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Who is Joe (J.R.) Miller?

My name is Joe Miller, but I often write under the penname J.R… mostly because my given name seems so boring.  Some of you may know me from my first appearance on the Tonight Show With Jay Leno.  Others may know me as a father of three handsome sons, husband of one amazing wife, a pastor, student, church planter, janitor, businessman, author, construction worker, professor, graphics & web designer, or salesman.  Regardless of how you know me, welcome to More Than Cake.

I have been blogging in one fashion or the other since the late 1990′s.  More Than Cake features some of my writings and my video education tools.  If you want to know more about where I am speaking or teaching, then click the icon below.

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Why the name “More Than Cake”?

At the time of the French revolution, King Louis XVI and his queen Marie Antoinette were living large while the people starved. The price of a bread loaf, the staple of the French diet, cost as much as a year’s wage and neither the King or queen cared one bit. Marie never uttered the now infamous words, “Let them eat cake,” but that phrase describes well her attitude of ambivalence toward the hungry masses.

Many folks in the world today are starving for the nourishment that can only come from sound reasoning. Yet too many “leaders” demonstrate the same queenly arrogance in thinking that sound thinking is too much for our little peasant tummies to handle. So instead of offering the nourishing bread of truth, they offer the sweet tasting crumbs of leftover cake.

This blog offers you “more than cake” with a consistent challenge to the status quo that so many people are longing to hear.

So I invite you all to come, sit, think with me, and be nourished by the Bread of Life.

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I consider myself a bit of a Renaissance man; a “Jack Of All Trades” and master of only a few  Who I am is reflected on this site (and EmergingLife.Org) because I do all the work myself.  I don’t have a team of designers or programmers helping me with my artwork, videos, or writing.  Everything here is an expression of the creativity, innovation, and talents God has given me and I am thankful I get to share a bit of my life with you.