Category: The Jack Miller Project

A Confession and a Discovery: (Follow Up to Yesterday’s article) By Michael A. Graham I have a PhD. I wrote Jack Miller’s biography. I have been a pastor for twenty-five years. I have preached Isaiah and Romans more times than I can count. And until this week, I had missed something that was right in…

By Michael A. Graham Jack wrote: “The foundation of the whole Christian life is justification by faith alone. Once that is settled, every other aspect of Christian growth and change is simply learning how to build upon that foundation.” The metaphor is architectural. The foundation is complete. The foundation doesn’t change. Every day you wake…

By Michael A. Graham [Author’s Note: This is a continuation/follow-up of my thoughts from today’s Bible reading that was providentially in Exodus 25–32. In the context of yesterday’s AI article on representation and reality, I wanted to memorialize these engagements so I can keep them in mind as I continue thinking about the categories of…

By Michael A. Graham Galatians 3:3 is the theological hinge of the entire book of Galatians. Paul is confronting churches that had made a catastrophic mistake. They had begun by the Spirit. And now they were being perfected by the flesh. “Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?” The…

by Michael A. Graham I said, “How long does it take to change? How long does it take to stop being ruled by your flesh, your fear, your sense of failure?” Jack said: “Michael, repentance is the heart of the Christian life. Repentance is the pivot point around which everything else revolves.” That was in…