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A Skeptic Witnessing to Skeptics

May 4, 2022

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[My] encounter [in 1950 with Dr. Alfred Fisk, a liberal philosophy professor known as “The Lion of San Francisco State University”] was a crisis in a positive sense for me, a defining encounter with merely human faith. The Holy Spirit enabled me to reject it emphatically. Fisk was believing where he should be skeptical. He…

A New Life Conference at Faith OPC in Long Beach

Apr 27, 2022

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https://www.faithopc.org/Newlife Here are links to the three talks on Friday and Saturday at A New Life Conference in Long Beach, CA held on April 1–2, 2022. Talk 1: A New Life: Evangelism and the Foundations of Discipleship: https://youtu.be/IrmJaRB-f5w Talk 2: Praying—Together—the Promises: https://youtu.be/WeuWt0Y8Z8k Talk 3: Continuance in Justification: https://youtu.be/B7Vio433lw0 Here is a link to the…

The Primacy of Faith—A Sermon with My Personal Testimony

Sep 13, 2021

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In the Fall of 2020, as part of a new course I was developing from my research— “A New Life: Evangelism and the Foundation of Discipleship”—a number of people at Hickory Grove Church blessed others by publicly sharing testimonies. On November 22, the person scheduled to share their testimony had an emergency. So I took…

“Preach the Gospel to Yourself”—Jerry Bridges & Jack Miller

Apr 30, 2021

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Jerry Bridges, Vice President of the Navigators, explained how Jack taught him what it means to “preach the gospel to yourself.” After encountering Jack, Bridges’s teaching and writing began to change significantly from his classic The Pursuit of Holiness published in 1978 to The Discipline of Grace: God’s Role and Our Role in the Pursuit…

“Finished Work” — April 7, 2021 Sermon for Ann Marie (Myer) Graham

Apr 9, 2021

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To give due credit, I found a sermon Jack Miller preached three decades ago by the same title—“Finished Work”—immensely helpful to me during this trying time. While my Mom was in Hospice, I listened to Jack’s sermon and read thru and meditated upon the book of Ecclesiastes three or four times throughout the week before…

How Jack Miller Became a Trinitarian

Mar 27, 2021

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Pastor and theologian Jack Miller (1928–1996) is best known for saying, “Cheer up! You are far worse than you think” and “Cheer up! God’s grace is greater than you’ve ever dared hope.” These were lessons that Jack learned repeatedly throughout his life. When Christian leaders came to Jack for help, he would listen and ask…