Line Upon Line

Paul, stirred by the idolatry of Athens, adapts his method—but never his message—to reach a pluralistic, philosophical culture, building a bridge through their own altar to the unknown god and their own poets before preaching the creator God, the call to repent, and Christ's resurrection. Pastor Miles argues that modern America is an Athenian, Hellenistic culture, and the church must change its me...

Paul's team arrives in Philippi, the chief city of Macedonia, where God transforms three very different people—Lydia, a demon-possessed slave girl, and the Philippian jailer—demonstrating that evangelism begins with God opening hearts. The teaching emphasizes that the open heart, the enslaved heart, and the hard heart all yield immediate fruit when God's word and power break through.

Continuing through Isaiah 7–9, this teaching shows how the prophecy of Maher-shalal-hash-baz gave a near-term fulfillment to the virgin-birth sign promised to King Ahaz, and how Judah's refusal to trust the Lord ("the fountain") brought the flood of Assyrian judgment. It calls believers to make God their fear, sanctuary, and governor, pointing finally to the great light of Christ, the child born a...

Continuing in Acts 16, Pastor Miles teaches how God leads His followers through several means—an apostolic request, a spiritual check, a supernatural vision, a prophetic call, and an open door—as Paul takes Timothy along, is redirected by the Spirit away from Asia and Bithynia, and is called into Macedonia to bring the gospel into Europe. Along the way he emphasizes discipleship, willingly laying...

A year-end teaching that surveys current events in Israel and the Middle East against unfulfilled biblical prophecy, arguing that the worldwide call to divide Jerusalem and the threats against Israel align with Scripture's end-times warnings and signal the nearness of Christ's return.

Teaching on Isaiah 7 in its historical setting, this message follows the prophet's word to wicked King Ahaz during the Syro-Ephraimite crisis, the central charge "if you will not believe, you will not be established," and the dual fulfillment of the Immanuel prophecy in both Isaiah's son and the virgin birth of Christ.

A Christmas-season teaching showing that Jesus, unlike every other historical figure, was foretold in striking detail by dozens of prophets centuries before His birth. Pastor Miles traces the messianic prophecies from Genesis through Isaiah, demonstrates that the name "Jesus" (Yeshua/salvation) appears 77 times in the Old Testament, and unfolds the titles and characters given to the coming Messiah...

Working through Isaiah 6:1, Pastor Miles sets the throne-room vision against the historical backdrop of King Uzziah's death, identifies the One on the throne as Jesus, and traces Isaiah's encounter with God's holiness through conviction, confession, cleansing, call, and commission. He warns that, like Judah, a nation richly given God's revelation that disregards it stands under God's judgment, whi...

Pastor Miles teaches the "song of the vineyard" in Isaiah 5, showing how God planted, protected, and provided for Israel yet found wild grapes—injustice instead of righteousness—and walks through the six woes that follow. He applies these warnings to our own day, urging believers to learn from Israel's history and boldly share the truth in love.

A verse-by-verse teaching on Galatians 6 that moves from sound doctrine (orthodoxy) to right practice (orthopraxy), showing how Spirit-filled believers are to restore the fallen, bear one another's burdens, examine their own work, and sow generously into the kingdom of God.

Working through Galatians 5:14-26, Pastor Miles teaches that the entire law is fulfilled in the command to love your neighbor as yourself, modeled on Christ's self-giving servanthood, and that this love only grows as believers walk in the Spirit rather than sowing to the flesh.

Pastor Miles teaches Isaiah 3, where God removes from Judah and Jerusalem every competent leader and provision as a judgment for their sin, leaving inexperienced and delusional rulers, social oppression, and the stripping away of the proud women's finery. He draws sustained parallels to America, then shows how God's punishment is always for the purpose of purification, culminating in the promised...

Teaching from Galatians 5:1-13, Pastor Miles explains that Christ has set believers free from slavery to sin, warning the Galatians against being re-entangled in the yoke of bondage by adding circumcision, law-keeping, or any religious work to the finished work of Christ. He concludes that true liberty in Christ is not license to sin but freedom to serve one another in love.

Teaching through Isaiah 2, Pastor Miles unfolds the prophecy of the last days—the millennial reign of Christ when nations stream to Jerusalem and beat their swords into plowshares—but shows from Joel 3 that God's judgment in the Day of the Lord must come first. He calls hearers to walk in the light of the Lord now, warning against the same sins of cultish practice, wealth, military trust, idols, a...

Opening a verse-by-verse study of Isaiah, Pastor Miles introduces the prophet's heavy commission and walks through Isaiah 1, where God indicts Judah and Jerusalem for idolatry, injustice, and empty worship, yet calls them to repentance and promises that His punishment aims at purification and restoration. He draws sobering parallels to modern America, urging the church to recognize the spiritual w...

Paul confronts the false teachers in Galatia who demanded law-keeping and circumcision for righteousness, and answers them from the Old Testament story of Abraham. Through Abraham's life, the teaching shows that righteousness comes by faith in God's promise, not by the works of the flesh, and calls believers to stand fast in the liberty Christ has given.

Paul writes to the Galatian churches to combat the Judaizers who taught that Gentile believers must become Jews through circumcision and law-keeping to be saved. Through the analogy of an heir under tutors, Paul shows that in the fullness of time God sent His Son to redeem us not merely as servants but as adopted children and joint heirs with Christ, sealed by the Holy Spirit.

An introductory study of Paul's letter to the Galatians, set in its chronological context just after the Jerusalem Council and before Paul's second missionary journey, that establishes the letter's central theme of justification by grace through faith against the false teaching of the Judaizers. The teaching surveys the whole letter—Paul's defense of his apostleship, his refutation of works-righte...

Continuing the account of the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15, Pastor Miles explains the four exhortations the early church gave Gentile believers—calls to righteousness and the law of love rather than the law of Moses—and then draws seven practical principles for discerning the will of God.

Teaching through Acts 15:1-18, Pastor Miles examines the first church council in Jerusalem, where Judaizers insisted Gentiles must be circumcised and keep the law of Moses to be saved, and shows that justification comes by grace through faith alone, not by works. He closes by drawing comfort from Acts 15:18—"known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world"—that God is sovereign ov...

A verse-by-verse teaching through James 4 and into chapter 5, showing that wars and fights among us spring from the sinful desires of our own hearts, that we have not because we ask not (or ask amiss), and that friendship with the world is spiritual adultery against a God who is jealous for us. The remedy is to humbly submit to God, draw near to Him, lay down our pride, and live patiently and pray...

A verse-by-verse teaching on James 3 examining the reverence of teaching God's Word, the stricter judgment that falls on teachers, and the difficulty of taming the tongue. Pastor Miles contrasts earthly, sensual, demonic wisdom with the pure, peaceable wisdom from above, urging believers to yield their tongues to God's Spirit and live free of hypocrisy.

An opening study of the book of James, focusing on how God uses trials to expose our lack and draw us to depend on Him, while the enemy seeks to use the same trials as temptations to trust ourselves or the world. Miles works through James 1, the difference between rich and poor before God, the snare of temptation, and the call to be doers of the word with a faith that works.

A verse-by-verse study of Ephesians 6:10-18 on spiritual warfare, examining the call to be strong in the Lord, the reality and limits of Satan, and the pieces of the whole armor of God that enable believers to stand in the evil day.

Pastor Miles introduces the book of James as likely the first New Testament letter written, presenting the historical context within Acts and demonstrating James's deep correlation with Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. He then reads through the entire letter and draws out the practical, life-transforming purpose of God's word, especially James's teaching on counting trials as joy.