Miles Pike

Laboring With Labor Pains - Part 3 - Why Do We Overwork? 

The modern world has scrambled things so badly 

that today we worship our work, 

we work at our play, 

and we play at our…

1. Why do we work? 

Back in the beginning of the Bible in Genesis 2, God plants a garden, puts Adam in it, tells man to keep it, Adam names the animals, tends to the garden. That’s Adam’s job…

The other day Martha and I had a day scheduled for rest, relaxation, and restoration. Our weekends are usually busy, so if we don’t intentionally take some time now and again, we get worn out. So we were anticipating a…

At the wedding of my brother-in-law recently, it was requested that I speak from the Book of Ruth. Having not read it in a while and not heard many in-depth sermons from it, I went into it thinking that…

Over the last several weeks we’ve been adding a new verse to our roster to memorize: James 4:4-10. It’s a fairly well known passage and I’ve heard it quoted many times, but usually just bits and pieces at a time…

miles & mar’s devotional - volume xxiv 

Ever had to call in to tech support for a computer problem? 

Yeah, I thought so. 

Probably after a lengthy wait, (I wonder how long I would be on hold…

Ok, so last time we started to tackle the Book of Jude. In this overview we attempted to dissect some basic things about apostasy and apostates. We answered these questions: 

1. What is an apostate? An apostate is someone…

Of all the many important topics that we could choose to address this time, we felt that we could get some big help from a little book of the Bible. If you go by an English word count, the Book…

Recently, Martha and I were discussing a sermon I was preparing for a revival. Sermon topic: sin. It was a rousing conversation, taking the better part of an afternoon. The way these things go, if I were preaching on love…

MILES & MAR'S DEVOTIONAL - VOLUME XIX 

Let’s be real y’all. Sometimes writing this devotional is not that easy. There are times we’ve already been thinking on a subject or really diving into a text or passage and the…

Miles & Mar’s Devotional - Volume XVIII

With the explosion of violence over the last few weeks with Paris, Colorado Springs, and San Bernardino generating massive amounts of headlines, I felt maybe we should look at what the Bible…

MILES & MAR DEVOTIONAL - VOLUME XVII

Having finished going through the Beatitudes, Mar and I were debating what to write about next. Then the Planned Parenthood undercover videos came out. We both felt that we had to do…