Line Upon Line

Teaching through Joshua 6:1-20, Pastor Miles shows how God handed Jericho to Joshua, but required the Israelites to lay hold of the promise through foolish-looking obedience—walking around the city for seven days until the walls fell. The sermon calls believers to see trials as God does, to build faith through the Word, to be still before God, and to obey even when faith seems foolish to the world.

Teaching through Joshua 5:13-15, Pastor Miles shows how Joshua, facing the stronghold of Jericho, encountered the Commander of the Lord's army (a pre-incarnate Christ) and responded not by arguing but by falling down to worship and asking, "What do you want me to do?" The central challenge is whether we have truly enlisted in God's army and surrendered to Him, rather than treating God as a lucky charm or merely a piece of our own plans.

Teaching from Joshua 5:10-12, where Israel keeps the Passover in the promised land before battle, showing that spiritual victory begins by remembering God's work rather than trusting in our own strength. The message leads into communion as a time to humbly remember Christ's finished work and, where needed, to repent and be restored.

Using Israel's crossing of the Jordan and the twelve memorial stones in Joshua 4–5, Pastor Miles teaches that the believer is called to leave the wilderness of self-effort behind and cross into the Spirit-filled, victorious Christian life by daily laying down the old life and taking up the new in Christ.

Teaching through Joshua 3, Pastor Miles shows how Israel's crossing of the Jordan pictures the believer's call to leave the wilderness and step by faith into the abundant, victorious life God won for us. He emphasizes rising early to seek God, following close behind the ark (a type of Christ), sanctifying ourselves through the Word, and crucifying the flesh daily.

A verse-by-verse study of Joshua 2 showing that God directed Joshua to send spies into Jericho not from a lapse of faith but to rescue one believing convert, Rahab the harlot. Her story becomes a picture of salvation through the blood and the call for believers to go out as spies into the mission field around them.

A communion teaching from the road to Emmaus, showing how the risen Christ draws near to brokenhearted disciples, opens the Scriptures, and makes Himself known in the breaking of bread. Pastor Miles urges believers to approach communion with joy, to understand Christ's redemption as spiritual rather than merely physical, and to commune with the Lord daily.

Using Joshua 1:10-18 and the backstory of Israel at the border of Canaan, Pastor Miles teaches that God desires His people to enter fully into His promises, and warns against two failures: refusing to enter because the obstacles look too big (the ten spies), and settling comfortably short of the promised land (Reuben, Gad, and half of Manasseh). He calls believers to reject the lukewarm Manasseh-like compromise and press wholly into Christ.

Teaching through Joshua 1:3–9, Pastor Miles presents Joshua as a type of Christ and shows how God's commission and command to Joshua apply to believers today: God has given us spiritual blessings we must actively possess, promises His presence in the battle, and calls us to be strong and courageous by meditating on His Word and walking in obedience to the Spirit-led life.

Opening a study through the book of Joshua, Pastor Miles shows that the Old Testament pictures New Testament truths: God has given believers an inheritance of spiritual blessings they must actively lay hold of, just as Israel owned but had to possess the Promised Land. From Joshua 1:1-2, he presses the one word "arise" as God's call to His people—especially amid loss—to rise in faith and go forward into the land God has given.