Category: The Jack Miller Project
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Pray Constantly
Jesus teaches us to ask, seek, and knock — and then trades bread for something greater. At the last, the Father gives his own Holy Spirit to everyone who asks: the gift turns out to be the Giver himself. An essay on Luke 11:1–13, the first of four on how we continue in the new…
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Aseity — the Gift of Dependence and the Wound of Dependence
God has life in himself. Everyone else drinks. What I am learning about aseity — and about the two wounds of dependence: asking a person to be my fountain, and playing the fountain myself.
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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.