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She Is Seen. She Is Loved. She Is Heard.

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2510213/fan_mail/new] What 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.

Sower and the Soils | How the Kingdom Grows

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2510213/fan_mail/new] What 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.

You Must Be Born Again | The Heart Of The Gospel

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2510213/fan_mail/new] Nicodemus 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

He Walked With Them Anyway

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2510213/fan_mail/new] What 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

The Only Response | Easter Sunday

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2510213/fan_mail/new] What 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