Reading the Gospels over, it is clear that Jesus could see in portrait mode. Of course, he could also take in a panorama! But over and over again, as Paul Miller points out, we see him “see” people, move toward them in compassion, and act on their behalf. Read More...
As a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard, Ross Burns, seeJesus' new Military Trainer, desires to bring Jesus' hope into the military. "It's a rough time in the military, for sure," shares Ross. The service men and women of the United States need the refuge of Jesus. Read More...
With secularism on the rise, youth groups are one ministry that still draws people from outside the Church. Veteran youth pastor, Christian Graham, recently joined seeJesus as Mid-Atlantic Student Ministries Coordinator, and the heart of his ministry is to connect students with the Person of Jesus. Read More...
Our Eurasia Coordinator, Richard, recently traveled to Romania to deliver resources for our partners at UDG, a Christian university in Moldova engaged in Ukrainian refugee ministry. He met so many people who are being the hands and feet of Jesus to those who are displaced! Read More...
God is the one taking action in Jesus’ resurrection. The Apostle Paul is pointing out something that's really important for love: we do the dying, but God does the resurrecting. This doesn't mean that we’re completely passive in resurrection. But the energy, ideas, and the people that help—all of that is from the father. It's the father's gift to us... Read More...
We are living in a season of sadness. This is true globally at multiple levels, but it's also true for the Church as we enter Lent. For many of us, sadness is frightening because we don’t know how to enter it without drowning. Read More...
A few years ago, I started to feel uncomfortable with my then lower elementary aged kids' lack of engagement in our worship service. There was no pressure around us to make a change; my discomfort didn't feel like embarrassment or guilt, but a nudge from the Lord to take action! Read More...
"I never started out to write a book on prayer,” writes Paul Miller in the introduction to "A Praying Life." As we reflect on the ministry of "A Praying Life," here is the prayer story behind the book and how it continues to unfold into a new book, "A Praying Church." Read More...
When Jon heard that a large Chinese church was planning to study "The Person of Jesus" in their home groups — 700 people in about 20 groups — he was thrilled to say the least. Read More...
Débora Ramirez was shocked when the border agent told her team they could not enter Honduras. “Fifty pastors were there waiting for us,” said Deb. “I really felt like God wanted us to go, and now he’d closed the door right in our faces!” What happened next was truly God's plan for the team. Read More...
Philippians 2:5-8 is like an x-ray of Christmas – it’s the story behind the story of the manger. In this passage, Paul describes four steps to what we're calling the descent of love that help us understand not only Jesus' love for us, but also our love for others. Read More...
In one of the hardest periods of my life, I began to thank God for his small gifts. It was out of that experience that I began to notice gift-giving cycles in traffic and other common, everyday moments. All of life is gift! Read More...
At 24, Brian Morgan stumbled, half-drunk, into church one Sunday, and his life was radically changed when he eventually met Jesus. Now, he is part of the seeJesus team full-time as our new Student Ministry Coordinator Southeast. Read more about Brian's story. Read More...
In modern business terms, Jesus was a movement leader with twelve staff that needed to be recruited. Most leaders are quick to acknowledge that recruiting good staff is challenging. Let's watch Jesus do HR work -- and manage by prayer. Read More...
As the training for a group of leaders in Arizona was coming to a close, one of the senior leaders asked me two questions that hushed the room: “Where do you think the American church will be in 50-100 years?... Is there any hope?” Read More...
Do you anticipate a somewhat turbulent Thanksgiving or Christmas? The J-Curve is no guarantee of smooth skies (in fact doing the work of love often makes them bumpier) but it can steady you and bring the joy of fellowship with Christ into the darkest of places. Read More...
Seven student interns slowing down for one month, studying the Person of Jesus, and seeking to follow him all while immersed as short-term missionaries in Guatemala. Would faith come alive? Read More...
In the midst of a hard season with a friend, our Director of Communications, Liz, had an epiphany: Don't flee from the truth, welcome it. Since then, she's been immensely helped by watching how Jesus "does" honesty in "The Person of Jesus" study's second unit, "Honesty." Read More...
Julie Courtney, our Developmental Editor, has taught "The Person of Jesus" material for over 30 years, and she has been using her extensive knowledge of the material to update it for release as five individual studies including the second unit, "Honesty." Read More...
Catching a vision for how Jesus lived as a human is a central theme in Paul Miller’s original "The Person of Jesus" study, and one that Robert Row, Student Ministries Coordinator and author of the new study, sought to draw out in the student edition. Read More...
My heart is full of worship and thanksgiving when I see how God has allowed the many J-Curves of the "J-Curve" over the past 15 years to overflow now into his Church as comfort. Read More...
The gang—that’s what I call the group of kids that we work with affected by disability—are one of the secrets of the kingdom. Jill Miller shares the story behind our newest Bethesda study. Read More...
We’ve studied how to fix the bad (redemption and salvation), but we’ve not studied this beautiful thing we are supposed to all become: Jesus. So we don’t have a clear sense of what it is to be human. Read More...
Late last year, P&R Publishing released Michael Graham's new biography of my father, Jack Miller. With their permission, I'm sharing the foreword that I wrote. Read More...
Paul Miller was recently invited to contribute this article, "10 Things You Should Know About Love" to Crossway Books' popular 10 Things You Should Know blog series, which has been steadily growing since 2016. Read the full article on Crossway's blog. Read More...
We get confused about glory. You will hear someone say, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if so-and-so, this famous athlete, became a Christian?
One of the things that makes Christmas so amazing every year is that you never really understood it last year. The idea of God becoming a person, a little baby, is so immense that we can’t ever wrap our minds around it. Read More...
As our world slips more deeply into suffering, it's never been clearer that we need to pray. But for many people corporate prayer is a distant memory. What does a prayer meeting look like? How long should it be?
America is infected with tribalism like never before. “What would Jesus do?” seems simplistic, almost trite, but I can’t think of a better time than now to reflect on that question.
