Line Upon Line

Paul writes to a church he never planted, confronting the rising Gnostic heresy in its three forms—intellectualism, legalism, and mysticism—and pointing instead to the transforming power of God in "Christ in you, the hope of glory." The teaching urges believers to set their minds on things above, put off the old life, put on love, and let the peace of God rule as an umpire over the heart.

In an age of growing hostility toward the Bible, Pastor Miles argues that the prophetic Scriptures are "the more sure word of prophecy," showing how Isaiah 61, Daniel 9, Joel 3, the constellations, and recent celestial and geopolitical events all point to Christ's certain second coming. He urges believers not to set dates but to be watchful, holy, and ready for the Lord's return.

Examining the disciples' question on the Mount of Olives—"Will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"—Pastor Miles shows that Jesus redirects their expectation of an earthly kingdom toward the inheritance believers already possess: God Himself, guaranteed by the indwelling Holy Spirit. Until Christ returns, believers are commissioned and empowered to be witnesses from Jerusalem to the ut...

Paul's letter to the Philippians is the epistle of joy, written to a beloved church he planted on his second missionary journey. Though the church had sound doctrine, they had a practice problem rooted in disunity, and Paul calls them to humble, others-focused living by holding up four examples—Jesus, Timothy, Epaphroditus, and himself.

Opening a series on biblical prophecy, Pastor Miles uses Isaiah 40's command to "comfort my people" — spoken amid the prophecy of coming Babylonian judgment — to show that God reveals the future so His people can be comforted by the promise of the Messiah's coming. The teaching argues that predictive prophecy proves Scripture's divine inspiration and that those who truly believe Christ will return...

A survey of Ephesians showing how the first three chapters establish the believer's position in Christ—the spiritual blessings given by Father, Son, and Spirit—and how chapters four through six call us to a corresponding practice. The teaching emphasizes that the church is Christ's body, temple, mystery, new man, bride, and soldier, whose ultimate purpose is to display God's manifold wisdom to all...

Teaching from John 21, Pastor Miles shows how the disciples' fruitless night of fishing—done apart from Christ's instruction—reveals that we accomplish nothing without Jesus. He traces the chapter's call to wait on the Lord, dine before doing, examine our motives, count the cost, and follow Christ without comparing ourselves to others.

A verse-by-verse overview of Galatians, the "Magna Carta of Christian liberty," in which Paul defends the gospel of justification by faith alone against the Judaizers who had seduced the Galatian churches into legalism. The teaching traces Paul's argument that the law was a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, and that believers are called to walk in the Spirit rather than the flesh.

A study of John 20:30-31, framing the entire Gospel of John around its seven signs and seven "I am" statements, all written so that readers might believe Jesus is the Christ and have life in His name. The teaching surveys four people/groups in John 20 and how each responded to the risen Lord, concluding with the call to believe though we have not seen.

A walk through 2 Corinthians, which Pastor Miles titles "The Passion of Paul," showing how Paul confronts a carnal, knowledge-seeking, faction-divided church by boasting not in himself but in the cross of Christ and in his own weakness, through which God's strength is made perfect. The teaching calls believers to rely wholly on God's sufficiency, preach Christ rather than themselves, and come out...

Standing two days before the 2008 election, Pastor Miles uses Paul's resolve in Acts 20:24 and Elijah's confrontation on Mount Carmel to call the church to courageous, unashamed witness in a culture moving toward judgment. He argues that voting and public engagement are biblical, that silence amounts to consent to unrighteousness, and that the world needs not a new definition of the gospel but a n...

A through-the-Bible overview of 1 Corinthians, framing the book as a letter of rebuke and correction to a carnal, people-pleasing church living in a sensual, knowledge-seeking culture much like our own. The teaching moves through the book's two halves—carnality (chapters 1–11) and spirituality (chapters 12–16)—emphasizing the preaching of Christ crucified, the centrality of love, the resurrection,...

A panoramic introduction to Paul's epistle to the Romans, showing how its central message—the just shall live by faith—has fueled revivals and the Reformation, and tracing the book's threefold structure of salvation: the revelation, illustration, and application of God's righteousness.

A book overview of Acts that traces the spread of the gospel from Jerusalem to the uttermost parts of the earth, emphasizing that the true central figure of Acts is the Holy Spirit, who empowers the church to witness. The teaching follows Peter's opening of the gospel to Jew and Gentile, Paul's conversion and missionary journeys, the first word of the gospel (repentance), and the resurrection as t...

A survey of the Gospel of John that shows how the fourth Gospel uniquely reveals Jesus as the Son of God who gives life, structured around John's twin themes of "believe" and "life," the seven "I am" statements, and the seven miracles that substantiate them. The teaching closes by contrasting Jesus' encounters with the heathen (the woman at the well) and the religious (Nicodemus), showing that bot...

A "Through the Bible" overview of Luke's Gospel, presenting Jesus as the Son of Man who came to seek and save the lost, with detailed study of key passages including Jesus' rejection at Nazareth, the healing of the paralytic, the centurion's faith, John the Baptist's question, the cost of discipleship, persistent prayer, and the road to Emmaus.

A book-by-book overview of Mark's Gospel, which presents Jesus as the Servant who came not to be served but to give His life a ransom for many, structured around His authority and ministry (chapters 1–8) and His passion as the ransom (chapters 8–16). The teaching closes with a detailed walk through the Olivet Discourse in Mark 13, connecting it to Revelation 14 and Isaiah 63 and the call for belie...

An introductory survey of the Gospel of Matthew that explains what distinguishes the New Covenant from the Old, why there are four Gospels, and how Matthew presents Jesus as the prophesied King, before walking through the Sermon on the Mount as a description of life in the kingdom of heaven.

A survey of the 400 "silent years" between Malachi and Matthew, tracing how God—though not speaking through prophets—sovereignly reshaped the political and religious world (through Alexander, the Seleucids and Ptolemies, Antiochus Epiphanes, the Maccabees, and Rome) to prepare His people for the coming of Christ. Pastor Miles connects Daniel's prophecies to this history and applies the lesson to c...

A verse-by-verse walk through Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament, framed around seven questions a backslidden post-exilic Israel raised against God. The teaching closes the Old Testament journey and points forward to the 400 years of silence, the coming messenger John the Baptist, and the unchanging, giving character of God.

Pastor Miles surveys the entire book of Zechariah, walking through the prophet's eight night visions (chapters 1–6) and the later prophecies of the Messiah's first and second comings (chapters 7–14). The teaching shows how God called the returned remnant to repent, promised to restore Jerusalem, judge their enemies, cleanse His people, pour out His Spirit, and ultimately return to reign as King.

The book of Haggai addresses the remnant of Israel who, after returning from 70 years of Babylonian exile, had grown discouraged and abandoned the rebuilding of God's temple to focus on their own paneled houses. Through the prophet Haggai, God corrects their misplaced priorities, encourages the discouraged leaders Zerubbabel and Joshua, and promises blessing and greater glory in the latter house,...

Pastor Miles teaches through the three chapters of Zephaniah, the last pre-exilic prophet to Judah, showing how God's call to repentance, the judgment upon Jerusalem and the surrounding nations, and the promised restoration of a remnant all point forward to the great and terrible day of the Lord. He links Zephaniah's imagery to Revelation, Matthew 24, Isaiah 63, and other passages describing Chris...

This teaching walks through the three chapters of Habakkuk, showing how the prophet wrestled with God's plan to judge wicked Judah using the even-more-wicked Babylonians, and how he learned to leave what he could not understand in God's hands by faith. The message draws out a four-step pattern for facing troubling circumstances and concludes with the prophet's bold declaration that "the just shall...

A verse-by-verse study of Nahum that confronts the often-neglected attributes of God's wrath, jealousy, and justice while holding them together with His love, mercy, and slowness to anger. Nahum's prophecy of doom upon Nineveh—cruel, conceited, idolatrous, and impenitent a century after Jonah—becomes comfort for God's people and a picture of judgment poured out on Christ in our place.