Line Upon Line

Teaching from Luke 4:16-30, Pastor Garrett shows how sin binds, impoverishes, breaks, blinds, and oppresses us—chains we polish and revere—and how Jesus came to set captives free through confession and forgiveness. He then applies the biblical worldview to today's cancel culture, contrasting the world's resentment-driven judgment with the church's pattern of confession, grace, and forgiveness.

Continuing in Luke 12, this teaching addresses Jesus's warnings against greed and worry, urging believers to store up treasure in heaven rather than insulating themselves from faith with possessions. The central call is to seek first the kingdom of God, trusting that He delights to provide for us and to leave a legacy that lasts beyond this life.

Teaching through Luke 11:37–12:5, Pastor Jason shows that Jesus confronted the Pharisees and law experts for prizing outward appearance, religious busyness, and knowledge over inward cleanliness, justice, love, and humility. The application: God cleans us from the inside out, so we must walk humbly, guard against hypocrisy, help others carry burdens, and study the Word for action rather than mere...

Through Paul's storm-tossed voyage to Rome in Acts 27, Pastor Miles teaches that God plans and directs our path even through inevitable "crashes," and that the storms God leads us into are intended for His purposes—to bring salvation to others.

Continuing in Deuteronomy 9, Pastor Miles teaches that Israel was not given the Promised Land because of their righteousness but because of God's love and faithfulness, warning believers against the snare of self-righteousness. The safeguard against accidental pharisaism is to humbly remember our own failures and rest entirely in God's grace through Christ.

Standing at an anniversary and a national transition point, Pastor Miles teaches from Deuteronomy 7–8 that Israel's experience of God's blessing was entirely dependent on their faith, faithfulness, and obedience—a sobering picture of life before a holy God without mercy that drives us to the better New Covenant and to refuge from God's wrath in Jesus Christ.

Teaching from Deuteronomy 7 addressing the difficult "utterly destroy them" language, arguing that it is biblical hyperbole rather than a divine sanction for genocide, and that God's true purpose was to call Israel to be a holy, separate people chosen out of His love and covenant faithfulness. The same love and faithfulness now compel believers in Christ to love and obey God.

Pastor Miles teaches from Deuteronomy 6 that human beings are deeply forgetful—even of God's greatest works—and warns that prosperity and easier days pose a greater danger to faith than hardship. He urges believers to deliberately build reminders, routines, and teaching habits that keep God and His Word at the center of their lives.

Pastor Miles reflects on his 22-year calling to preach and teach God's Word, then turns to the Shema in Deuteronomy 6, showing that loving the Lord with all our heart, soul, and strength is the greatest commandment because all the others flow from it. He emphasizes that Scripture is taught not for mere knowledge but for life and world transformation through hearing, heeding, and obeying God's Word...

Drawing on the frustration of being stuck in afternoon traffic, Pastor Miles reflects on the cumulative anxiety of nearly a year of cultural chaos and offers two God-impressed words for 2021—"opportunity" and "shine"—rooted in Galatians 6:9-10, Ephesians 5, Isaiah 60, and Jeremiah 29. He argues that wherever there is conflict and chaos, God is getting ready to move, calling His people to do good a...

Drawing on the image of being stuck in afternoon traffic at red light after red light, Pastor Miles names the cumulative anxiety of the past year and offers two words for 2021—opportunity and shine—rooted in the conviction that wherever there is conflict and chaos, God is getting ready to move.

Teaching from Matthew 16:13-19, this message centers on Jesus' question, "Who do you say that I am?" and argues that the same fears, sicknesses, financial struggles, and political frustrations we face today were faced—often more severely—by believers 2,000 years ago. Pastor Miles calls us to recognize Jesus as Messiah and God, to remember that what is bad in our economy is often good in God's econ...

Working through John 13, Pastor Miles shows that Jesus' washing of the disciples' feet is not about a ritual but about following Christ into self-sacrificial, humbling love for a world that doesn't deserve or appreciate it. He traces Peter's transformation from a man who runs from a servant girl to a Spirit-filled apostle who boldly proclaims Christ, calling the church to lay down its rights and l...

Pastor Miles concludes a four-week Advent series by teaching that the coming of Jesus is the arrival of love—God's highest, Agape love demonstrated in the incarnation and the cross—and urges believers to share that love through evangelism, closing with communion.

On the fourth Sunday of Advent, Pastor Miles teaches that the coming of Jesus is the advent of love—specifically God's agape love—which is the foundation of the joy, hope, and peace celebrated in previous weeks. He explains the four Greek words for love, points to the incarnation and the cross as the supreme demonstration of God's love, and leads the congregation in communion before urging them to...

Drawing on Isaiah 9:6, 26:3, and 53, Pastor Miles teaches that the perfect peace (shalom) every person desires and needs is found only in Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, whose coming we celebrate at Christmas. He shows that this peace is received by faith, can be laid hold of now through the presence of the Holy Spirit and through prayer, and will be experienced in fullness in Christ's coming k...

Pastor Miles reflects on the power of Christmas memories—using his own favorite childhood Christmas in England—to encourage believers that the unusual, distanced Christmas of 2020 can become an especially meaningful memorial pointing to Jesus. He shows that the advent of Jesus is both the advent of joy and the advent of a sure and steadfast hope, an anchor for the soul that a weary, hope-deprived...

Pastor Miles teaches that the advent of Jesus is the advent of joy, drawing from Isaiah 9 to show that the Messiah's coming brings an ever-increasing, eternal joy unlike the fleeting happiness the world pursues. He identifies gratitude and generous giving as two keys that unlock this joy, even in the difficult season of 2020.

Drawing from Deuteronomy 5, Pastor Miles explores the profound and discomforting reality that "God speaks with man." He explains why this truth unsettled ancient Israel, modern believers, and skeptics alike, and shows how the law reveals our sin and prepares the way for the Savior, Jesus Christ.

A study of the fifth commandment, "Honor your father and your mother," showing that honor means living according to the wisdom of Scripture in which parents are to train their children, and that breaking God's law—illustrated by David's sin with Bathsheba—dishonors one's family. The teaching closes with David's repentance in Psalm 51 and the call to confess sin and receive God's forgiving grace in...

Preached days after the chaotic 2020 election, this teaching anchors believers in trusting God rather than earthly powers, then moves into the fourth commandment in Deuteronomy 5, presenting the Sabbath as both a command and a gracious gift of rest fulfilled ultimately in Christ.

Drawing from Luke 20:20-26, Pastor Miles examines how the Pharisees and Herodians—two opposed factions united only by their hatred of Jesus—tried to trap Him with a question about taxes, and how Jesus's reply to "render to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's" calls believers to a hope rooted in Christ rather than in politics or religious effort.

Through the story of the rich young ruler, paired with Jesus blessing the infants, this teaching shows that no one can earn salvation by their own works; our worth comes entirely from God's love. We are called to come to Jesus helpless like children, resting in His finished work rather than trusting in our own efforts.

Pastor Miles teaches from Deuteronomy 5 on the first three of the Ten Commandments, showing that God's law is fundamentally relational and covenantal. Because God redeems His people into a covenant relationship like marriage, He expects exclusivity, demands proper adoration and representation, and calls us to bear His name with solemnity.

Pastor Miles teaches that the basis of obedience to God's commandments is relationship, showing from Deuteronomy 5 and Exodus 6 that God's prior act of redeeming and rescuing Israel makes His commands relevant and binding. He applies this to believers today, arguing that God's saving grace through Christ likewise calls us into a relationship animated by obedience.