As some say, “education gets in the way of learning.” Although this is not entirely true, since I must attribute much of what I have learned to my formal education, there is definitely much validity to this statement. I have found that some of my greatest learning experiences occur during the summer months. No longer am I told to study or do assignments on topics that are too basic and aren’t pushing me hard enough or are on topics I’ve studied previously and am therefore not learning much in studying them at an introductory level. Come the summer months I can hone in on topics that are weaknesses or vacancies in “my arsenal.” Again, I owe a ton of what I have learned to my professors, but as I like to say, if you can read you aren’t limited to living teaches. And with that, the dead teachers tend to be the best ones. Needless to say, I look forward to my Summer studies.
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Together for the [Underestimated] Gospel–Sermon Notes
So I’m finally back from T4G. I was unable to find time to write another post while I was still in Kentucky, but I have decided nonetheless to provide a brief wrap-up post by supplying you with my sermon notes as I indicated I would in the previous post. The following are my raw notes (unedited and “un-proofread”) from various sermons given at the conference. Not all of the sermons given at the conference had enough structure in order for me to outline them, so the notes below do not cover every message spoken but only those I was able to take somewhat structured notes on. I hope you enjoy them and find them helpful.
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Together for the [Underestimated] Gospel–Day 1
Besides being extremely tired and feeling as if I am coming down with a cold due to lack of sleep, today was a spectacular day. We showed up decently early to the conference and got a ton of free books, which mind you are quality reads. Then of course, beginning at 1:00 pm the sessions began.
One of my favorite aspects of these general sessions is the times prior to the messages or panel discussions in which an entire auditorium and Christian pastors, students, scholars, and other individuals join together to worship our God. Today my friends and I had seats towards the very front on the ground level, and I am telling you that in order to even hear myself singing I really had to belt it. The music was simple. The words were rich. And the passion and love for God was present. I absolutely loved coming together with such a large group of individuals and corporately proclaiming sound doctrine in praise of our great God!
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Together for the [Underestimated] Gospel–Preface
So, 45 minutes ago I arrived at my motel in Louisville, Kentucky for the Together for the Gospel conference. A bunch of friends of mine from Maranatha and I drove down today. We had an interesting and somewhat eventful ride full of great discussion. Let’s just say that the homework I planned on doing never happened.
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Introducing the Kirk Miller Blog!
Hello and welcome to my new blog, the Kirk Miller Blog! If you have followed my writing in the past, you are probably aware of my former blog (which is now permanently inactive), I’m Calling Us Out (ICUO) (approximately 2009-2011). Due to those of you who did follow ICUO, or possibly to satisfy the interests of others, I have decided to write a brief explanation as to why I have started an entirely new blog with a new domain and everything.
My first reason is that I wanted something simpler than ICUO. ICUO had a great format, but the maintenance was too time consuming. Kirk Miller Blog has much simpler maintenance, which hopefully means I will be able to post more in less time.
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