Last summer my wife, Lois, heard a radio interview with Barbara Miller Juliani, who told about growing up in a Christian family, rejecting her parents’ Christianity, and joyfully reconciling with her parents and with the Lord. Lois bought the book that Barbara wrote with her father – Come Back, Barbara.
When I realized that Barbara’s father was Jack Miller – professor at Westminster Theological Seminary, founder of World Harvest Mission (now Serge), and a mentor of Scotty Smith -- I reached out to Scotty because I had heard him talk about Jack Miller in reverential tones for nearly as long as I had known Scotty.
One of Jack Miller’s sons said the story “is not just the story of a prodigal daughter, but also of a father who was acting like the elder son. Dad’s willingness to first take the beam out of his eye transformed him into the kind of dad a prodigal would want to return to.”
Jack Miller died 26 years ago and cannot be with us in person. Scotty will be Jack’s stand-in to tell us the story of a father’s pursuit of a prodigal daughter.