Episodes

Most of us are familiar with Jesus’ decree that those who worship God must worship Him in Spirit and Truth. Have you ever taken the time to consider what He meant? What does it mean to worship the God of the Bible in Spirit? What was Jesus saying when He mandated that we worship God in Truth? By the way…what exactly is the Truth that Jesus was referring to? Well, we certainly need to figure this out since it seems that it was of extreme importance to the One who saved us. In this episode of Mav...

It never occurred to Jeff Lyle that a simple Facebook post would generate so much drama. Maybe he was naïve, but he never thought that the following statement would trigger so many. Does it trigger you? “You can obey a God of whom you are afraid. But you cannot worship a God of whom you are afraid.” In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, we break down the vast difference between the theological truth of “the fear of the Lord” versus the unbiblical relational possibility of living afraid of Go...

Note: This is part 2 of 2 in this podcast mini-series. Please listen to part 1 first. Have you ever heard of the Coming Delusion? When Christians speak of this aspect of future events, they are usually referencing what is written by the Apostle Paul in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2. Many of those Christians make the mistake of making the Coming Delusion synonymous the great deception of the Antichrist and/or the great apostasy from the professing church at the end of the age. These things are not ...

Have you ever heard of the Coming Delusion? When Christians speak of this aspect of future events, they are usually referencing what is written by the Apostle Paul in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2. Many of those Christians make the mistake of making the Coming Delusion synonymous the great deception of the Antichrist and/or the great apostasy from the professing church at the end of the age. These things are not exactly the same, and it is important to our understanding of the End Times that we un...

Jesus-followers are often known for their inability to walk in peace and harmony with others. Let’s be truthful: we can be just as petty and divisive as non-Christians (maybe more so?). Ego, judgmentalism, lovelessness and tribalism are too frequently displayed by those who say they stay in step with the Son of God. In one short passage in Luke 9, we witness Jesus’ closest followers living out the divisive spirit. We can learn much by how Jesus responds to their immature and unkind ways. Before ...

It’s already a new year and the clock is ticking quickly into a calendar that never stops turning its pages. We are getting closer and closer to the end of things as we have known them. The climactic changes that usher in the end of days is close. This all means that we should be living with increased urgency to make sure our lives are counting for something. In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, Jeff lays aside what he had planned to share and inters into a prophetic exhortation to all liste...

The Church needs to regain a grip of discerning whether or not God is speaking to us or whether we are speaking to ourselves. Prophetic Ministry among Charismatics needs a mini-reformation. We need to clean up things a bit. We cannot afford to go on speaking prophetically in the name of Jesus…only to find out that we were communicating our own ideas, imaginations, feelings and thoughts. God is speaking for sure, but it seems that He is not being heard over the constant chatter we ourselves are c...

So, a brand-new year is upon us once again. How are you feeling after the back-to-back intensity of 2020 and 2021? Maybe 2022 will be easier. Maybe this will be the year of your breakthrough. Maybe things will finally start going your way. But what if it isn’t like that at all? What if there is more waiting? More warring? If so, then you will need to listen intently to this episode of Mavericks and Misfits as we gain extreme motivation and determination from an unlikely source. Sometimes, when G...

Nobody signed up to become weaker this year. Nobody loves staring in a spiritual mirror and being unable to deny what is lacking in our own personal walk with Jesus. Nobody naturally rejoices in the things which seemingly hold them back from victory, power and breakthrough. No, we all prefer to be strong. We do not like becoming dependent. We all hate to lose. In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, Jeff spotlights the testimonies of Peter, John the Baptizer and Paul in the arena of how each ma...

In America, Christmas time is almost exclusively sentimental. We meet. We greet. We eat. We spend. We give. We receive. Decorations are pretty and the Christmas songs are sweet. Only among Christians is the actual meaning behind this holiday kept in focus. Sadly, for most in America, Christmas has lost its biblical substance and prophetic edge. Yet, when we read the words of the Apostle Paul in Galatians 4, the enormity of God’s prophetic pop behind the incarnation of the Son of God can stun us....

In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, Jeff shares his personal testimony of his battle with cancer from late 2019 into late 2020. Why didn’t God heal him via a miracle? Is the fact that God healed him through medicine a cop-out? Jeff wrestled with these issues and the expectation from others about how he and his family should handle the approach t fight this dreaded disease. For a few days during the fight, it did not seem worth it. In the end, Jeff prevailed and learned some incredible things...

God has never been in actual fight. He has been opposed, but in the sense of a fight including an uncertainty of outcome, God knows nothing of the sort. In the Old Testament, a frequent foe of Israel was the Philistines. These barbarian pagans had adopted as their national deity a demonic god called Dagon. In a season wherein God was chastising Israel for sin, He allowed the Philistines to win a victory that resulted in them thinking that Dagon was more powerful than Yahweh. In an incredibly sho...

What kind of love are you releasing? It is not enough for us to assume that we are loving Christians - we need to work to discern at the specific type of love which comes off from us in our daily walks. From a simple verse in First Peter, we can discover that being saved is intended to being connected to a stream of love coming off from our lives. This is not a mushy-gushy love. It is a love that bleeds. In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, Jeff testifies about his end-of-the-year prayer pri...

Where is the line drawn between a true Christian who occasionally battles a particular sin versus a religiously Christianized person who is bound in their habitual sin? One is born again, one isn’t. Both think that they are. Yet, the Scripture speaks plainly about our victory over sin being one of the clearest evidences of true salvation. What should we make of those who profess Jesus as Lord, but continue to live in unbroken patterns of sin? In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, Jeff walks u...

Do you still believe that God can set you completely free? Many Christians are okay with trudging their way through life, only believing in powerful victory at the point in which they enter Heaven. Is that really what Jesus died for – a grind on earth until we die? No! God the Spirit lives in us, in part, to manifest victory, breakthrough and growing freedom while we are alive on earth. We are not salves to our flesh. The devil has no true authority over us. Because we are declared free in Chris...

Any honest Christian will admit that somewhere along the line they have encountered a stubborn issue in their lives in which it is/was difficult to experience lasting victory. We have weaknesses that are unique to us. Some of us struggle in one particular area even though we have total breakthrough in a hundred other areas. What are we to make of the occasional reality that a certain sin recurs in our lives? Words, attitudes and actions that do not align with God’s Word and ways have to go – but...

We sing about it. We pray for it. We fast toward it. Prophets promise it. Teachers document what it looks like from past occurrences. Pastors strategize to lead their flocks into it. EVEYRONE WANTS REVIVAL! Or do we? In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, Jeff explains what true revival from Heaven will look like when it hits the Church. Without pulling any punches, he calls us to check our presumptions at the door and to go far beyond our thimble-sized ideas of what revival will actually lo...

Most everyone in the prophetic community believes that a great revival will come before Jesus returns to the earth. Among those who believe so, there is a large number of voices that believe we are getting very close. What Christian would not want to see true Holy Spirit revival cover the earth like the waters of the sea? God is greatly glorified in revival, and we all want it. But, in Heaven’s throneroom, there is no such thing as cheap revival. In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, Jeff off...

What does an unknown radio host from the late 1970’s have in common with two ancient tribes of the people of Israel? It might be faint, but there is a connecting line between them. Here is a hint: God does not desire any of His children to live out their lives in safe, cozy and comfortable isolation. The place of promise is offered to those who refuse to settle and join in the risk-taking commitment to inherit the very best God has for us as a community of believers. In this episode of Maverick...

None of us wants to fail. We are super dependent upon God’s grace to be applied when we do stumble in our words, thoughts and actions. It is awesome to rest in the fact that when we sin, God’s grace will abound above our sin and get between us and the ultimate penalty. Yet, there is a clear understanding from Scripture that we often reap what we sow. It disheartens many Jesus-followers when they learn that sometimes there are unavoidable consequences for our actions. Moses learned that a long ti...

Sometimes strong people experience shaken faith. If you have never had your faith rattled for even a short time, then you likely are not attempting to do much for the glory of God in your life. When we consider that God is always stretching our faith to enlarge our trust-muscle, we should not be surprised that we frequently find ourselves in over our heads. Add to this the reality of intense spiritual warfare from the enemy, plus the inherent weaknesses of our flesh, then it is reasonable to con...

There are some intensely bold statements in the bible about the effective power of our prayers. God’s Word calls Christians to pray consistently with the expectation of Him answering our prayers and creating shifts according to what we are praying. There is no mistaking that prayer is one of the most vital tools and gifts that exists in the Church. Why then do our prayers sometimes go unanswered? What are we to make of those undeniable moments when something we have been praying into fails to co...

Many who come from a denominational version of Christianity were caught off guard the first time they witnessed someone falling out in a Charismatic worship gathering. Because of their lack of exposure to such things, they found themselves confused when they observed someone falling to the ground and remaining there, presumably under the weight of the presence of the Lord. Even among those who have been reared in Charismatic/Pentecostal representations of Christianity there are some who have won...

The Church needs to go on record and declare that there is a desperate need for more God-sent prophets today who speak the true word of the Lord. Our generation is being pulled with deception from multiple directions each and every day. Holy Spirit-guided prophets gain the attention of the people and refocus them on what God has said and is still saying. This present generation needs an authoritative, clear prophetic voice. But there is an alarming trend of unaccountable prophets who seem to ha...