After three years of doing the Lord’s work in the power of the flesh rather than of the Spirit, Kieran Carr had a major health collapse. He told his boss, "I can't do this anymore," but his boss encouraged him to take a break. In God's providence, Kieran "met" seeJesus during that break. Read More...
A high school sophomore who lives in Arizona, Caroline, meets weekly with a group of students and a mentor to work through lessons in the "Person of Jesus—Student Edition" study on honesty. The new study will impact many students like Caroline. "Jesus' honesty surprises students in a thousand good ways!" Read More...
Jesus spends the last six months of his life going lower, down to Jerusalem and to his death on the cross. At same time, we begin to see the disciples wanting to go higher. We see this starting right after the Mount of Transfiguration, as they are returning to Capernaum. Read More...
It’s been a hard few years for the church. There’s a sense in which the pandemic sped up a transition we were already in. It took out old solutions that were propping things up, making room for new ones. I’m hopeful for the church in this season. Read More...
When the pandemic began, the Miller's kitchen renovation went on indefinite pause. They were living in the basement, and their well-ordered lives, like their well-ordered kitchen, were now in complete disarray. "I needed to remember that God was in charge of every detail," shares Jill Miller, "and that drew me to Esther." Read More...
The most easily missed person in the Christmas story is the last one mentioned. Where did the gift of Jesus, which led to the destruction of all evil and to a new heavens and earth, begin? With Anna in the temple praying. Of course, the gift of Jesus began from all eternity, and yet, it needed a human instrument, a conduit. Anna’s praying was one of the sparks that led to the incarnation... Read More...
When missionary, Tracey Eide, arrived in Krakow, Poland, she was asked if she'd be willing to start a Bible study for moms. The group of Ukrainian refugees, some believers and some not, used the newly Russian-translated "Person of Jesus" study. Read More...
I try to adapt Bible study materials so that people affected by disability can go beyond where they ever have before in studying the Bible. I want to make sure all of “the gang” (as I lovingly call the kids and adults I teach who are affected by disabilities) can learn the Bible. Read More...
As we experience ongoing growth and new opportunities, we are very pleased to announce a much-needed addition to the "A Praying Life" team! Adam Barker has joined us as our new Southwest Coordinator. Read More...
For many years, my favorite Bible passage has been the Apostle Paul's words in Philippians 3:10 - "I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of sharing in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death."… But somehow, in the blindness of my flesh, I forgot or ignored the words which told me how my Father in heaven would make it happen. Read More...
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...
