Circuit Riders Podcast

Zach Nash continues the series on the book of Acts talking about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. He shares his own experience encountering the Holy Spirit for the first time in Teen Challenge. He clarifies some of the misconceptions about the infilling of the Holy Spirit and explains why it's so important for us. It's an important message for us to allow God's Spirit to fill our lives and treasure his Spirit in us.

Nick Brennt begins a new series on the book of Acts, seeking to build faith not only in God but also the Holy Spirit. He reminds us how often we can often put trust in our own plans and strategy but forget our need for the Holy Spirit. That it's our response to God's leadership that activates us, but it's the declaration of the Christian faith to be utterly dependent on God. It's a call to radically seek and desire for the Holy Spirit to speak in our lives and submit to his leadership.

In the first Monday Nights of the year, Yasmin Pierce shares on Jesus’s resurrection power to those that believe in Him. She highlights how in modern culture we medicate our afflictions when we need revival, which is only found in Jesus. It’s a wakeup call for Christians to pray and believe in Jesus for resurrection in our generation.

Carlton Bates shares a special message about receiving our identity from God, continuing our series on friendship with Jesus. He goes all the way back to the beginning of scripture to unpack the original struggle with identity in the garden of Eden. He states that knowledge does not equal power, and that our identity comes from beholding the one who made us. It’s a powerful message about letting go of our own works and performance to get our identity and receiving our identity from God.

Derek Mack continues on the series of friendship with Jesus illuminating how we get to experience Jesus as our shepherd. He unpacks Psalm 23 and how shepherds will take their sheep into the wilderness to lead them to green pastures, and how that relates to our relationship as God's sheep. God meets us in the valleys of life, and it's the joy of a Chirstian experience that we get to embrace to be led and guided by him in the low places.

Zach Nash begins a new series on the character of Jesus and teaches about our ultimate privilege, knowing Jesus and being known by Him. He brings us into Matthew 7:21-23 to show us God is not interested in our works, but rather a deep personal relationship of knowing who we are. This is important because our ability to discern the presence of the Lord wherever we are is based out of our ability to know his voice.

Nick Brennt finishes the series on the fruit of the Holy Spirit on self-control and self-mastery. He emphasizes that mastery over yourself is one of the most important fruits of the Holy Spirit that we get to receive and teaches us that the worldly value of self-control is different from a follower of Jesus, which can only come from beholding the Father and surrendering ourselves to Jesus. Nick challenges the modern believer to let go of striving for self-control by ourselves, and to receive the love of Jesus and let him be your master.

Amy Ward teaches from 1 Corinthians 12 teaching on the gifts of the Spirit and answers questions from the CRX about how to operate in them. She defines the gifts of knowledge, discernment of spirits, the gifts of power, and the vocal gifts and goes through how each one operates and their purpose in the body of Christ. Amy talks about how we can let our presumptions about how the Holy Spirit operates can get in the way of the Holy Spirit and she teaches the CRX how to operate in each gift in a way to represent Jesus rightly. It is an important lesson on how to be a human and operate in the power and knowledge of the Holy Spirit by loving well and making mistakes.

Amy Ward teaches the CRX how the Holy Spirit is God and who he is and where he appears throughout the scriptures. She brings the school of the reality of waiting and experiencing the Holy Spirit fall at Pentecost. She then teaches about the attributes of the Holy Spirit in the Bible and how he can operate in our daily lives.

Chloe Mack continues the series on the fruit of the Holy Spirit, with a message on peace. She gives a report of our generation, which has been plagued by mental illness and the extreme views surrounding it, and she brings us into the many ways Jesus has healed her of anxiety in her own life. She calls us to the only solution to the issue of our generation, Jesus, and invites us to take bold steps to break the stronghold of anxiety over our generation. Check out the livestream for the video mentioned during the message https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZvclGM-xf8&t=521s