Circuit Riders Podcasts

Michael Koulianos comes to speak about Jesus. He reads out of 1 Corinthians 2 about how we cannot rely on our own skills and talents to lead, but we must rely on the message of Jesus above all else. Michael tells us that the power of God has never and will never move past the cross and we must do the same. He calls out the different appearances of Jesus throughout the scriptures and commands us to find Jesus for ourselves in the scriptures. This is so that we can live out a lifestyle of dying to ourselves and living in the fullness of Christ in our lives.

Sam Storms talks about the power of partnering with God in prayer to influence the world around us. He reads about the testimony of the early Church in the book of Acts and their desire to devote themselves to prayer, and how we must also follow suit. Sam tells us that our language while praying must change to match the prayers that God is praying. He gives us 10 reasons why our prayer is so important and calls us to engage in a deep pursuit of a personal prayer life.

Nick Brennt speaks on the Church community and our purpose as members of the Church. He confronts the modern culture which tries to change and reject the church and calls us higher in representing Jesus as a church. Nick addresses the way we isolate ourselves from others and end up in distress and challenges us to engage and take part in what Jesus is doing in the church. He recalls several facts about the early church and calls us to invest in building the church like the believers in the book of Acts.

Zach Nash speaks on the significance of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection; and how life truly is hopeless without the Gospel. He reads scripture throughout the New Testament that highlights how significant Jesus' life is for us. He then emphasizes how God reconciling Himself to us is incomplete without the Good News of Jesus. He talks about how we must put Jesus at the center of our hearts-replacing our selfish desires for His selfless love. Zach ends the message by encouraging us to give Jesus full lordship over our lives and trust in his sovereign plan for us.

Derek Mack takes a pause from the book of Acts to go in depth about what the Bible says about who the Holy Spirit is. He theorizes that if there is no life change in those who claim to have met Jesus, it's because they don't know who the Holy Spirit is. From scripture he explains how the Holy Spirit is both God and a person, and he describes some of the attributes of the Holy Spirit. It touches on the importance of knowing the power that is inside of every believer, to be able to operate in the power that's in all of us.

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

Peter Louis answers some questions from the students from the DTS.

Peter Louis begins the second day teaching about the perfection of the cross. He talks about how our old self has been buried and how we must walk in the new inheritance he's given us. He talks about how we must release the power we've given to man-made ministry and behold the power of the cross. He dives deep into a revelation of the cross and the resurrection of Jesus and he tells us to surrender to the crosses all encapsulating love of God.

Peter Louis starts day one of gospel week explaining how we must not only know the gospel, but we must also consume and take part in it. He urges us to never look beyond the cross and the sacrifice of Jesus for everything, because everything else will fall short of our expectations. It's an invitation to allow the gospel to offend, change, and speak truth into our lives and never move past the blood of Jesus.

Michael Pierce teaches during Voices week on the importance of understanding the significance of Christianity in all races and cultures. He goes into the scriptures to highlight the evidence of people from many different backgrounds that were affected by God and the Bible. He confronts the belief that Christianity belongs only to white men by talking about the history of missions while also addressing the history of injustices done by people who've warped Christianity.

Yasmine Pierce teaches on understanding on having a worldview of how important it is to use the power of our voice to empower the marginalized. She teaches how biblically the scripture teaches us that Jesus has a plan to have all nations come to himself. She emphasizes the fact that laborers are few and that many people have been disempowered to preach the gospel because of their ethnicity. It's an important topic because it was the heart of Jesus' ministry to empower the marginalized and broken, and believers it is something we must emulate.

Zach Nash continues on the series on the fruit of the Holy Spirit with a message of God's kindness. He shares a quote from Tim Keller and he challenges us to ponder our perspective of God's kindness, and he challenges the religious forms we use to "earn" God's kindness. He brings us into the Word to show us the truth behind God's grace and mercy that brings true freedom and releases every burden from us.

Derek Mack continues the series on the fruits of the Holy Spirit by talking about Godly kindness vs worldly niceness. He provokes us with Amy Carmichaels life as a missionary to Hindu prostitutes to ask ourselves if we carry worldly niceness, which is surrounded by our own selves, or whether we carry the kindness of the kingdom, which is all about other people. It's a challenge for the listener to be willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of loving others like Jesus calls believers to love others.

Matthew Nelson teaches on the topic of injustices from the Freedom Manual. He explains how injustice is usually the root of strongholds and sin patterns and teaches us to aim for the roots of injustice to experience true freedom. He teaches us how to recognize injustices in our lives and uses the Freedom Manual to create a framework for pulling the root of injustice. 

Matt finishes off the week teaching on power and authority, defining both and teaching on why both are so important as a Christian. He goes into scripture to reveal how both power and authority have been given to those who believe in Jesus and how to operate in both against the schemes of the enemy.

Matt Nelson teaches the CRX about the importance of taking authority over words and phrases that come out of our mouths. He teaches us how powerful speaking words of life are in spiritual warfare and how dangerous words of death can be. 

Matt Nelson defines for us what strongholds are in spiritual warfare and he gives us tools to operate in spiritual warfare. He gives us practicals for walking in breakthrough with the 4 r's from the Freedom Manual.

Matt Nelson overviews freedom and teaches on Original Design from the Freedom Manual. He draws our attention to the freedom and deliverance that Jesus brings to us by our identity. It goes against our own perception of freedom that we expect a harsh rebuke or correction and is done in love.

Derek Mack summarizes the history of the original Circuit Riders, and all the information we have about their history to this point. From the shores of England to the frontiers of America the Circuit Riders have a long history of pioneering America and seeing revival.

Derek Mack shares a message about the Courageous Heart of Christ from the Culture Shift Manual. He brings us into the Biblical expression of courage, represented by the life of Jesus, and how we can live that our in our own lives.

Nick Brennt teaches about the Unoffendable heart and emphasizes the necessity for us to live a life with a unoffendable heart and if we let offence lead our lives we will miss out on one of the most important parts of Jesus.

Nick Brennt teaches from the Culture Shift manual on the Culture of a Surrendered Heart.

Nick Brennt leads the CRX through their first session of the Culture Shift Manual, beginning with the Culture of a Faith Filled Life.

Zach Nash teaches from the Culture Shift Manual about the Culture of a Radical Servant to the Fall 2023 CRX.

Derek continues the series on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. He ponders on the significance of Jesus' background as a carpenter and reminds us of his faith in the disciples. It's a call to faith for the modern believer to reflect Jesus' faith in our redemption, and the fruit of our lives.

Zach Nash brings a message from 1 Timothy 1:11 teaching us that our source of joy must come from Jesus. He breaks down our propensity as believers to seek and carry joy, comes from our desire to become more like Jesus. It reflects the joy the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have always shared with one another, and still share with one another, that we have access to. It emphasizes the importance for the modern believer to recognize that our feelings and situation doesn't define us, our revelation of Jesus does.

Michael Pierces brings us a message from Nehemiah 6, titled "A Vision That Keeps You on the Wall". We are challenged to examine the long-term vision we have for our lives and how our daily activities align with that vision. Michael gives us a definition of vision and how a lack of vision can negatively impacts us. We are encouraged to spend time with God and seek out a vision that will sustain us in our day-to-day.

Derek Mack brings us a message about knowing our purpose and having courage titled, "The Good Soldier". We are challenged to live out our faith publicly and openly. Derek emphasizes that in order to shift our culture, Christians must take real action.

Zach Nash teaches on how to obtain biblical breakthrough for your identity and calling in Jesus.

Nick Brennt teaches on the keys of living disciplined in a life of surrender to Jesus.

Derek Mack teaches on 1 John 4:19. He challenges us to pause and re-align our hearts in submission to Jesus.

Derek Mack closes out our series on 1 Corinthians 13. He poses the question to us, "does your love have a limit?" Derek challenges us to look for where our love begins to grow cold and exhorts us to depend more deeply on Jesus to empower us to love. Derek then gives four practical questions for us to ask ourselves in order to walk deeper into love.

Zach Nash continues our series on 1 Corinthians 13. He challenges us with the story of the Prodigal Son in John 15, connecting our ability to give God's love with our ability to first receive God's love. Zach walks us through four hindrances to receiving God's love: entitlements, self-righteousness, religious obligation, and earning. He exhorts us to receive the Father's smile in preparation for the coming revival.

Nick Brennt continues our series on 1 Corinthians 13. Nick goes into the chapter verse by verse, expounding on what God does and does not call love. He gives us four simple practicals to be more loving. Nick then calls us to count the cost of love, and challenges us to be initiators of real love to our generation.

Derek Mack begins our series on 1st Corinthians 13, discussing the biblical way of love. Derek uses Scripture to confront our loveless tendencies. We are encouraged to let God's love drive us in our words and actions. We are then given practical tools for cultivating biblical love in our lives.

Nick Brennt brings us to the end of our series on the gifts of the Holy Spirit by teaching us about the gift of prophecy. He gives us some practical tips on how to prophesy and encourages us all to exercise the gift of prophecy.

Continuing our series on the Holy Spirit, Nick Brennt teaches on power evangelism. He then invites some of our staff to share testimonies from our most recent set of evangelistic tours. We are exposed to real testimonies of the power of the Holy Spirit that challenge us to have faith that God can use anyone and encourage us to take action on sharing the Gospel!

Zach Nash teaches on the gifts of the Holy Spirit through his message "Jesus Our Healer." Zach takes us through his own personal testimony of experiencing the power of the Holy Spirit for the first time, and walks us through numerous examples of Jesus healing in Scripture.

Nick Brennt teaches on "How to Be Filled With the Holy Spirit" as we continue our series on gifts of the Holy Spirit. Nick introduces us to the person of the Holy Spirit and His attributes, challenges us to yield to the Spirit's leadership, and explains the purpose and fruit of the baptism of the Holy Spirit through the lens of Acts 2.

Nick Brennt begins our series on the gifts of the Holy Spirit in his message titled "Preparation for Power." Nick goes back to the history and DNA of the Circuit Riders and touches on the Asbury University revival in order to lay a solid foundation for a missionary commissioning in California and beyond. We are challenged to posture our hearts in faith and obedience as we consider what things God is looking for in His children.

Yasmin Pierce wraps up our discipleship series with a message on reconciliation titled, "Peace Making in a Time of War." We are encouraged to embrace our call to be peacemakers as disciples of Jesus. Yasmin explains what true peace looks like. We are given 3 forms of reconciliation God demonstrated in the Scriptures and now expects from us as disciples.