Seeing Jesus with Paul Miller

Religion & Spirituality

About

In this podcast, Paul E. Miller, author of A Praying Life, invites you into a conversation about Jesus and how he lived as a person. Ministry and conversation partners, Liz Voboril and Jon H., join Paul in exploring the details of Jesus' earthly life. In attending closely to the cadences of the one person who lived a perfect life, we gain a clearer vision of what it means to be human. Learn more about Paul Miller and his ministry at seejesus.net.

Episodes

  • [WONDER] 3. How to Love a Bully: Jesus and Pilate, Part 2

    Paul, Jon, and Liz continue their examination of Jesus's personality, focusing on his dialogue with Pilate and his connection to his Heavenly Father. The discussion highlights Jesus's active engagement and humanity, showing a way to love d…

  • [WONDER] 2. Jesus Sees Through Pilate's Mock

    In this episode, Paul Miller, Jon, and Liz analyze Jesus' interactions with Pilate, contrasting it with the Resurrection announcement to Mary. They observe Jesus' calm and kind approach, diffusing the situation with Pilate through his comm…

  • [WONDER] 1. The Resurrection Announcement

    The 'Unexplored Wonder' series begins with an examination of the Resurrection Announcement. The hosts discuss how Jesus, in this moment, centers the narrative on Mary rather than himself, highlighting his humanity and allowing her to emerg…

  • [SPECIAL] Reflections on Suffering and the Persecuted Church

    Jon shares observations from a recent trip to Asia where he trained church leaders, including many from the persecuted church. He reflects on how intense environments bring clarity and a hunger for faith, impacting his own perspective.

  • [SPECIAL] Life Under a King: Interview with Mafdi

    Mafdi discusses discipleship, framing everyday humble tasks as service to a King. He shares his perspective on joyfully accepting these duties as an honor from the King.

  • [ADVENT 2025] 2. Fresh Faith Among Students with Robert Row and Christian Graham

    Liz and Jon interview our Student Ministry Director, Robert Row, and Mid-Atlantic Coordinator, Christian Graham. "I do think the tide is turning, and there's a shift in the middle of the coming generation, in the younger half of it. I woul…

  • [ADVENT 2025] 1. The Drumroll of Hope with Jill Miller

    Jon and Liz interview Jill Miller, seeJesus' Adaptive Curriculum Writer, about her new Bible study, Advent , and her children's book, Tully's Christmas Mess . You can view these new books and past advent podcasts and blog posts here . "It…

  • [SPECIAL] How to Lead a Prayer Meeting

    Paul, Liz, and Adam Barker, our A Praying Life Ministry Director, sat down to share ideas about how to lead a good prayer meeting -- whether an "official" meeting or any gathering of Christian friends who pray for one another. "I watched m…

  • [DISCIPLESHIP] 15. Sin Identification vs Beauty Formation

    Paul, Jon, and Liz continue their conversation about discipleship, looking at the relationship between sin identification and beauty formation. "Sin identification and beauty formation are mirrors of one another. The beauty of Christ, whic…

  • [DISCIPLESHIP] 14. The High Peaks of Discipleship

    Paul, Jon, and Liz reflect on the landscape of discipleship, contrasting the boredom of plains with the beauty of high peaks. "One quality of all the high points is perfection. You see it in Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount's 'Be perfect,…

  • [DISCIPLESHIP] 13. The Role of Beauty in Discipleship, Part 2

    Paul, Jon, and Liz continue their conversation about the quiet role of beauty in discipleship. "Often, we don't see and feel the reality of God's created order, because we've not cultivated an eye for beauty. And that it gives everything a…

  • [DISCIPLESHIP] 12. The Role of Beauty in Discipleship, Part 1

    Paul, Jon, Adam, and Liz continue their conversation about discipleship, looking at the role of beauty. "Our first tagline at seeJesus was 'helping people see the beauty of Jesus,' and people really struggled to understand what we did. I t…

  • [DISCIPLESHIP] 11. Prayer and Love

    Paul, Adam, Jon, and Liz continue their conversation about discipleship, considering how learning to pray is related to learning to love. "You could look at prayer kind of like an onion, where the outer layer might be prayer and the next l…

  • [DISCIPLESHIP] 10. The Will is Where the Interior and Exterior Meet

    Paul, Adam, and Liz continue their conversation about discipleship, looking at the role of the will. "Life is filled with these polarities: Grace or truth? Do I leave space, or do I draw near? At the crux is my communion with my Heavenly F…

  • [DISCIPLESHIP] 9. Learning to Pray is Learning to Love

    Paul and Liz continue this new series with Adam Barker, Director of A Praying Life. "You can try to teach someone to love and give them all the pieces, but if they don't love from the heart, nothing will happen…. Jesus is driving at creati…

  • [DISCIPLESHIP] 8. Discipleship is Not Passive

    Paul and Liz begin a short new series sharing lessons learned over the years about discipleship. Adam Barker, Director of our A Praying Life Ministry, joins us. "One of the things I do when discipling Christians is I hold them individually…

  • [PASSION] 17. The Glory of Jesus (POJ 5.11)

    Paul, Robert, and Liz wrap up this study of Jesus by reflecting on what Jesus tells us about his glory... and what that means for how we follow him. "We would think the glory would be the resurrection, that it would start Sunday. But Jesus…

  • [PASSION] 16. Resurrection, Part 2 (POJ 5.9)

    Paul, Robert, and Liz continue their conversation about the resurrection of Jesus. "It was the apocryphal gospel of Peter that helped me to realize how much space Jesus left in this Resurrection scene. If you follow what the gospel of Pete…

  • [PASSION] 15. Resurrection, Part 1 (POJ 5.9)

    Paul, Robert, and Liz begin looking at the first moments after the resurrection of Jesus, examining his interaction with Mary Magdalene. "Mary Magdalene is the first person we know of who turns away from two angels, because they aren't hel…

  • [PASSION] 14. The Cross, Part 2 (POJ 5.8)

    Paul, Robert, and Liz finish their conversation about Jesus on the cross, slowly walking through his last seven statements. "Notice how short Jesus' sentences are on the cross. He has to push himself up on his feet to catch a breath and th…

  • [PASSION] 13. The Cross, Part 1 (POJ 5.8)

    Paul, Robert, and Liz continue their slow walk through the last hours of Jesus' life, looking at Jesus and the cross. "There are so many things that Jesus says that are memorable because they're pithy. 'Father, forgive them for they know n…

  • [PASSION] 12. The Trial, Part 2 (POJ 5.7)

    Paul, Robert, and Liz continue their conversation about Jesus before Pilate, looking at how close Jesus gets to Pilate's heart. "Jesus has taken Pilate from a mocking question into opening up his heart, then he's received more mocking from…

  • [PASSION] 11. The Trial, Part 1 (POJ 5.7)

    Paul, Robert, and Liz continue their conversation about how Jesus loves as the cross draws near, turning their attention to the trial scene with Pilate. "Pilate is one of the people in the Gospels who we tend to see through a fairly fixed…

  • [PASSION] 10. Symphony of Love (POJ 5.6)

    Paul, Robert, and Liz continue their conversation about how Jesus loves as the cross draws near, turning their attention to the scene when Judas arrives at the garden. "We can sometimes be fearful of the kind of honest command or these pen…

  • [PASSION] 9. Gethsemane (POJ 5.5)

    Paul, Robert, and Liz resume the Passion series, watching Jesus at Gethsemane. "What saved us from sin and brought joy to the world? It was Jesus' death on the cross. What makes Jesus' death possible? Well, it was his obedience to his fath…

  • [SPECIAL] The First Nativity

    Paul, Robert, and Liz take a break from their conversations around the passion of Jesus to reflect on Christmas, and in particular, the story of the first live nativity, created by Francis of Assisi. "Francis of Asissi was probably the fir…

  • [PASSION] 8. The Sighs of Jesus (POJ 5.4)

    Paul, Robert, and Liz continue their conversation about Jesus in his passion, considering what his sighs teach us about being human. "A sigh says so much. We know from Romans 8 that the Spirit himself 'intercedes for us with groanings too…

  • [PASSION] 7. Facing Death (POJ 5.3)

    Paul, Robert, and Liz continue their conversation on Jesus' passion, looking at how Jesus begins to face his coming death. To celebrate the complete Person of Jesus series, we're offering $5 off of Unit 5: The Passion Leader's Manual ( pri…

  • [PASSION] 6. Betrayed by a Friend

    Paul, Robert, and Liz continue their conversation on Jesus' passion, turning their attention to Judas' betrayal. In this episode, Paul mentions a talk he gave on Judas several years ago, as part of an audio study called "The Love Course."…

  • [PASSION] 5. The Wailing Warrior (POJ 5.2)

    Paul, Robert, and Liz continue their conversation about learning from Jesus in his passion. "Contrary to the typical pictures on a Sunday school wall, Jesus comes down the hill on Palm Sunday weeping – the word is actually closer to 'waili…

  • [PASSION] 4. Jesus' Sadness Helps Us See His Love (POJ 5.2)

    Paul, Robert, and Liz continue their conversation about seeing Jesus in his passion, turning their attention to what we learn from his sadness and grief over the people's rejection of him. "Jesus' words are so tender, 'Your house is left d…

  • [PASSION] 3. Taking the Lower Place: A Story (POJ 5.1)

    Paul, Jon, and Liz continue their conversation about the humility Jesus calls us to, looking at what taking the lower place might look like in an everyday moment. "Humility is when your heart is humbled, it's a virtue, a character trait. H…

  • [PASSION] 2. Foot Washing (POJ 5.1)

    Paul, Jon, and Liz continue their discussion of Jesus' humility, looking at the foot washing scene in John 13. "This scene reads like a YouTube video. John gives us every move of Jesus, and the effect of it is riveting… especially since he…

  • [PASSION] 1. The Humility of Jesus (POJ 5.1)

    Paul, Jon, and Liz start a new series, talking through the Passion unit of our Person of Jesus Study , which looks closely at how all the aspects of Jesus as a person that we've looked at before (his compassion, honesty, dependence on God,…

  • [FAITH] 8. The Woman at the Well, Part 2 (POJ 4.5)

    Paul, Liz, and Robert continue their conversation about the woman at the well, looking at the second half of their conversation. "Jesus has already said he has water. Now he says the character of the water is not just spring water. It's no…

  • [FAITH] 7. The Woman at the Well, Part 1 (POJ 4.5)

    With the Discipleship series complete, we circle back to our Faith series (based on the Person of Jesus Faith Study) to cover a story we had not yet discussed: Jesus' conversation with the woman at the well. Paul Miller, Liz Voboril, and R…

  • [DISCIPLESHIP] 7. The Dangers of Discipleship

    Paul, Jon, and Liz continue their discussion of discipleship, talking about how the discipling process is a process of moving people out of lukewarm into hot or cold. "The discipling process is a process of moving people out of lukewarm in…

  • [DISCIPLESHIP] 6. The History of Discipleship

    Paul, Jon, and Liz continue their discussion of discipleship, talking about the history of discipleship practices. "By about 200 AD, every person who wanted to become a Christian went through a year of discipleship. They did this through a…

  • [DISCIPLESHIP] 5. Go Down, Go Low, Go Small

    Paul, Jon, and Liz continue their conversation about discipleship. "At the heart of discipleship is not just seeing Jesus and becoming like him abstractly, but actually entering into the patterns of his life. One of the central principles…

  • [DISCIPLESHIP] 4. Hunt for Teachability

    Paul, Jon, and Liz continue their conversation about discipleship. "Two thousand years after Jesus' death, the Church of Jesus Christ is absolutely massive—there are three billion confessing Christians. If you're going to start the world's…

  • [DISCIPLESHIP] 3. Start with Friendship + Aim at a Telos

    Paul, Jon, and Liz continue their conversation about discipleship. "One caution with a focus on discipleship practices is that it can be like making an amusement park about going on a ride. But you don't just go on a ride at Disney, you ar…

  • [DISCIPLESHIP] 2. The Medium is the Message

    Paul, Jon, and Liz continue their conversation about discipleship, looking at active vs. passive posture in discipleship, and how Jesus discipled the 12. "Marshall McLuhan famously said, 'The medium is the message,' calling attention to th…

  • [DISCIPLESHIP] 1. Enlarging Our Imagination for Discipleship

    Paul, Jon, and Liz start a new series looking at the topic of discipleship. "We are quite serious about what the Apostle Paul calls the mind of Christ. That's Philippians 2:5, where Paul said, 'Let this mind be in you which is also in Chri…

  • [FAITH] 6. Faith is a Habit of the Heart (POJ 4.4)

    Paul, Jon, and Liz continue their conversation about faith with an episode that looks at faith as a habit of the heart that turns to Jesus. "This is a little bit of an inference on my part, but what I think Jesus is irritated about, here i…

  • [FAITH] 5. Faith Looks at Jesus (POJ 4.4)

    Paul, Jon and Liz continue their conversation about faith, looking especially at how Jesus develops the disciples' faith. "Right after the feeding of the 5000, Jesus dismisses his disciples. It's the only time he does this, and it's a situ…

  • [FAITH] 4. Faith Surrenders (POJ 4.3)

    Paul, Jon and Liz continue their conversation looking at the development of faith in Jesus' followers -- this episode looks at the story of Peter rebuking Jesus and at Jesus' words to the Rich Young Ruler. "What we're thinking about now is…

  • [FAITH] 3. Be Careful Getting into a Boat with Jesus (POJ 4.2)

    Paul, Jon, and Liz continue their conversation about faith by looking at how the disciples learned about faith in the context of two boating adventures with Jesus. "To understand God, as Calvin says, you can either begin with yourself or w…

  • [FAITH] 2. 24 Hrs with Jesus: Faith Empowers Love (POJ 4.1)

    Paul, Jon, and Liz continue their conversation about Jesus' faith, looking at how he loves the disciples and the crowds over the course of a 24-hour period in his ministry. "This pattern of Jesus is all through the gospels: he sees a large…

  • [FAITH] 1. The Love of God in Our Hearts (POJ 4, intro)

    Jon, Paul and Liz begin a new series looking the central role faith plays -- in Jesus, in the disciples, and in us. These conversations will be framed around lessons in The Person of Jesus Study, Unit 4, Faith . "Jesus has a lot of convers…

  • [SPECIAL] Mangers Aren't Clean: Jesus Comes in the Midst of Manure - with Jill Miller

    Jill Miller joins Paul, Jon and Liz for this conversation about what we can learn from the barnyard about how Christmas lands among everyday saints. "The ministry of the church happens through the hands and feet of everyday saints. So as w…