A Free Range Faith

In this conversation, we share practical biblical parenting strategies for raising godly kids in today's culture. Too often parents measure success by grades, sports achievements, or worldly accomplishments, but Scripture points us toward a different standard. We discuss how to evaluate parenting through a spiritual lens and how to help children develop a genuine relationship with Christ. You'll l...

Why are more families choosing home births over the traditional hospital experience? In this episode, we share our honest experience after having five children — including hospital births, a birthing center birth, and finally a home birth. We talk openly about what pushed us to start questioning the standard hospital system, the stress and rigidity we experienced during previous births, and why wo...

How do you truly protect your family in a world filled with fear? With a nonstop news cycle and a booming home security industry, it’s easy to believe protection comes from technology. Cameras. Alarms. Systems. But what if the most powerful protection available to your family isn’t physical — it’s spiritual? In this episode, we dive into what Scripture actually says about protecting your home and...

Are we loving our kids… or avoiding our responsibility? So many parents say, “I don’t want to interfere. I’ll let them figure out who they are.” It sounds supportive. It sounds kind. But what if that mindset is actually setting them up for confusion? In this episode, we talk honestly about the responsibility God gives parents. Not to control our kids. Not to force our dreams on them. But to intent...

What is the real purpose of education? Is it to get a job… make money… build a successful life? Or is there something deeper that we’ve completely missed? In this episode, we unpack what God actually says about education —and why so many families today feel like something is off with the system. We talk about: Why education was never meant to be separated from God The hidden shift that changed sch...

Episode #08 The government school system (aka "public school") was literally designed to kill Christianity. The founders didn't hide their agenda at all, they put their plans in writing and set out to conquer overthrow the Christian culture in America during the 1930's by targeting the most vulnerable demographic: our kids. In just 30 years, they executed their plan and were able to remove all tra...

Episode #07 Finding clean, wholesome content can be really difficult, if not impossible these days. While screens are melting our kids' minds and turning the next generation into robots who just regurgitate their favorite influencers' opinions (or even worse, ChatGPT's opinions!) we are a family of seven who has seen abundant fruit from nurturing a love in our children for reading. Reading develop...

Episode #06 Over 60% of parents feel guilty about the amount of time their kids spend in front of a screen, and 50% of them believe their children may have an addiction to their screens. They probably aren't wrong. America's next generation has a problem: the content they have been consuming is now consuming them. Social anxiety, depression, and thoughts of suicide have never been as high, and alt...

Episode #05 In the last several conversations, we've discussed how we've overhauled some major areas of our life as we've followed the Holy Spirit's lead. Sometimes though, even though we know God has asked certain things of us, the thought of change just overwhelms us. Where do we start? How do we figure it all out? Because change isn't always easy, or maybe even because we convince ourselves tha...

Episode #04 This conversation is an extension of the conversation we started in Episode #03. We live in a fallen world, and sometimes despite taking care of our bodies the way God expects by eating right and exercising, we still get sick. In this conversation, we look at how we handle healing now, and the journey that God took us on to get to where we are today. Specifically, we faced some very di...

Episode #03 There is a deceptive sin that is eating away the spiritual strength of millions of families. Have you fallen into this trap of the enemy? As Jesus followers, we are supposed to look different in every aspect of life. The secular world SHOULD look at the church and see leaders in every industry, they should see men and women of God claiming victory over all of life's circumstances, but...

Episode #02 Proverbs 18:21 tells us that the power of life and death are in our tongue. But do you really believe that? We've seen firsthand how our words and the words of those around us have shaped the direction of life. Words really do have power. If you are an astute reader of God's Word, you already know this. But the enemy of your soul also knows this, and absolutely uses words as weapons ag...

Episode #01 We are excited you've joined us for our very first episode of Free Range Faith! What better way to get started than to discuss the power of a name? God makes it really clear throughout the pages of Scripture that He placed great importance in names. In this episode, we share our journey in grasping this reality more and more with each of our 5 children. We also discuss what the name Fr...

Life with Jesus. Served family-style. Let’s have some real, raw conversations about what it looks like to follow Jesus, practically and productively, beyond the church building. Drawing on our adventures as a high school Bible teacher and a homeschool Mom, we invite you to walk with us through the mountaintop experiences as well as the twists, turns, and curveballs of everyday life as a family of...