Seeing Jesus with Paul Miller

This is episode is part of a series titled  A Praying Church.  Bob Allums, Director of seeJesus's A Praying Life Ministry, joins Paul and Liz Voboril for this series.  " The first glimmer of the church is in Genesis 4:26. At the end of this chapter, in the midst of this sort of descent into evil, people begin to call upon the name of the Lord. What jumps out is that they're defined by prayer. That...

This is the first episode in a new series titled  A Praying Church.  Bob Allums, Director of seeJesus's A Praying Life Ministry, joins Paul, Jon Hori and Liz Voboril for this series.  " In Luke you have the praying Jesus, and in Acts you have the praying church. But over the past 50 years, corporate prayer has been on very significant decline in the American church." "The reason why we pray togeth...

This is the fourth and final episode of our Advent series called, "Joy of Every Longing Heart." Liz Voboril and Jon Hori interview Ian Nagata, a missionary in Japan who serves both as an associate pastor and musician. You've heard Ian's music as it opens and closes each podcast episode!  " In  The Pastor's Kid,  Barnabas Piper writes, 'I grew up knowing of Jesus as God and man. I knew all the stor...

This is the third episode of our Advent series called, "Joy of Every Longing Heart." Liz Voboril and Jon Hori interview Jill Miller and Felicia Grandinette about their experience with discipling people with special needs.  " One day Kim was very frustrated with work—she walks dogs, going from house to house with an aide. She came home fired up, lit up with anger. That morning I was at a Bible stud...

This is the second episode of our Advent series called, "Joy of Every Longing Heart." Liz Voboril and Jon Hori interview Robert Row, seeJesus's Student Ministries Coordinator, and hear more of his story and his heart for junior and senior high school students.  " At some point as a church we're going have to look in the mirror and ask the question what have we missed, what in our training has led...

Today we begin a new series for advent, titled, "Joy of Every Longing Heart." In each episode, Liz Voboril and Jon Hori will interview a different staff member or trainer about how they've seen Jesus and see others seeing Jesus. We start with an interview with Laura McCaulley, seeJesus's Central Florida Trainer.  "I remember sitting on the back patio and thinking I was just showing up for a regula...

This episode is the fourth and final in our mini-series on Leadership.  "One of my primary tax tasks as a leader is to create foster and encourage a praying community and then my second task is to be a praying leader myself." "The heart of it is not the discipline of praying but the awareness that the spirit of Jesus sits at the center of all Jesus' work." " There's a big difference between the id...

This episode is the third in a mini-series on Leadership. "I love the older term 'missionary order' because that it conveys a sense of calling and ordering. There's a long tradition going back to the earliest monasteries in the late Roman era of having an actual written document that defines what your community is like." "Every community has weeds, and weeds are a problem, but often the bigger pro...

This episode is the second in a mini-series on Leadership. "One of the proverbs that is just drilled in my heart is Proverbs 27:23, 'Give attention to your flock.' Solomon says pay attention your flock because riches do not last forever. Organizations of any size get complacent - they just do...  It's easy to not take the time to tend your garden." "The hardest garden to attend as a leader is guar...

This episode is the first in a mini-series on Leadership. "To concentrate on where something's not working is a dying because no one likes to stare at failure. But I find that kind of dying produces the spirit's life." "I remember being physically sick at the thought of disappearing but that's how the Kingdom works." "It's the people working in IT, the hairstylists and moms who are friends with th...

This episode is the seventh in a series called "Forming a  J-Curve  Community," based on Part 5 of Paul's book,  J-Curve: Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life. "All of God's principles aren't enough—God needs to be at the center of his principles. What does that look like? That's the Spirit." "I've got this map, and I've got my goal on my journey, but I need the guide." "I'm at the edge of...

This episode is the sixth in a series called "Forming a  J-Curve  Community," based on Part 5 of Paul's book,  J-Curve: Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life. "Some of the Corinthians called themselves the elite, the 'spiritual' ones. It sounds like it was an early version of Gnosticism. They considered themselves 'spiritual' and looked down on Christians that weren't as wise as they were."...

This episode is the fifth in the "Forming a  J-Curve  Community" series, based on Part 5 of Paul's book,  J-Curve: Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life. "The new way of getting power is the Spirit. The way Paul accesses that power is the same way Jesus did in his death and his resurrection – it was through dying. In effect, Paul is re-enacting the dying and rising of Jesus all the time." "...

This episode is the fourth in a new series called "Forming a  J-Curve  Community," based on Part 5 of Paul's book,  J-Curve: Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life. "The 'health and wealth' gospel has come out of an environment where we have taught justification without the  J-Curv e. The health and wealth gospel is basically that Jesus is for me, and that prayer is a way to power." "If you...

This episode is the second in a new series called "Forming a  J-Curve  Community," based on Part 5 of Paul's book,  J-Curve: Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life. "Behind every faction, there's some idol in the center. A tribe is always centered around something that it is worshipping." "You don't get at power by seeking it – you get at power by losing it, just like Jesus did." "Paul is de...

This episode is the second in a new series called "Forming a J-Curve Community," based on Part 5 of Paul's book,  J-Curve: Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life. "What we're going to look at is the very first problem Paul tackles in Corinthians 1, and it's the problem of tribalism…. They're starting denominations, but they're about 1500 years too early!" " Because my tribe is Jesus, I can e...

This episode begins a new series called "Forming a J-Curve Community," based in part on Part 5 of Paul's book  The J-Curve: Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life. "Babbius' monument [in Corinth] is telling us a story, and the story, or narrative, is about what is important…. Being seen and honored and known is what life is about here. What Paul counters the Corinthians with is a different n...

This is the fourth and final episode in a series called  Hope and Direction in a Time of Crisis . These episodes have been excerpted from free webinars hosted by Paul Miller and conversation partners Jon Hori, Liz Voboril and Keith Grant.  "Generally speaking the emphasis within our therapeutic world is either improving the self with some kind of wisdom or improving the self's environment. So we m...

This is the third episode in a series called  Hope and Direction in a Time of Crisis . These episodes will be excerpted from free webinars hosted by Paul Miller and conversation partners Jon Hori, Liz Voboril and Keith Grant. To view upcoming webinars, visit  seejesus.net/events .  "Sometimes it's hard for us to get into touch with what the Apostle Paul was like as a person because he's either so...

This is the second episode in a new series called  Hope and Direction in a Time of Crisis . These episodes will be excerpted from free webinars hosted by Paul Miller and conversation partners Jon Hori and Liz Voboril. To view upcoming webinars, visit  seejesus.net/events .  "One of the tendencies that we have as believers is to edit our prayers to get them all balanced and it can freeze people. Th...

This is the first episode in a new series called  Hope and Direction in a Time of Crisis . These episodes will be excerpted from free webinars hosted by Paul Miller and conversation partners Jon Hori and Liz Voboril. To view upcoming webinars, visit  seejesus.net/events .  "We're separated from this text by 2,000 years, but you can feel Paul's emotions. They are vivid. Emotions are a function of w...

In this final episode in our Lenten series, we turn our attention to the resurrection. "The way Jesus announces [his resurrection] is pure Jesus. We discover that Jesus has been just standing there quietly with Mary, saying nothing. I love that. It's so like him to just be present with Mary. Generally speaking the more powerful our voice is, the more market share we have in a conversation, the mor...

Jesus doesn't say he's troubled in spirit. John, who is just to his right, picks it up. If you are aware of someone—you love them, or you are just an astute observer of people—you can tell when they are anxious. I think this is one of three references that John has to Jesus' anxiety. And they are all surrounding the passion. What I love about it is that it normalizes anxiety. So much of our modern...

"God in his wisdom is kind of bringing a poverty on the entire world. It's striking, especially in America. We have a Declaration of Independence so it's written in to our seminal documents that we should not be constricted by anybody. And yet God is constricting us." "I'm not saying the virus is a beautiful thing, but all suffering for those of us who are in Christ can be drawn up into the dying...

In this episode, we look at how Jesus' sadness as he nears the cross is another window into his personhood. "It really is true that Jesus is present. He's present with not only their rejection of him but with himself. He's comfortable being sad. And I don't think as Christians we're that comfortable or we hear much teaching on the negative emotions." "It's just a remarkable window into Jesus heart...