The Lions For Christ

In this powerful episode of The Lions for Christ, Pastor Noel welcomes Jerry “J.” Higgins Jr., a former United States Marine, ordained Christian chaplain, author, husband, father, and founder of AnchorPoint Press.
J shares his story of walking through childhood trauma, PTSD, and seasons of running from God, only to discover that Jesus was still pursuing him with grace, healing, and purpose. What pain tried to destroy, Christ redeemed.
Together, Pastor Noel and J talk about trauma, identity, faith, chaplaincy, spiritual restoration, and what it means to let God use the hardest parts of your story for His glory. J also shares the heart behind his Christ-centered books and devotionals, including resources for athletes, men, and communities often misunderstood or overlooked.
This conversation is raw, honest, hopeful, and deeply Christ-centered. It’s a reminder that your wounds don’t have to be wasted, your past doesn’t have to define you, and Jesus still meets people in their darkest places.
Strength Redeemed. Purpose Restored. This is The Lions for Christ.

What does it actually look like for a young married couple to put God first in a world constantly pulling marriages apart?
In this episode of The Lions for Christ, Pastor Noel sits down with Peyton and Chayton for a real and honest conversation about faith, marriage, work, sacrifice, and learning how to follow God together in everyday life. No fake perfection. No polished church answers. Just two young believers doing their best to build a marriage centered on Christ while navigating the pressures of modern life.
Peyton shares what it’s like working as an elementary school teacher while trying to represent Christ through patience, character, and quiet strength in today’s culture. Chayton opens up about life as a lineman, the physical demands of the job, the responsibility that comes with dangerous work, and how those experiences have strengthened his dependence on God.
Together, they talk about the reality of Christian marriage in their twenties. Communication. Stress. Spiritual growth. Disagreements. Sacrifice. Prayer. Learning how to support one another when life gets exhausting. They also discuss what being “Spirit-led” actually means outside of church on a random workday when emotions, fatigue, and distractions begin to creep in.
This episode dives into the importance of protecting a marriage from outside influences, staying grounded in biblical values, and intentionally choosing unity in a culture that often encourages division, selfishness, and temporary commitment. Peyton and Chayton also share encouragement for young couples navigating dating, marriage, faith, and the pressure to conform to the world around them.
If you’re married, preparing for marriage, dating, discouraged, or simply trying to keep Christ at the center of your life and relationships, this conversation will challenge you, encourage you, and remind you that strong marriages are not built by accident. They are built through faith, humility, prayer, sacrifice, and daily surrender to God.
This is a powerful conversation about what can happen when two people stop chasing the world’s definition of love and start building their relationship on something eternal.
Strength Redeemed. Purpose Restored. This is...The Lions for Christ.

Have you ever said something and immediately thought, “Who said that?”
The words came out of your mouth. They had your voice, your tone, your attitude, and your fingerprints all over them. But the second they left your lips, you knew something deeper had taken over. Anger. Fear. Pride. Hurt. Shame. The old self grabbing the microphone.
In this episode of The Lions for Christ, Pastor Noel takes a powerful look at the battle within every man. Jesus said it isn’t what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth, because what comes out reveals the heart. That means our words, reactions, tone, and attitude under pressure can expose what is really ruling inside us.
This episode connects modern understanding of the brain’s inner systems with New Testament teaching on the flesh versus the Spirit, the old self versus the new self, and fear versus faith. Brain science may help explain the battlefield, but Scripture tells us who must rule the man.
Pastor Noel challenges men to stop excusing destructive reactions, stop letting fear and flesh take the throne, and bring every part of themselves under the authority of Jesus Christ. The survival instinct, the craving for comfort, the wounds of memory, the pull of old habits, and the false stories of shame all have to bow before the King.
This is not an episode about blaming the brain.
This is an episode about surrendering the man.
If you’ve ever struggled with anger, temptation, anxiety, shame, old patterns, or words you wish you could take back, this message will hit home. The battle inside you is real, but it doesn’t get final authority. Jesus does.
Strength Redeemed. Purpose Restored. This is...The Lions for Christ.

In episode 45 of The Lions for Christ, Pastor Noel takes an off-the-cuff but deeply meaningful look at the parable of the sower, found in Matthew 13.
Most of the time, this parable is taught by focusing on the four types of soil: the hard path, the rocky ground, the thorny ground, and the good soil. And that’s right. Jesus was showing us how the condition of the heart determines how the Word of God is received. Some hearts reject it immediately. Some receive it with excitement but have no root. Some allow the cares of the world to choke it out. But some receive the seed, hold onto it, grow, and produce fruit.
But this episode goes one step further.
What happens after the seed lands in good soil? What happens after it takes root? What happens when that life begins producing real fruit?
Pastor Noel expands the picture by looking at how healthy spiritual growth doesn’t stop with one person. When God’s Word takes root in a faithful heart, it begins to produce fruit. And inside that fruit is seed. That seed can be planted into the lives of others through our testimony, our teaching, our encouragement, our example, and the way we live out our faith in Jesus Christ.
This episode challenges believers not only to ask, “What kind of soil am I?” but also, “What am I producing?” Because good soil should lead to good fruit, and good fruit should carry seed that continues the work of the Kingdom.
Pastor Noel also talks about the responsibility we have to help others tend the soil of their own hearts. We can’t force growth. We can’t save anyone ourselves. But we can help remove rocks, pull weeds, water with truth, shine light through love, and point people back to Christ. And when that process continues, the seed doesn’t stop with us. It moves through families, friendships, churches, communities, and generations.
This message is a reminder that your faith was never meant to sit still. The Word planted in you is meant to grow. The fruit produced through you is meant to bless others. And the seed carried from your life may be exactly what God uses to reach someone else.
This is a powerful episode about spiritual growth, discipleship, influence, legacy, and the generational impact of a life rooted in Jesus Christ.
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Strength Redeemed. Purpose Restored. This is...The Lions for Christ.
Good soil isn’t just where growth happens. It’s where legacy begins.

In Episode 44 of The Lions for Christ, Pastor Noel asks two hard but necessary questions: What has life without Jesus already cost you? And what has your own way produced?
This episode explores how a person’s faith can feel weak, dry, or distant not because God has failed them, but because the environment around them may be working against what God is trying to grow inside them. Using Jesus’ parable of the sower, Pastor Noel explains how the heart must be tended like soil: hardened ground must be broken, rocks must be removed, weeds must be pulled, and the seed of truth must be protected, watered, and exposed to the light.
The message also introduces the “law of faith dynamics,” showing how the people and environments around us can either strengthen our walk with God or slowly cool it down. Pastor Noel challenges listeners to examine not only who is shaping their faith, but also what kind of influence they are bringing into the lives of others.
This episode moves deeply into identity, reminding listeners that their past mistakes, struggles, and failures don’t define who they are in Christ. Real change begins when a person stops seeing themselves through shame and starts living from the truth of what Jesus has done.
With Scripture from Matthew 5, Matthew 6, Matthew 7, and Matthew 13, this message calls listeners to build their lives on Christ, make serious changes where needed, protect the seed God has planted, and become the kind of person who helps faith grow in others.
This is a powerful, practical, and deeply encouraging episode for anyone who feels stuck, spiritually dry, or ready to grow closer to God.
Strength Redeemed. Purpose Restored.

In Episode 43 of The Lions for Christ, Pastor Noel takes on the Ninth and Tenth Commandments and exposes two sins that don’t always look dramatic on the surface, but can quietly rot a man from the inside out. This episode goes straight at false witness and coveting, not as small issues, but as deadly heart problems that wreck truth, poison relationships, and open the door to deeper rebellion.
This is not just a conversation about lying in court or wanting what somebody else has. This episode digs into gossip, slander, twisted storytelling, half-truths, envy, comparison, private resentment, and the kind of inner discontent that can slowly pull a believer away from gratitude, integrity, and obedience. Pastor Noel unpacks how the Ninth Commandment guards the truth coming out of our mouths, while the Tenth Commandment exposes the cravings living in our hearts.
He also leans into a powerful idea: that coveting may be the commandment that helps protect the other nine. Because when a man starts craving what God never gave him, he becomes easier to tempt, easier to deceive, and easier to justify sin he once knew was wrong.
This episode is a hard wake-up call for anyone who wants to stop playing games with hidden sin and start walking in truth, contentment, and real freedom through Jesus Christ. If you are tired of soft faith, shallow teaching, and polished religion that never gets to the heart, this one is for you.
Strength Redeemed. Purpose Restored. This is...The Lions for Christ.

In Episode 42 of The Lions for Christ, Pastor Noel takes a hard look at the Seventh and Eighth Commandments and exposes a deeper truth many people miss. Adultery and theft are not just separate sins sitting in different corners of the Bible. They grow from the same poisoned root: a heart that wants to take what God never gave it. One reaches into covenant and grabs what was never offered. The other reaches into labor, property, and trust and grabs what was never earned. Different sins. Same rebellion.
This episode goes beyond the surface-level warnings of “don’t cheat” and “don’t steal” and gets to the real issue underneath both. Pastor Noel unpacks adultery as covenant invasion, showing how lust, drifting hearts, pornography, divorce, and wandering eyes all reveal a deeper contempt for what God has made holy. He also breaks down theft in a way that hits modern life head-on, from stealing supplies and time at work to the excuses people use to justify crooked behavior. “They can afford it.” “They don’t pay me enough.” “They won’t miss it.” The episode exposes those lines for what they are: theft dressed up in self-pity.
But this message doesn’t stop at condemnation. It also tackles the tension between justice and mercy. What do you do when someone steals out of real desperation? What does Scripture say about hunger, need, repayment, and the heart of the one being wronged? Pastor Noel shows how biblical truth doesn’t soften sin, but it also doesn’t require cold-hearted responses. In the middle of it all, this episode points listeners to Jesus Christ, the One who doesn’t just restrain sinners but remakes them. He turns takers into trustworthy men. He teaches men to stop reaching, stop justifying, and start walking in holiness, honesty, repentance, and strength.
If you have ever struggled with lust, compromise, resentment, dishonesty, or the quiet excuses that make sin sound reasonable, this episode will hit home. Episode 42 is a direct call for men to become trustworthy again, to honor covenant, to honor honest labor, and to fear God more than their own appetites.
Strength Redeemed. Purpose Restored. This is...The Lions for Christ.

In Episode 41 of The Lions for Christ, Pastor Noel takes a hard look at the fifth and sixth commandments and shows why they still cut straight through the confusion of modern culture. This episode digs into what it really means to honor your father and mother without twisting that command into lifelong parental control, emotional manipulation, or guilt-driven family bondage. Pastor Noel also confronts the cultural pressure that teaches children to distrust biblical parents, reject Christian truth, and treat God’s design for male and female as something flexible and self-defined. Then the episode turns to the sixth commandment with clarity and conviction, making the biblical distinction between murder and lawful self-defense, justice, and war, while also calling abortion what it is: the unjust taking of innocent human life. Most importantly, this episode shows how Jesus takes the issue deeper by exposing the hatred, contempt, and darkness that begin in the heart long before murder is ever carried out by the hand. This is a bold, Christ-centered message about truth, boundaries, life, leadership, family order, and the kind of men the church desperately needs right now: not wolves, not cowards, but sheepdogs under the authority of Jesus Christ. If you’re hungry for biblical conviction, spiritual strength, and clear teaching rooted in God’s Word, this episode is for you.

In Episode 40 of The Lions for Christ, Pastor Noel dives into the third and fourth commandments and exposes two problems that still poison modern believers: treating the name of God too lightly and treating work, rest, and worship with shallow thinking. This episode cuts past surface-level religion and gets to the heart of reverence. What does it really mean to take the Lord’s name in vain? Is it only about careless words, or does it also include claiming the name of Christ while living with compromise, hypocrisy, and hollow faith? Pastor Noel tackles the weight of God’s holiness and challenges listeners to examine whether their lives truly honor the name they claim.
This episode also takes a hard look at the fourth commandment by highlighting something many people ignore: God did not only command rest, He also commanded six days of labor. In a culture that often complains about work while misunderstanding biblical rest, Pastor Noel calls listeners back to God’s rhythm. Real Sabbath rest is not laziness, distraction, or checking out. It is holy rest. It is reflection on the work of the previous six days, gratitude for God’s provision, and worship rooted in trust. This message will challenge lazy thinking, expose spiritual carelessness, and call believers to live with greater discipline, reverence, and purpose under the lordship of Jesus Christ.
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In Episode 39 of The Lions for Christ, Pastor Noel takes a hard look at the First and Second Commandments and shows why they still hit the human heart with force today. This is not just a lesson about ancient history or carved statues. This is about what takes first place in a person’s life, what quietly competes with God for loyalty, and how easy it is for people to reshape God into a version that feels safer, softer, and easier to live with.
This episode walks through the difference between the First Commandment and the Second Commandment in a clear and practical way. The First Commandment confronts every rival for the throne of the heart. The Second Commandment confronts every counterfeit version of God people create through culture, preference, emotion, or selective theology. Pastor Noel unpacks how idolatry still shows up through money, comfort, control, approval, success, and self-rule, and why false worship is often much more subtle than people want to admit.
The episode also brings everything back to Jesus Christ. Where people drift, compromise, and cling to substitutes, Christ remained faithful. He obeyed perfectly, refused false worship, and reveals the Father as He truly is. This message is a call to honest repentance, deeper surrender, and a return to the living God who will not share His throne and will not be remade in our image.
If you have ever said God comes first but still felt the pull of fear, control, comfort, or divided loyalty, this episode will challenge you to look deeper. If you have ever been tempted to follow a version of God shaped more by modern culture than by Scripture, this episode will confront that too. Episode 39 is a direct call to tear down rival loves, stop editing God, and put Jesus Christ back in the center where He belongs.
Scripture referenced in this episode includes Exodus 20:3–6, Exodus 32, Matthew 4:8–10, Matthew 22:37, Colossians 1:15, and Jeremiah 2:13.
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Strength Redeemed. Purpose Restored. This is... The Lions for Christ.