Line Upon Line

A verse-by-verse teaching of Psalm 23 framed around the question "Which way to blessing?" Pastor Miles shows that blessing flows from knowing the Lord personally as one's own Good Shepherd, who provides, protects, and walks His sheep through dark valleys toward the eternal house of the Lord.

A study of Psalm 19 tracing the three forms of God's self-disclosure—general revelation in creation, special revelation in Scripture, and personal revelation in Christ the Redeemer—and arguing that God has gone to great lengths to make Himself known, leaving humanity without excuse.

Opening a summer series in the Psalms, this teaching on Psalm 1 explores the clear biblical separation between the way of the righteous and the way of the ungodly, examining the blessed man's practice, privilege, and position against the chaff-like end of the ungodly.

A guest teaching on 2 Samuel 11–12 examines how David, a man after God's own heart, fell into adultery and murder by abandoning his place of obedience to God. The message draws seven self-examination questions from David's failure to help believers make God-honoring decisions when success and temptation come.

In Philippians 4:10-19, Paul models a joy and contentment rooted in Christ rather than circumstances, even while imprisoned and facing possible execution. Pastor Miles draws six "seek" applications, showing how generous giving, learned contentment, and acceptable sacrifices to God produce abounding joy and the promise that God will supply every need.

Drawing from Philippians 4:4-9, Pastor Miles teaches that while Christians do face anxiety-producing circumstances, the Lord provides a prescription—rejoicing, steadiness, persistent prayer with thanksgiving, and right meditation—through which God's peace supersedes our anxieties.

A teaching on Philippians 4:1–3 showing that division is one of the enemy's most effective weapons against the church, that joy is found only in connection with God and one another through the cross of Christ, and that division within the body must be corrected and eradicated at all costs.

Teaching from Philippians 3:1-11, Pastor Miles explains that joy in the Christian life is grounded not in circumstances but in the Lord, and that the great enemy of that joy is religious self-righteousness. Paul, who had more religious credentials than anyone, counts them all as loss for the sake of knowing Christ — and so must we.

Continuing his series in Philippians, the "book of joy," Pastor Miles examines Paul's commendation of Timothy and Epaphroditus to show that true, lasting joy is not found in self-seeking pleasure but in shifting our focus to others, developing proven character, and serving as active participants in the work of Christ.

Teaching from Philippians 2:12-18, Pastor Miles argues that happiness is not something we stumble into but a discipline we must work out—through obedience, integrity, sacrifice, service, and freedom from complaining—all empowered by God working in us and grounded in holding fast to His word.

Drawing on Paul's joyful letter to the Philippians written from a Roman prison, this teaching shows that knowing God's bigger picture produces joy even in dire circumstances. Paul rejoiced amid imprisonment, insincere rivals, and the prospect of death because he understood God was advancing the gospel and that the bigger picture extends beyond this life.

Teaching from Philippians 1:3-11 on how to increase joy within the body of Christ, beginning with gratitude and growing through prayer, grace toward others, Christlike love, and intercession for those God has placed in our lives. Pastor Miles weaves in his own history with the church on its seventh anniversary of his pastorate.

Using the painful reality of "complicated grief," Pastor Miles traces Peter's threefold failure—failing to pray, defending Jesus wrongly, and denying Christ three times—into the despair of Good Friday, then shows how the resurrection message "tell his disciples and Peter" reveals that Jesus calls for and forgives failures. The Easter gospel is that the risen Lord pardons sinners.

Continuing a series on what the Bible says about hell, Pastor Miles examines Jesus' radical teaching in Matthew 7, arguing that hell is real and terrible, that most people travel the wide road to destruction, and that many religious people who say "Lord, Lord" will be turned away because salvation comes not by works or appearance but by believing in the Son.

Pastor Miles begins a series on what the Bible says about hell by examining Jesus's teaching in Luke 16:19-31, arguing that Jesus believed and taught hell is real, used culturally familiar metaphors to describe it, and revealed ten truths about the eternal state of humanity. The teaching aims to stir believers to a passion for God's grace and for the lost.

In the final message of the "Identity" series in Ephesians, Pastor Miles teaches that the Christian's secure identity and set destiny do not exempt them from a very real spiritual battle, and that victory comes by fighting in the Lord's strength with the whole armor of God. He walks through the seven spiritual armaments of Ephesians 6:14-18 as keys to victorious Christian living.

The final study in a series on Christian identity moves from what we should be and can be in Christ to what we must fight to be. Pastor Miles teaches Ephesians 6:10–18, showing that the believer's identity is certain and destiny is set, yet there remains a real spiritual battle to be won by standing in the Lord's strength and putting on the whole armor of God.

Continuing the Ephesians "Identity" series, Pastor Miles teaches that the "should be" commands of Scripture become "can be" realities for the Christian, because God's grace enables our obedience through the saturating work of His Spirit and the sanctifying work of His Word.

Continuing the Identity series in Ephesians, Pastor Miles argues that the Christian gospel provides a coherent framework for morality and ethics that modern and postmodern worldviews cannot supply, then turns to Ephesians 4 to describe the "worthy walk"—practical holiness flowing from a renewed mind that makes believers become in practice what God already declares them to be in Christ.

Pastor Miles traces the philosophical shift from theism to postmodernism to show how the modern world fails to answer life's deepest questions, then turns to Ephesians 3:20–21 and Paul's two prayers to reveal the Christian's destiny "in Christ." This destiny is not merely heaven but a here-and-now experience of God's power, presence, and love, grounded in the certainty that God is able to do excee...

Continuing the "Identity" series in Ephesians, this teaching from Ephesians 2:1-10 explains how conversion transforms a person's "I am" into "I was"—moving from being dead in sin, opposed to God, and under wrath to being alive, befriended, and graced in Christ. Pastor Miles argues that this transformation must be evidenced by a changed life marked by the fruit of the Spirit rather than the works o...

Opening a six-week series on identity from Ephesians, Pastor Miles argues that the Bible answers life's core philosophical questions—identity, origin, destiny, purpose—better than any worldview, and that for the Christian, our "I am" (our God-given identity as saints by grace) determines our "I do" rather than the reverse.

Drawing on the imagery of an NFL draft, Pastor Miles teaches 1 Peter 2:9-10 to show that every Christian is chosen, set apart, and redeemed by God as part of a royal priesthood with the purpose of declaring His praises. He calls the church to know God through Scripture, to recognize the priesthood of all believers, and to get off the sidelines and engage in the ministry of reconciliation through C...

Drawing from Joshua 1, where Israel stands at the edge of the Promised Land after Moses's death, this teaching calls believers to leave the comfortable past behind, step forward in faith, and lay hold of all God has prepared for them. As a New Year approaches, Pastor Miles urges Christians to resolve to possess their possessions in Christ through obedience and commitment.

This teaching traces joy through the biblical storyline—from its fullness in creation, through its loss in the fall, to its prophesied and fulfilled return in the advent of Jesus—arguing that the Christian life should be marked by joy that we experience, express, and extend to a miserable world.