About Jack Miller

Jack has been married to Barbara, his partner in the faith, since 1973. They have three daughters and sons-in-law who have blessed them with eleven grandchildren. A Ruling Elder formerly at El Camino OPC , he currently resides as a member of Christ Church Plano (ACNA). Jack has been writing on Reformation and Reformed topics at The World’s Ruined blog since 2010. He is a graduate of the University of California Santa Barbara (1974) and holds a Master’s degree in Biblical Counseling from Grace Theological Seminary (1983).

Bolton On The Abiding Validity Of The Moral Law

by Jack Miller on September 26, 2025

Query 1. Are believers freed from obedience to the Moral Law; or from the Moral Law as a Rule of obedience? There are some who positively or peremptorily affirm that we are freed from the Law as a Rule, and we are . . . Continue reading →

Mercy Musings: Psalm 5

by Jack Miller on June 26, 2014

Some thoughts from Psalm 5 this morning. I was especially struck by the first seven verses. 1Hearken to my words, O Lord, attend to my cry. 2Attend to the voice of my supplication, my King, and my God: for to thee, O . . . Continue reading →

Good Old Fashioned Subjectivist Goo

by Jack Miller on June 24, 2014

In the 1920’s, J. Gresham Machen diagnosed not only the intellectual and theological drift of his day but of that which would continue to develop over the next 90 years. He wrote, The depreciation of the intellect, with the exaltation in the . . . Continue reading →

Preaching The Third Use And Encouraging The Saints

by Jack Miller on June 21, 2014

What about preaching and the third use of the law? Preachers often end their sermons with a moral application of the text. This practice has a long and honorable history in the Reformed and Presbyterian churches. Certainly pastors should preach the third use . . . Continue reading →

Calvin On Sanctification As An Effect Of Justification

by Jack Miller on June 20, 2014

Concerning the meaning of the phrase “sanctification has its ground in justification,” some out there in bloggo-land may be getting hung up on the term ground and reading more into to it than is warranted. Certainly there is no justification or sanctification . . . Continue reading →

Law, Gospel, Law

by Jack Miller on June 16, 2014

I think, not only the content of preaching, but the order of the content is important; indispensable even. J. Gresham Machen, in Christianity and Liberalism, wrote, The consciousness of sin was formerly the starting-point of all preaching, but today it is gone… . . . Continue reading →