Spirit Power & Grace

Wade Paschal shares about what it means to learn walk in the Spirit and be transformed every day in this episode of Spirit Power & Grace. Over a long career in ministry, Wade pastored churches, taught Greek to seminary students, authored Sunday school curriculum, and helped to start the Beeson Doctor of Ministry program at Asbury Theological Seminary. "God has been gracious to me," W...

“I felt like I was being flooded with warmth … like the Holy Spirit washing over me,” Emma said. Lydia and Andrew sit down with Emma Parker, a senior at Oral Roberts University who is pursuing a call to ministry. She describes how God has led her each step of the way in her life, including filling her with the Holy Spirit. Her testimony is one of a young adult finding her way through faith in Jesu...

Lydia and Andrew dig into the Didache, the oldest Christian text outside of the New Testament. This first century A.D. manual for discipleship and worship was lost to history for 1500 years, until it was rediscovered in 1873 by a Greek biblical scholar named Philotheos Bryennios. The Didache offers us a window into the life of the earliest Christian churches. It also connects believers today with...

Matthew Johnson sits down with Lydia and Andrew to talk about Holy Spirit 2025, a conference coming to Tulsa, Oklahoma, on April 2-4, 2025. This conference is intended to be a catalyst for a deeper understanding and greater love for the Holy Spirit. Sanctification, healing, faith, spiritual gifts, and fruits of the Spirit are all on the menu as the conversation digs into Holy Spirit-related topics...

Andrew and Lydia sit down to ask the most basic of questions: Who is the Holy Spirit? They dig into the Bible to find out what the actions and attributes of the Holy Spirit are, including how it is that the Holy Spirit leads us to Jesus. This is an episode that drives at the tagline of the whole podcast––where the Holy Spirit is at work in the world, and why that matters in your life.

Andrew and Lydia sit down to talk about the doctrine of apostolic succession and its importance in the church today. They cover the importance of words that have to be learned and interpreted: doctrine, evangelical, orthodox, catholic, and others. Then they dive into the concept of apostolic succession and how it connects to the authority for ministry in the church. Their conversation is connected...

Andrew and Lydia sit down with Matt Judkins of Renewal Church to talk about the "how to" of deliverance ministry. Matt shares the 10 steps approach of Pablo Bottari, and he answers questions about what healing from demonic affliction looks like in practice.

Lydia asks Andrew about his experience studying Spanish for the purpose of mission work. After years of wishing he knew the language better, Andrew has recently experienced a Holy Spirit conviction to learn Spanish fluently. Their conversation explores what it means when God surprises you with something you did not expect, and how to respond to that. They also talk about the four ways that you can...

"Somebody, please help me." In this episode, Lydia Brady tells the story of going from a place where she wanted nothing to do with Jesus to receiving Jesus as the only one who could save her. The testimony Lydia tells Andrew is one of the most powerful you will ever hear. Her story is her own, but it is also the story of many others. Listen to it and experience the compassion of Jesus fo...

What are demons? What is demonic affliction? And what does deliverance ministry have to do with our faith? Matt Judkins of Renewal Church sits down with Andrew and Lydia Brady to talk about the reality of the demonic in the life of faith. Matt shares the story of how he overcame his fear of thinking about the demonic through the biblical promise that Jesus’ followers will be equipped to cast out d...

Andrew and Lydia sit down with their friend Craig to talk about what it means to reach the last unreached and unengaged people groups with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Craig explains the concept of the 10/40 Window, and the importance of raising up 'near culture proximate believers' to serve as missionaries. He also describes the Perspectives course, which is an excellent resource for bel...

After a hiatus, Spirit Power & Grace is back with new episodes! Andrew and Lydia Brady sit down with their friend Craig to talk about Craig and his calling to be a missionary in Southeast Asia. Craig shares the story of how he was called into youth ministry, and then to seminary, and eventually to the work of mission with his wife Kara to spread the good news of Jesus Christ. He also talks abo...

The days of Holy Week and Easter make up the holiest time of the year for Christians. But why do we use the words that we do to describe those days? Why is it called "Maundy" Thursday? And what is "Good" about Good Friday? For that matter, where in the world does "Easter" come from? Andrew sits down with Matthew Johnson on this week's episode to talk about the or...

In Part 2 of their conversation about experiences of the Holy Spirit, Andrew sits down with Dr. Arden Autry and Courtney Westfall. They explore the biblical foundation and personal experience of miraculous healing and the gift of prophecy. Their discussion is driven by questions that arose out of a recent Holy Spirit Weekend in Tulsa, but it also includes the way these signs and wonders appear in...

Andrew sits down with Dr. Arden Autry and Courtney Westfall to talk through some questions related to a Holy Spirit Weekend in February 2024. People who attended had questions around four main topics: Falling out under the power of the Spirit, Praying or speaking in tongues, experiences of healing, and the practice of prophecy. In this first part of a two-part conversation, Andrew talks with Arden...

On the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of the Asbury Revival, Andrew sits down with Matthew Johnson and Kyle Westfall to talk about what it was all about. They also look ahead to the Holy Spirit Weekend upcoming in Tulsa, which will feature Dr. Kim Maas as the main speaker. The trio talk about the purpose of the Spirit's presence in the hearts and lives of believers as they grow to becom...

On this episode, Andrew sits down with Todd Lovell to talk about the Wesleyan teaching on the means of grace. As channels given by God that open us up to His presence in our lives, the means of grace have the power to help us grow in holiness of heart and life. As Andrew explains, they are meant to be the pattern for our daily discipleship and growth as followers of Christ.

Kim Maas is a preacher and evangelist who has spoken all over the United States and around the world. She believes that God desires all believers to hear His voice, and that they can speak his voice through the gift of prophecy. Andrew sits down with Kim to talk about her calling into ministry, the practice of prophecy, women in ministry, preaching in Brazil, and the prospects of revival in our da...

Hannah Wells realized at a certain point that she didn't have to have it all figured out. All she had to do was say 'yes' to the next step that God was calling her to take. "Once you have Jesus leading your life and it's not about you ... problems just disintegrate," Hannah says. On this episode of Spirit Power & Grace, Andrew sits down with Hannah to talk about h...

On this special episode of Spirit Power & Grace, we present the Christmas story. Special thanks to Kyle Westfall, Natalie Colclasure, Donna Richey, and Joseph Bias. Enjoy, and Merry Christmas!!!

Are angels and demons real? What is spiritual warfare? How are we supposed to know about spiritual realities that we cannot see or touch? Matt Judkins sits down to talk with Andrew about all these issues and more on this episode of Spirit Power & Grace.

As a teenager, Joseph Bias found himself sitting at a kitchen table together with his sister and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The conversation that they had that evening changed the course of his life. On this episode of Spirit Power & Grace, Andrew sits down with Joseph to talk about how that experience and others that served to shape him with determination to be the man that he is today.

Andrew sits down with Todd Lovell to talk about the topic of martyrdom and its relationship to Christian witness. They talk about the difference between "red martyrdom" and "white martyrdom" and how those have been expressed throughout church history. They also look at the way in which martyrdom requires the formation of faith over a lifetime as well as the presence of the Holy...

Andrew is joined by Matthew Johnson and Todd Lovell on this special Thanksgiving edition of Spirit Power & Grace. They set out to talk about being thankful, and they spend their entire time talking about the wide-open possibilities in theological education in the church today.

On this episode, Andrew talks about spiritual identity.  He specifically explores the views of John Wesley, the leader of the Methodist revival, around what it means to be a Methodist. That label can mean many things to many people, what would it mean to Wesley himself? And how does that show us what it ought to mean today?