Freed Indeed - Going Deeper with God

Grace On The Mountain

A fogged-in mountain overlook. A quick prayer. Then the clouds break open, and the Himalayas appear, only for the fog to roll back in right after we leave. That story alone is worth the listen, but…

The Cost of Silence

Silence rarely looks dramatic. Most days it looks like a friendly smile on Sunday, a quick chat about the weather, then a quiet drive home with the same knot in your stomach and nobody who really…

Grace Over Grind

You can believe all the right things about Jesus and still live like God’s love is a paycheck you earn. That’s the tension we get into with Timothy White, whose faith started early and sincere, then…

Gluten, Sharks, And The Real Thing We Fear

Fear is one of those feelings that shows up uninvited, then starts making demands. It tells you to rehearse the problem one more time, to chase certainty, to stay on high alert. But if we’re honest,…

Is Jesus Enough When Life Hurts

Our friend Carol Ortiz joins us to unpack what “identity in Christ” actually means in real life. We talk about her first wake-up call to God through a recurring dream, then ground the conversation in…

An Untold Story Will Seek Its Way Out

Buried pain doesn’t politely stay in the corner. It pushes out through the cracks, showing up as anger that doesn’t match the moment, anxiety you can’t explain, destructive habits you can’t quit, and…

Delivered from Darkness, Part Two

The night feels longest when you don’t know what the morning will bring. That’s where Mandy lived for months—on the couch, next to a bedroom door, wondering if her daughter would survive the…

Lost in the Wilderness of the Heart

Pain has a way of exposing what we believe about God. Lynn joins us to trace the arc from head knowledge to heart transformation, and he does it by telling the hardest story he knows: losing his son…

From Performance to Peace: Seven Reasons Why Religion Sucks

Ever feel like your spiritual life is a performance review you can’t pass? We pull back the curtain on why religion—understood as striving to reach God through our own effort—wears people out, breeds…

Facing Disappointment While Holding On To Faith

What if you did everything “right” and still ended up with heartbreak you can’t pray away? We sit down with author and leader Joanna Meyer to talk about the gap between faith and reality—where…

Finding the Good in Cancer

Why Does God Allow Suffering?

A wise person once said that you can't know that Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have. Shawn Reinsel is a loving husband to his wife, Dana, and father to six sons; he pastors a church on…

Finding God's Grace in Addiction

What if the change you’ve been chasing isn’t about trying harder but being made new from the inside out? Michelle joins us to tell a raw, hope-filled story of addiction and shame transformed by…

Delivered from Darkness, Part One

A quiet lie can rewrite a whole life: you’re not enough, you don’t deserve love, you’re better off hiding. Our guest, Lauren, traces how those lies took root in her life, how social media amplified…