Line Upon Line

A teaching on Luke 6:20-26 (the Sermon on the Plain) examining Jesus' four blessings and four woes both physically and spiritually, and warning that the church's greatest pitfall is the "Pharisee in the mirror"—judging others' performance instead of pursuing our own sanctification.

Guest pastor Neil unpacks Jesus' answer to the greatest commandment in Mark 12:28-31, teaching that loving God completely, others compassionately, and ourselves correctly are the central calling of the Christian life. He argues that knowing our identity in Christ as fully known and fully loved is the wellspring from which loving God and neighbor flows, and closes with practical "T" action steps.

Drawing from Luke 6:12-19, Pastor Miles teaches that Jesus intentionally calls, chooses, names, and appoints individuals to His mission, and that a life worth imitating comes not through worldly success but through following Christ. He traces the progression from seeker to hearer to follower to learner to appointed messenger, urging believers simply to "show up" and be with Jesus.

A verse-by-verse study of Luke 6:1–11 showing how Jesus's view of the Sabbath collided with the rigid legalism of the religious leaders, revealing that God gave the Sabbath as a blessing of rest, not a burden of righteousness—a rest ultimately fulfilled in Christ Himself.

Drawing from Jesus's words in Luke 5:33-39, Pastor Miles teaches that fasting—though not required under the new covenant—is a practical spiritual discipline and a weapon of spiritual warfare that disciplines the flesh, strengthens the spirit, and prepares believers for battle in an age of evident demonic activity and emerging revival.

Returning to Luke 5, Pastor Miles examines Jesus' calling of Levi the tax collector and his feasting with sinners against the backdrop of first-century Israel's factions and the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk. He argues that Jesus approaches the reproached and includes the excluded, and that the gospel—not violence or politics—is the only power that can transform individuals and a fractured nation.

Through the healings of the leper and the paralytic in Luke 5, this teaching shows who Jesus is — willing to cleanse, able to forgive, and worthy of glory — and that great faith in Christ always receives more than it seeks. It calls believers to a life of prayer and bold friendship that brings others to Jesus.

Closing out a summer series on the Nicene Creed, Pastor Miles focuses on its final words—"We look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come"—and shows how the reality of Christ's resurrection transforms the way believers face death, sorrow, and daily faithfulness. Speaking from his own recent grief over his brother's death, he grounds Christian hope in the certainty that death is not the end.

Using the fourth "we believe" statement of the Nicene Creed, Pastor Miles teaches that the church is the overflow of the triune nature of God—one God in three persons—who designed individuals to be united together as one in Christ. He argues, especially in light of his brother Danny's sudden death, that the church is God's plan A for redeeming, reconciling, and sustaining his people, and that "just me and Jesus" individualism contradicts what Christ came to accomplish.

Drawing on Hebrews 1 and the Nicene Creed's affirmation that the Holy Spirit "has spoken through the prophets," this teaching argues that we live in the last days and that God has revealed himself so we might know his will and ways. Fulfilled prophecy is presented as the fingerprint of God on history, validating the Scriptures and pointing ultimately to Jesus, the fullness of God's revelation.