Line Upon Line

Drawing on Ephesians 1 and a chain of supporting passages, Pastor Miles teaches that God is a gift-giving God who delights to bless His people, and that every good gift comes from Him for our enjoyment, for His glory, and for the blessing of others. He calls believers to identify the gifts that bring them joy and steward them to bless others and glorify God.

Set within Paul's teaching on spiritual gifts, this Christmas message presents love as the most excellent gift of God, supremely revealed in the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. Pastor Miles shows that the gift of love is essential for life, shines in Christ's coming, brings great joy, frees from oppression, and is meant to be shared with all people.

Drawing on 1 Corinthians 13, this teaching explores love as one of God's good gifts—essential for life, supremely revealed in the incarnation of Jesus, and the source of great joy. Pastor Miles urges believers to share the gift of God's love with others during the Christmas season.

In this final message of a series in Job, Pastor Miles ties Job's story to James's call to "count it all joy" in trials, showing that God promises a blessing—the crown of life—to those who patiently endure suffering. Job's restoration is a poetic picture of resurrection, pointing to the eternal hope that gives believers proper perspective and hopeful endurance in every trial.

An overview of Job 3–37 that examines how Job and his friends wrestle with the problem of suffering through the worldview of retribution (sowing and reaping), and shows that the book does not so much answer why God allows suffering as it reveals our flawed assumptions and points to humanity's true need for a mediator, ultimately found in Jesus Christ.

A study of Job 2:11-13 that examines how Job's three friends rightly responded to his suffering before they later spoke wrongly, drawing out principles for how the people of God should minister compassion to those who suffer. The teaching frames suffering as the great "problem of pain" and argues that it is most completely addressed through the presence and comfort of God's people.

An examination of Job 3, in which Job, having patiently endured catastrophic loss, falls into an existential crisis and despairs of life itself. Pastor Miles uses the passage to address suicide honestly, showing that even righteous people can pray to die, and that the way forward is to leave one's life in God's hands while ministering practically to those who suffer.

Through Job chapter 2, this teaching addresses the problem of suffering, showing that while everyone suffers, the biblical writers never charge God with wrong, and that the righteous sufferer trusts God has a purpose in suffering even when that purpose is unknown. It culminates in the greater-than-Job, Jesus Christ, who maintained His integrity in adversity for the joy set before Him.

A study of Job 1 that re-examines who "the Satan" is in the heavenly court scene, argues that this figure functions as a kind of divine prosecutor rather than the red-and-pitchfork devil of Western imagination, and presses the book's central question on the reader: do we serve God for who He is, or only for what we can get from Him? Job's worshipful response to catastrophic loss becomes the model for how the righteous respond to suffering.

Studying 3 John 1, Pastor Miles examines three men—Gaius, Diotrephes, and Demetrius—to show that God desires our total transformation through His Word and Spirit, a sanctifying work that becomes evident in our testimony before others. He challenges believers to prioritize the prosperity of the soul over the flesh and to live in a way that earns a good testimony that honors God.