Transforming Truth With Jeff Lyle

The vast majority of Christians live with an eager expectation of Jesus Christ returning to earth. This is our blessed hope. This event will begin the vindication of His holy name. Yet, Christians hold to different views concerning how and when the return of our King will take place. Many believe that Jesus will return and rapture the Church before the beginning of the Tribulation period. Because...

One of the clearest teachings in Scripture is the revelation that all true Christians will experience various levels and occurrences of suffering. Sadly, the modern expression of Christianity in America creates doctrines to deny this, presumes immunity from this, and takes offense when this arises in life. This episode of Truth Shots equips believers for their appointed times of suffering, explain...

The Church needs to get one thing straight and leave it settled forever: Jesus Christ plainly declared that nobody can predict the hour nor day of His return to Earth. Anybody that tries to do so is dishonoring Him. The sensationalized predictions of the date of the Second Coming, like the recent September 23rd rapture prediction, are not something Jesus signs off on. Yet…Jesus did say MUCH about...

Sometimes, in this hectic world that is our temporary home, we can easily lose sense of the fact that time is running out. Chronologically, we have less time today than we did yesterday. Beyond that, when we prophetically observe with discernment what is taking place globally, we can clearly see that the gap between today and the end of the age is rapidly narrowing. We are living in some of the fi...

The Second coming of Jesus Christ is the future event that all Christians long for. Apart from this drastic occasion, the Christian can never be truly satisfied to the fullest. We are blessed. We are empowered. We enjoy the gift of life and all that it contains. Yet, we are not perfectly content until the moment arrives when we see our King. This is the blessed hope of the Christian life, and it w...

Gossip. Slander. Rumors, Whispers. Accusation. Most of us have been talked about before. We have felt the piercing of sharp tongues set to do us harm. In our Bible, a man named Shimei unleashes upon King David years of pent-up bitterness, anger and contempt. What will King David do - how will the man after God’s own heart respond when verbally, publicly attacked? From this moment in David’s life,...

"Would it surprise you to know that the Jesus’ original disciples had questions about the end of the age? The ones who lived side-by-side with Jesus were startled one day when He made an alarming statement about what would happen in Jerusalem in a short time. This conversation led to them asking deeper questions about the full establishing of His Kingdom on the earth. The details Jesus shared with...

Life can ravage people, and it usually does on some level at some time to all of us. God’s people are to become the heart, hands, and feet of Heaven, moving in toward those who lay by the wayside in their wounding. People expect the Christians to help. More importantly, so does the Father. In a famous parable from Jesus, we are confronted with the possibility of our religious coldness keeping us f...

In this message, Jeff Lyle challenges us to examine the often-overlooked virtue of deep, intentional patience in our spiritual lives. Through the lens of King Saul's story in 1 Samuel 13, we see how impatience can lead to catastrophic consequences, even costing us our God-given authority. Abraham & Sarah birthed an Ishmael because they couldn’t wait for God to ring Isaac to them. Beyond these exam...

Finishing your race well is far more important than beginning your race well. Many believers are strong out of the gate, they may be crushing it at the midway point of their faith-marathon, but many of these same people crash before the finish line. There was ancient king in Israel named Uzziah who was a person who began well but finished in disaster. This episode of Truth Shots will unpack what w...

When we speak of an orphan-spirit we are speaking of a person who lives with sensitive wounds from previous loss. The orphan-spirit is not necessarily some kind of demon, but is more often a person who has a self-concept of worthlessness or inferiority because of rejection and/or relational trauma. This orphan-spirit is usually birthed in childhood, and is often connected with trauma stemming from...

We live in some heavy and often depressing days. Threats of another World War, a struggling economy, impossible gas prices, racial strife and constant political hostility - this is the culture we awake in each day. If we are not careful, the nastiness on the outside can creep inside. We have to push back hard against fear, worry and the clouds of dread. In Matthew 6, we read the inspired words of...

One’s elevation in the things of God will almost never rise above the level at which one regards the written Word of God. The Bible is alive. It is the primary source through which the Spirit matures us in our understanding of the Kingdom, and also in our personal relationship with Christ. Those who prioritize a commitment to the Scriptures will have great advantage against the corrupt culture, th...

One of the sobering marks of the present state of the American Church is the flippancy with which we approach the Almighty. It seems that many professing Christians interpret God’s grace toward us as permission to operate in various levels of slackness and irreverence. Many offer God their leftovers in life. Consecration is viewed as legalism and sacrificial service is labeled striving. Does it ma...

When a local church strategizes to make a fuller impact on its God-assigned territory, there must arise a season wherein that church is organized for the maximum effectiveness in ministry. Primary leaders in the church must be freed up to focus on the most essential matters which only they can accomplish. Elders and five-fold leaders cannot afford to give themselves to the duties assigned to them...

Solomon, the king of wisdom, offers some timeless and strong counsel about approaching God with reverence and authenticity. This passage from Ecclesiastes urges us to guard our steps when entering God’s house, emphasizing listening over hasty speech, thoughtless vows, and flippant commitments to God. Certain types of people live in a fantasy land with God, and they often forget that God is in heav...

The most famous teaching on prayer found in the Bible was actually part of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. Luke 11:1 lets us know that Jesus released this teaching on prayer in response to some disciples' request to be taught how to prayer. Often called The Lord's Prayer, this simple teaching from the King helps us to grasp the heart of how Jesus desires for us to communicate in prayer with God. There...

God allows impossibility in the lives of His children in order to bring us into fuller spiritual maturity. While many Christians prefer the shallows, God does not assign us to that type of destiny. God prefers us regularly in over our heads. It is only in these places where faith is stretched from one place into a better one. From God’s leading of the ancient Hebrews we learn how moments of crisis...

Research tells us that the average stay of a pastor at a local church in America is less than four years. Considering that it takes at least six months for the pastor to even begin to learn the existing DNA of a church, we can conclude that the actual leadership work of that pastor only lasts about three years before the pastor quits or is asked to resign. This is a sad commentary on church leader...

God is drawing the lines between the status quo churchgoers and the fiery, sold-out-for-Jesus zealots. The culture is boldly trying to mute the followers of Jesus. Christians have been passive and easily intimidated with the powerful, unapologetic message of the Kingdom looking more like a mollified seeking of permission to just exist. In Acts chapter 4, when the elites sought to muzzle the Church...

Abraham is the only person called “the friend of God” in the entire bible. Many follow. Many serve. Many worship. But God said that Abraham was His friend. One component of Abraham’s friendship with God is seen in his committed lifestyle of building altars at important moments where God revealed Himself to Abraham in new ways. Abraham made time and took the effort to throw down markers where his r...

Not every Christian gets derailed. Probably more than getting derailed, too many get detoured. Side issues in the Christian life become more centralized and many Christians end up majoring on minor points. The tendency to become distracted by the countless “little things” have detoured many believers off of what would have been amazing trajectories in the Kingdom. In Colossians 2:6-17, Paul delive...

Living by faith in this present world is healthy and good, but it is anything but easy. Most of the world around you resists your life of faith. A post-modern culture wants everything to be measurable, explainable, predictable, and controllable. Faith has to exist above all of those things…or the utter lack of those things. From a chapter of the Book of Jeremiah, we receive a no-nonsense exhortati...