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Send us Fan Mail Martha had Jesus in her house and missed him. Not because of sin. Because of preparations. In week one of the Summer Slowdown, Pastor Ty walks through Luke 10:38-42 and names the thing wearing most of us down: a life so full of good things that there's no room left to sit at Jesus' feet. Along the way he shares his own confession, a two-week vacation that couldn't f...

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Send us Fan Mail On Pentecost Sunday at Living Free Franklin, Pastor Ty Crowder walks trough through Acts 2. The day the church was born is not a museum we visit once a year. It is a reality the people of God are still living inside of. This message takes you into the upper room, into the streets where 3,000 came to Christ in a single sermon, and into the four practices that shaped the Acts 2 chur...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 wo...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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. J...

Send us Fan Mail 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 e...

Send us Fan Mail Five 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 Barabba...

Send us Fan Mail What 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 destinat...

Send us Fan Mail Before 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&a...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus 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 c...

Send us Fan Mail What 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...

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Send us Fan Mail What does Jesus actually expect from us? In week three of Foundations of the Kingdom, Pastor Ty walks through Matthew 5:21-48 where Jesus takes six areas of everyday life and drives the law deeper than anyone expected. Anger, lust, divorce, oaths, retaliation, and loving your enemies. The standard he sets is impossibly high, and that's exactly the point. This isn't a har...

Send us Fan Mail What if being salt and light isn't about trying harder, but about being transformed deeper? In this episode, we continue our Foundations of the Kingdom series by exploring one of Jesus' most famous metaphors from the Sermon on the Mount. When Jesus tells his followers "you are the salt of the earth" and "you are the light of the world," he's not...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Title: The Blessed Life | Foundations of the Kingdom, Week 1 Scripture: Matthew 5:1-12 Description: What if everything our culture told us about success, happiness, and the good life was actually backwards? In the first message of our brand new series Foundations of the Kingdom , we're diving into the Sermon on the Mount—the most famous teaching Jesus ever gave. And i...

Send us Fan Mail Overflow: When You're So Full, You Can't Help But Spill Have you ever tried to pour from an empty cup? That's what so many of us are doing spiritually - trying to be patient when we're full of frustration, trying to love people when we're running on empty. Jesus promises something different: "Rivers of living water will flow from within them." (J...

Send us Fan Mail We're terrible at being still. We check our phones 96 times a day. We're drowning in news cycles, political division, and anxiety about the next disaster. The earth feels like it's shaking—literally and figuratively.  But what if God's invitation to "be still" isn't about bubble baths and candles? What if it's a radical call to drop our weap...

Send us Fan Mail Presence Over Performance | When Worship Becomes Work FILLED Series - Week 3 You wake up tired. You go to bed tired. And somewhere in between, you're checking off tasks, meeting deadlines, serving at church, trying to pray, trying to read your Bible—trying to do all the things. And here's what's wild: you can be doing all the right things and still miss the one thin...

Send us Fan Mail We're on day 14 of our 21 Days of Prayer at Living Free Church, and this message couldn't come at a better time. You know that feeling when you have an incredible encounter with God—maybe in worship, maybe during prayer—and you feel so full, so alive, so connected? And then a few days later, you're running on spiritual fumes wondering where He went? That's what...

Send us Fan Mail When Glory Shows Up | FILLED Series (Week 1) What happens when God's presence actually shows up? Not in theory, not in a worship lyric, but really, tangibly, undeniably fills a space? In this message, we explore the moment when Solomon dedicated the Temple and God's glory showed up so powerfully that the priests couldn't even stand to do their jobs. Drawing from 1 K...

Send us Fan Mail Away in a Manger: The Baby That Broke Your Chains We've sanitized Christmas. Turned it into hallmark cards, pretty lights, and "Away in a Manger" sung softly. But that manger wasn't just a baby's crib—it was ground zero for the greatest rescue mission in history. In this unapologetic Christmas message, Pastor Ty walks through the real story of the manger:...