood of All Believers, and the Gathered & Scattered Church
- Feb 15, 2025 — A Call to Courage: When Reporting Abuse Is an Act of Heroic Love
- Feb 14, 2025 — One Holy Spirit, Three Reformed Voices—David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Donald Macleod, and C. John “Jack” Miller
- Feb 11, 2025 — The Legal Promise and the Gospel Promise: Understanding Their Relationship
- Feb 6, 2025 — A New Life Course Schedule (Spring 2025) at New Life Vicenza
- Feb 5, 2025 — The Case of the Gospel and the Murder of the Chocolate Lips
- Jan 31, 2025 — The Gospel No One Wants (And Everyone Needs): A Personal Story
- Jan 23, 2025 — The Greatness and Glory of the Legal Promise
- Jan 11, 2025 — Covenant Theology is Not Mono-Covenantalism: Recovering the Biblical, Reformed and Confessional Two-Covenant Framework
2024
- Dec 23, 2024 — 100 Years of Grace and Courage: Happy Birthday, Rose Marie Miller!
- Dec 19, 2024 — Cheer Up! Honoring Jack Miller on His 96th Birthday (Sorry for being a day late!)
- Dec 11, 2024 — The Gospel of “Costly Grace”: Bonhoeffer, Shepherd, and Jack Miller
- Nov 27, 2024 — “Zoe” Life in a “Bios” World: Jack Miller and the Pivotal Debates of Middle Westminster
- Nov 7, 2024 — Christ-Oriented Giving
- Sep 25, 2024 — “Correcting Yourself Before Others” by Jack Miller
- Aug 3, 2024 — “The Law and the Gospel” by Jack Miller
- Jul 23, 2024 — Martin Luther to George Spalatin, 21 August 1544
- Jul 16, 2024 — Does the Holy Spirit Seem to You to Be a Kind of Luxury?
- Apr 24, 2024 — Continuance in Justification by C. John Miller, 11 April 1979
- Apr 7, 2024 — By the Pool of Bethesda (John 5) with Alfred Edersheim
- Mar 27, 2024 — “Who Is Really on Trial?” Jack Miller
- Mar 17, 2024 — “The Word of God in the Life of the Church” by Jack Miller
- Mar 13, 2024 — Garbage Truck Evangelism
- Mar 9, 2024 — Beauty: A Letter from Jack Miller to World Harvest Mission Leadership Team just after the Collapse of the New Era Foundation
- Mar 6, 2024 — “Those Who Truly Stand in the Tradition of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin” by Jack Miller
- Feb 29, 2024 — Jack Miller on “The Primacy of Faith in Carrying the Gospel to Others”
- Jan 13, 2024 — What Jack Miller means by “Preaching the Gospel to Ourselves”
2023
- Dec 21, 2023 — New Life “Distinctives”—Reflections on the Early Days of New Life Church
- Dec 18, 2023 — Merry Christmas to You and Happy Birthday to the late Dr. C. John “Jack” Miller
- May 6, 2023 — “[I]f we don’t reach the cities of our land for Christ, we won’t reach the nation”—To New Life-Glenside on Leaving the OPC
- Apr 19, 2023 — “Denominations, Unless Revived by Repentance, Usually Fade After 50 to 70 Years” Letter from Jack Miller to Elders at New Life Church
- Feb 13, 2023 — “Authority for the Conflict” by Jack Miller
- Jan 11, 2023 — Grace and the Pastor’s Work
2022
- Dec 19, 2022 — Praying Together Effectively by Jack Miller
- Oct 31, 2022 — Abandoning the Idea of a Calvinist Remnant
- Oct 4, 2022 — The Lord is My Chosen Portion
- Jul 29, 2022 — Keeping Your Mental Health in a Violent Society by C. John “Jack” Miller
- Jul 6, 2022 — “Justification by Faith in the 20th Century” by C. John “Jack” Miller
- Jun 27, 2022 — Arrived in Vicenza
- May 30, 2022 — Preach Faith Until You Believe and When You Believe Preach Faith
- May 28, 2022 — An Interview with My Father—Dayton Graham (1936–2004)
- May 4, 2022 — A Skeptic Witnessing to Skeptics
- Apr 27, 2022 — A New Life Conference at Faith OPC in Long Beach
- Mar 26, 2022 — A New Life Seminar: Evangelism & The Foundations of Discipleship
- Mar 16, 2022 — Witnessing to the Virtuous
2021
- Sep 13, 2021 — The Primacy of Faith—A Sermon with My Personal Testimony
- Aug 28, 2021 — Jack Miller on The Relation Between Man’s Faith and the Holy Spirit
- Aug 17, 2021 — A Search For New Life … “Childhood Not Pleasant, I Hated Being Black”—The Story of Charles Brown
- Jul 5, 2021 — Next Steps in Ministry—Ministry Data Forms, Curriculum Vitae and Resume
- Jun 19, 2021 — Letter from John Berridge to Lady Huntingdon at the death of her daughter
- Jun 15, 2021 — “Listening is Another Way of Saying, ‘I Love You.’”
- Apr 30, 2021 — “Preach the Gospel to Yourself”—Jerry Bridges & Jack Miller
- Apr 9, 2021 — “Finished Work” — April 7, 2021 Sermon for Ann Marie (Myer) Graham
- Mar 27, 2021 — How Jack Miller Became a Trinitarian
- Mar 22, 2021 — Absolutely Convinced Jesus is Coming Back—Easter Sermon by Jack Miller
- Feb 15, 2021 — A “Dear John” Letter for Pastors by Jack Miller
- Feb 11, 2021 — Launch Forth Into the Deep — Another Modern Day Parable by Jack Miller
- Feb 8, 2021 — A Modern Parable by Jack Miller
- Jan 26, 2021 — Jack Miller on “How is the Holy Spirit Unleashed?”
- Jan 9, 2021 — Bott Radio Two-Part Interview for “Cheer Up!”
2019
- Nov 7, 2019 — “A New Life” Booklet and Sonship: Evangelism as the Foundations of Discipleship
- Oct 20, 2019 — The Jack Horner Approach to Claiming God’s Promises
- Oct 8, 2019 — “This is As Important As Anything I’ve Ever Said to You.” Jack Miller
- Oct 3, 2019 — The True Charismatic Movement
- Sep 28, 2019 — The End of the Struggle
- Sep 21, 2019 — Brokenness: The Way of Grace
- Sep 14, 2019 — Christ Crucified for “My Shameful Sins” and “My Everyday Respectable Sins”
- Aug 27, 2019 — Do You Have The Fruit Of The Spirit?
- Aug 8, 2019 — How Will We Define Faith?
- Jul 31, 2019 — Healing Aloneness