The Overflow Podcast

"Every space where you sense separation between the HOPE God has spoken and the HEALING you’re presently holding is an invitation to restoration." In this message, we go to John 21 and join Peter on the beach. Though Jesus has raised from the dead, Peter has returned to what is predictable and familiar, no longer sure where he ‘fits' in the bigger story. Jesus’ reinstatement of Peter is an invitat...

The greatest enemy to the fully surrendered life for Jesus is the death of wonder. We’ve all had our hearts broken in ways that make it hard to hope again. In this message, Pastor Chuck shares 4 responses of those who witnessed Jesus’ resurrection: some wrestled toward wonder; some chose to re-learn wonder; some refused wonder altogether…but every heart who saw Him for who He was couldn’t keep won...

We want our lives to really count, but if we are being honest, way too many of us feel exhausted, disconnected, and ineffective, as we continue at a pace that is unsustainable. In this message, Pastor Chuck returns to the very first Palm Sunday with a clarion call back to the SIMPLE Gospel that refreshes, restores, and transforms our souls and our cities. 

  God is so good, and He has shown Himself to be faithful again and again. The problem is…we’re forgetful and have a tricky tendency to put the whole world back on our own shoulders, through trying to fix our own past, to escape our present, or secure our own future. In this message, Pastor Chuck calls all of us to look up on the field and see where God is pursuing us with His Goodness and Mercy T...

What is ’success’ for the follower of Jesus? Is it accumulating possessions to comfort and secure us? Acquiring positions where others revere us? Or is it something else entirely? In this message, Pastor Chuck shares the invitation of God’s upside-down Kingdom of a table in the wilderness in the very presence of our enemies…so that we AND THEY might be invited closer to take a seat as a friend of...

For many of us, sometime between our spiritual childhood and adulthood (and often many other times throughout our journey), we find ourselves facing a ‘dark night of the soul’ or a ‘wilderness experience’ where yesterday’s faith simply doesn’t work anymore. These valleys can be disorienting, overwhelming, or downright scary. The question isn’t IF we will face trials that are too big for us; it’s w...

We fear even the reference of the Psalm 23:4 "valley of the shadow of death." We forget that shadows require light to even be seen. Jesus has joined us in our valleys to shed light on the difficulties we face. He does this to polish us and to forge his character in us so that we will experience fullness even in lack. 

We humans have a restlessness problem. Whether wrestling with over-busyness, loneliness, or a lack of vision or purpose, many find themselves physically, emotionally, and spiritually tired...and desperately longing for any kind of hope. In this message, Pastor Chuck calls us to see Jesus standing on the field where we live, inviting us into true rest. Filled with practical ideas that can bear imme...

Overflow Church Turns 5! In this message, Pastor Chuck looks back to the very foundation of Overflow’s story, more than 43 years ago, through the courageous and obedient faith of many sons and daughters of God whose faces and names we won’t know until heaven. Celebrating God’s faithfulness as he shares the foundational DNA that shapes the Overflow Family, everyone is invited to join in on the Grea...

Psalm 23 is one of the most quoted passages in the Bible, that has brought comfort and strengthen many. But do we have any idea the depth of the God who is waiting to meet us there? In this message, Pastor Chuck invites sons and daughters out of contractual Christianity that often amounts to nothing more than “treasure assurance” or “treasure insurance,” into the delight of actually knowing Jesus...

All of Creation is groaning within for the sons and daughters to be revealed. They ache, as in the pains of childbirth, waiting to see the hope we carry! In this message, Pastor Chuck shares what God is stirring on the hearts of many for the Church of Tampa Bay, new streams the Pastors of Overflow are sensing at home, and a call for the Body to Fast together to position and prepare our hearts to j...

On this last message of 2023, Pastor Chuck shares about God’s desire to wash away the disappointments, heartbreak, and setbacks of the past year and to wash over His beloved kids with health, holiness, and wholeness for everything 2024 holds in store. Sharing the imagery of baptism and foot washing, all are invited into both a healing embrace and a hopeful expectancy!

“When you’re in the dark, every unknown fear and unhealed trauma longs to control the narrative. We won’t see clearly until someone turns on the lights. This is precisely why Jesus came!” In this message, Pastor Chuck shares 3 ‘darknesses’ we all face in the here and now — the Darkness of Misery, the Darkness of Mystery, and the Darkness of Mismanagement — and how a baby in a manger appeared as th...

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Pastor Chuck interviews missionaries Philip and Anna Mull to discuss Philip’s brand new book, “I am the Rich Man,” and the need for the church to take up her place in the midst of a consumer culture to be radically generous, laying all of our hearts, our time, our resources, our skills, and our very lives at the feet of Jesus for the advance of His Gospel to the ends of the earth!

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ALL of us have tasted the sweet fruit that comes from teaching — either from a parent, schoolteacher, coach, Pastor, or mentor — we’ve all had SOMEONE step alongside us and ’turn on the lights’ of revelation and activation to a new confidence and/or skill we previously lacked. What’s more…we’ve all desired to be this kind of person in the lives of those we love and lead. In this message, Pastor Ch...

Have you ever felt Unseen or Overlooked? Have you ever stepped into a place you’d love to belong, only to feel you can’t seem to find your seat at the table? Jesus came as the “Good Shepherd” so that each of us, His kids, would be able to find our place in the field of God’s rest and His restoration...and that we’d belong to a FAMILY forever. In this message, Pastor Chuck shares the gift of “sheph...

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The name “evangelism” has gotten a bad rap, with people envisioning horror stories of awkward forced conversations or a gospel tract in the hands of an over-zealous stranger invading their personal space. It may help to know that the word itself simply means, “Good News!” As followers of Jesus, we carry a raging wildfire of the BEST news imaginable — news that has and is changing us every moment o...

Pastors Erin and Mickey are back from the field! This week they share stories and insights from their time in South Africa. God is on the move, the fields are ripe for harvest. The question is, are we ready to be the light God has declared we are? 

“God built His church on the Apostles…” — there is a reason this is the FIRST grace God spoke over the church. The word “Apostle” means to be “sent to the place God intended.” Apostolic grace is all about how individuals and the Church can be BUILT UP in health and SENT in obedience into a lasting legacy. In this message, Pastor Chuck demystifies a word many have been afraid of with an invitation...

Though the Bible has a lot to say about it, for many there is still much confusion about “prophecy.” What is it? Why is it absolutely necessary in Christ’s Church and in our lives? How do we avoid the dangers of misuse or abuse with God’s voice and His name? Most importantly, what does a Church look like who chooses to equip and mature this vital grace TOGETHER? In this incredibly practical messag...

Jesus said, “Abide in me and you WILL bear fruit.” Whatever we receive from God, we are destined to release. In this message, Pastor Len shares the grace of God as revealed in the fruit of the Holy Spirit, which is simply the natural byproduct of knowing Him. In particular, he shares with the three greatest obstacles to receiving and releasing the fruit of the Holy Spirit: enemies, trials, and imp...