Line Upon Line

As the church transitions from studying Deuteronomy into Joshua, Pastor Miles introduces Joshua through the account of the twelve spies in Numbers 13, showing that Moses (the law) could only bring Israel so far, while progress into God's blessing and rest depends on faith and faithful obedience. Joshua and Caleb saw the Promised Land with eyes of faith, while the rest of the Exodus generation perished in the wilderness because of unbelief.

As the study transitions from Deuteronomy into the historical books, Pastor Miles introduces Joshua by tracing God's redemptive plan from creation, the fall, the call of Abraham, and the Exodus to Joshua's first appearance in Exodus 17. The teaching shows how Joshua's name—"Jehovah is salvation"—and the wilderness lessons of God as provider, salvation, and banner reveal who God is to His people on the journey from bondage to rest.

Drawing on 24 years of ministry history and the upheaval of the COVID years, Pastor Miles offers a New Year's message built around one word for 2023: pivot. Using Paul's redirected second missionary journey in Acts 16, he urges believers not to keep trying to return to 2019 but to reorient around their God-given purpose, mission, vision, values, and strategy and move forward.

Pastor Miles shares a New Year's message reflecting on his 24 years of ministry and the church's 2008–2018 revitalization, then on the disruption of 2020 and the years of trying to return to "normal." Drawing on Acts 16, where Paul is repeatedly blocked and must pivot toward Macedonia, Miles offers "pivot" as his word for 2023, urging believers to stop trying to recover 2019 and to move forward according to God-given purpose, mission, vision, values, and strategy.

A teaching on living in connection with one another as part of the church's mission, tracing community from Eden's perfection through sin's fracturing to the restoration found only in Jesus, who equips and calls every believer to use their gifts, pursue unity, and forgive one another. The message stresses that being an active, forgiving part of Christ's body is not optional but a command from God.

Drawing on John 17:1-3 and Jesus's prayer the night before the cross, Pastor Miles addresses our culture's crisis of meaning and argues that human beings were created by God for a specific purpose: to know God experientially, to glorify Him forever, and to live in unity and oneness with Him through Jesus Christ.

A Christmas-morning message concluding a series on God's gifts, focusing on grace as the root gift from which all others flow. Pastor Miles teaches that God's abundant grace in Christ saves, transforms, and gives believers a favored status, and calls us to freely share that grace with others.

On Christmas morning, Pastor Miles concludes a series on God's gifts by focusing on the gift of grace—God's unmerited, abundant favor poured out in Jesus Christ, which saves, transforms, and commissions believers to share that grace freely with others.

This Advent teaching presents hope as one of God's great gifts, given in Christ to a hopeless and broken world. Pastor Miles distinguishes biblical hope—a sure and steadfast anchor for the soul—from blind optimism and wishful thinking, and calls believers to draw near to God, hold fast, encourage others, and share this hope.

This Advent message teaches that love is one of God's greatest gifts, supremely demonstrated in the Incarnation of Jesus Christ at Christmas. Pastor Miles contrasts science's reductionistic view of love with the biblical categories of love, concluding that God's love in Christ is given for our joy, the praise of His grace, and to be shared with others, leading into communion.