Mavericks & Misfits with Jeff Lyle

Episode 165: The Issue of Your Identity The question often asked to many young children is “What do you want to be when you grow up?” The question is innocent enough but notice the subtle difference: they are not asked WHO they want to be (identity), but WHAT they want to be (activity). Thus began the training of most of us to draw our own sense of being from the thing(s) we are most often doing....

Episode 164: Why You Will Not Quit One of the greatest prophets in the Old Testament, Jeremiah, once declared that he felt like quitting on God. Yet, the fire in Jeremiah’s bones refused to let him go silent. The great Apostle Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 that things got so heavy for him that he despaired of going on living. These men were not snowflakes…and yet they hit a wall in life and f...

Episode 163: A Troubling Ignorance You don’t need to ask Christians if they have ever gotten sideways with another believer. It happens. The bible says that iron sharpens iron…and when that occurs, sparks will fly. What if the person you were upset with was actually an otherwise solid believer who was operating in a blind-spot? Or maybe they really are a fleshly pain…but that is also true because...

Episode 162: Authority and Rebellion God has established social and spiritual structures within His Kingdom which operate on the premise of delegated authority and the call to obey authority He establishes. These structures are seen in the family, the government, and the workplace. Surprisingly to some, the Bible says more about human authority in the Church more so than any of the previously ment...

Episode 161: What’s Wrong With the Church? This episode of Mavericks & Misfits contains two different main thoughts which easily hold one another’s hands for the whole episode. Most of us can see that the Church (and every local expression of it) has some issues to address. What one does once they see these issues reveals a lot about that person’s character and faith. There is something we must al...

Episode 160: Responding to Relentless Warfare When you come to Jesus Christ and receive Him by faith as Lord of your life, the enemy begins to watch you. He cannot undo your salvation by faith through grace, but he will commit with fury to oppose any possibility of you bringing glory to God with your life. So he watches and waits to see what you will do next. Many Christians don’t really do much t...

Episode 159: Why Some Question God’s Love Most of the listeners of Mavericks & Misfits would never theologically question God’s love for humanity. Yet, even those who do not question the theology of His love can still wrestle with the degree of God’s love for them personally. Can anything impact – by either increasing or decreasing – God’s love for His children? This is no casual question. Much of...

Episode 158: Addressing Empty Love Tanks Do you know about the time when Jesus sent a word to a church that informed them that He appreciated all that they were doing for Him, but that He was about to completely shut them down? This really happened. They were loyal in service, doctrinally sound, willing to oppose evil, refusing to quit on the mission…but Jesus stacked all that against the one thin...

Episode 157: Love Is A Commitment The culture has worked with high level intentionality to redefine what love is. We are now informed that if we speak or act in any way that does not make people feel awesome about themselves at all times, then we are not being loving. If we disagree with people, we can be called haters. If we make moral statements that expose sin and correct harmful ideas or behav...

Episode 156: Patience With God’s Timing As the Christian grows in his or her relationship with God, eventually the issue of His timing will arise. Why God does not honor our presumed sense of appropriate timing has been a source of struggle for countless believers. More often than not, we feel that He moves too slowly in things wherein we sense an urgency. Impatience arises in our hearts with circ...

Episode 155: The Absalom Spirit What should we think about that person in the church who almost always thinks that they know better than others? They often find themselves as the go-to person concerning how the primary leader in a church could (and should!) be doing a better job. This person has some wisdom and insights. This person likely has a leadership touch upon them. They listen, understand,...

Episode 154: Misunderstanding Your Trouble It is unavoidable. You, a true follower of Jesus, will occasionally encounter some intense troubles. Sometimes they come and go quickly. At other times, they hang over your head like a thick, dark cloud that releases a torrential downpour. Contrary to a lot of teaching in churches, those who follow Jesus are not immune from painful, frightening circumstan...

Episode 153: Temple or Oikos? Have you ever heard of oikos ? Some of you will know that it is presently a successful brand of yogurt that you can by at your supermarket. Yet, many do not know that this is a Greek word found all throughout our New Testament. It is actually a very important word that has significant emphasis for the modern Church – especially as we inch closer toward the end of the...

Episode 152: Get Back Up Perhaps one of the truest revelations of what you believe about God is how you respond when you have failed Him. What you believe about your object of trust concerning what makes you right with God is clearly in view by how you act after a failure or sin. So, what makes YOU right with God? In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, we have to confront whether or not we are mo...

Episode 151: Discerning the Will of God All true Christians desire to know the will of God for their lives. We actually care about pleasing Him. We want to know the right path to choose so that our lives please Him and fulfill His purposes. Much of His specific will can be found in the scriptures. Yet, what do we do when there is no singular verse or bible passage that tells us specifically what i...

Episode 150: The Invisible Puppeteer What if I told you that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans were at the head of the American government? What is I further stretched you by declaring that Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, or Communism were not the actual drivers of historical world governments? The Bible teaches that human, earthly kingdoms are actually under the dominion of Satan. It is a...

Episode 149: Endorsing Kingdom Masculinity Somewhere along the way, local churches lost the men. In fact, we seemed to have lost maleness as a whole. Kingdom masculinity is not something that many churches are even aware of as a concept any longer. Our churches have become gently feminized over the past fifty years or so, and now the feminization of the American male has taken an anchor-like hold...

Episode 148: The Daughter's Inheritance  There are a group of five sisters found in two Old Testament passages whom we need to meet. Their names sound funky to our modern ears, but what they carried in their hearts would be of incredible benefit if Christian women today would dare to expect what they expected. In this episode of Mavericks & Misfits, Jeff Lyle addresses the God-given inheritance to...

Episode 147: That Stunning Thing Jesus Said This episode leaves us nowhere to hide. Jesus made a couple of astounding statements recorded in the Gospel of John that the Church can no longer avoid. There is a reason why the modern Church witnesses little to zero supernatural power on a consistent basis. Theological excuses abound for this lack of breakthrough power, but none of them can stand again...

Episode 146: The Spirit Of Fear One of the most common ailments found in today’s churches is the issue of people being oppressed under a spirit of fear. In many cases, this is the result of an actual demonic assignment that has leveled a person emotionally, mentally, and volitionally. They simply live under a heavy dread almost all of the time. In other instances, a person is less aware that they...

Episode 145: The Changing of Names On Sunday 4/23/23, Antioch Outpost officially became the new name of what had been previously called The Church at Winder for forty years. In Scripture, when God ordained a dramatic shift in identity, covenant, and purpose, He would sometimes change the very name of the person with whom He was working. Name changes in Scripture are very significant. This episode...

Episode 144: Jeff & Amy Discuss Wholeness Of Soul

Episode 143: Jeff & Amy Discuss Open Demonic Doors

Episode 142: Jeff & Amy Discuss Deliverance

Episode 141: Word Without Power   Let’s disclose the elephant in the room. Christians talk far more about God’s power than we actually operate in God’s power. It would seem that the current comfort zone in the American Church is to declare with our mouths how supernaturally powerful God is while, at the same time, being negligent to display with our hands how supernaturally powerful God is. There...