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," Wade told Lydia and Andrew. "and I'm still learning. God's not finished with me yet."

“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 Jesus and reliance on his call in her life.

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 our spiritual fathers and mothers from generations going all the way back to the time of the apostles.

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 that the conference will focus on.

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 to an article that Andrew recently published on the same subject in Firebrand Magazine (www.firebrandmag.com).

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 "hear" God speaking into your life.

"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 for you.

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 demons and overcome the dark spiritual powers in the world. And Lydia shares a personal story of her own experience with demonic attack. Their conversation builds a bridge between the stories about demonic affliction in the Bible and the presence of the demonic in everyday life.