Entries by Pastor Miles

Jude 1

Click For Today’s Audio Devotional I don’t know if there is a more jam-packed book in the whole Bible. Perhaps that’s because this one is only 25 verses in 1 chapter. Jude was a half-brother of Jesus, though he doesn’t mention that in his writing. He wasn’t a name-dropper, I think there’s a lesson there. […]

3 John 1

Click For Today’s Audio Daily Thoughts I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. – 3 John 1:4 I was 16 years old the first time I went to a church youth camp. Twenty years later I can say with confidence that it was a turning point in my life. I’ll […]

2 John 1

Click For Today’s Audio Daily Thoughts And now I plead with you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we have had from the beginning: that we love one another. – 2 John 1:5 Many Bible teachers, including myself, believe that John’s reference to “the elect lady” in 2 […]

1 John 5

Click For Today’s Audio Daily Thoughts Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? – 1 John 5:5 The Apostle Paul writes in the Book of Romans that Christians are “more than conquerors through Him (Jesus) who loved us” (Romans 8:37).  The word “overcomes” in […]

1 John 4

Click For Today’s Audio Daily Thoughts He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. – 1 John 4:8 Many refer to 1 Corinthians 13 as “The Love Chapter” in the Bible. First John 4 has to hold a close second in the love competition category. The word love is found […]

1 John 3

Click For Today’s Audio Devotional But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? – 1 John 3:17 This is a challenging word for Americans. It is clear that we are a nation that “has this […]

1 John 2

Click For Today’s Audio Devotional Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but […]

1 John 1

Click For Today’s Audio Devotional If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. – 1 John 1:9 Jesus’s death, burial and resurrection were sufficient and acceptable sacrifices to fully deal with the dark stain of our failures and sin. That is […]

2 Peter 3

Click For Today’s Audio Devotional …knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” – 2 Peter 3:3-4 “Knowing this first.” Anytime […]

2 Peter 2

Click For Today’s Audio Devotional …the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, – 2 Peter 2:9 Often times you and I like to think that “we’ve got this.” We don’t! Especially when it comes to the temptations we face. Whatever […]