Line Upon Line

Continuing the Christocentric series in Colossians 3, Pastor Miles teaches that heavenly mindedness—a Christ-centered focus cultivated through the Word, fellowship, worship, and mission—produces earthly goodness as Christ transforms us from the inside out. He then walks through Paul's practical instructions for righteousness in the home, the workplace, and the church's mission.

Drawing on the Copernican shift from geocentrism to heliocentrism, Pastor Miles teaches from Colossians 3 that righteousness is found only in Christ, not in religious effort, and that the Christian life must orbit around Jesus as its center. He shows how the believer, raised and transformed by Christ, is to put off sinful attitudes and put on Christlike virtues through four practical means: the Word, fellowship, worship, and mission.

Drawing on Colossians 2, Pastor Miles teaches that Christ alone is the focus and sufficiency of our faith, warning against four counterfeit dangers—deception, religious seduction, judgment by the religiously righteous, and spiritual fraud—that shift our attention away from Jesus. The call is to lose vain religion and grow strong in a Christocentric faith.

Drawing from Colossians 1:28–2:3, this teaching examines the Apostle Paul's agonizing struggle to present every person complete in Christ, and shows that the most Christ-centered and Christ-like form of that struggle is prayer—the first agonizing step in evangelism.

Every human being longs to be right, and religion is humanity's failed attempt to achieve that righteousness. From Colossians 1:15-29, Pastor Miles shows that Christ alone—the image of the invisible God, the first cause and sustainer of all things—makes the unrighteous right and is our only hope of glory.

Opening a series called "Christocentric" in the book of Colossians, Pastor Miles teaches from Colossians 1:3–14 that a centered, balanced, and joyful life is maintained by thanksgiving to God and built upon faith focused on Christ, which in turn shifts our love toward others and secures our hope for heaven.

A walk through Micah 5, showing how God used the judgment of Israel by Assyria and Babylon to purify a remnant and prepare the way for the Messiah, who was prophesied to come from Bethlehem (Micah 5:2) and who will one day return to reign in peace, security, and purity.

Pastor Miles works through Micah 4, showing how God answers the devastating prophecy of Jerusalem's destruction (3:12) with a series of promises marked by temporal stamps—future restoration and Christ's righteous reign, exile to and redemption from Babylon, and judgment on Israel's enemies. The fulfilled prophecy of Babylon (foretold 150 years in advance) gives confidence that the yet-unfulfilled promises will also come to pass.

Opening a new series in Colossians, Pastor Miles argues that the Bible is not merely interesting but irrelevant; it is living, powerful, and proven true in transformed lives. The central theme of Colossians is that Christ is the foundation and center of life, so that a life without Him is incomplete and lacking.

Through Rich Gary's testimony of miraculous healing from stage-four cancer and the opening of the Sermon on the Mount, this teaching calls believers to let God adjust their focus from the fleeting means of this life to the eternal ends of His glory, so they can be salt and light in a dark world.