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No one wants to spend an entire episode discussing things that are not holy, but that's just what we do this week. We have to. Let us see a life without the Spirit for what it is, where it leads us, and how easy this path is to find and walk down. Next week, we'll see the "more excellent way."

Listen to "The Wide Road Way of the Flesh (Gal. 5:19-21)" with Jeff & Steph now in this week's episode of THE BETTER FREEDOM.

Jeff & Steph sit in Galatians 5:16-18 for a second week, discussing the broader theological and practical implications of "walking in the Spirit." Listen to "To Live Truly Free," our latest edition of our THE BETTER FREEDOM season in Galatians, now in the FAI App.

To "walk by the Spirit" and "not gratify the desires of the flesh" is less a list of "dos & don'ts" and more....a dance.

Listen to "Dancing with the Spirit (Gal. 5:16-18)" with Jeff and Steph now, in the latest episode of THE BETTER FREEDOM, here in the FAI App.

Gabe talks with Farhad on location in Iraqi Kurdistan about the current state of the Yezidi people.

Living as "the freest Man alive" lived (and lives) has immediate implications on our relationships. In life, you have brothers (& sisters) and neighbors. How does your freedom in Jesus bear upon how to best relate to the people around you?

Jeff Henderson returns for a second solo episode on Galatians 5:13-15. Listen to "Brothers and Neighbors," our latest episode in THE BETTER FREEDOM, now.

"For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!"

We are not meant to live as cannibals.

Join Jeff this week for a meditation on Galatians 5:13-15 in the latest episode of THE BETTER FREEDOM: "Lest We Bite & Devour," now in the FAI App

We "have need of endurance" to "run the race set before us" "looking to Jesus, the Author and Perfector of our faith."

No big deal.

Life is hard. And finding the narrow road is difficult to do. It's even harder to stay on it. So imagine how devastating it would be to "run well" and yet allow a "hindrance" to keep you from "obeying the truth." It's one thing to trip; it's another thing to allow a "persuasion" to pull you off the only path that leads to life and bring you into disobedience—which leads to death. We might call that a "crash and burn." Paul once referred to it as a "shipwreck."

Is there a way back on the narrow road? What persuasions might be pulling on you today, and how do you silence them?

Jeff & Steph discuss Galatians 5:7-12 in this week's episode of THE BETTER FREEDOM, "Crash & Burns Off the Narrow Road." Listen now in the FAI App.

Forty-four days after the death of Masha Amini, street demonstrations and labor strikes continue in cities across Iran and abroad, even as the head of Iran’s notorious revolutionary guard corps issues a veiled threat against demonstrators.

This week's passage is a collision and contrast between the path of self-righteous severing, its real-time implications on your relationship with Jesus, true fellowship with Him, and the faith-wrought work of the Spirit to save you from your own conniving ego.

Jeff and Steph discuss Galatians 5:4-6 in this week's edition of THE BETTER FREEDOM. Listen to "To Not Go the Way of Cain" now in the FAI App.

"You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace."

What does it mean to "fall from grace," or be estranged from Jesus? It is no accident these issues bookend justification within this one verse. Join Jeff & Steph as we mine out the issue of justification, how Jesus approaches it, and what it means for us (even on our best behavior).

Listen to "Justification & Jesus (Gal. 5:4)" now in the FAI App.