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Living Free Franklin
Hosted by Ty Crowder · EN
Welcome to the Living Free Franklin Podcast — where faith, freedom, and family come together. Each week, you’ll hear messages rooted in God’s Word and relevant to your everyday life. Our hope is that these teachings will strengthen your walk with Jesus and inspire you to live fully alive in Him.
From passionate preaching to practical conversations, every episode is designed to help you grow in faith, find purpose, and live in the freedom Christ offers.
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Living Free Franklin | Pastors Ty & Lisa Crowder
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She Is Seen. She Is Loved. She Is Heard.
2w ago00:31:14Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailWhat do a runaway slave, a heartbroken woman at an altar, a Samaritan woman at a noon well, and Mary Magdalene at an empty tomb have in common?They all had a question underneath everything. Does anybody see me? Does God hear me? Am I loved for who I actually am?Those are not small questions. They are the questions that shape whether you wake up with hope or wake up depleted. And in this Mother's Day message from Living Free Franklin, Pastor Ty Crowder walks through four women in scripture who were in the hard middle of something — and found out that God had never looked away.This one is for the mothers who carry things no one sees. It is also for the men who do the same thing and have never said so out loud. It is for anyone who has been praying the same prayer for a long time and is not sure it is landing anywhere. It is for anyone who has a chapter of their story they have decided disqualifies them from being fully loved.Hagar named God El Roi — the God who sees — before most of the patriarchs did. Hannah poured out her soul at an altar and was told she was drunk. Jesus sat down at a well at noon and told a woman He knew her whole story — and did not move. And the first person He spoke to on the other side of the resurrection was a woman who came back to a tomb in the dark because she had nowhere else to go.He found them. He heard them. He stayed. He called them by name.He is still doing the same thing today.Living Free Franklin is an Assembly of God church in Franklin, Kentucky. New episodes post weekly. Find us at livingfreefranklin.church or search Living Free Franklin wherever you listen.
Transcribe →Sower and the Soils | How the Kingdom Grows
3w ago01:04:59Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailWhat kind of soil are you right now?That is the question Jesus is asking in Matthew 13. Not which category of person you are. Not a verdict on your faith. A diagnosis of where you are today.In this episode, Pastor Ty Crowder sits down with Pastor Matthew and Pastor Taylor to walk through the Parable of the Sower and the Soils. We talk about what first-century Galilean farmers would have heard in this story, why the harvest numbers Jesus promises are almost scandalously large, and what it actually looks like to have good soil in a world that is constantly trying to pack you down, dry you out, or crowd you with thorns.This is Week 1 of How the Kingdom Grows, a five-week conversation through the parables of Matthew 13.Living Free Franklin is a Spirit-filled church in Franklin, KY.
Transcribe →You Must Be Born Again | The Heart Of The Gospel
Apr 2500:28:44Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailNicodemus is the teacher of Israel. He has studied the Torah his whole life. He knows the Law backwards and forwards. He has credentials most people would spend a lifetime chasing.And he comes to Jesus in the middle of the night.Not because he has questions about theology. Because somewhere in his chest, despite everything he has built and earned and learned, he knows something is missing. And Jesus meets him right there in the dark and says: you must be born again.This week we open a three-week series called Heart of the Gospel, walking through some of the most familiar passages in the Gospel of John and trying to hear them again for the first time. We look at what born again actually means in the original Greek, why Jesus connects the Spirit to wind, and how a story about a bronze serpent on a pole in Numbers 21 turns out to be one of the clearest previews of the cross in all of Scripture.The door Nicodemus walked through that night is still open.Scripture: John 3:1-21 | Numbers 21:4-9 | Ezekiel 36:25-27 Series: Heart of the Gospel, Week 1 of 3
Transcribe →He Walked With Them Anyway
Apr 1200:22:19Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailWhat do you do when the hope goes past tense?Easter Sunday ends and two of Jesus' followers are walking away from Jerusalem. Seven miles of failed hopes and dashed expectations ahead of them. They had believed he was the one. And then he died. And so they left.This week Ty follows the road to Emmaus and one of the most personal resurrection encounters in all of Scripture. Jesus doesn't wait for these two disciples to find their faith again before he shows up. He walks with them while they are walking away. He matches their pace. He hears everything. He opens the Scripture to them on the road. And he sits at their table until they know who he is.The burning heart. The breaking of bread. The seven miles back in the dark.If you have ever been somewhere between Sunday morning and Emmaus, this one is for you.Scripture: Luke 24:13-35
Transcribe →The Only Response | Easter Sunday
Apr 600:30:27Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailWhat are we actually celebrating on Easter Sunday?In this Resurrection Sunday message, Ty strips away the holiday layer and gets to the raw thing underneath. Who is Jesus, really? What did he actually go through on that cross? And what does the empty tomb require of us?We spend time in John 20 with Mary in the garden, the woman who showed up before sunrise and refused to leave even when everyone else went home. Her encounter with the risen Jesus is one of the most personal moments in all of Scripture, and it has something to say to anyone who has ever felt like they've filed Jesus under the wrong category.The message closes with a challenge from Dallas Willard that is simple and impossible to stay neutral on: you either turn away from Jesus or you shamelessly fall in love with him. There is no middle ground.Scriptures covered: John 1:1-3, 14 | Colossians 1:15-17 | Galatians 3:13 | Matthew 27:45-46 | Revelation 1:18 | 1 Corinthians 15:54-57 | John 20:1-18
Transcribe →Still... King
Apr 400:33:05Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailFive days. That is all it took between palm branches and a criminal trial. Between "Hosanna" and "Hand Him over."In this Palm Sunday message, Pastor Ty Crowder walks through Luke 23:1-25 as Jesus stands trial before Pilate and Herod. Every accusation proves His kingship. Every silence proves His sovereignty. Every mockery backfires. And the exchange of Barabbas for Jesus reveals the gospel in miniature: the guilty go free because the innocent took their place.This is Week 2 of "Still..." our four-week Easter series walking through Luke 22-24. When everything shakes, Jesus remains.Scripture: Luke 23:1-25, Luke 19:37-42, Isaiah 53:7, Philippians 2:9-11
Transcribe →Still... Praying
Mar 2700:27:49Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailBefore the trial. Before the cross. Before the empty tomb. There was a garden. And in that garden, while His disciples slept and His betrayer was already on his way — Jesus was still praying.In this first message of our Easter series Still..., Pastor Ty Crowder takes us into Luke 22 and into one of the most sacred and devastating nights in human history. What we find there isn't a Savior in panic. It's a Son in surrender. And that changes everything about how we understand prayer, suffering, and the faithfulness of God.If you've ever prayed through something that felt too heavy to survive, this message is for you.📖 Luke 22:29–62 📌 Still... | Week 1 of 4 | Living Free Church – Franklin
Transcribe →Kingdom Living | Foundations of the Kingdom
Mar 2700:21:02Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailWhat does it actually look like to live as a citizen of God's kingdom right here, right now? Not someday. Not in theory. Today.In this message, Pastor Ty unpacks what Jesus meant when He said the kingdom of God is at hand — and what it means for how we work, how we love, how we spend our time, and how we treat the people around us. Kingdom living isn't a future destination. It's a present reality that changes everything.If you've ever felt like your faith and your everyday life are two separate things, this message is for you.
Transcribe →Kingdom Priorities | Foundations of the Kingdom
Mar 1600:46:22Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailJesus does not ease into this one. In Matthew 6:19–34, He moves straight from the disciplines of the Kingdom to the direction of the Kingdom — and what He finds when He gets there is a divided heart trying to serve two masters and wondering why it is so tired.In this week's message from the Foundations of the Kingdom series, Pastor Ty Crowder walks through four of the most confrontational and compassionate verses in the Sermon on the Mount. We dig into what treasure actually reveals about the heart, why the ancient idiom of the "single eye" is about far more than what you watch, what it means that Jesus uses the word cannot instead of should not when it comes to divided loyalty, and why the anxiety so many of us carry every day is a Kingdom problem with a Kingdom solution.The passage lands with one of the most staggering promises Jesus ever made: Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. This message is about what it actually looks like to take Him at His word.📖 Matthew 6:19–34
Transcribe →Kingdom Practices | Foundations of the Kingdom
Mar 900:49:35Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailWhat happens when you do all the right spiritual things for all the wrong reasons? In this week's message, Pastor Ty walks through Matthew 6:1-18, where Jesus takes three of the most sacred spiritual practices, giving, prayer, and fasting, and exposes the hidden motive behind them all.This is not a message for people far from God. This is a message for people who think they are close. Jesus introduces a word, hypokrites, actor, mask-wearer, and uses it to describe people who perform their relationship with God rather than live it.Along the way, we break down the Lord's Prayer as a five-part structure (Worship, Surrender, Dependence, Forgiveness, Protection), unpack why Jesus doubles down on forgiveness after the prayer, and make the case that fasting is not optional for followers of Jesus.The big idea: the most powerful thing about your spiritual life is the part nobody sees. Three times Jesus says, "Your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." That refrain is the heartbeat of the entire passage.This week's challenge: give something no one will know about, build a secret prayer life, and fast one meal or one habit.Scripture: Matthew 6:1-18 (NIV) Series: Foundations of the Kingdom, Week 3
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