Episodes

Episode 125: Out... But Not In Most Christians know what it feels like to be stuck for a season. The in-between moments are not always easy to understand for those who are on their personal faith-journey. Others around us seem to motor on into a life that looks very different than what we are experiencing. Where are their roadblocks, detours, and delays? Some people may no longer believe that there is such a thing as a grand purpose for their lives. Others have never been told that God has an of...

Episode 124: What Happens When We Won't Forgive? In the days wherein Christianity has been consistently presented as a relationship solely between God and an individual, we have all but lost the concept that to be a Christian is not only to become one with God, but to become one with all other Christians. The early Christians knew nothing of a faith that could reconcile them to God but not reconcile them with others. The reason why is because Jesus never allowed for the idea that we could be mad...

Episode 123: The Impossible Love The ways, works and words of Jesus are repeatedly revealed in Scripture in such a way that we feel compelled to both learn and emulate all that He says and does. Jesus’ sermons were sometimes piercing because He went into the depths of the heart instead of just dealing with our external behaviors. He doesn’t want us just to behave differently, He wants to transform our beliefs and our hearts so that, as we live like He did on earth, we do so with the same heart t...

Episode 122: Why Closed Doors? It can be a challenging thing when the zeal inside of you is not matched with opportunities outside of you. The closed-door season can become one of the most frustrating episodes in a believer’s life if we do not respond properly to it. Why would God place a desire or a calling within us, but then not give us the opportunity to fulfill that desire and calling? This episode explores the reality of closed doors that find us when we were certain they would be opened ...

Episode 121: Milky: Stunted Spiritual Growth Perhaps one of the most eroding forces in the Church today is the issue of prolonged spiritual infancy and adolescence. If a fourteen-year-old was known to still be breast-feeding, we would all discern that there is something terribly wrong with both the child and his/her mother. Yet, in the Kingdom, we cannot deny the reality of multitudes of Christians who have never graduated from milk to meat. Solid spiritual food is not for them. They prefer to ...

Episdoe 120: Jeff & Amy Lyle Discuss End-Time Courage In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, Amy Lyle joins her husband, Jeff, in the studio to discuss what we need to live with courage and endurance in the end of the age. Amy is soon to launch a podcast she is co-hosting with Lauren Atkinson, and this episode informs the Mavericks & misfits audience of this new venture and what listeners can expect from Lauren and Amy. Christian women are being released into Kingdom callings at higher levels ...

Episode 119: Four Essential Words You Must Receive From time to time, people will ask a spiritual leader what the keys are for a victorious, satisfying life that brings glory to God. Often this type of question comes from a newer convert or from a younger Christian who is now learning how to walk out their own faith. The question itself is GOOD because it indicates spiritual hunger. What may be lacking, however, is the awareness that there is no existing quick-fix answer to a spiritual life whi...

Episode 118: Beating Bitterness & Overcoming Offense Here is something that few will tell you: God will allow things in your life that are potentially offensive and embittering. That is right – God will permit injustice, mistreatment, betrayal, abandonment, and denial into the lives of His children. And He does so on purpose! In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, we unpack one of the strangest encounters anyone ever had with Jesus. When a woman comes to Him with an impossible need, Jesus see...

Episode 117: Getting Promoted One of the intentional ways in which God moves involves Him facilitating an internal promotion within the Christian’s spirit while not yet offering an external circumstance that matches it. God works and moves within His children but does not always immediately provide an outlet for all that good to flow. It is not uncommon in Scripture to find someone who is being blessed spiritually while suffering circumstantially. In the book of Genesis, we see this reality pla...

Episode 116: Your Window Of Opportunity It is important that all of grasp some level of discernment about how God is presently moving among His people, and also what He is preparing in the unbelieving world. While none of us can fully fathom ALL that He is presently working, we can grasp enough particulars that empower us to align with His present works. This podcast episode is precisely geared to the individual listener, and it calls them to respond to a window of opportunity that is presently...

Episode 115: Our Ignorance At The Altar When people come forward during altar calls at the end of Christian gatherings, most come seeking something which they need from the Lord. They come in faith. They often come in desperation. Some come forward, compelled by the Spirit of God to receive something for which He has given them hunger. We all come forward with a need, and there is nothing wrong with any of that. Unless we are coming in ignorance about what is required for what we want to recei...

Episode 114: Why Your Opposition Will Fail Christians living for the glory of God will be assigned territory to claim for His glory. Sometimes this territory is geographical. Sometimes it is relational. Sometimes it is cultural. Regardless of how the territory is defined and assigned by God, the Christian life is one of Kingdom advancement. And all of Hell will fight against that victory happening through you. This is why we need an impartation of holy, Spirit-filled confidence. In this episo...

Episode 113: Anointed... But Waiting A great moment in the Christian’s life occurs when he or she understands what God has gifted and called them to do in the Kingdom. Everyone desires to know their purpose, and life takes on new dimension when God clearly communicates His desire for the direction of our lives. What God assigns to the believer He also anoints for the believer. He infuses the right gifting, the right spiritual resources, the right location, and the right recipients of what He wi...

Episode 112: Peace Instead Of Fear Most Christians would recognize the words of Jesus in John 14:27 where He promises His peace to all His followers. When He commands us to “let not your hearts be troubled”, we tend to experience a sense of reassurance and comfort. We all know these words of Jesus…but are we actually obeying them? In this episode of #MavericksAndMisfits, Jeff Lyle calls the listener to pinpoint the thing(s) that may be causing him/her to be living with a consistent thread of an...

Episode 111: The Unwavering Voices The Church in America has a speech impediment. It is not that Christians are not talking. In fact, we seem to talk quite a bit. We have the ability and vocabulary to speak. The issue is not in our ability to speak, it is in our discernment of what to actually say. The bold, biblical, loyal spokespeople for God seem to becoming more rare. Jeff Lyle shares in this podcast a charge to all the listeners to push back against this trend and to recapture the voice of...

Episode 110: Killing The Victim Mentality Christians typically live with one of two possible mindsets towards life: I am a victim who is helpless. I am a conqueror and overcomer. Our culture today feeds the instinct in most humans to deflect, blame others, shirk responsibility and avoid accountability for their lives. From media to government –and even some within the Church –there is a line of thinking that seeks to empower people to find excuses as to why they are not living a triumphant l...

Episode 109: Deep Concerns About The Sinner's Prayer For close to 80 years, most church attendees have been invited into an eternal relationship with God via the repeating of what is commonly known as the sinner’s prayer. The motivation behind using this prayer as a means to welcome sinnersinto the Kingdom is to honor the requirement of confessing Jesus as Lord with the mouth. The weakness of emphasizing this prayer is that it does nothing to gauge whetheror not the hearts of the people repeati...

Episode 108: Prophets In Hiding In Elijah’s day, he once complained to God that he was the only true prophet. Have you ever wondered why he felt so alone and isolated in prophetic ministry during the days of wicked Ahab and Jezebel? Well, there may be a small clue in 1 Kings 18 as to whyElijah felt that way. In a discussion with another prophet named Obadiah, we learn that at least 100 prophets of God had been hiding together in a cave while Elijah put his neck on the line by doing the difficul...

Episode 107: How The Baptist Guy Met The Holy Spirit In today’s episode of #MavericksAndMisfitsJeff shares two powerful accounts in his own story which God imparted to him in order tobring Jeff into a fuller experience and expression of what it means to be a Jesus-follower. These two encounters were separated by twelve years, but they worked together to free Jeff from religious bondage, denominational chains, and the fear of man. While these accounts are written of fully in Jeff’s book “Figurin...

Episode 106: Getting Free From The Fear Of Man Most of us prefer to be liked than disliked. We would rather experience acceptance than rejection. Normal and reasonable is the desire for us to fit into a larger community and to be warmly received, secured, loved, and affirmed within that community. There is not necessarily anything wrong with caring what people think of us. Being controlled by what people think of us is a different issue altogether. That corrosive activity in our hearts is attac...

Episode 105: Permission To Be & Do As God Says Well, this episode went quickly in an unexpected direction. While Jeff Lyle was planning to unpack some helpful verses on the fear of man, Holy Spirit appointed a different direction within the first two minutes of recording. In our present generation, a slimy ooze is hitting the church and contaminating our relationships, identity and mission. Sadly, fewer voices are rising up to give holy and dogmatic pushbackto this toxic atmosphere in the Ameri...

Episode 104: What Is Going On Inside Of You? There is a certain representation of Christianity that almost focuses exclusively focuses on our behavior. While the bible is clear on what it means to live outwardly in alignment with the heart of God and the ways of God, following Jesus by faith is not primarily about modifying our behavior. We are not a rules-driven people as the Church of Jesus Christ. Christian activity flows from Christian identity –and identity is internal. The spirit of relig...

Episode 103: Straight Talk About Sexual Appetites Any of you who are 45 years and older can remember a time when the American culture had some form of sexual boundaries that were (at least loosely) framed by Scripture. We all recognize those days are over and now there exists an entrenched demonic representation about what is permissible to give expression to human sexual appetites. Frankly, I’m not sure that anything is off-limits anymore. Perhaps the last realm that is not fully currently emb...

Episode 102: Navigating Relational Conflict With the culture around us remaining in a state of being perpetually inflamed, how do Christians recognize and respond to the conflicts that they themselves cannot avoid? The Bible actually hasmuch to say about Christians in conflict. We are taught that the enemy always seeks to exploit relational conflicts. Jesus prescribed clear instructions about Christians’ personal conflicts with one another. Paul strongly commands us to fight hard for unity when...