From Overflow Church in Brandon, Florida, where we live to receive and release the Father's love.
In a time when everyone did what was right in their own eyes, Jephthah rose from rejection to leadership — but never healed from the wound of being unwanted. This week, we'll confront the orphan spirit that still haunts so many of us today and discover that everything we build or break will hinge on what we believe about God's goodness and our belovedness in Him.
Think you're too small or unqualified to make a difference? Ehud's story proves otherwise. This week, we see how his life points to Jesus—and how you were uniquely crafted for a purpose. The question is: will you believe it and step into it?
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In a world that says, "live your own truth," it's easy to slip into complacency and compromise. But Othniel stood out in his generation, choosing courage over comfort and trusting God's strength. Are we following the crowd, or are we willing to stand out in bold faith? This message shares how to shake off complacency and compromise and to step into courageous lives in OUR generation!
Discover the keys to living fully in body, soul, and spirit. From the breath that sustains our bodies to the love that heals our souls and the prayer that revives our spirits, this message dives deep into God's plan for restoration. Don't let wounds or lifestyle choices hinder your ability to thrive—embrace the fullness of life that only He can provide!
Healing a cluttered soul is like cleaning a cluttered house. It takes vision, wisdom, courage, creativity, and tenacity, but it can and MUST be done, because our life is a gift and the Giver is good! In this message, we take our often overcrowded and distracted souls through the same process as the decluttering of a physical house. If you're overwhelmed and ready to change, this intensely practical message will ignite your soul!
Transformation with God is impossible without our willingness to embrace soul-deep renovation. In this message, we explore the critical topic of “deconstruction” in our faith, unpacking the distinction between destructive deconstruction and the kind that deepens our discipleship and leads us closer to Christ.
“If you're still breathing, God's still building. In Christ, our best is yet to come, but we need to walk in God's way at God's pace. In this New Year's message, we explore how to recover God's vision for our wholeness in body, soul, and spirit so we experience the abundant life Jesus offers!”
In this powerful interview, Pastor Chuck is joined by his longtime friend Susie Weiland, whose inspiring miraculous healing from Stage 3 Breast Cancer is bringing hope to many. Whether you are in need of healing or are desiring to step deeper into your authority as a follower of Jesus, you won't want to miss this one!
What we believe about our suffering is either multiplying our misery or it is magnifying the way we see the God of majesty and mystery. In this message, Pastor Chuck looks at 2 critical lenses for the sufferings we face: surrendering to God's Majesty (He is the rightful King of Creation), and submitting ourselves under the God of Mystery (He doesn't always give us answers, but instead has come AS our answer). This is a message for anyone facing uncertainty, heartbreak, loneliness, or the quiet of the waiting!
Many of us have encountered some really bad theology about the nature of suffering in the world and God's role and desire as our Healer… and it has led to resentment on one side and spiritual manipulation on the other. In this message, we slow down to look at what the Bible actually has to say about suffering and the radically different responses it requires from God's children. What we believe about suffering will either multiply our misery or magnify the God of majesty and mystery!
We see God's unobstructed will at the beginning and end of the Story. In both, we are captivated by delight, filled with joy in deep and fulfilling unity and community with one another, empowered by true purpose, and living life to the fullest: free from sickness, sorrow, and shame. Complete and utter wholeness is the will of God…and whether we know it or not, every child of God is in the already in the process of being healed. In this message, we join Jairus and the woman with the issue of blood to see where Jesus is inviting us to reach out and where he is calling us to hold on!
The call of Christianity is simple. It isn't easy…but it's simple. In every season, no matter where life finds you, Jesus is there and He is calling, “Come, Follow Me!” In this message, we step through the seasons of the life of the Apostle Peter, allowing them to shine like a beacon to chart our next steps, no matter where we're starting from!"
The pace of our maturity will be determined by the grace we maximize or minimize. In this message, Pastor Chuck brings clarity to the 5-fold graces of Ephesians 4 and how they are intended to work: in the individual, in the local church, and in the larger Church of a region to bring transformation. This is a highly “actionable” message that will supercharge hungry hearts!
There is no optional 'graduate school' in the kingdom of God, reserved for extra zealous lovers of Jesus. The normal call of every Christian is to spend your whole life as a missionary! In this message, Pastor Chuck shares 4 postures that help each of us to walk as lifestyle missionaries, including a powerful testimony of God's love in action!
We never mean to, but for those of us who really love Jesus, it can be all too easy to get caught up in the world of leading and restoring others so much that we start to take on pressure, burdens, and expectations that Jesus never intended. In this raw message, Pastor Chuck shares how he allowed a superhero complex that wrought great pain…and how the true Hero met him in the mess to lead him out. This is a message for any Christian or church that longs to live sold out to Jesus, not burned out by ministry.
God holds infinite power…and yet. He chooses to delight in using imperfect people to reveal his perfect love. In this message, Pastor Chuck shares God's craziest plan: to release his manifold grace through a fallen Church which remains willing to cling to him and to collaborate with each other. In the tension between our insufficiency and our ingenuity, somehow his Kingdom comes!
"We cannot follow Jesus if we are already leading our feet where we want to go. We cannot love Jesus and remain ‘lords' over our lives. The path of discipleship is a long road toward obedience.” In this message, Pastor Chuck takes us to some of the strongest (and most misunderstood) words of Jesus in Luke 14, where we find a life-altering invitation to lay it all down and truly follow!
At the center of Jesus' command to make disciples is God's desire to teach us to obey him. But we cannot learn anything we're convinced we already know. In this message, Pastor Chuck looks at the 5 stages a potter takes in taking dirt from the ground and molding it into a masterpiece. This is EXACTLY what God desires to do in us, and all it takes for our complete transformation is “humble moldability.”
It can be all too easy in the modern “Christian” life to fill our calendars and our souls with all kinds of good work that unknowingly distances our souls from the beauty and simplicity of walking with Jesus. In this message, Pastor Chuck shares the first invitation in Jesus' call of discipleship: to be submerged and surrounded in the Father's love!
Pastor Chuck, Pastor Len, and Jon Ward are BACK from the mission to South Africa and here to share all God is doing on the other side of the world, our wide open invitation for partnership, and where His Spirit is inviting us to yield so that we move from frantic to fruitful, and from chaos to delight! Love is Slow. God is Faithful. And the Harvest is Plentiful!
There are hundreds of kingdoms that have risen and fallen throughout history. But there is one and only one that claims to be an everlasting kingdom and it is the Kingdom of God. Pastor Erin teaches that there are five everlasting inheritances that belong to those who call the King of Kings their Father: Rest, a Voice, Passion, Purpose, and Power. Which one do you need to receive today?
"Every space where you sense separation between the HOPE God has spoken and the HEALING you're presently holding is an invitation to restoration." In this message, we go to John 21 and join Peter on the beach. Though Jesus has raised from the dead, Peter has returned to what is predictable and familiar, no longer sure where he ‘fits' in the bigger story. Jesus' reinstatement of Peter is an invitation to us to receive RESTORATION, so that we go forth as ministers of RECONCILIATION. If you've been hurt, wounded, or disoriented in the days you're in, this is a message for YOU!
The greatest enemy to the fully surrendered life for Jesus is the death of wonder. We've all had our hearts broken in ways that make it hard to hope again. In this message, Pastor Chuck shares 4 responses of those who witnessed Jesus' resurrection: some wrestled toward wonder; some chose to re-learn wonder; some refused wonder altogether…but every heart who saw Him for who He was couldn't keep wonder to themselves. In living hope, they CLUNG to Jesus and RAN to tell their brothers, their sisters, their mothers, their fathers…their friends. It's time we follow them in wonder once again.
We want our lives to really count, but if we are being honest, way too many of us feel exhausted, disconnected, and ineffective, as we continue at a pace that is unsustainable. In this message, Pastor Chuck returns to the very first Palm Sunday with a clarion call back to the SIMPLE Gospel that refreshes, restores, and transforms our souls and our cities.
God is so good, and He has shown Himself to be faithful again and again. The problem is…we're forgetful and have a tricky tendency to put the whole world back on our own shoulders, through trying to fix our own past, to escape our present, or secure our own future. In this message, Pastor Chuck calls all of us to look up on the field and see where God is pursuing us with His Goodness and Mercy TODAY, rejoicing that if God is chasing you, He's gonna win. He's a better runner than you are!
What is 'success' for the follower of Jesus? Is it accumulating possessions to comfort and secure us? Acquiring positions where others revere us? Or is it something else entirely? In this message, Pastor Chuck shares the invitation of God's upside-down Kingdom of a table in the wilderness in the very presence of our enemies…so that we AND THEY might be invited closer to take a seat as a friend of God.
For many of us, sometime between our spiritual childhood and adulthood (and often many other times throughout our journey), we find ourselves facing a ‘dark night of the soul' or a ‘wilderness experience' where yesterday's faith simply doesn't work anymore. These valleys can be disorienting, overwhelming, or downright scary. The question isn't IF we will face trials that are too big for us; it's where we will look when it does. This matters greatly because, “the deserts of your life will either ultimately REFINE you or they will DEFINE you!” In this message, Pastor Chuck points our attention to see our Shepherd leading us through the shadows of our trials!
We fear even the reference of the Psalm 23:4 "valley of the shadow of death." We forget that shadows require light to even be seen. Jesus has joined us in our valleys to shed light on the difficulties we face. He does this to polish us and to forge his character in us so that we will experience fullness even in lack.
We humans have a restlessness problem. Whether wrestling with over-busyness, loneliness, or a lack of vision or purpose, many find themselves physically, emotionally, and spiritually tired...and desperately longing for any kind of hope. In this message, Pastor Chuck calls us to see Jesus standing on the field where we live, inviting us into true rest. Filled with practical ideas that can bear immediate fruit, this is a welcomed message for the over-tired and the weary.
Overflow Church Turns 5! In this message, Pastor Chuck looks back to the very foundation of Overflow's story, more than 43 years ago, through the courageous and obedient faith of many sons and daughters of God whose faces and names we won't know until heaven. Celebrating God's faithfulness as he shares the foundational DNA that shapes the Overflow Family, everyone is invited to join in on the Great Adventure God holds through His Church in the years to come!
Psalm 23 is one of the most quoted passages in the Bible, that has brought comfort and strengthen many. But do we have any idea the depth of the God who is waiting to meet us there? In this message, Pastor Chuck invites sons and daughters out of contractual Christianity that often amounts to nothing more than “treasure assurance” or “treasure insurance,” into the delight of actually knowing Jesus AS our Treasure. He also shares the powerful natural progression from receiving God's love to courageously and contagiously releasing it which happens we understand who our Shepherd is.
All of Creation is groaning within for the sons and daughters to be revealed. They ache, as in the pains of childbirth, waiting to see the hope we carry! In this message, Pastor Chuck shares what God is stirring on the hearts of many for the Church of Tampa Bay, new streams the Pastors of Overflow are sensing at home, and a call for the Body to Fast together to position and prepare our hearts to join the Father in the imminent harvest!"
On this last message of 2023, Pastor Chuck shares about God's desire to wash away the disappointments, heartbreak, and setbacks of the past year and to wash over His beloved kids with health, holiness, and wholeness for everything 2024 holds in store. Sharing the imagery of baptism and foot washing, all are invited into both a healing embrace and a hopeful expectancy!
“When you're in the dark, every unknown fear and unhealed trauma longs to control the narrative. We won't see clearly until someone turns on the lights. This is precisely why Jesus came!” In this message, Pastor Chuck shares 3 ‘darknesses' we all face in the here and now — the Darkness of Misery, the Darkness of Mystery, and the Darkness of Mismanagement — and how a baby in a manger appeared as the “Light of the World,” bringing hope home, even in the darkness!
Pastor Chuck interviews missionaries Philip and Anna Mull to discuss Philip's brand new book, “I am the Rich Man,” and the need for the church to take up her place in the midst of a consumer culture to be radically generous, laying all of our hearts, our time, our resources, our skills, and our very lives at the feet of Jesus for the advance of His Gospel to the ends of the earth!
ALL of us have tasted the sweet fruit that comes from teaching — either from a parent, schoolteacher, coach, Pastor, or mentor — we've all had SOMEONE step alongside us and 'turn on the lights' of revelation and activation to a new confidence and/or skill we previously lacked. What's more…we've all desired to be this kind of person in the lives of those we love and lead. In this message, Pastor Chuck shares the beautiful grace gift of Teaching, highlighting why it is deeply needed, warnings for teachers, and a commissioning to carry the grace entrusted to us well.
Have you ever felt Unseen or Overlooked? Have you ever stepped into a place you'd love to belong, only to feel you can't seem to find your seat at the table? Jesus came as the “Good Shepherd” so that each of us, His kids, would be able to find our place in the field of God's rest and His restoration...and that we'd belong to a FAMILY forever. In this message, Pastor Chuck shares the gift of “shepherding grace” that we are all desperately crying out to receive and what it can look like when a Church chooses to say, “YES!”
The name “evangelism” has gotten a bad rap, with people envisioning horror stories of awkward forced conversations or a gospel tract in the hands of an over-zealous stranger invading their personal space. It may help to know that the word itself simply means, “Good News!” As followers of Jesus, we carry a raging wildfire of the BEST news imaginable — news that has and is changing us every moment of every day…and whether you know it or not, God has already anointed you to be a “Good News Point of Contact!” In this message, Pastor Chuck debunks some myths about living out the Great Commission and shares how Jesus' CHURCH is beautifully positioned today to overflow in hope that will literally change the world!
Pastors Erin and Mickey are back from the field! This week they share stories and insights from their time in South Africa. God is on the move, the fields are ripe for harvest. The question is, are we ready to be the light God has declared we are?
“God built His church on the Apostles…” — there is a reason this is the FIRST grace God spoke over the church. The word “Apostle” means to be “sent to the place God intended.” Apostolic grace is all about how individuals and the Church can be BUILT UP in health and SENT in obedience into a lasting legacy. In this message, Pastor Chuck demystifies a word many have been afraid of with an invitation to move out of dysfunction, drama, and any sense of deficiency into true sustained maturity!
Though the Bible has a lot to say about it, for many there is still much confusion about “prophecy.” What is it? Why is it absolutely necessary in Christ's Church and in our lives? How do we avoid the dangers of misuse or abuse with God's voice and His name? Most importantly, what does a Church look like who chooses to equip and mature this vital grace TOGETHER? In this incredibly practical message, Pastor Chuck defines prophetic grace, giving powerful steps to activate it RIGHT NOW in your life and your community!
Jesus said, “Abide in me and you WILL bear fruit.” Whatever we receive from God, we are destined to release. In this message, Pastor Len shares the grace of God as revealed in the fruit of the Holy Spirit, which is simply the natural byproduct of knowing Him. In particular, he shares with the three greatest obstacles to receiving and releasing the fruit of the Holy Spirit: enemies, trials, and improper care — as well as how to surrender to God and see fruit flow freely!
Whether followers of Jesus are dreaming in wide-eyed wonder or lamenting with groans within, we spend a lot of time talking about “what” the Church should be. But there's a deeper transformative question that is screaming for our attention: HOW has the Church that defies Hell been called to operate? In this deeply practical message, Pastor Chuck moves past merely the inspirational imagining of a church of 5-fold diversity down to the very nuts and bolts the Holy Spirit gave us for HOW we are to be EQUIPPED and to MATURE together. It's unbelievably good news…and it is the destiny Jesus holds out today for any crazy enough to follow Him!
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