The Jack Miller Project

Cheer Up! God’s Spirit Works in Our Weakness

Tag: Calvinism

  • “This is As Important As Anything I’ve Ever Said to You.” Jack Miller

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    My daughter and I recently found this particular talk by Jack Miller to be immensely helpful. I am thinking about asking for the necessary permissions to put together a book of Jack’s greatest sermons from the four to five hundred recordings I have. Therefore, I would like your thoughts and feedback both on this talk…

  • The True Charismatic Movement

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    Historically, the various pneumatic movements have put forward the view that emotional intensity practically equals the presence of the Holy Spirit. But this can turn into a disastrous mistake. … The heart of the problem appears to be that Christians often think of the filling of the Spirit largely in quantitative terms, as though the…

  • The End of the Struggle

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    The End of the Struggleby Stanley Voke A little boy came home from Sunday School one day and said, “Mama, we had a new hymn today. It said that Jesus knows all about our struggles.” Then he added thoughtfully, “You know, that isn’t right. We don’t struggle, only snails struggle!” This reminds me of two…

  • Brokenness: The Way of Grace

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    I was an energetic, proud, tense pastor of a large church in the north of England. Outwardly successful, I lived a life of inward defeat. Our marriage appeared happy enough but was full of tensions, and I was warned by my doctor of serious duodenal trouble within two years if I did not learn to…

  • Do You Have The Fruit Of The Spirit?

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    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…

  • How Will We Define Faith?

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    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.…