Line Upon Line

Built around Mark 10:45 and a communion service during the Christmas season, this teaching shows that God's love compelled Him to give His Son as a ransom, and that His sacrificial gift should compel believers to respond by sacrificially giving their time, talents, and treasure in worship and stewardship.

Drawing on John 14:1, Pastor Miles teaches that faith in the living, risen Jesus dispels fear, the hope of heaven brings comfort, and the gospel gives us the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit and the promise of Christ's return. Because we have been comforted by God, we are called to give that same comfort of the gospel to a troubled, broken world.

Through the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), Pastor Miles shows that love is the focus of God's law and that genuine religion must move beyond head knowledge to heartfelt compassion, compelling believers to show mercy to others regardless of creed or culture. He challenges listeners that piety without pity is of little value, and that true religion both gives thanks and gives mercy.

Drawing on the history of the Protestant Reformation and the prophet Isaiah, Pastor Miles argues that the political chaos and moral confusion of our day reveal a deeper theological problem, and that the answer is not political activism but an unashamed return to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Just as Paul preached the gospel into a corrupt Roman world, the church today needs a theological renewal that brings about true reformation.

Drawing on the history of the Protestant Reformation and the prophet Isaiah, Pastor Miles argues that America's political divisions reveal a deeper theological problem, and that what the nation truly needs is not a political savior but a gospel-driven theological renewal. From Romans 1:16, he calls believers to be unashamed of the gospel because it alone is the power of God to salvation.

Working through 2 Peter 3:10-18, Pastor Miles teaches that the world as we know it will end suddenly in the day of the Lord—a day of wrath for the wicked but not for those in Christ. Because God has promised a glorious new heaven and new earth, believers should make every effort to pursue holiness and share the gospel while the Lord patiently delays.

Drawing from 2 Peter 3, Pastor Miles explains Peter's final exhortation to a church facing "rough road ahead" — false teachers and scoffers who mock the promise of Christ's return. The teaching urges believers to be mindful of Scripture, to remember that God's apparent delay flows from His grace, and that the day of judgment will surely come, calling all to be found ready in Christ.

In this teaching on 2 Peter 2:9-22, Pastor Miles examines the sobering reality of God's coming judgment upon false teachers who creep into the church with destructive heresies. He warns that such teachers preach an empty but attractive message promising freedom to sin under grace, and calls believers to be on guard by growing in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ through the systematic study of Scripture.

Teaching from 2 Peter 2:1-10, Pastor Miles shows that false teachers deny the lordship of Christ and the necessity and sufficiency of His death, leading to destruction. Yet God, though relentlessly committed to justice, is merciful and gracious—making it foolish to test the limits of that grace by rejecting Christ.

Drawing on the example of Jeremiah and the false prophets of Israel, Pastor Miles teaches from 2 Peter 2:1-3 that false teachers are assured, come in secretly, and bring destructive heresies that deny the lordship and redemptive work of Christ. He urges believers to be Bereans who test all teaching by Scripture, warns that following false teaching fouls the church's witness, and exposes covetousness as its root, closing with communion.