Episodes

Episode 175: What God Is Offering You There is a standing offer from Heaven to which not enough people say YES. If God offered to make us all millionaires, nearly everyone would say YES. If God offered to make us all beautiful and healthy, we would rush to sign up. Yet, God has permanently offered to make any child of His incredibly wise…and too many shrug, sigh, and walk away. This is the generation that needs to value wisdom more than gold, beauty, or health. There are a couple of verses in Ps...

Episode 174: The Spirit of Offense at the End of the Age When Jesus talked about the signs that will precede the Second coming and the end of the age, we are most familiar with the global wars He foretold, the earthquakes, and the famines. Many are unaware that He also spoke of people being deceived into offense, hatred, and falling away. In fact, Jesus taught that so many people will be offended that they will betray their Christian family along with their blood family. Today’s podcast seeks to...

Episode 173:Why We Need A Five-Fold Comeback Pastors cannot move a flock into breakthrough. Prophets cannot do it all. Evangelists are insufficient to finish the task. Apostles begin much, but usually aren’t equipped to finish the task alone. Teachers can tell us what, but rarely how or why or where. Do these statements offend you? They shouldn’t. God never intended the Kingdom mission to rest on one leader or even one type of leader. In these last days, we are seeing a clear resurgence of five-...

Episode 172: When Do I Walk Away? There is only one Savior…and it is not you. Many Christians are surprised – even shocked! – to learn that the Bible communicates clearly that there are times to sever ties with certain types of people in our lives. While we live with the awareness that we are forbidden to live with bitterness and resentment toward others, the Scriptures are equally clear that we are permitted (and at times we are even commanded) to draw boundaries that result in people no longer...

Episode 171:Prophetic Download About the American BrideOn Sunday October 15, 2023, Jeff Lyle received from God an intense word from the Lord as he was driving to church. Before releasing this word publicly, he sat on it for a week before sharing it with his wife. The only other place he has presently released it is this podcast. The inner vision revealed a bride in an unusual wedding gown on her wedding day. Also noteworthy was her hair. From these two captivating images, God began to speak to J...

Episode 170: Exiting Anxiety & Entering PeaceMost of the world thinks of peace as the absence of conflict. Beyond that, many of those same people assume that peace is unattainable unless that absence of conflict is their current reality. Wouldn’t it be terrible if that were true? That would mean that would be zero possibility of peace unless everything in our lives was pleasant, friction-free and easy on our souls. In this podcast episode, we will learn that peace is something that is to be priz...

Episode 169: The Mind: Renewal & Removal It is clear in Scripture that the world, the flesh, and the devil work in a concentrated effort to imprison people with deception. The difficult truth is that we do not rise above what we believe is true and prioritized. What we believe to be true owns us. While God has empowered us to defeat the enemies which seek to dominate our thinking, He expects us to personally and proactively enter into a strategy that secures the victory of the mind. This message...

Episode 168: Mind Games We typically live to the fullest along the lines of what we believe to be the truest. This is awesome news if you are in alignment with truth. It is devastating if what you unknowingly believe is actually false. The war for...

Episode 168: Mind Games We typically live to the fullest along the lines of what we believe to be the truest. This is awesome news if you are in alignment with truth. It is devastating if what you unknowingly believe is actually false. The war for the mind is always atop the list of what the enemy seeks to win in our lives. Gratefully, we have divine power to destroy opinions and strongholds which come against God’s truth in our lives. This episode of Mavericks & Misfits exposes the strategy of ...

Episode 167: Benefits of Praying in Tongues A concern often expressed by those who are skeptical of the gift of tongues is centered on what possible value there could be in praying in a language that you do not understand. More than once, I have been...

Episode 166: Let’s Talk About Tongues What do you believe about speaking in tongues? For many, the subject is irrelevant to them on a practical basis. They do not speak in tongues, the church they attend does endorse the gift of tongues, and they...

Episode 165: The Issue of Your Identity The question often asked to many young children is “What do you want to be when you grow up?” The question is innocent enough but notice the subtle difference: they are not asked WHO they want to be...

Episode 164: Why You Will Not Quit One of the greatest prophets in the Old Testament, Jeremiah, once declared that he felt like quitting on God. Yet, the fire in Jeremiah’s bones refused to let him go silent. The great Apostle Paul wrote in 2...

Episode 163: A Troubling Ignorance You don’t need to ask Christians if they have ever gotten sideways with another believer. It happens. The bible says that iron sharpens iron…and when that occurs, sparks will fly. What if the person you were...

Episode 162: Authority and Rebellion God has established social and spiritual structures within His Kingdom which operate on the premise of delegated authority and the call to obey authority He establishes. These structures are seen in the family, the...

Episode 161: What’s Wrong With the Church? This episode of Mavericks & Misfits contains two different main thoughts which easily hold one another’s hands for the whole episode. Most of us can see that the Church (and every local expression of...

Episode 160: Responding to Relentless Warfare When you come to Jesus Christ and receive Him by faith as Lord of your life, the enemy begins to watch you. He cannot undo your salvation by faith through grace, but he will commit with fury to oppose any...

Episode 159: Why Some Question God’s Love Most of the listeners of Mavericks & Misfits would never theologically question God’s love for humanity. Yet, even those who do not question the theology of His love can still wrestle with the degree...

Episode 158: Addressing Empty Love Tanks Do you know about the time when Jesus sent a word to a church that informed them that He appreciated all that they were doing for Him, but that He was about to completely shut them down? This really happened....

Episode 157: Love Is A Commitment The culture has worked with high level intentionality to redefine what love is. We are now informed that if we speak or act in any way that does not make people feel awesome about themselves at all times, then we are...

Episode 156: Patience With God’s Timing As the Christian grows in his or her relationship with God, eventually the issue of His timing will arise. Why God does not honor our presumed sense of appropriate timing has been a source of struggle for...

Episode 155: The Absalom Spirit What should we think about that person in the church who almost always thinks that they know better than others? They often find themselves as the go-to person concerning how the primary leader in a church could (and...

Episode 154: Misunderstanding Your Trouble It is unavoidable. You, a true follower of Jesus, will occasionally encounter some intense troubles. Sometimes they come and go quickly. At other times, they hang over your head like a thick, dark cloud that...

Episode 153: Temple or Oikos? Have you ever heard of oikos? Some of you will know that it is presently a successful brand of yogurt that you can by at your supermarket. Yet, many do not know that this is a Greek word found all throughout our New...