Line Upon Line

On Father's Day, Pastor Miles points to God as the perfect Father whom earthly fathers are called to imitate, examining four marks of God's fatherhood: He loves, encourages, accepts, and disciplines His children. He closes with practical reflection on godly discipline and a call for the church to display the true character of the Father to a watching world.

Pastor Miles teaches Isaiah 38, where King Hezekiah, told he will die, prays and receives fifteen added years of life, only to misuse them through pride, neglect of his son's spiritual training, and careless indifference toward Judah's future. The teaching becomes an exhortation about answered prayer, surrendering our will to God's, and the importance of finishing the race of faith well.

Paul reminds the divided church at Corinth that God is faithful and has called them into fellowship with Him and with one another. From this foundation, Miles examines the contentions in Corinth—divisions around personalities (Paul, Apollos, Cephas, Christ)—and calls the church to unity in essential doctrine and to the faithful, undressed preaching of the gospel.

As Paul ministers three years in Ephesus, he receives word of serious problems in the Corinthian church he founded, and writes the letter we call 1 Corinthians. Rather than attacking their many failures immediately, Paul opens by returning the divided, immoral, and unruly church to its solid foundation in Jesus Christ.

This teaching walks through Isaiah 36–37 (with its parallel in 2 Kings 18), tracing how the godly reformer King Hezekiah faced the Assyrian invasion under Sennacherib, endured the blasphemous threats of the field commander Rabshakeh, laid the enemy's letter before the Lord, and saw God supernaturally deliver Jerusalem for His own name's sake. It draws the lesson that when the enemy comes against us, we are to keep silent before his accusations and bring our battles to the Lord, who fights for His people and His glory.

Teaching from Acts 19:8-20, Pastor Miles traces the biblical theme of the kingdom of God—a spiritual kingdom entered by grace through faith, ruled by a King who reigned from a cross—and shows how Paul preached it boldly in Ephesus amid rejection, occultic opposition, and God's authenticating miracles. The message calls believers to live as ambassadors of that kingdom and to trust the prevailing power of God's word.

Walking through Acts 18:18–19:7, Pastor Miles examines three figures—the apostle Paul, the eloquent Alexandrian Apollos, and a dozen "almost Christians"—to show that Paul was a duty-bound apostle devoted to God's will, and that genuine faith is evidenced by the receiving of the Holy Spirit, not merely by outward religiosity.

Teaching through Isaiah 34–35, Pastor Miles examines the day of the Lord—God's coming wrath upon all nations—and contrasts it with the longer day of restoration and reward for the redeemed. He traces the theme across Isaiah, Joel, Zechariah, Matthew 24, and Revelation, showing that God reveals His prophetic plan so that man might know His power, repent, and walk in holiness.

Paul arrives alone in the sensual, idolatrous city of Corinth, resolving to know nothing but Jesus Christ crucified. Through his partnership with Aquila and Priscilla and his reasoning in the synagogue, God builds a church, encouraging Paul to keep preaching boldly despite fear and opposition.

A verse-by-verse study of Isaiah 32-33, showing how the prophecy of a king reigning in righteousness points ultimately to Jesus, who will be a shelter, shade, and refreshing river to His people. Pastor Miles applies the warning against complacent women at ease and the coming Assyrian judgment to the church and to America, calling for repentance and trust in God as our only refuge and King.