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A Free Range Faith

A Free Range Faith

By: Zack and Kendra Rackovan
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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 Christian life as a family of seven. It's our ambition to build a community of Jesus-loving families as we transparently share our life and grow alongside of you, while learning to apply God's grace to our marriage, parenting, health, finances, time management and every other aspect of life.

Pull a chair up to the table and join us on this journey!

New podcasts will be posted every 2 weeks.

A Free Range Faith 2025
Christianity Spirituality
Episodes
  • The Deceptive Sin Eating Away Your Spiritual Strength
    Dec 23 2025

    Episode #03

    There is a deceptive sin that is eating away the spiritual strength of the church. 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 this undercover sin has crept in to the church and is eating away our individual and collective spiritual strength.

    1 in 10 Americans is now considered obese, and unfortunately the church looks no different than the world- we've allowed our belly to become our god. We should be a picture of health and vitality, but instead we are just as sick and weak as the rest of the world. We preach spiritual warfare, but we've ignored physical disciplines. God has given us incredible bodies that know how to heal themselves, but the enemy has hijacked our food supply.

    Out of convenience, we've partnered with darkness and chosen to poison ourselves, and it is having a drastic impact on our ability to reach the lost.

    Are you hungry for something that tastes good and is quickly discarded, or are you hungry for God? Join us for this conversation as we share how the enemy overplayed his hand in our lives, and how we have broken free from the bondage of disease and infirmity, for God's glory!

    What's in this episode:

    00:00 Intro

    02:03 Our Oldest Daughter's Battle with Chronic Infirmity

    07:15 God gave Zack this prophetic dream

    10:52 The first steps on a new path to health

    18:28 Just because it was ok back then, doesn't make it ok now

    25:12 How a zero intake can boost your energy and bring healing

    30:35 Be ignorant and weak or be strong and productive

    #podcast #christianliving #christianfamily #powerofwords #bibletruth

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    40 mins
  • Do Not Accept These Lies or Labels!
    Dec 11 2025

    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 against us.

    In this conversation, we expose some of the main ways the enemy comes at us with the power of words to try to steal our peace, our time, and even our entire identity. We are admonished in 2 Corinthians 2:11 to be aware of Satan's strategies; learn to recognize the power of words and begin using your mouth for the building up of God's Kingdom instead of working for the kingdom of darkness.

    What's in this episode:

    00:00 Intro

    01:40 Terrible Two's

    08:41 Only Children and Middle Children

    13:39 Tragic Teenage Years

    18:40 The Empty Nest

    25:52 Retirement isn't Biblical!

    30:23 Other lies and labels

    39:45 War on Education

    44:45 War on Marriage

    47:30 War on your Calling

    51:28 War on Medicine

    54:07 War on your Faith

    57:08 Conclusion and prayer

    #podcast #christianliving #christianfamily #powerofwords #bibletruth

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    1 hr
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