Line Upon Line

Teaching from Isaiah 41, Pastor Miles shows God summoning the idol-worshiping nations to judgment, proving His sole deity through prophecy of past and future events, while idols stand silent and worthless. He contrasts the foolish, fearful reaction of idolaters with God's tender promise to strengthen, help, and uphold His chosen servant Israel.

On Independence Day, Pastor Miles teaches from 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 on why the message of the cross, though regarded as foolishness by the wise of this world, is the very power and wisdom of God. He shows that God deliberately hides Himself from human wisdom, calls the weak and despised, and grants in Christ true liberty, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.

A verse-by-verse teaching on Isaiah 40 showing how God speaks comfort to a people facing judgment—comfort grounded in peace with God through the pardon and payment of sin in Christ, heralded by John the Baptist. The chapter then calls believers to "Behold your God," surveying His majesty as returning, ruling, rewarding Lord, good shepherd, Creator, and the God of all wisdom, who gives strength to...

In a mid-year update service built on 1 Corinthians 1:26, Pastor Miles surveys how God uses the "foolish things of the world" to advance the gospel, highlighting the church's outreach, media, online school, Perspectives course, and chaplaincy/Hope Keepers ministries. He frames it all within a call to "arise and go," warning that the rising social-justice gospel cycle has historically preceded grea...

On Father's Day, Pastor Miles points to God as the perfect Father whom earthly fathers are called to imitate, examining four marks of God's fatherhood: He loves, encourages, accepts, and disciplines His children. He closes with practical reflection on godly discipline and a call for the church to display the true character of the Father to a watching world.

Pastor Miles teaches Isaiah 38, where King Hezekiah, told he will die, prays and receives fifteen added years of life, only to misuse them through pride, neglect of his son's spiritual training, and careless indifference toward Judah's future. The teaching becomes an exhortation about answered prayer, surrendering our will to God's, and the importance of finishing the race of faith well.

Paul reminds the divided church at Corinth that God is faithful and has called them into fellowship with Him and with one another. From this foundation, Miles examines the contentions in Corinth—divisions around personalities (Paul, Apollos, Cephas, Christ)—and calls the church to unity in essential doctrine and to the faithful, undressed preaching of the gospel.

As Paul ministers three years in Ephesus, he receives word of serious problems in the Corinthian church he founded, and writes the letter we call 1 Corinthians. Rather than attacking their many failures immediately, Paul opens by returning the divided, immoral, and unruly church to its solid foundation in Jesus Christ.

This teaching walks through Isaiah 36–37 (with its parallel in 2 Kings 18), tracing how the godly reformer King Hezekiah faced the Assyrian invasion under Sennacherib, endured the blasphemous threats of the field commander Rabshakeh, laid the enemy's letter before the Lord, and saw God supernaturally deliver Jerusalem for His own name's sake. It draws the lesson that when the enemy comes against u...

Teaching from Acts 19:8-20, Pastor Miles traces the biblical theme of the kingdom of God—a spiritual kingdom entered by grace through faith, ruled by a King who reigned from a cross—and shows how Paul preached it boldly in Ephesus amid rejection, occultic opposition, and God's authenticating miracles. The message calls believers to live as ambassadors of that kingdom and to trust the prevailing po...

Walking through Acts 18:18–19:7, Pastor Miles examines three figures—the apostle Paul, the eloquent Alexandrian Apollos, and a dozen "almost Christians"—to show that Paul was a duty-bound apostle devoted to God's will, and that genuine faith is evidenced by the receiving of the Holy Spirit, not merely by outward religiosity.

Teaching through Isaiah 34–35, Pastor Miles examines the day of the Lord—God's coming wrath upon all nations—and contrasts it with the longer day of restoration and reward for the redeemed. He traces the theme across Isaiah, Joel, Zechariah, Matthew 24, and Revelation, showing that God reveals His prophetic plan so that man might know His power, repent, and walk in holiness.

Paul arrives alone in the sensual, idolatrous city of Corinth, resolving to know nothing but Jesus Christ crucified. Through his partnership with Aquila and Priscilla and his reasoning in the synagogue, God builds a church, encouraging Paul to keep preaching boldly despite fear and opposition.

A verse-by-verse study of Isaiah 32-33, showing how the prophecy of a king reigning in righteousness points ultimately to Jesus, who will be a shelter, shade, and refreshing river to His people. Pastor Miles applies the warning against complacent women at ease and the coming Assyrian judgment to the church and to America, calling for repentance and trust in God as our only refuge and King.

Moving from the prophetic warnings of the man of sin to the believer's great salvation, Pastor Miles teaches that salvation is wholly a work of God—rooted in His love, choosing, sanctifying, and calling—while man's responsibility is to believe the truth, stand fast, and persevere. He works through 2 Thessalonians 2:13 to the end of chapter 3, addressing election versus free will, the comfort and e...

A verse-by-verse study of Isaiah 29 through 31 in which Pastor Miles examines God's pronouncement of "woe" upon Jerusalem (Ariel) for empty religiosity, pride, rebellion, and misplaced trust in Egypt rather than the Lord. The teaching shows how God uses the coming Assyrian judgment to purify His people, then patiently waits to be gracious to all who will turn back to Him.

In 2 Thessalonians 2, Paul corrects the church's confusion that they were already experiencing the day of the Lord's wrath, teaching that two events—the falling away (apostasia) and the revealing of the man of sin—must come first. Pastor Miles surveys the premillennial framework, the four rapture views, and ten characteristics of the Antichrist, exhorting believers not to be deceived but to keep t...

Teaching through Isaiah 28, Pastor Miles examines God's pronouncement of judgment against the prideful, drunken northern tribes of Ephraim and then against Judah and Jerusalem, who mocked Isaiah's repetitive "line upon line" message. He shows that all human refuges of lies are swept away by God's righteous standard, leaving Jesus Christ as the only sure foundation laid in Zion.

An introductory study of 2 Thessalonians, setting the historical context of Paul's second letter to the persecuted Thessalonian church and walking through chapter 1's themes of grace and peace, the church's growth in faith, hope, and love, and the coming righteous judgment of God upon those who reject the gospel.

A verse-by-verse study of Isaiah 25-27, beginning with the prophet's song of praise after the judgment of Isaiah 24, showing that God is faithful and true to His word, a refuge for His people, the destroyer of His enemies, and the one who will swallow up death and wipe away every tear. The teaching emphasizes that the Lord keeps in perfect peace those whose minds are stayed on Him, and that God's...

In Paul's closing exhortations to the Thessalonians, Pastor Miles teaches that believers are to know, respect, and esteem their God-ordained leaders, live at peace with one another, and practice a dozen sanctifying works. He concludes that our complete sanctification is God's faithful work in us—accomplished through the Spirit, the Word, the admonition of elders, and fiery trials—readying us for e...

Isaiah's final burden against Tyre—the wealthy "Babylon of the Sea"—reveals God's judgment on human pride and commercial arrogance, a judgment historically fulfilled by Assyria, Babylon, and Alexander the Great. Isaiah 24 then expands this picture into the worldwide day of the Lord, traced through Revelation, Joel, and Matthew 24, with the assurance that the church is not appointed to wrath but to...

On Resurrection Sunday, Pastor Miles teaches from 1 Corinthians 15:1 that the gospel is grounded in three historic events—Christ's death, burial, and resurrection—and dwells especially on the often-overlooked burial of Jesus, showing its meaning through Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus and its application to the believer's death and new life in Christ.

A Palm Sunday teaching that moves through Matthew 21's triumphal entry into a verse-by-verse meditation on Psalm 118, the last of the Hillel Psalms sung by pilgrims entering Jerusalem. Pastor Miles shows how "Hosanna" ("Save now, we pray") finds its only answer in Jesus, the rejected stone who became the cornerstone of our salvation.

Isaiah pronounces a burden against the Valley of Vision (Jerusalem), prophesying judgment at the hands of the Assyrians because God's people, though religiously formal, had departed from Him in their hearts. The teaching shows how God removed His protective hedge, how Jerusalem trusted in their walls, weapons, and water instead of repenting, and how this serves as a warning to nations today, inclu...