Episodes
Sept. 10, 2024
Private, Personal Praying in Tongues
Episode 210: Private, Personal Praying in Tongues In this exploration of the gift of tongues, we delve into the profound spiritual practice of praying in the Spirit. The apostle Paul's teachings in 1 Corinthians 14 illuminat…
Sept. 3, 2024
The Fight Over Tongues
Episode 209: The Fight Over Tongues In this powerful exploration of the gift of tongues, we delve into the heart of a controversial yet vital aspect of Christian life, discipleship, and ministry. Today’s episode emphasizes t…
Aug. 27, 2024
What If We Were Taught Error About the Gifts?
Episode 208: What If We Were Taught Error About the Gifts? As we continue to explore the gifts of the Holy Spirit on Mavericks & Misfits, we are challenged in this episode to reconsider our understanding of the Holy Spirit's…
Aug. 20, 2024
The Gifts of the Spirit
Episode 207: The Gifts of the Spirit In this latest episode of Mavericks & Misfits, we are challenged to reconsider our understanding of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The core teaching comes from 1 Corinthians 12, where Paul…
Aug. 13, 2024
The Waiting Season
Episode 206: The Waiting Season In this exploration of waiting seasons, we are reminded that God's timing is often different from our own. This episode emphasizes that waiting isn't about inactivity, but about faithful servi…
Aug. 6, 2024
Why I Vote Conservative
Episode 205: Why I Vote Conservative Neither political party in America perfectly represents Christian values. We won’t be electing a Messiah in 2024. Yet, to vote is to give expression into the direction our nation is headi…
July 30, 2024
How To Repent
Episode 204: How To Repent In this episode of mavericks & Misfits, we are challenged to examine our understanding of true repentance. It's not just a one-time event, but a lifestyle for Christians who value intimate fellowsh…
July 23, 2024
To Wrestle With God
Episode 203: To Wrestle With God If you are unsure as to whether or not you have ever wrestled with God, it is likely that you already have done so, but you likely did not know it was Him. Jacob had the same experience, and …
July 16, 2024
Understanding Suffering
Episode 202: Understanding Suffering If there is one area where it seems that Christians have strong opinions, it is the topic of suffering in the life of a believer. There are, as I mentioned, strong opinions…but who has a …
July 9, 2024
Protecting Your Personal Peace
Episode 201: Protecting Your Personal Peace Most 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 curr…
June 25, 2024
Turn Up Your Volume
Episode 200: Turn Up Your Volume Celebrating 200 episodes of Mavericks & Misfits, Jeff goes for the jugular in this episode. Without apology, the listener will be called into a radical commitment to Word & Spirit, which was …
June 11, 2024
Knowing Your Calling
Episode 199: Knowing Your Calling Most Christians sincerely want to know what their life-purpose is. The American Dream is not satisfying for the Spirit-filled believer. We know we are here for more than success, pleasure, m…
June 4, 2024
Receiving What God Is Releasing
Episode 198: Receiving What God Is Releasing It may surprise you to learn that many followers of Jesus do not live with an actual awareness of who they are in Him. When we are foggy about this key piece of what it means to b…
May 28, 2024
The Silence of God
Episode 197: The Silence of God One of the greatest challenges for believers occurs when we find ourselves in a season where we cannot hear God’s voice. We read His written Word, and we know He speaks there, but Jesus did no…
May 21, 2024
Ignorance & Impotence in the Church
Episode 196: Ignorance & Impotence in the Church The first Christians operated with two primary forces in the Church: truth and power. Apostolic doctrine (truth) and the gifts of the Holy Spirit (power) characterized all tha…
May 14, 2024
What It Takes to Endure
Episode 195: What It Takes to Endure When a Mavericks & Misfits listener reached out via email and confessed her desire to quit everything in her life, Jeff felt like he was supposed to honor her request to dedicate an episo…
May 7, 2024
Knowing What Season You Are In
Episode 194: Knowing What Season You Are In As we mature in the faith, we gain the ability to discern the type of season we are in as we follow Jesus. Not every season is the same, therefore there are differing challenges, o…
April 30, 2024
Confronting the Religious Spirit
Episode 193: Confronting the Religious Spirit Jesus wasn’t always polite. He did not always speak with gentle tones. He was not committed to making conversations easy on people. Jesus said the hard things…and sometimes He sa…
April 23, 2024
Ambition: Good or Bad?
Episode 192: Ambition: Good or Bad? If God were to ever promote you above and beyond your character, it would end up crushing you. In a generation wherein believers of all ages are clamoring for recognition and success in th…
April 16, 2024
To Fight Or Not To Fight
Episode 191: To Fight Or Not To Fight Sometimes the Bible instructs us to stand down and refuse to lift a hand against an enemy. At other times, we see clearly in Scripture that God expects us to proactively defeat and drive…
April 9, 2024
How to Forgive
Episode 190: How to Forgive One of the most difficult things to live out as a follower of Christ is His command to live with a heart free of bitterness and unforgiveness. We have all been done wrongly by someone. Words, acti…
March 26, 2024
What About Fasting?
Episode 189: What About Fasting? Jeff Lyle’s first encounter with fasting as a Christian came in the form of a weekly legalistic demand. For the first 18 months of his Christian life, he would fast for a legal 24 hours, some…
March 19, 2024
For When You Sin
For many Christians, there exists an ignorance of what to do when they have failed God in something they thought, said, or did. They know that Jesus paid for their sins, but what do they do when they have intentionally sinne…
March 12, 2024
Validating Who You Are & What You Do
Episode 187: Validating Who You Are & What You Do Most people are trying to get ahead. We need to get ahead at work. We would like to get ahead at home and stop drowning in nonstop duties and projects that can seem suffocati…