Mavericks & Misfits with Jeff Lyle

Episode 215: When Holy Spirit Gifts Cease In this final look at spiritual gifts, we delve into the heart of a controversial topic that challenges our understanding of God's ongoing work in the world. The debate revolves around the continuation of the Holy Spirit's gifts in modern times, urging us to reconsider any preconceived notions we might hold. By examining 1 Corinthians 13 and the prophecy o...

Episode 214: How Is Prophetic Ministry Released? In this episode of mavericks & misfits, we delve into the fascinating world of New Testament prophecy, exploring its purpose and proper use within the church. The key message is that prophecy, when used correctly, builds up, encourages, and consoles believers. We are reminded of 1 Corinthians 14:3-4, which emphasizes that prophecy is for a belie...

Episode 213: Prophecy- What It Is & What It Isn't In our journey of faith, we often encounter the profound mystery of spiritual gifts and, particularly, prophecy generates much debate among Christians. This episode of Mavericks & Misfits challenges us to reconsider our understanding of prophetic ministry in the New Testament era. We are reminded that while Old Testament prophecy carried th...

Episode 211: Supernatural Powers of Healings & Miracles In this exploration of spiritual gifts, we delve into the complex and often misunderstood realms of healing and miracles. Today’s episode challenges us to examine our beliefs about these two gifts of the Spirit, urging us to find a balance between robust faith and specific biblical understanding about what these gifts are and how they are...

Episode 210: Words of Wisdom, Knowledge & Faith Today, we jump back into three powerful gifts of the Holy Spirit: the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, and the gift of faith. These gifts are not meant for personal gain or recognition, but for the common good of the body of Christ. The word of wisdom brings divine insight into complex situations, as demonstrated in Acts 15 when Peter addre...

Episode 210: Private, Personal Praying in Tongues In this exploration of the gift of tongues, we delve into the profound spiritual practice of praying in the Spirit. The apostle Paul's teachings in 1 Corinthians 14 illuminate the distinction between private and public use of tongues. We learn that praying in tongues bypasses our intellect, allowing the Holy Spirit to intercede through us according...

Episode 209: The Fight Over Tongues In this powerful exploration of the gift of tongues, we delve into the heart of a controversial yet vital aspect of Christian life, discipleship, and ministry. Today’s episode emphasizes that tongues, far from being obsolete, remain a relevant and transformative gift for believers today. We're challenged to examine our preconceptions and to open ourselves up to...

Episode 208: What If We Were Taught Error About the Gifts? As we continue to explore the gifts of the Holy Spirit on Mavericks & Misfits, we are challenged in this episode to reconsider our understanding of the Holy Spirit's active role in our lives today. Spiritual gifts are not just a theological debate, but a vital aspect of our Christian walk. The Bible alone must settle the ongoing debate...

Episode 207: The Gifts of the Spirit In this latest episode of Mavericks & Misfits, we are challenged to reconsider our understanding of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The core teaching comes from 1 Corinthians 12, where Paul emphasizes that spiritual gifts are given to each believer for the common good of the church. We are reminded that these gifts aren't just for a select few or limited to a...

Episode 206: The Waiting Season In this exploration of waiting seasons, we are reminded that God's timing is often different from our own. This episode emphasizes that waiting isn't about inactivity, but about faithful service and character development. We're encouraged to embrace these seasons as opportunities for growth, learning to trust in God's perfect plan. Jeff draws from the words of Jesus...

Episode 205: Why I Vote Conservative Neither political party in America perfectly represents Christian values. We won’t be electing a Messiah in 2024. Yet, to vote is to give expression into the direction our nation is heading. Christians should cast a vote in order to help advance in America a platform that best represents the values which God assigns blessing to, and to avoid any held values whi...

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 fellowship with God. We are reminded that repentance begins with the Holy Spirit's conviction, followed by our confession and forsaking of sin. This teaching emphasizes the importa...

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 only identified God as the one who pinned Him AFTER the match was over. In our wrestling-with-God season there is both profit and pain. How we cooperate with the wrestling dete...

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 strong biblical grasp of the topic of suffering? Because of an out-of-bounds teaching on prosperity and health over the last four decades, there now exists a generation of Jesu...

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 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 e...

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 the foundational purpose of the M&M podcast. If there was ever a time to refuse to settle for mediocrity as a follower of Jesus, it is now. In this episode, Jeff ch...

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, money, and comfort. Yet not all believers have discerned their purpose from God. Today’s episode supplies three components for what it means to discern and live out God’s call u...

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 God’s child, then there arises a skewing of so much of our lives. This podcast unpacks three elements that we need to become proactive in if we are to be who God desires us t...

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 merely say we would have His book - Jesus said that His sheep would hear His voice. We pray and it seems that God does not respond. We plead for answers, and they do not come...

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 the Church was and did in those early years. Somewhere along the line, the marriage of these two essentials experienced a divorce. The expression of the Church became one...

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 episode to the topic of enduring rather than quitting. In this episode, Jeff shares a handful of commitments, disciplines, and values that every believer should embrace in order...

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, opportunities, and expectations which God releases in each season. In this episode Jeff Lyle unpacks six common seasons in the life of a believer and addresses how we can go dee...

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 said the hard things in a hard manner. This episode of Mavericks & Misfits takes us through six separate and intense statements that Jesus made against the religious leaders...

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 Kingdom, we are in an hour which desperately needs a reset. Your life and ministry cannot be about your calling, your gift, your anointing, or your influence. Superstar Chris...

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 out our enemies. When it comes to conflicts between Christians, how are we to know which is the right approach to warfare? This episode of Mavericks & misfits draws from J...