Welcome to Freed Indeed, the podcast that explores what it means to have a real relationship with God—not the empty promises or endless demands of man-made religion—but daily, authentic intimacy with your Creator, in a relationship based on His unchanging character, not your performance.
Hosted by Pastor Rich Lasinski and his wife, author and speaker Kirsten Lasinski.
One voice names you loved and secure. The other voices keep scoring you, comparing you, and warning you that you’re one mistake away from being dismissed. That tension is the fear of man, and it shows up everywhere: in leadership, parenting, relationships, social media, and even the way we “do church.” We sit down with Chris Meade, lead pastor of Mountain View Christian Church in Highlands Ranch, to talk about where people pleasing really comes from and why it sticks even when we know ...
20 Jul 2026
Worshiping Through Your Worst
Life can unravel fast: your health fades, your calling gets interrupted, your kid lands in the ICU, your house fills with smoke, and the person you trust most starts acting like a stranger. We sit down with our friend Carolyn Geraci to talk about Christian perseverance that isn’t polished or performative, but honest, grounded, and anchored in Jesus. Carolyn walks us through a decade of trials that shaped her faith from the inside out, including a devastating mold illness that forced her fami...
6 Jul 2026
Bulletproof Peace in Life's Battles
Peace is easy to talk about when life is stable. It’s something else entirely when you’re grieving a child, fighting for access to your kids, and trying to keep your life from collapsing under accusations you never saw coming. That’s why this conversation with Jan Albicki hit us so hard: he’s walked through loss, injustice, and career upheaval, and somehow he isn’t bitter. He’s steady. He’s clear-eyed. And he keeps pointing back to Jesus as the only explanation for the calm that doesn’t make ...
9 Jun 2026
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 what stayed with us even more is what it revealed about God’s grace: it makes faith practical, bold, and strangely unforced. Rich and Kirsten sit down with returning guest Shawn Reinsel to unpack his recent Nepal mission trip and the growing “Simple Grace” discipleship movement spreading across Ne...
26 May 2026
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 knows what’s going on underneath. We start with the famous “bystander effect” story and ask a harder question: where are we staying quiet when someone near us needs truth, help, or presence? We talk about why so many church relationships become a mile wide and an inch deep, and how a culture of indep...
12 May 2026
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 slowly drifted into performance-based religion, people-pleasing, and the constant pressure to “hit the mark.” We talk about how legalism actually grows: not always from bad motives, but from a good desire that gets nudged off-center by pride, fear, and self-justification. Timothy shares what it fe...
28 Apr 2026
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, that “solution” never brings rest, it just keeps us awake. So we sit down and ask a blunt question: is being afraid actually a sin, and why does anxiety feel like an epidemic when life is, by many measures, safer than ever? We talk through the obvious pressures like social media, comparison, outr...
13 Apr 2026
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 Scripture, especially 2 Corinthians 5:17 and the truth that you are a new creation, not a cleaned-up version of your old self. From there, we get painfully practical about identity amnesia, why one negative comment can shake us, and how borrowed spirituality leads to exhaustion and shallow change...
23 Mar 2026
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 relationships that keep taking hits. In this episode, we get honest about why so many Christians learn to hide the hardest parts of their story, especially in a performance-driven church culture where looking strong can feel safer than being known. We unpack what avoidance looks like in real lif...
9 Mar 2026
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 night. Battling the invisible enemies of anxiety, depression, and dark spiritual forces that threatened her daughter, Lauren’s, life, Mandy Donegan fought tirelessly for Lauren. In this riveting sequel to Lauren’s interview (Delivered from Darkness, Part One), Mandy joins us to discuss God’s faithfu...
23 Feb 2026
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 on a Colorado 14er and facing the five wounds—deceit and denial, fear, anger, sadness, and shame—that followed. Instead of burying that story, he chose to invest it. What we hide in the dark can be used against us; what we bring into the light, God can use. We explore why the heart sits at the ce...
10 Feb 2026
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 competition, and stifles honest questions. Instead of piling on more rules, we trace a simpler, stronger thread: the gospel’s invitation to follow Jesus, find rest, and experience transformation from the inside out. If you’re tired of the spiritual treadmill and longing for an authentic experien...
27 Jan 2026
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 singleness stretches for decades, infertility closes cherished doors, and a pastor’s family breaks apart. Joanna doesn’t offer quick fixes. She invites us to strip faith to the studs, set down performance, and meet a Savior who knows suffering from the inside. Across this conversation, we unlearn the my...
14 Jan 2026
Finding the Good in Cancer
1 Jan 2026
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 the ache, and how anxiety, depression, and self-harm became counterfeit forms of belonging. What unfolds isn’t a quick fix or a neat conversion—it’s a slow return to hope through worship, honest community, and a new identity that's stronger than her shame. If you’ve ever wondered how to...
1 Jan 2026
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 grace. Together, we unpack some tools for sustained sobriety, how to keep pursuing God when people disappoint, and the daily practices that keep temptation small by keeping the truth close. If you or someone you love is wrestling with addiction, this conversation offers a path forward groun...
1 Jan 2026
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 South Padre Island, TX, authors books, and heads up a thriving international ministry. Before these blessings, however, he walked through a heartbreaking season of loss and betrayal. Shawn joins us to wrestle with the complex question of God's presence in our suffering. We dig into why the ...
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