Category: The Jack Miller Project
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How We Receive New Life — Handed Over to the King
Should politics and religion mix? Mark 1:14–15 answers with one word that keeps returning — handed over. The Son went into the hands of sinners to bring us into the hands of God, and receiving the new life means resting in his hands, by repentance and faith.
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God’s Solution — Perfect Record, New Heart, Good Master
Isaiah 52:13–53:12, the servant God shows us, and the life he calls prosperous — the fourth of the Five Facts. We strayed our own way and were left with a bad record, a bad heart, and a bad master. Pierced in our place, the servant clears the record, gives the new heart, and lives to…
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Bad Record, Bad Heart, Bad Master
Romans 3:9–26, the three barriers, and the God who answers all three — the third of the Five Facts. Self-centeredness left us with a bad record, a bad heart, and a bad master, and no power to mend them. But now God justifies the guilty freely in Christ, and the response is to say amen.
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Self-Centered, Not God-Centered
Ephesians 2:1–7, the powers of the air, and the end of magic — the second of the Five Facts. We are self-centered, not God-centered: dead under powers we were sure we had outgrown. But God, rich in mercy, makes the dead alive.
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Graham Family & Ministry Update
Dear Friends, It has been about three months since our last update, and once again a great deal has happened. When I last wrote, we were still in Mount Juliet, the basement torn up from the flood, and I was preparing to leave for an island I had visited but never lived on. I write…
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A Loving God Sent His Son
The first of Jack Miller’s Five Facts of the gospel: a loving God sent His Son Jesus into the world to bring us a new and abundant life. An essay on John 10:10 and John 3:16–17 — the zoe life Christ lived, laid down, and gives; why the promise can feel larger than our experience;…