The Jack Miller Project

Cheer Up! God’s Spirit Works in Our Weakness

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  • Arrived in Vicenza

    Arrived in Vicenza

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    Sunday, I preached at New Life Vicenza from Mark 14:27–31 (Luke 22:31–34). I will be preaching this week from Mark 14:32–42. NLV has been working through the book of Mark and I am coming alongside them and joining in what they are already doing. While I greatly enjoyed preaching the gospel Sunday morning, I enjoyed…

  • A Skeptic Witnessing to Skeptics

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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

    A New Life Conference at Faith OPC in Long Beach

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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

    The Primacy of Faith—A Sermon with My Personal Testimony

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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…

  • How Jack Miller Became a Trinitarian

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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…

  • Absolutely Convinced Jesus is Coming Back—Easter Sermon by Jack Miller

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    Saturday, I urgently jumped in my car to make my way from Mount Juliet, Tennessee to Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Mom (Ann Graham) was being transferred from hospital to hospice. Though I had spent a week with her earlier this month, I didn’t know what to expect or if I would make it back home…