John Milgate, J.D.

      John Milgate
      Adjunct Faculty
      LEAP, College of Arts & Sciences

When The Son sets you free, you are free indeed!

    Over thousands of years God communicated through various means, including the declaration of His glory via the planets & stars and revelation of His plans through Moses and the prophets, but His ultimate means of communication is His Son, Jesus. Put in other terms, God chooses to relate and communicate through incarnation. Knowing “the medium is the message”,  God sets us free from our former bondage, makes us His own, and through us invites others to be free and live holy in Jesus.
    For many years Jesus has shown Himself through me as I worked as an attorney, volunteered as a coach and with various non-profit organizations, and came truly alive through grace as pastor of a small group of Jesus followers. The integration of faith with all aspects of life moved from a conscious act requiring focused thought to an incarnational experience of Christ living in and through me by the power of His Spirit. Kindness, patience, peace, goodness, love, gentleness, and increasingly joy are seen in relationships as brief as a conversation or as long as a lifetime as, in faith, we walk by means of the Spirit. I teach students in a number of subjects, but what I seek to impart is encouragement to an incarnational life of dependence upon, and trust in, God. Hence I have adopted a “tag line” for my NU correspondence: Know Whose you are and live who you are.
    In 2008, God called me and my wife of 40 years to move to Seattle and pursue strategic service in His Kingdom among students. We moved in the Spring of 2009, and in the Summer of that year Northwest University offered me my first university teaching role –”Speaking Before Groups” in LEAP.

Courses Taught

Speaking Before Groups (COMM 1223) LEAP (F ’09; S ’10; F ’10; F ’11)
Fundamentals of Public Speaking (COMM 1212) (F ’10, S ’11, F ’11)
Law & Judicial Process (LEGL/PSCI 2603) (F ’10)
Business Law (BUSM 3403) LEAP (S ’11)
Legislative Process (PSCI 2623/LEGL 2623)

    Coming Spring 2012
    Speaking Before Groups (COMM 1223) LEAP (January [Thursdays] & May [Wednesdays])
    Fundamentals of Communication (COMM 1212)   

Degrees Earned

JD, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA
BA, Biola College, La Mirada, CA

Publications

Adventure with Jesus, Live In Grace Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-0-615-25905-5
Transformed by God’s Grace and Life Wide Open Personal Reflections Journal, compilations with comments and encouragements, Live In Grace Publishing, 2006
Transfers in Medi-Cal Planning, a chapter in California Estate Planning, Continuing Education of the Bar, 2002, ISBN 0-7626-1104-9
Aren’t Health Powers Durable?, an article in Contra Costa Lawyer, 2000

Other Interests

• Activities I Enjoy – Walking along the shore, talking with people, sailing, reading, walking on the beach, painting with watercolors, watching and listening to crashing waves.
• Interests I Pursue – Jesus, my wife, our family (four adult children, three daughters-in-law, one son-in-law, & two grandchildren), people, grace, good food, the new covenant, gardening, art, & music.
• Music I Prefer – Celtic, Jazz, and most songs by Robin Mark.
• Movies & TV I Watch – T.V. – Masterpiece Mystery! American Pickers; Favorite Movies – Amistad; Ray; The Guardian, Spiderman; What’s Up Doc?; Lord of the Rings, The Bucket List, The Diving Bell & The Butterfly, The Blind Side, Inception. Best Recent: True Grit (the musical score, the expansive horizons, and the opening line: “. . . there is not any thing free in this life, except the grace of God.”)
• Books I Recommend – The Divine Embrace (Ken Gire), Ruthless Trust (Brennan Manning), What’s So Amazing About Grace (Phillip Yancey), The Saving Life of Christ/The Mystery of Godliness (Thomas), Dark Horse (John Fischer), Epic (John Eldridge), Walking with God (Eldridge), Waking the Dead (Eldridge) Grace Awakening (Charles Swindoll), Windows of the Soul (Gire), Chasing Daylight (Erwin McManus), Fearless Faith (Fischer), Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God (Fee), The Barbarian Way (McManus), Searching For God Knows What (Miller), Adventure with Jesus (Milgate [I had to add this one!]), Living The Resurrection (Peterson), Surprised by Hope (Wright), Eat This Book (Peterson), Rumors of Another World (Yancey).