Transforming Truth With Jeff Lyle

Many Christians are unaware that the very first thing to happen to Jesus after He was baptized by John is that He was sent immediately into a personal war with Satan. The wicked tempter moved with urgency to derail the saving mission of Jesus as soon as the Father had released Him into it. For over a month, Jesus personally endured a nonstop cycle of temptation from His enemy. Why is this account...

Many times in a Christian’s life, or in the life of a local church, when a season of breakthrough and victory is taking place, we really want to harness the momentum and keep moving forward rapidly. Who wants to slow down when things are going so well? Well, the answer to that question is that sometimes God wants to slow down when we have had the wind at our back and things are progressing nicely....

The saga of Samson continues as the infuriated enemy brings the fight to him. Up to this point, Samson had been the aggressor, but now the Philistines are seeking to put a final end to God’s flawed servant. This message reveals Samson cooperating with God for the very first time in a spirit of submission and humility. When the Philistines finally capture him, they end up wishing they had left him...

At the end of the age, King Jesus will look upon two groups of people who will then be marked for eternity. One group will enter into everlasting punishment because they rejected the grace, sacrifice, mercy, and compassion offered to them by the Father through Jesus. The other group, who is the focus of this Truth Shot, will enter into glorious paradise with Jesus. These people are also marked for...

This is a spontaneous message which followed the assassination attempt of Donald Trump.

Everyone one of us gets angry from time to time. Anger is not always a sin - even God is revealed in Scripture to be angry at certain things. Yet, when we are angry at the wrong things, or when we process anger apart from the Holy Spirit, we usually end up on the wrong side of God’s agenda. This message reveals the words, ways, and works of Samson as he begins to operate in a furious spirit of ven...

Jesus taught much about the time right before He would return to planet earth to establish His coming Kingdom. One of the clearest marks of His teachings (and of the writings of the Apostles) reveals the emphasis that vast amounts of people will not be prepared when He returns. Sadly, there will be no second chances for these people. Even more sadly, many of these people will be close to the Kingd...

Most human beings have an instinctual fear and revulsion towards snakes. Only a small minority are comfortable or calm when they are in close proximity to a living serpent. God placed hostility between humans and snakes all the way back in the Garden of Eden. Simply put, snakes almost always cause us some level of fear. The Scriptures often portray evil in the form of a serpent. This symbolism is...

Many believers secretly wish that God was more committed to making things comfortable for them. A simple survey of Scripture reveals that God does not do comfort-zones. HE is our comfort zone – we are to find our rest in Him. Yet, because God moves, we also have to move in response. There are occasions when God moves with significant shifts, changing everything around us. When God moves in a famil...

Young people are not widely regarded as being wise. In fact, one common component of being young is that ability to act decisively apart from acting in maturity. Samson and his thirty friends are no exception to this rule. As Samson prepares to hastily marry the girl of his dreams, he enters a week of partying which leads to a rash and ill-advised gamble that would result in many paying a hefty pr...

It is a spectacular act of grace for Jesus to pursue lost sinners who are dead spiritually, and who have no ability to save themselves. He finds us all in that sad condition. Some, like the leper in this message, are living a life of decay and doom. Jesus is not repulsed by these types of lives. He moves in with grace, mercy and love to save and deliver anyone who comes to Him. But what about what...

Victorious, abundant living never happens accidentally for Christian men. While it is true that God is in control over everything that takes place in the universe, Christian men should never allow that reality to rob them of living with purposed intentionality. All believers are responsible for living lives that are situated to bring glory to Jesus Christ. As we live those kinds of lives, we disco...

From very early in Samson’s life, we see the war between his calling from God and Samson’s own flesh. While this man was graciously given power and influence from God, he always seemed bent toward self-sabotage as he indulged his carnal appetites. Will God use a person who struggles in the flesh? Will the Holy Spirit anoint for ministry one whose obedience is sporadic? This message begins to unvei...

The New Testament paints a vivid picture of every believer waging war against their own sin. We are told to put sin to death. We are told what it looks like to beat our bodies into submission, and to slay every sinful longing. When we live successfully in this manner, victory is ours to the fullest. When we stumble and fail, we experience defeats that could have been avoided. In the end of these w...

We enter the Kingdom of God via repentance from our sin as we turn to Jesus by faith. Many Christians do not understand that this is the moment of our first repentance, but not our final repentance. The truth for us is that we live a lifestyle of repentance because we learn that so much of what we say, think, and do falls short of God’s holy expectation. What does ongoing repentance look like for...

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. He 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. We feel we have endured and waited...

Most Christians learn a handful of important spiritual disciplines as they begin to grow in Christ. Bible reading, attending church services, witnessing to non-believers, and committing to times of prayer are among the elementary disciplines of the Christian life. Yet, after years of living out these disciplines, it is inevitable that we will encounter a season filled with challenges that our spir...

Sometimes God is in our midst, working on our behalf, and we fail to properly discern Him. We must realize that God didn’t stop being creative after he put the final touches on the physical universe. He still manifests and moves today in ways that the casual or natural eye does not clearly see. As the story of Samson’s parents continues, they find themselves in the middle of an afternoon with God...

Theology is essential but theology is not enough on its own. God created man for the purpose of interactive experience with Himself. He is a glorious being who delights in pouring out His goodness into the lives of His people. For some reason, many in the Church are reluctant not only to believe this, butter also reluctant to live and pursue this truth. Is it spiritual to not pursue God's blessing...

We hear many sermons on our need to be good stewards of the money God gives us. We also hear messages on the importance of stewarding the time He gives us, along with stewarding the spiritual gifts & natural abilities given to us by God. Not as frequently do we hear calls to be good stewards of all the vision and opportunities which God presents to us. Yes, God is still opening doors of purpose fo...

We can discern patterns in Scripture of how God interacts with His people - and it is amazing that He will let them wander in sin for a while. He knows that when they hit rock bottom, they will begin to call out for Him again. Such is the pattern in the Book of Judges. In one season, when God determined to rescue His people from the hand of their enemy, He opened a door of hope through a married c...

This message was an enlightening, challenging message concerning how Christians should view the topic of suffering, and how they should respond to suffering in their own lives. This message was filmed at the North Georgia Revival in Dawsonville GA, the home of KINEO Ministry Training Center where Jeff Lyle serves as the Year 4 professor.

The story of Esther began with orphanhood, powerlessness and a seemingly silent God. In this final message, we witness the undeniable reversal by her God who, though invisible and quiet, was relentlessly working for Esther’s good. Now she is the most powerful woman in the land and, together with Mordecai, was positioned to save a generation of the Hebrew people. The story of the Christian also hol...

When Jesus taught His listeners the value of learning how to turn the other cheek, was He instructing us to never, ever fight back? Is pacifism a pillar of the Gospel? A comprehensive view of what the Bible says about fighting back does not leave the Christian in a position of being a doormat to his or her enemies. There are times when God calls us to protect and defend our lives. Scripture even g...

After John proclaimed Jesus as the Lamb of God who takes away sin, his own ministry began to immediately and visibly decrease. As his followers became followers of Israel’s Messiah, John retained his ministry of proclamation and calling people to repent. When wicked Herod was rebuked for immorality by John, the angry ruler imprisoned him. Alone and isolated in a filthy cell, with his powerful mini...