Episodes

Episode 179: Red Clay Warfare For close to six decades, the American Church has presented an exterior of polish. It has looked really inviting to step into the American Brand of God’s Kingdom. Wealth, health, triumphalism, prosperity, power, luxury and beauty…we have been told that these things are what make up the Kingdom. The negative impact of this lopsided messaging is clearly seen today. While God is committed to blessing and prospering each Christian as He wisely chooses, there are some ot...

Episode 178: What If It’s This? NOTE: Please use discretion if you regularly listen to Mavericks & Misfits with your young children as this episode holds candid discussion of sexual issues. Now more than ever, American Christians must take a difficult look in the mirror to become sobered about sexual sin among Christians. The slow drift that has been occurring for decades is no longer a drift. It is a full force torrent that is capsizing individuals, families, churches, and major movements withi...

Episode 177: Hypocrites In The Church You do not need an anointing of spiritual discernment to know that the Church has hypocrites within it. You do, however, need an anointing of biblical discernment to understand the difference between true hypocrites and true Christians who fail to always live up to the righteous standard that God offers us. If a Christian failing or sinning is ALWAYS evidence of hypocrisy, then you yourself would be a hypocrite. Fortunately, the bible clarifies for us the di...

Episode 176: Blowing Up Christmas For Everyone Who would have ever thought that the season on the calendar wherein the world considers the birth of Jesus Christ would have ever ended up being a rope with which Christians play a spiteful game of tug-of-war? If nothing else, Christmastime proves yet again that Christians have learned to fight each other over anything. While each is free to decide for themselves whether or not the modern modes of observing Christmas make sense to them or not, we do...

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 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 interrogated about whether or not it is good stewardship of my time to devote large portions of it to praying privately in tongues. For those who do not pray in tongues, I actually believe these types of concerns are valid. They have a legitimate r...

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 simply do not see the benefit in the lives of those who say they speak in tongues. For other Christians, the practice of praying in tongues plays a significant part in the life of a Jesus-follower. We all know it is a controversial issue between believ...

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 (identity), but WHAT they want to be (activity). Thus began the training of most of us to draw our own sense of being from the thing(s) we are most often doing. This leads to so much unnecessary loss. Could it be that the majority of us have been unconsciously...

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 Corinthians 1:8-10 that things got so heavy for him that he despaired of going on living. These men were not snowflakes…and yet they hit a wall in life and faith at one point. There is an obscure verse in the Book of Isaiah that reveals the heart of God to...

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 upset with was actually an otherwise solid believer who was operating in a blind-spot? Or maybe they really are a fleshly pain…but that is also true because they are operating in a blind-spot that has become a personal stronghold in their life. Jesus once ...

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 government, and the workplace. Surprisingly to some, the Bible says more about human authority in the Church more so than any of the previously mentioned areas. How do you regard God’s established authority structures in the Church? If you have be...

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 it) has some issues to address. What one does once they see these issues reveals a lot about that person’s character and faith. There is something we must all do when we see what is lacking in the Church…and there is something that none of us should do. Ad...

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 possibility of you bringing glory to God with your life. So he watches and waits to see what you will do next. Many Christians don’t really do much to threaten Hell’s agenda, but for those who do, the enemy will fight to keep you from your assignme...

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 of God’s love for them personally. Can anything impact – by either increasing or decreasing – God’s love for His children? This is no casual question. Much of what we experience in the Christian life is connected to how we receive the love of God for oursel...

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. They were loyal in service, doctrinally sound, willing to oppose evil, refusing to quit on the mission…but Jesus stacked all that against the one thing they were missing and sent word to them that He couldn’t let them continue the way they were livi...

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 not being loving. If we disagree with people, we can be called haters. If we make moral statements that expose sin and correct harmful ideas or behaviors, we can be called phobic. Is it true that we must endorse and affirm everyone in everything in...

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 countless believers. More often than not, we feel that He moves too slowly in things wherein we sense an urgency. Impatience arises in our hearts with circumstances, difficult people, and, yes, even God himself. Today’s episode helps us think through wha...