Tag: Sonship
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A New Life Conference at Faith OPC in Long Beach
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…
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A New Life Seminar: Evangelism & The Foundations of Discipleship
I spent the morning putting together copies of Jack Miller’s out-of-print “A New Life” booklet for next week’s seminar at Faith OPC in Long Beach, California. William (Bill) Viss knew Jack Miller since their days together in San Francisco in the 1950s. In the late 70’s, Viss served on staff at New Life Church in…
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Witnessing to the Virtuous
As I drove north on the 101 highway I knew I was headed home to the traditional Oregon of 1949, where many of the people I knew would count themselves among the virtuous. I looked forward to being with them. They were my people, and I knew them well. They tried to live by a…
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The Primacy of Faith—A Sermon with My Personal Testimony
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…
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Jack Miller on The Relation Between Man’s Faith and the Holy Spirit
Now how will we define faith? I wouldn’t attempt to try at this point 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. A…