Episodes

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 fellowshi...

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 o...

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 s...

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 curre...

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 t...

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, mo...

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 be...

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 not...

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 that...

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 episod...

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, op...

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 sai...

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 the...

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 ...

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, actio...

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, somet...

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 sinned...

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 suffocatin...

Episode 186: When It’s Too Heavy In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, listeners invited to consider and confess their internal weariness. Today’s episode reveals the sometimes overlooked issue of spiritual fatigue and over...

Episode 185: Accusation: Satan’s Stranglehold Are you feeling the weight of an invisible battle? Have you checked that voice in your head/heart/spirit to make sure it is the right voice to which you should be listening? Today...

Episode 184: Individual Stats Are Killing Championships In this M&M episode, we confront the hard truths about disillusionment in the Church, spurred by the sins, flaws and missteps of its leaders. We must determine to hold t...

Episode 183: Is It Of God Or Not? The Great Commission and the advance of the Kingdom through the Church are the two activities being facilitated by God which will continue until Jesus comes. Within those two activities (whic...

Episode 182: Noise in the Soul Scripture speaks of the “noise of the enemy.” Many believers are unaware that a primary tactic of Satan and his demons is to consistently disorient the believer with the noise of warfare. The go...

Episode 181: God’s Brief Moment Offer Too many voices seem inclined to hijack God’s communication to declare to us, “THIS IS WHAT GOD IS SAYING RIGHT NOW!” The truth is that God is actually saying many things to His people, a...