Breakaway Ministries Podcast

For the final message of the 2025-2026 school year, Brian McCormack shows us how Paul's final words to the Ephesians are a call back to his first words, and encourages us to remember that hope is always abounding for those willing to return to their first love. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on social media @breakawaymin If Breakaway has impacted yo...

Guest speaker, Toni Collier, gives a glimpse of the strength, character, and faith embodied in the life of Deborah, and calls young women to confidently stand on their biblical identity as helpers, soldiers, and sisters. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on social media @breakawaymin If Breakaway has impacted your life and you want to generously give b...

Sometimes you realize something is far more than what you thought it was...and everything changes. Brian McCormack walks us through the Lord's Prayer, and we see not just a playbook for how to pray, but a powerful list of God's divine identities. Now we have a choice to make -- will we believe He is who he says He is...or not? For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and f...

After laying out the armor of God, Paul addresses an important question -- now what ? Brian McCormack walks us through Paul's answer, which charges us to pray, watch, and persevere as the soldiers we have been called to be. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on social media @breakawaymin If Breakaway has impacted your life and you want to generously giv...

If you truly understand and embrace Christ's final days, it will transform the rest of yours. Executive Director, Brian McCormack walks us from the Triumphal Entry, to the crucifixion...and we come face to face with a love that declares war on distance. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on social media @breakawaymin If Breakaway has impacted your life...

We are not just protected when we put on the armor of God, we are equipped with a weapon. The Sword we wield is the Spirit-inspired, Spirit-given Word of God…and it is the only weapon we need. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on social media @breakawaymin If Breakaway has impacted your life and you want to generously give back, visit www.breakaway.org...

On a historic night in Kyle Field, we sit down to ask this prolific father/son duo some big questions about doubt, suffering, mental health, and hope that is only found in Jesus Christ. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on social media @breakawaymin If Breakaway has impacted your life and you want to generously give back, visit www.breakaway.org/give

The enemy is always looking for a chance to take a headshot...and is attacks often come from all sides. But with the helmet of salvation in place, our past, present and future are all secure in God's hands. It seems the Gospel is bigger and better than we realize. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on social media @breakawaymin If Breakaway has impacted...

We often seek protection behind things that will never actually provide it, so God offers us a shield.  But before we can take it up, we'll need to drop whatever we've been clinging to. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on social media @breakawaymin If Breakaway has impacted your life and you want to generously give back, visit www.breakaway.org/give

The enemy uses anxiety and apathy to hijack our peace, but God gives us shoes of peace so strong they turn every step into solid ground...even as we walk through hardship and suffering. We experience this peace as the Gospel change our position before him and our proximity to him...but first we must change our posture toward him. In brief...it's all about repentance. For more information about Bre...

As we are made righteous, live righteously, and DO righteousness, we essentially put on a bulletproof vest that protects what's most important, and gives us confidence for the battle we find ourselves in. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on social media @breakawaymin If Breakaway has impacted your life and you want to generously give back, visit www.b...

We need something bigger than the lies of the enemy that come against us, that can hold us together when we are falling apart. Turns out there is a truth that saves, seals, and transforms us as we speak it to one another in love. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on social media @breakawaymin If Breakaway has impacted your life and you want to generous...

Ephesians 6:10-20 Too many Christians say they believe they are in a battle, but live as if that were not the case. Jonathan Pokluda leads us through a fly-by of the armor of God, and tells us what it looks like to live suited up and ready for the attacks of the enemy.   For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on social media @breakawaymin If Breakaway has i...

Ephesians 6:10-13 Are we really in a spiritual battle? Who is our enemy and how does he attack? How do I discern if I'm hearing God, Satan, or my own thoughts? How do I fight? Jonathan Pokluda, Joel Muddamalle, and Brian McCormack point us toward the answers. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on social media @breakawaymin If Breakaway has impacted your...

Matthew 13:1-23 91% of us have our phones on us 24 hours a day. What might change if we reclaimed those minutes and hours and repurpose them toward God and the people he has called us to love? Short answer: everything. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on social media @breakawaymin. If Breakaway has impacted your life and you want to generously give ba...

Ephesians 4:14-16 One of the primary ways followers of Jesus must mature is in their ability to discern what is true from what is false, especially when it comes to the teachings they hear. Confidence doesn't come from being deeply familiar with the alternatives and imposters, but from intimate connection to the authentic. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follo...

Ephesians 5:14-16 Passion and zeal for God are not just admirable traits. They are commands — things we must cultivate. But where do we start when don't feel much of anything about what we say matters most? Well, if the cause of apathy is distance, the cure for it will include drawing near…regardless of what we feel. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us o...

Ephesians 5:1-21 If the Gospel changes everything, then everything must change...and our areas of greatest temptation will not be the exceptions. Although Paul has clear commands that affect every area of our lives, beneath them is an invitation -- to find true satisfaction in the only place it can be found. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on social...

Ephesians 4:17-32 Most of us know growth is a divine command -- and even want to change --  but get discouraged when "putting off the old self and putting on the new" proves easier said than done. But for those who remember who they were, remember what they were taught, and start with forgiveness....there is ALWAYS hope. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow...

Ephesians 4:11-16 The divine invitation to costly obedience is not just about unity -- it's about maturity . Discipleship calls us to a child-LIKE faith, not a child-ISH one. When we sell out to believing in Jesus, befriending Jesus, and becoming like Jesus, there is a cost...but on the other side of full devotion is fullness of joy. It will be worth it...because HE is worth it. For more informati...

Ephesians 4-5 Every devoted disciple must answer this question: How will I Walk? As Brian McCormack highlights the 5 times in Ephesians where Paul commands us to walk a particular way, we come face to face with a crucial truth -- to be fully free IN Christ, we must be fully submitted TO Christ. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on social media @breakaw...

John 11 The word "revival" is being used more and more in this season. But what precedes it? And how will we recognize it when it arrives? Using the story of Lazarus in John 11, Brian McCormack presents the the 3 calls that many people will respond to when revival comes -- Come Alive, Come Awake, and Come Home. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on soci...

2 Timothy 2:1-7 Friend of Breakaway and NYT Bestseller, Jeff Bethke walks us through the 3 things God calls men to be -- soldiers who sacrifice, athletes with discipline, and farmers with patience. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on social media @breakawaymin.  If Breakaway has impacted your life and you want to generously give back, visit www.breaka...

Ephesians 3:14-21 Paul is committed to enlarging his readers' understanding of how BIG the Good News really is. In this prayer, he asks the Father -- to strengthen us with the Spirit -- so we might know how BIG the love of Christ is. Spoiler: it is much bigger than you think. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on social media @breakawaymin.  If Breakawa...

Ephesians 2:1-10 The bad news is worse than you feared...but the Good News is better than you can imagine. In this message Brian shows us how Paul unpacks the heart of the Gospel...which is not about bad people becoming good, but dead people  COMING ALIVE. For more information about Breakaway, check out www.breakaway.org and follow us on social media @breakawaymin.   If Breakaway has impacted your...