If you aren’t yet acquainted with Dr. Christopher West, President of Theology of the Body Institute, this episode is your golden opportunity. The passion with which Dr. West speaks is infectious and amazing.

Dr. West answers deep questions surrounding this year’s Open Doors podcast theme of “Come and See.” He tells about hearing a song at age eight and how a rock star taught him to pray, setting him on a path of longing and seeking. 

We then hear of West’s camp experience at age fifteen and how his view of the gospel as a starvation diet, caused him to say, “No thanks!” 

West shares about being broken and grieving at age twenty from a painful relationship breakup, the beautiful witness of his brother, and the point when he confessed faith in Christ – falling on his knees and asking God to show him what to do with this inner longing.

At about age 40, Dr. West realized he had spent much of his life clinging to what he calls “false infinities.” In that experience, God brought to his mind a boyhood fishing trip with his father where a fish swallowed the hook and West explains how that hook exemplifies the lie of the enemy.

Last, we learn what the Lord is inviting Dr. Christopher West to come and see today at his current age of fifty-five. 

While listening, we are personally challenged by Matt’s thought-provoking questions, most importantly, “Who do you say Jesus is?”

Teaser: What song does Christopher West sing back to Bruce Springsteen and Mick Jagger? Hear him demo a couple lines in this episode!

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Release: November 2024
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Following last week’s podcast with Dr. Mary Healy, we listen to Jenn and Matt discuss the issue of authority, taking it to a personal level.

Jenn reflects on how Romans 6: 8-11 relates to authority and she references Chapter 12 of Abba’s Heart. We hear about an individual who, after receiving healing through Unbound prayer, was later able to use her voice and speak out with authority.

Matt defines authority, saying it comes from knowing who the Father is and understanding our relationship with Him. 

We are encouraged to start small by taking what God has entrusted to us - things, talents, resources - and practice walking in authority in those areas that we know to be our responsibility. The enemy’s tactic is to turn our thoughts inward and work to protect ourselves. 

Because we are Son’s and Daughters of the Father, we can speak the Fourth Key with authority and do so safely, stepping back and looking at the big picture. 

Bible Trivia Question from this episode: The prodigal son’s father presented him with a robe, sandals, and what other item? Listen to see how this item exemplifies authority.

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Release: October 2024
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Dr. Mary Healy Explains The Fourth Key: The Command

Meet Matt’s “go-to theologian,” the best-selling author and international speaker Dr. Mary Healy, Professor of Scripture at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, general editor of the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture, and more.

This episode helps Christians of all backgrounds explore common questions and concerns regarding the Fourth Key of Unbound: The Command.

Does a lay person have the authority to command demons? Dr. Healy distinguishes between private exorcism and the rite of exorcism, which is reserved only for Bishops and specifically-authorized priests.
She gives scriptures and examples surrounding the Fourth Key, also known as adjuration, which means to command someone in the name of a higher authority.

Dr. Healy lists numerous resources for those wishing to explore this aspect of deliverance ministry further, saying “Hardly a week goes by that I don’t recommend that book to some person or group somewhere in the world.” Can you guess what “that book” is? She also describes how to put oneself in a
spiritually dangerous position. The answer is not what you might guess!

Be sure to listen to the very end to hear Dr. Healy’s eloquent and powerful concluding prayer.

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Release: October 2024
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In this episode, Jenn hosts Neal as they discuss the reasons why Renunciation, the Third Key of Unbound, is so important.

So you're following Jesus, and there's something in your life that doesn't belong to you and in that relationship you have with Him. Well, it's a good time to consider renunciation!

Renunciation means that, in the name of Jesus, we break with any ties which are not of God – saying in essence, “I’m done with this!”

The need for renunciation occurs when there is something in one’s life that doesn’t belong – things like sinful patterns, lies, fears, and unholy attachments. We can renounce these things using the great power that comes from Jesus’ name. Renunciation is a normal part of a Christian's life. 

Satan, our enemy, is the father of lies and Neal explains how this plays out into one’s thought life. When we host deception and lies about God and ourselves, the enemy draws near and wants to bring us into bondage. We begin seeing these things as a part of us, and therein agreeing with them and making a home for them. Once we recognize the lies, we can take a stand against them.

Learn the three steps of renunciation and what happened at a Freedom in Christ conference that caused someone to say, “I feel like I just took a spiritual shower!”

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Hear the engaging story of Ron Riggins –family man, businessman, Unbound ministry team founder, Board member, and more!

We hear of Ron’s faith background, meeting his wife Terry, and his prayer while watching the Pentagon burn on September 11th. His first introduction to Unbound was the change he saw in Terry after she attended an Unbound conference.

Ron sees the parish as a natural place for Unbound ministry and speaks of the “beauty of Unbound.” He offers valuable advice for folks launching their first Unbound team including the value of having younger adults offering ministry, as well as those who are more seasoned.

Matt agrees, saying that we sometimes carry a wounded little boy or wounded little girl within us and having a young person speak to that can be transformational. Matt also testifies to experiencing calm and hope when receiving prayer from someone older.

The episode concludes with Ron sharing his thoughts about retirement and his desire to pass on the grace he has received to younger generations.

Question: When praying Unbound, are we on offense or defense? Find out in this episode!

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Release: October 2024
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Jacqueline hosts Neal in this intimate discussion on the topic of Forgiveness,
the Second Key.

As Christians, we can be quick to forgive but forgiveness is often a process for
those deeper wounds and hurts.

God has forgiven us through His Son and we receive His forgiveness by an
expression of faith. Neal discusses the connection between our receiving
forgiveness from God and extending forgiveness to others. It’s a partnership.
The story of the unforgiving servant in Matthew 18 shows that the freedom we
receive is limited by our unforgiveness. This is one of the enemy’s big
strategies – getting us bound by failing to forgive others so that we fail to
receive forgiveness ourselves from God.

Forgiveness takes time. It is a commitment. It is a process that continues
through the Holy Spirit. Saying the words of forgiveness out loud, as we do in
Unbound prayer, is effective. We are not the driving force, but instead are
called to cooperate with the work of the Holy Spirit.

Neal covers five reasons why we fail to forgive. Can you guess what some
might be? Listen and grow with us!

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Release: October 2024
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What does repentance and faith look like in an Unbound session when past wounds might cause inner blindness? 

How can we go deeper in healing through this First Key of Unbound?

In this episode, we review the foundational and foremost First Key: Repentance and Faith. Sometimes called “The Forgotten Key,” it can be easy to overlook within Unbound prayer. 

Repentance is a gift of God’s grace empowered by the Holy Spirit when we respond to truth revealed to us. 

God enables us to repent even when we want to hold on to our own way. Saying words like “sorry, please, and thank you” can be part of repentance. Giving our hurts and grief to God is indeed, also, a part of this First Key. 

Learn how repentance and faith fit together along with Matt’s explanation of how all Five Keys ultimately are forms of repentance and faith.

Hear the exciting testimonial recently shared with us by someone who attended an Unbound conference six years ago! Transformation has a ripple effect!

Trivia Tidbit: What scripture text is a foremost example of Repentance and Faith?

Find out in this second episode of Season 4 of the Open Doors podcast!

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Release: September 2024
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Season 4 Begins!!

Matt and Jenn kick off our Open Doors podcast announcing the theme of Season Four: “Come and See!” 

Together they offer scriptures from the Apostle John’s writings that invite us to “Come and See” what the Lord is doing.

Due to sin, the world we live in is dark. We can’t see in the dark, but Jesus’ life illuminates things for us.

He joined us, became flesh. He even enlightens the human body, enabling us to see and making the Father known to us. 

Philip, Andrew, Nathanial, the Samaritan woman, Lazarus’ sisters, and the disciple Thomas and others are included in this brief, yet broad touch of scriptures – all of which invite us to “Come and See!”

Matt and Jenn present the first exhortation of the season: Invite the Lord  into your heart, your darkness, your light. Listen to how He is calling you to come and see. Follow Him in a way you haven’t followed him before.

Matt compares faith to a part of the body – can you guess which? Find out in Episode One of this exciting new season of the Open Doors podcast!


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Release: September 2024
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Jacqueline hosts Neal as he shares about speaking in Rome at the Course on the Ministry of Exorcism and Deliverance sponsored by the Sacerdos Institute. Neal presented a non-confrontational approach to deliverance, which is Unbound ministry, to 195 people from 46 countries worldwide.  His talks were translated into four languages.

“It was a very different atmosphere for me. They were all professors and they gave me the title professor.” Asking about this, Neal was told, “You’re a professor this week!”

Encouraging listeners to be open to a new way, Neal offered questions to consider: Is it possible that many people are receiving a confrontational style of deliverance or exorcism who do not need one? Is there another approach to help people?

The Unbound approach addresses the person needing help, not the evil one. “We need to understand a person’s heart,” said Neal, adding the necessity to uncover past traumas, responses to traumas, the enemy’s lies, and unforgiveness. “If we give too much attention to the demonic element, we’re going to miss the person. We see Unbound more as a model for evangelization than just deliverance.”

From there, Neal offered numerous testimonials of individuals set free through Unbound ministry, one being himself!

Overall, “It was well-received and I made a connection,” concluded Neal.

Trivia Quiz
1. What surprised Neal the most during his trip to Rome?
2. How long have Jacqueline and Neal known each other?
Find out these things and far more in this fascinating episode!

Sjoquist, B.S. (2021) “The virtuous use of private exorcism by laypersons,” Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal, 25(1), pp. 63–90.

It is not intrinsically immoral for laypersons to issue such commands, and, if done rightly, it is virtuous for them to do so. Moral theologians and canonists writing after the Council of Trent up until the Second Vatican Council referred to this practice as “private exorcism.” A close look at the writings of these authors reveals a nearly universal understanding that no ecclesiastical positive law prohibited such actions. When current laws and instructions related to exorcism are read within the context of this tradition, I believe it is also the case that no ecclesiastical positive law categorically prohibits such actions today.

Bradley S. Sjoquist, Doctor of Moral Theology

Dr. Mary Healy on the authority of lay people to command or cast out

Neal and Janet connect with ministry friend Bohus Zivcak who prays Unbound in post-communist countries. Half his life was spent under communism and now he ministers among a people still struggling to live in freedom.

Janet and Neal speak of Slovakia, hiking in the mountains with Bohus, and people’s openness while receiving personal freedom and then taking message to others.

Bohus speaks fondly of breakfasts at Neal and Janet’s kitchen table, and once dubbed himself “Bohus Lozano.” He tells of his youth, the underground church, retreats with Fr. Michael – a secretly-ordained priest – and starting a mission community in Slovakia’s mountains.

After meeting the Lozanos in the 1990s, Bohus felt compelled to invite them to Slovakia. “When Neal and Janet came with the Unbound it was a shock…like the whole universe opened in front of us.”

Now Bohus works to address the unique fears, connections, beliefs, and lies common to those living in post-communist countries. He sees relief in people’s faces when realizing they are not at fault, they do count, and have a voice, and can make their own decisions.
“Taking responsibility for their lives is a great discovery in Unbound,” he says. “It provides great hope for people to be healed by the Lord.”

How would you pronounce “Zivcak?” Give it a try and then learn from Bohus in this absorbing episode.

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Release: May 2024
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Got cabin fever? Meet Aaron Richards of Damascus Camps, whose serious case of cabin fervor ignites his mission to train and disciple year-round missionaries.

Aaron and his wife, Monica, met as teens during their first summer of camp ministry and their five children have grown up spending every summer at camp. “A true encounter with Jesus leads us to a life of mission and a life of mission leads us back to a true encounter with Jesus,” states Aaron, who says his kids have a 470-acre back yard. He describes his family once sleeping in a cabin basement, with dripping water and crawling bugs. Hear how his young son reacted, and better yet - his wife!!

Having grown up in Ohio, Aaron talks of his faithful parents, church involvement, and the power of an invitation. As a teen, he was invited to be a camp counselor, “Stepping into that awkward place, I had an encounter with Jesus.” That experience spurred Aaron towards a life of youth ministry.

We hear how Damascus Camps grew to include quality worship now found on all major music platforms, and about their two-year formation program, which includes Unbound concepts, for young adults. “From the walls of our dining hall we want to show our kids that life with Christ is a wonderful adventure,” says Aaron.

Listen now for s’more of Aaron’s stories!

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Release: May 2024
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Neal hosts the Open Doors podcast and shares a first for Unbound – prison ministry!

Joining Neal are Dan Gahagan of Unbound Maryland and Jakob Kerlin, a pastor at Victory Church. Both were part of the Unbound team that recently ministered inside a Pennsylvania maximum-security prison.

Invited there by the prison chaplain, it “felt like it was a divine appointment,” said Neal. “It had a profound effect on each of us.”

Neal, Dan and Jakob describe their experiences and offer their personal take-aways from within the prison walls.

A core team of inmates, well- trusted men who had studied Unbound materials in preparation, were dubbed “The Magnificent Seven.” They felt excited to shed their bondage through Unbound prayer on day one of the team’s visit. On the second day, twenty more prisoners received prayer.

After Unbound prayer, one inmate declared, “I got my identity back – now I know who I am.” Another prisoner ditched his negative nickname and assumed a new, more accurate name for himself.

Dan, Jakob, and Neal all testify of inmates who found freedom and hope through Unbound ministry most beautifully expressed by the one who said, “I’m freer now than I ever was on the other side!”

“There was no holding back of forgiveness,” stated Dan.

You won’t want to miss this riveting episode of Unbound unbarred!

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Release: May 2024
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“This is where the real stuff happens,” says longtime Unbound partner and Polish interpreter, Gosia Wojcik. Gosia joins Matt in this informative episode that covers exciting ministry developments in United Arab Emirates and Ukraine!
 
Hear Gosia’s Unbound story beginning with the “First-ever Unbound conference,” in Poland and how she interpreted for Neal and Janet as they returned year after year. “All that I learned from Neal and Janet has really shaped me – who I am as a follower in Christ. They introduced me to the Holy Spirit and how he works in people and what he does for them.”

Gosia describes ministering with Matt in United Arab Emirates, an experience quite different from Poland. Struck by their humility and openness, she described conference attendees like “an army destined to change the country they come from and maybe the region.”

Gosia tells of exciting developments in a peaceful region of Ukraine where a Bishop, who learned Unbound directly from Neal, dreams of establishing Houses of Mercy – permanent sites of Unbound ministry – such as are found in Poland. “Neal planted the first seeds and now we are helping to make them grow,” says Gosia.

Can Unbound prayer work in a hurry? Find out from Gosia in this chock-full episode!

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Release: April 2024
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Author Matt Lozano talks with Lisa Livezey and host Jacqueline Harper.

Tempted to jump out a window when it comes to holiness? In this final episode of our Free to Be Holy book study, the author himself speaks!

We discuss Chapter Seven where Matt invites us to learn from his own mistakes. He shares his personal backstory of realizing he had believed the enemy’s lie. We learn what led Matt to write this book which he calls, “One of the graces of the pandemic.”

Chapter Seven is an informal introduction to Unbound ministry – helping people expose deceptions that keep them in bondage, to practice the Five Keys, and to walk in freedom.

If you’ve hit a wall while pursuing a lifestyle of holiness, ask the Holy Spirit, “Show me what I’m not seeing,” suggests Matt. The Holy Spirit can help us identify internal struggles, patterns of thinking and behaviors which reflect ways we aren’t free.

Hear a “Cliff-notes version” of Common Lies of the Enemy and know that God can take what the devil intended for destruction and turn it into great blessing,

Our Free to Be Holy series ends with Matt speaking the last lines of his book as a prayer. Join us!

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Release: April 2024
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He’s Right Here!!

Jenn hosts Neal and Lisa for a distinctive discussion during Week Three of our Free to Be Holy book study.

Free to Be Holy means being “free to walk in holiness,” says Neal and “free to grow in holiness,” adds Lisa.

One reason we fail is because we aren’t free. Hear Neal’s story about a prayer recipient exclaiming at The Father’s Blessing, “He’s right here! He was always right here!”

Even when we mess up, Jesus is with us. He respects our free will, but is always there with the hope and the knowledge that we will yield. We discuss Matt’s list of what God will do and won’t do, followed by a beautiful story surrounding the one question God may ask at life’s end: “Did you learn how to love?”

Growth in holiness looks different for each individual, like spring flower bulbs that push up through dirt towards the light, each one displaying unique beauty.

Trivia Quiz from this episode:

1. What was Neal’s original title for his book Unbound?
2. What theological thought does Neal first remember having at age four?
3. What four-year-old in Lisa’s life exemplified discipleship?

Find these answers and more inside this podcast. We’ll meet you there!

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Release: April 2024
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“The J’s are in the house” this week as Jenn and Janet Lozano along with Jacqueline Harper sum up Chapters Three and Four of Matt Lozano’s book Free to Be Holy.

“Reading Chapter 3 was like going into the throne room. I just encountered the Lord,” said Jenn.

God is totally other – completely unique and excellent in every way. And yet He’s excellently accessible to us!

Jesus carried the world’s sin on the cross, but it didn’t change Him. He emanated perfect excellent love.

Listen to Janet describe an Unbound conference in Poland where she profoundly experienced God’s presence, giving her courage to intercept security guards and minister to someone in desperate need.

Learn what we can do to see God with the eyes of our heart, plus three aspects of God’s grace. Discover the difference between guilt and shame.

Picture Matt seeing the stars unhindered while on a camping trip to West Virginia. Compare that to Unbound ministry, where a filter is removed allowing someone to see God’s love, presence, his activity in their lives.

If you haven’t yet read Free to Be Holy, check it out. Go somewhere quiet, sit down, and expect an encounter with God. At the very least, listen to this podcast!

“There is always more to see,” writes Matt.

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On this Holy Thursday, we begin studying Matt Lozano’s book Free to Be Holy.  

What is Holiness? The Hebrew word kadosh translates as “set apart, sacred, holy.”  This applied to items used in the temple vessels and nothing made holy could be returned to ordinary service. Proper ritual allowed outward participation, but not interior restoration. Through Jesus, God removes our hearts of stone and gives us hearts of flesh.

There are fascinating parallels between the purposes of blood in the human body and the work of Jesus’ blood upon our soul. Blood animates, heals, and reproduces.

Holiness is a lifestyle of making oneself available to God. We limit holiness by continuing to earn God’s favor yet“We can’t be holy without Jesus,” writes Matt.

What isn’t holiness? False approaches to holiness include: performance, out-of-reach holiness, and having false standards.

When we put something above Jesus, we inevitably fail and can fall prey to the enemy’s traps of shame, self-hatred, or pride.

Escaping our sense of inferiority means putting off self-justification and pressing into Jesus. Our relationship with Christ is what we need to rely on.

The Pharisees were so focused on Jesus actions that they missed Him – the Savior right in front of them.

Deepening our walk in holiness means being available to Jesus. It’s not just about what we avoid but what and Whom we embrace.

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Release: March 2024
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As we approach Palm Sunday, Matt and Lisa discuss the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem from Mark 11: 1-10.

See parallels to the crowning of King Solomon, who was placed on David’s mule and cloaks laid down. What was symbolized by laying down cloaks before Jesus?

Zechariah 9 prophecies about the king entering on a colt. What might have been the hidden meaning behind the unridden colt?

Matt continues offering intriguing, thought-provoking questions:

Why were the people so excited?

Why did Jesus suddenly allow a dramatic display of his kingship?

Where do we picture ourselves in the triumphal entry scene and why?

What might Jesus have been thinking as he was riding through Jerusalem?

Why does the story close in an anticlimactic way?

Enjoy Matt and Lisa’s answers to these questions and discover where in the story they picture themselves. Where do you place yourself in this sacred scene from Mark 11?

In closure, we pray together the Prayer of Abandonment by Charles de Foucauld.

You won’t want to miss this final episode in our 2024 Lenten Reflection Series.

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Grab a cuppa and enjoy some time with Jacqueline and Jenn as they continue our Lenten series, reflecting upon Jeremiah 31:31-34 where the word ‘covenant’ is mentioned four times.

Jeremiah, the weeping prophet, felt so sad about the condition of his people. Amidst Israel’s failure, he offered hope – a promise that God would forgive all our sins and remember them no more.

In the Old Covenant, people couldn’t uphold their end of the things, so God made a new covenant – one people can keep.

In the new covenant, everything is simplified. Jesus Himself is the new covenant, the law made flesh, offering the cup of His blood. Jesus walked the road to his death and resurrection and we also walk it in relationship with him.

God writes His law on our hearts through the Holy Spirit. In the Old Covenant, the law was external, but now it’s alive inside of us. Just like our beating hearts pump blood through our bodies, the Holy Spirit infuses us.

How does God “remember our sin no more?” When God looks at us, He sees His son. He is already seeing what’s going to happen through His son. The criteria for the new covenant is not circumcision or the law, it was relationship with God through Jesus by declaring that Jesus is Lord.

Hear Jacqueline’s story of her progression of faith in college and listen to Jenn as she closes with Joel 2:12-13 where we are exhorted to return to God with our whole heart.

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Release: March 2024
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What a treat to hear Matt and Jenn Lozano together for Week Four of our Lenten series as they cover the story in John 9 about Jesus’ healing a man born blind!

Jesus makes room in His day to heal this man and he does the same for us!

During Lent, we consider the darkness and undergo self-reflection. Why is there so much brokenness in the world? We join the disciples in asking Jesus why bad things happen.

In the Scriptures, the Torah conveys the idea of divine retribution, but then we see righteous Job questioning God about suffering. God’s answer to Job, coupled with Jesus’ reply to the disciples in John 9 shows that suffering allows the works God to be made visible. “That’s the why,” says Matt. We all are blind and Jesus is doing something in time that gives us sight.

God created light on the first day but brings salvation on the seventh day – the day of rest. Jesus proclaims His kingdom on the Sabbath by doing things like restoring sight to the blind and casting out demons.

Just as the blind man received mud on his eyes and obediently went to the pool of Siloam, we each can be touched by Jesus and we too can participate in our own healing. Learn what the word “Siloam” means and how that applies to each of us!

At Lent we live in the darkness, knowing that sight is coming. The answer is Jesus – He is the Light of the World!

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Amidst the cold of winter, enjoy warm conversation and memories shared by Janet and Lisa as they discuss Romans 5:1-2, 5-8.

God poured out His Word into our hearts. Pouring relates to our baptism and God himself infuses the virtues of faith, hope, and love into us when we are open to receive them.

Through our faith, we rejoice in hope. Janet explains the difference between hope and optimism.

We hear of an early Unbound session when a deeply painful story brought about weeping by all participating. God’s love was spoken, poured out and the recipient experienced freedom to forgive, saying, “Thank you. Now I have hope!”

Tissues are kept handy in an Unbound session because tears of both sorrow and joy often spring forth. These tears help water the seeds of the gospel.

Listen with us to these deeper examples of hope, love, and faith, and also a lighter story of how Lisa found hope in a gift shop!

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Release: February 2024
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Are you going deeper this Lent?

Join Neal and Jacqueline as they reflect on the liturgical readings for this coming Sunday.

You'll be blessed as they discuss many beautiful themes, beginning with a word on testing. The first reading is from Genesis chapter 22. 

Sometimes we complain about the testing we are going through.  Yet, here Abraham is asked to do what God the Father would do.

Such an amazing story of faith.

Neal and Jacqueline converse about Abraham and more including life's purpose,  the uniqueness of our destiny, and knowing who we are as sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father.

You will want to listen over and over again.

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Jenn and Lisa kick off our Lenten series!

Join us as Lent begins, talking about God’s covenant in Genesis 9: 8-15.

We start with the theme of light in the Scriptures. Light bursts from darkness in creation, the post-flood prism of light is the rainbow, and Jesus comes as the Light of the World.

A covenant offers three aspects: a promise, a family, and a sign and each relates to these “light” moments in Scripture.

PROMISE: At Creation, consequences are promised if eating the forbidden fruit. After the flood, God promises never to flood to world again. Jesus offered promises such as eternal life, the Holy Spirit, and the sharing in His sufferings.

FAMILY: The Creation family was Adam and Eve. Noah’s family was saved at the flood. With Jesus, we have the family of Christ. Jenn reminds us that Jesus’ invitation is for all people.

SIGN: A sign is the Holy Spirit being present at each event. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters at Creation, the dove of the Holy Spirit brought an olive branch to Noah, and the descent of the Dove at Jesus’ baptism.

Don’t miss Lisa’s story about seeing a literal “sign from God.”

This episode is a treasure – a spiritual pot of gold surrounding God’s rainbow of hope.

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Release: February 2024
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Join Matt Lozano and Gilbert Rodriguez as they share details from the Freedom In Christ conference held in San Juan, Mexico, last summer.

Gilbert is Associate Director of Adult Faith Formation in the New York Archdiocese and has extensive ministry experience. He helps run Freedom in Christ conferences in Spanish. Gilbert tells of first benefitting from Unbound ministry in 2012 and how he was set free from fear. He continued on to make major life decisions, including a marriage proposal!

We hear Matt extol the hospitality of the Mexican people and the goodness of heart he witnessed there, saying, “The Father’s blessing is imbedded in them.”

Stories are shared about individuals set free through Unbound prayer with joy, even to the point of abounding laughter! Gilbert relates a funny memory involving caramel at a Cathedral and Matt follows up with a tale about a stolen Rolex watch. We even learn of a skeptical priest who was won over, saying the Unbound session he witnessed was “like heart surgery!”

This encouraging episode reminds us that Unbound ministry is growing amidst our southern neighbors in Mexico. Listen and enjoy!

Release: February 2024
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“We want to be saints, not celebrities!”

In this meaty episode, we hear from popular author and theologian Dr. Scott
Hahn, founder and president of the Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology.
Dr. Hahn chronicles his personal understanding of holiness beginning with his
earliest experiences as a juvenile delinquent and how he discovered
scripture and encountered Christ on a Young Life retreat. Hear then how Dr.
Hahn’s presence at Dr. R.C. Sproul’s Bible studies shaped his approach
towards God.

Holiness became a topic of primary interest culminating in Dr. Hahn’s book,
Holy is His Name: The Transforming Power of God’s Holiness in Scripture
which represents years of research and biblical study, but also draws one to
the cross. “We are free to be holy, and we are only truly fully holy when we
are freed,” he states.

Learn what Dr. Hahn considers to be the job description of a theologian and
hear his comparison between holiness and righteousness.

This deep discussion mentions Greek words like “caritas agape” and
individuals like Augustine, Aquinas, King Uzziah, and the prophet Isaiah.

You’ll find out why Dr. Hahn considers his book, Holy is His Name, and Matt’s
book, Free to Be Holy a “one-two combination.”

The episode concludes with Dr. Hahn sharing what he believes to be a slice
of Heaven on Earth.

You won’t want to miss this deep discussion on a topic relevant to all
Christians.

Release: February 2024
Music by Christian Harper
Artwork by Rosemary Strohm
Production by Henry Aquino

Do you ever think about angels or just wonder about divine mysteries?

In this fascinating episode, we hear from Msgr. Brian Bransfield who served as the General Secretary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops from 2015 to 2020.  He's a priest in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, has his doctorate in moral theology,  and is the author of many books including his recent Angels: Our
Guardians in Spiritual Battle, which he describes as “a user-friendly, easy to
read map” that can help us see where the angels lead us.

Msgr. Bransfield tells of first meeting angels as a child and continues with an
exploration of the role angels play in our lives, their power, and what their
invisibility suggests to us.

We learn what angels aren’t - ghosts, phantoms, fiction - and what they are
- real, personal beings, created by God who are present to assist us.
“The holy angels always begin something in us and they beckon us farther and
they serve as our guardian,” states Msgr. Bransfield. He lists the three
common misconceptions regarding angels and how misguided expectations
can place a burden upon us.

Jesus was ministered to by angels when he hit rock bottom and we can be
sure that God has given us these special helpers as well to challenge, coach,
protect and help us to follow the light of Jesus.
Don’t wing it in your assumptions about angels. Listen and understand the
the reality of these unseen beings.

Find Msgr. Bransfield's book  Angels: Our Guardians in Spiritual Battle
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Release: January 2024
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“And then the beginnings of Unbound began!!”

Get ready for this exciting second part of Neal and Janet’s story about the beginnings of Unbound. Hear how God used a prophetic word spoken over Neal to help him find someone’s name in his Rolodex!

Neal shares of the exciting 30-Day Renewal and Reconciliation event that brought people from various ethnicities, cultures, and denominations together. Janet expounds, saying, “This is what the church is supposed to be!”

Hearing more teachings on deliverance helps Neal refine the pattern of prayer he had already been developing when ministering to people.

From there, we go to Poland where Neal leads a conference and sees extraordinary results when applying this specific prayer pattern. Neal receives prophetic words about being a father to people, even to the soles of his sandals!

Upon return to the States, Neal hears the same question from two different sources, “When are you going to write your book?” Neal describes what he pictured as he wrote and prayed.

You won’t want to miss this second episode celebrating the Platinum Anniversary of Unbound!

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Release: January 2024
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In this sweet episode, Neal and Janet describe their individual spiritual journeys in the early years leading up to Unbound. They tell of specific people and places where they experienced God’s call on each of their lives.

Neal reveals what event caused him to begin searching for spiritual answers and how the prayer of his cousin Fr. Mike Scanlan was later followed by his own sincere prayer and how he experienced God’s loving presence.

Janet shares her story of being invited to a prayer group in college, responding to God, and finding Christian community in the process.

Neal and Janet continue their story together, sharing what inspired them to begin living in community with other Christians. After some years, Neal sought God amidst the ups-and-downs and shared the moment when God melted his heart allowing him to identify unexpectedly with the prodigal son’s older brother.

Hear how Janet received a surprising prophetic word that seemed strange and random but has indeed proven true.

In the end, we discover who the mystery person was who invited Janet to her first prayer group meeting!

Join us in the first of two episodes with our beloved Neal and Janet Lozano hosted by Jenn Lozano.

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Release: January 2024
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To kick off the New Year, we thought it would be a great time to discuss hope. Since the beginning of a New Year often is a time filled with hope,  joining Jenn today is a friend who is infectious in her hope and her fervor for the Lord. 

With the grace of God and inspired by the love of Christ, Terry Riggins has been on evangelistic trips all around the world, most notably to the underground church in China.  She worked with the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia as coordinator of Deliverance Ministry, bringing Unbound Ministry to the diocese, as well as served as liaison for the Charismatic Renewal for 10 years until her recent retirement.

Some of the highlights of this episode:

"If God wants me to do it, He's going to equip me. So that was the trajectory that Unbound just completely changed. Because then, here I became the person who received every phone call from everybody in the diocese that wanted deliverance. And I had to evangelize them, catechize them, love them, talk to them, just be there for them, as well as present their case to the team and figure out what approach we were going to take with those individuals.

And 90 percent of the time it was Unbound prayer. And we prayed with folks and we trained teams. Heart of the Father came down to help me train teams and  I would train teams on my own. We prayed with thousands of people and we never got a complaint to the Bishop about unbound prayer ever. That's awesome. Isn't that amazing?

Yes. It's amazing when we open ourselves up to God and allow Him to come in and remove those obstacles. That's what He can set us up to do! "

Listen to more wonderful stories as Terry shares about her mission trips to the underground church in China, walking through cancer,  and more.

Guaranteed, you will not be the same after this episode!

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Release: January 2024
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Amid your Advent busyness, take some time for joy and reflection with Heart of the Father Ministries!

Jenn hosts Matt and Jacqueline in this final podcast of our Advent series. 

Scripture Luke 1:26-38

In this episode, Matt reflects on how God shows up and delivers Israel at a very low point. We learn how Miriam and Leah in the Old Testament relate to Mary and Elisabeth in the New Testament.

In barrenness we say to ourselves, “I dreamed my life would be this and now it’s this.” And yet the barrenness can turn into conception because nothing is impossible with God.

The legacy of sin is shown in Rachel weeping for her children because they are no more. We cry out, “How long oh Lord, how long?” We wait for the tears to be overtaken with joy. We long for that great reversal, that our mouths will be filled with laughter again. 

There is a profound connection between Eve and the Virgin Mary—how Eve’s disobedience brought death and Mary’s obedience brought life.

We may not know how our barrenness will be taken away, but we can give God our ‘yes’ and our obedience as we wait for God and look with eyes of faith as Mary did.

Listen and have hope that whatever barrenness you’re experiencing, the promise of Jesus is an overflowing cup and His promises will be fulfilled.
 

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Release: December 2023
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Jenn hosts Neal and Jacqueline as the Open Doors Advent series begins. 

The text is Isaiah 40:3-5 with Neal reflecting on the richness and beauty of Advent and the meaning of the Latin word Adventus.

Hear Neal’s favorite definition of faith and a lively discussion surrounding the Advent themes of Preparation and Promise with Jenn relating these to having company over and Jacqueline likening them to an ongoing construction project. 

The first Advent candle stands for hope and Neal talks about the prophet Simeon’s example of waiting, preparation, and prophecy. Listen to real-life examples surrounding waiting and anticipation, including Neal’s story of losing his wedding ring!

Advent is a season of encounter not only surrounding Jesus’ birth, but a present everyday encounter through the Holy Spirit. 

Begin your Advent season with this encouraging episode and remember His arrival and presence changed everything!

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Release: December 2023
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 With the American Thanksgiving holiday coming up next week, we thought this would be a great time to talk about gratitude. We love our Thanksgiving tradition , but the heart behind it is really taking time to be grateful and to express our thanksgiving to the Lord.

Have you ever considered that gratitude is a profound response to God's love and goodness? Join us as  Neal and Jacqueline reflect on significant experiences of giving thanks. Neal mentions  1 Thessalonians 5, highlighting that it is God's will we express thanks in all circumstances.

Neal and Jacqueline touch on several other scriptural passages:

 Psalm 136:1-3
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good.
His love endures forever.
Give thanks to the God of gods.
His love endures forever.
 Give thanks to the Lord of lords:
His love endures forever.

Give thanks in all circumstances. It's at the heart of our personal relationship with Him.

Neal then offers suggestions for ways that we can grow in that act, in that discipline of giving thanks.

Psalm 50: 23
The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders His way rightly I will show the salvation of God!

Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

Philippians 4:6
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

God's word makes it super clear that a thanksful heart is a heart that pleases Him.

Listen today and have your thankful heart restored.

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Release: November 2023
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In this episode, Matt interviews Father Dave Pivonka, TOR, President of Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, who speaks forthrightly about seeing God’s freedom at work in the students and really all of God's people.

In the context of discussing freedom in Christ, Fr. Dave tells the story that led Franciscan University to offer new students free tuition for a semester. He and Matt discuss how unexpected ideas from the Lord require discernment and stepping out in faith!

We learn that freedom is a constant theme throughout the scriptures and how God always invites us back, even after we have compromised that freedom.

Fr. Dave teaches how “freedom from” something leads to “freedom for” a new future. He describes what freedom looks like, his inspiration by students who come from difficult situations into beautiful faith, and gives poignant examples of people allowing their suffering to count for the kingdom.

Be drawn into deeper freedom in your own life, and learn to walk in  the spirit through a more personal encounter with the Lord, reclaiming the kingdom of God in your heart.

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Release: November 2023
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In this episode, Jenn Lozano and board member Ann Stevens explore the art of listening in an Unbound session or simply to a friend or someone in need.

Ann describes three overall ways one can respond when listening to hard things shared. Responses of fear or pride may be human responses, but God will give us grace to respond in humility, extending compassion to the individual receiving prayer. 

Join them as Ann shares the importance of taking personal time prior to an Unbound ministry session to seek the Lord and meditate, even briefly, on a passage from Matthew 7. She reminds us about the depth and unlimited nature of God’s forgiveness.

There is the “small story,” and the “big story.” The small story being the details of a prayer recipient’s account and the big story of God’s power forgiveness and the ability to move into the bigger place of what God is doing.

Ann speaks about the importance of staying present in the moment and being aware of one’s own body language so the recipient feels heard.

The idea of redirecting within an Unbound session is discussed, with Jenn giving an example of a time when she was leading and a recipient withdrew because they felt unheard in the moment. Listening is an art and tips are provided to be compassionate without getting stuck rehashing the hard things someone has been through. 

Ann shares a personal example of a time that she received compassion during a therapy session and describes how the empathy shown by the therapist helped her feel heard in the moment. 

The biblical account of the disciples on the road to Emmaus is explored, showing how Jesus came alongside the disciples and, after listening to their story, helped draw them out of their small story into the bigger picture of what God was doing. 

Ann concludes with the reminder that as we remember God’s unlimited compassion and mercy for each of us personally, we can through the Holy Spirit not judge and can help a prayer recipient step into recognizing God’s big story.

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Release: November 2023
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In this  episode, Janet, Jenn, and Jacqueline offer a beautiful exploration of grief,  examining some of its deepest challenges.  As they share personal stories, you'll hear about the growth, grace, and gratitude that can emerge from loss.

Join them as they look at Jesus and Mary for inspiration. 

In this conversation they also touch on the  importance of companionship and support in the grieving process, and discuss how giving God our grief can open us up to receive powerful blessings and tangible grace. Listen and be blessed. 

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Release: October 2023
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Join Rachel, Jenn, and Jacqueline as they dig deeper into the impacts of trauma and loss. Together, they explore how to identify specific instances of pain, opportunities for forgiveness, and the processing of grief. In this episode, we "piggyback" on last week's conversartion with traumatologist Margaret Vasquez. We hope our reflections, insights, and anecdotes will allow you to go deeper with the Lord in healing and freedom!

You'll also learn how to better identify trauma in someone else, provide compassionate support to them, and create a safe space for someone to share their story. We know that it is Jesus who can heal all wounds, so as we lead people to Him amid their pain, we can have hope for healing.

Listen and share with a friend!

Psalm 91:4
He will cover you with his feathers. He will shelter you with his wings. His faithful promises are your armor and protection.

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Release: October 2023
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Have you ever wondered why some of us get stuck, as in really stuck?

Did you know that sometimes we are held back from living our best selves, the person we were made to be, by our past hurts and traumatic experiences?

Back in the spring, our Heart of the Father team had the opportunity to attend a workshop on trauma informed care in ministry, hosted by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia's Office of the New Evangelization.

This two day workshop was led by the brilliant professional counselor and trauma therapist Margaret Vasquez, who shared her insight and depth of understanding on this complex subject in a way that was both accessible and hopeful.

We know you'll be blessed by this conversation where Margaret  beautifully explains the shaping influences of our past experiences,  her own transformative journey, and her passion for human and spiritual integration.

“There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear." 1 John 4:18 

Find Margaret's books and other resources:

Human & Spiritual Integration Self-Inventory
More Than Words: The Freedom to Thrive After Trauma
Fearless: Life Through Infinite Love
Wholeness and Holiness podcast
Sacred Heart Ministries

Check out Margaret's online workshop on Human & Spiritual Integration Nov 6-9. Spots are limited.

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Release: October 2023
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Join Matt as he and our dear friend Miriam Wright recount their recent mission to Cameroon in this episode packed with tales of faith, forgiveness, and freedom during their 9-day adventure.

Miriam has been an active part of our ministry here at Heart of the Father as she travels around the globe with us, teaches several of our ecourses, leads an Unbound Ministry team, and serves on our board. Now she's  also fondly called "Mama Miriam" by her new Cameroonian friends!

Walk with Matt and Miriam through the highs (and some lows) of this powerful mission. Hear about incredible moments of grace and power despite physical exhaustion, lost luggage, and even serious illness. God showed up!

Be prepared to be moved!

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Release: October 2023
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Have you ever felt like you're carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders?

Ever want to fix a problem for someone else and struggle to know what is yours and not yours to carry?

Sometimes, life can seem like a never-ending battle, and it's tough to remember to give God our burdens, even the struggles of our friends and family members, instead of trying to deal with them on our own.

In this episode, Janet joins Rachel and lends her wisdom on surrendering and giving our grief to the Lord as they recognize that in surrendering, we can discover a peace that goes beyond our understanding.

"He bore His burdens alone so we wouldn't have to."

Be encouraged as they share personal experiences and walk you through practical ways to let go.

Listen in and be comforted in your journey!

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Release: September 2023
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Have you missed us? We are so excited to be back for Season 3 and can't wait for you to hear all the special episodes we've lined up for you!

Today we kick off this season "Swinging for the Fences" as Matt and Jenn take a deep dive into the heart of surrender.

Surrender, though often so challenging, is a central expression of faith to give the Lord our "Yes",  let go of the things that we tend to hold on to, and embrace Him as Lord. We're not just surrendering for the sake of ourselves; we're surrendering to God and for God and for His will and for His purposes.  It's for His sake.

"In order for Him to be our Savior, we have to stop trying to save ourselves.
In order for Him to be our deliverer, we have to stop trying to deliver ourselves."

Surrendering to God isn't a one-time act, but a daily process. Reflecting on their own walk with God, Matt and Jenn share personal stories and challenges, but reveal the truth that giving Him an open hand allows the Lord to satisfy our deepest desires! 

Discover how letting go can lead to a transformative spiritual renewal. 

Tune in and invite a friend!

 
Philippians 2:5-8
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to His own advantage; rather, He made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!

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Release: September 2023
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Have you ever thought, "This wasn't the life I expected?"

You thought you'd be farther along in your career by now. You thought you'd be married by now. You thought you'd have more money saved by now. You didn't think that your children would be going in these different directions that you don't believe are healthy for them. You didn't think that your kids wouldn't want to come back and see you.

There are all different kinds of ways that we can be disappointed with life, and the question that this powerful episode offers is- are we willing to set aside those things, those expectations that we had, and accept what is, or will we continue to try to white knuckle our way through life, holding on to control everywhere that we can?

Join Rachel as she interviews Bonnie O'Neil on her life-changing book Chronic Hope.

Bonnie is a spiritual director and the executive director of Alpha Mid Atlantic, a faith-based nonprofit, and part of the board here at Heart of the Father Ministries. Bonnie is also a hope hunter. Join them today and bring your tissues. 

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Release: July 2023
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Today Neal hosts a dear friend John Doman. Neal has known John and his beautiful wife Michele for over 35 years. Together they have 10 children and 56 grandchildren. WOW!

These superheroes have led an amazing life, bringing their family up to know the Lord and to know the truth. Among their children (who are all grown) are worship leaders, Christian authors, ministry leaders and more, but most of all they're moms and dads committed to Jesus and committed to raising their families for Him.

Some of you met their daughter Alicia Hernon from Messy Family Project through last week's podcast with her husband Mike. They mentioned John, and we knew you'd be blessed to meet him!

John and Michele have a beautiful life together, but John shares with Neal just how hard life can be, filled with incredible joy and unbelievable sorrow. 

From the minefields of the Vietnam War to the realities of tragic accidents, we are reminded to trust the Lord.

Jeremiah 29:11. 

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 

God has good plans for each of us. The truth is God is good.

Whether you are struggling today to believe that, or you just want to hear some powerful, life-changing stories, listen in. You won't be disappointed!

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Release: July 2023
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Matt and Jenn have two special guests joining them today, good friends Michael and Alicia Hernon. The Hernons are on a mission to empower parents to embrace their sacred calling, which they believe is the key to the renewal of the Church and our society. Learn how Unbound has greatly impacted them both personally and as a family. 

Their ministry The Messy Family Project began as a podcast just like ours and has grown into a multimedia platform that provides free resources to couples to help them nurture their marriage, as well as build a Catholic culture within their home.

The podcast reaches roughly 50,000 families every month, the Hernons also travel throughout the US inspiring husbands and wives to have deeper conversions and giving them the insight, inspiration, and practical tools to do that. They live in Steubenville, Ohio. They have ten kids and five grandkids with one more on the way.

You can learn more about them and their ministry @messyfamilyproject.org.

You'll love this conversation filled with candid humor and godly insight-one of the best episodes out there!

Enjoy and invite a friend to listen!

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Release: July 2023
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Join us for our final Summer Podcast Book Study as we explore Jesus's promise to show us His Father--and ours. 

Do you know that your Heavenly Father loves you, that you belong to Him, that He longs for you to be FREE to be FULLY yourself?

Have you recognized the enemy's tactics in your own life, and what does that look like for you?

How does Jesus model worship for us? What does it mean to worship in Spirit and in Truth?

Laugh and cry along with Jenn, Rachel, and Jacqueline in a beautiful conversation.

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Release: July 2023
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Join us for a terrific episode you don't want to miss...but... bear with us as one of our tracks had some minor technical issues so you have to listen a little more closely to what Janet is sharing, We've included the beginning of the transcript here in our show notes and click the TRANSCRIPT tab for the rest. 

Jacqueline: So welcome everyone to week five of our Abba's Heart Book Study that we've been doing this summer. It's just been so much fun and such a blessing to  take a deep dive into the book Abba's Heart. And if you have not read it and haven't been able to join us in past episodes, don't turn off this podcast.

You will still be so blessed. Today we're going to be talking about chapters 13 and 14- "Empowered to Serve" and "Walking in Forgiveness." Today I'm here with Janet and Jenn Lozano, and I have great expectation for some really beautiful conversations, so thank you Lord. We are at the end of June, and summer is in full swing.

How are you guys? Anything exciting going on?

Jenn: I have two kids at overnight camp right now. Woohoo. And because two adult "large" children came home from college, it's nice to have a little breathing space in our house again.

Jacqueline: That's awesome. That's really great.

Jenn: I don't have to double our recipes at dinner. It's, so far it's, it's just really nice. I miss them, but they're having a blast, so it's, it's  nice. The camp is called Summer's Best Two Weeks, and at home we're also referring to it as Summer's Best Two Weeks.

Jacqueline: It's so fun to mix it up, like you swapped out the little kids for the big kids and yeah, how great is that?

Jenn: So great. So mom, what's happening in your summer?

Janet: Well, our summer started out with a wonderful celebration of our 50th Anniversary, and since then we had a few out of town family guests stay with us for a few days.  Currently I have a nephew on my side of the family stay with us for several days, so I feel like my summer has begun with a lot of hosting.

Yes. The opposite of you, Jenn. I'm cooking more than I usually do, but it's been wonderful just to have time to connect with family members  and continue to celebrate what God has done in our lives over the past 50 years that Neal and I have been married.

Jacqueline: Wow. And for those of you who have not been a guest in Janet's house for dinner or overnight, she is the Hostess with the Mostess. So she's going all out for her guests. We know that for sure.

Jenn: Chocolate's on the pillow. Yeah, exactly. Like we're going high end.

Jacqueline: It's a real gift that she has. So speaking of gifts, I feel like these two chapters are really just gifts to me and to all of us listening. Chapter 13 is about humility and just how Jesus came to serve us in humility.

Then chapter 14 talks about forgiveness.  Humility and forgiveness are central themes, they're pillars of our faith. It's sort of like what Jesus taught us to be humble and walk in forgiveness. But I love how he not only led by example and teaches us, but that God equips us and changes us and transforms us so that humility and forgiveness can become part of our everyday walk.

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Release: June 2023
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 If this is your first time tuning in and you are thinking, "What are they talking about? What is this Abba's Heart book study? " don't worry, don't turn this off.

This podcast is for you, even if you haven't been reading Abba's Heart along with us. Today Matt, Jenn, and Rachel Lozano are talking about life in the Father's house, and don't we all want to hear more about that? Don't we all want to dwell in our Heavenly Father's house, to live as His sons and daughters? 

"I have regular prayer time, but...the question is, do I show up to that prayer time?

A lot of times I'm there and can go through my laundry list of what I want to ask God, I can read the scriptures... and I can pray. But the challenge to me lately is, Am I bringing my heart? Am I allowing myself to reflect on what's going on inside of me?

Am I able to share that with God, to ask Him to reveal my heart? And with a heart to obey, with a heart to receive, to be transformed. That takes a lot of trust. You have to trust the person you're speaking to. "

Listen and learn to better walk as His son or daughter, bring your heart to your Heavenly Father, and trust Him with everything.

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Release: June 2023
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“Everything written in the book (Abba's Heart), every great idea about what home could be, should be, is waiting for us in the Father’s heart. “ 

“What will it be like to hear His voice without any veil between us? "

Join us today for our Abba's Heart Summer Book Study- even if you have not read the book!

Neal joins Jenn and Rachel for a beautiful conversation, incredible insight, and heartwarming stories and testimonies of the Father's love.

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Release: June 2023
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Do you know that your Heavenly Father loves you, that you belong to Him, and that He longs for you to be FREE to be FULLY yourself?

Listen today, and you'll  leave with some gold nuggets to ponder and reflect on as we discuss chapters 4-6 of Abba's Heart.

"What is the ultimate and complete self revelation of God? ... It was the sending of the Son- that He sent Jesus.

And I think what jumped out to me was that I always think Jesus came to rescue us, but He also came to show us the Father.

God bends low to meet with us."

Draw near to the Heart of the Father...be drawn, not just near, but into the Heart of the Father. May we be drawn into His heart today.

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Release: June 2023
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Join us on this journey back to the Father's delight.

Before we kick off the discussion of Chapters 1-3 of Abba's Heart , Rachel sets up the framework of Abba's Heart  so you have a vision of where we are going. The book is split up into four sections. The first is the Way Home, where we look at our separation from our home in God the Father, and how He made a way for us to return. The second section is the Father's heart, where we gain a deeper understanding of God's heart and the home we are returning to.

The third is coming home where we learn to walk that path the Lord has set before us to be with Him. And finally, Life in the Father's House, where we get a vision of what it means for us to live in the Father's Heart once we are there. Our prayer for ourselves and all of you joining us on this journey is that  we would be drawn into the heart of the Father.

These are Neal's words in the preface:

Draw near to the Heart of the Father...be drawn, not just near, but into the Heart of the Father. May we be drawn into His heart today.

Today, Jen, Jacqueline and Rachel  discuss the first three chapters, the Promise, A Broken Heart, and The Tragedy of Slavery.
 
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Release: June 2023
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The gospel is the answer to the deepest questions of the heart.

In this episode, Jenn and Neal discuss the power of the gospel as a transformational proclamation, one that carries a personal invitation to respond from the heart. It is the fulfilment of a promise, in the form of Jesus Christ our Savior.

The power of the gospel is the love of God. When a preacher of the gospel desires to communicate the love of God, this self-giving love accompanies the speaker's words and actions. 

The presentation of the Five Keys is a presentation of the gospel. Unbound's mission is to help people generate a heart response to the gospel and experience the transformational power of the Holy Spirit. 

How often have you heard the gospel, but had no response? Consider the good news that you have heard, and how you might seek to surrender to Jesus.

Scriptures from this episode:

Luke 2:10-11: "But the angel said to them, 'Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.'"

Mark 1:14: "After John was put in prison, Jesus went to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God."

Ezekiel 36:26 "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh."

1 Corinthians 2:1-2: "And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified." 

Romans 5:5: "And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us."

Acts 4:33: "With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God's grace was so powerfully at work in them all."

1 Corinthians 1:17: "For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel--not with wisdom and eloquence, less the cross of Christ be emptied of its power." 

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Release: May 2023
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What does living in freedom mean?

In this episode, Rachel sits down with Dan Gahagan, Unbound board member and Baltimore native, to discuss Dan's ties with Unbound Ministry that began fifteen years ago. They reflect on Dan's personal experience of renouncing the enemy's lies and choosing to walk in the freedom of the Gospel every single day. 

"I developed the self-perception that I was not good, that I don't measure up, and that I don't have what it takes."

After Dan renounced these lies, he began to walk in the things that God had held for him that he had previously shied away from.

Unbound shows people who their enemy is and brings it into the light, where it loses its power. Once you understand the Five Keys as a proclamation of the Gospel, they become a powerful tool in your walk with the Lord. 

What lies has the enemy told you that you still identify with? What do you need to repent of? Who do you need to forgive? What do you need to renounce? 

"Today, I walk in the knowledge and understanding that I am loved, that I am a beloved son of the Father."

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Release: May 2023
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Before starting her own Unbound team, Bucks Unbound in Pennsylvania, Anita Colahan was part of our local  Heart of the Father team. Now she serves on two Unbound teams when shes not doing Spiritual Direction, wearing many other hats in her parish, or spending time with her family.

Listen as she shares insight into one of her deeply buried wounds that had manifested itself in so many relationships, and how her healing and freedom changed everything. 

“Unbound ministry has been such an amazing blessings and gift to me... which has opened the door to other healings in relationships...I regained a sense of myself!"

Learn from Rachel and Anita how to really listen and accompany someone in their story and join them in the journeys to peace, joy, and a renewed sense of identity.

 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.
 1 Thes 5:23-24

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Release: May 2023
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In today's episode, Matt and Jenn Lozano sit down to discuss Matt's new book, Free to Be Holy. Instead of teaching us how to "become holy," this book boldly proclaims that we are already made holy by the blood of Jesus.

Why is freedom important to holiness?

How does God make us holy?

How do we live a lifestyle of holiness?

How are we limited by the enemy in the pursuit of holiness?

What are approaches to holiness that are healthy? Unhealthy? 

Together, Matt and Jenn discuss these questions and why this message of holiness is important today. God is so beyond what we can put into words, but Matt gives us a little taste to able to explain what is beyond our greatest imagination. 

Free to Be Holy is a guide to understanding how Jesus made us and how we can approach a life of holiness with confident faith and joyful hope. The compelling promise of this book is that the pursuit of holiness is not a struggle but an adventure of discovering who we really are in Jesus.

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Release: May 2023
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Be awakened, empowered and equipped as you listen to Matt and good friend Dan DeMatte, founder and Executive Director of Damascus Catholic Mission, the Catholic Youth Summer Camp and Mission in Columbus, OH that reaches young people, enabling them to encounter Jesus and raise up missionary people to live missionary lives. 

Together, Matt and Dan discuss the power of  the Gospel. By proclaiming the Good News of Jesus' victory, we are given the authority to set the captives free and release the prisoners from darkness.

It is not by our own strength but by the transformation of the Holy Spirit that we can walk in righteousness, joy, and peace. In Christ, we find new life and are set free!

Want to experience more righteousness, more joy, more peace?

Listen to these two men on FIRE for Jesus share wisdom and insights and be called to go deeper in your journey with Jesus!

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,

because the Lord has anointed me

to proclaim good news to the poor.

He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,

to proclaim freedom for the captives

and release from darkness for the prisoners. 

Isaiah 61:1

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Release: April 2023
Music by Christian Harper
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You won't want to miss this week's episode with special guest Dr. Bob Schuchts of Restore the Glory Podcast and the John Paul II Healing Center.
 
What is healing? What is deliverance? We cannot understand one without the other.

Dr. Schuchts defines healing as an "ongoing encounter with the love of God that brings us into wholeness and communion." In light of 2 Corinthians 3:18, healing is gazing at the face of Jesus until we become the face of Jesus for others. 

Deliverance is the freedom from barriers that perpetuate our brokenness. 

Like Unbound, Dr.  Schuchts' ministry advocates for the transformation of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of those who experience wounds, such as abandonment, rejection, and broken trust. 

How often do we treat woundedness with unforgiveness, judgment, identity lies, or sinful patterns instead of turning to the Lord? The deliverance and healing promised by Our Father is experienced through the salvation of Jesus Christ. 

This one's so good you'll want to listen again!

And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord's glory, are being transformed into His image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 

2 Corinthians 3:18 NIV

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Release: April 2023
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 A short conversation in her counselor's office ultimately led Priscilla Strapp of New Life Philly to bring Unbound to her church. Before long, she found herself across the world leading an Unbound conference in Japan -- the same place her journey of faith began as a child of missionaries. Priscilla's experience with Unbound is a story of deliverance and bridging divides, with an ending yet to unfold. 

Listen to this joyful conversation as Rachel and Priscilla reflect on what the Lord can do, often behind the scenes, working all things together to bring glory and healing. 

Every day God calls to share the Good News. It is easy to be discouraged by obstacles, and oftentimes we do not see the fruit of His work. Other times He places opportunities right in our laps, where we serve as His hands and feet with a front-row seat to powerful testimonies of lives changed by deliverance.

That's the way the gospel spreads.  You always hear people say,  it's just a one starving person saying to another, 'this is where I found bread.'

"Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing His will, and may He work in us what is pleasing to Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen." Hebrews 13:20-21 NIV

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Release: April 2023
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In today's episode, join Neal as he and ChristLife's Dave Nodar (Neal's longtime friend) reflect on this Holy Thursday gospel passage in John 13:1-15.

Here we find that Jesus, the Son of God, rose from supper, laid aside His garments, and girded himself with a towel. His service was based on who He was in the Father.

This is God who becomes man,  humbles Himself and  becomes a servant. Jesus says, "I came not to be served, but to serve and to give my life as a ransom."

 Jesus tells us that this is the way He wants us to live.

But Jesus was able to serve from His identity as the beloved Son. He has won that for each of us. We are called to serve like Jesus, to wash oneanother's feet, but that giving of ourselves comes from knowing who we are in Christ.

Come and be moved by His desire for you! Listen as you hear Peter's struggle to understand. Find out just how much you are LOVED!

Dave Nodar is the founder and senior leader of ChristLife, a ministry that equips Catholics for the essential work of evangelization, so that all people might personally encounter Jesus Christ and be transformed into His missionary disciples.  Dave authored several books as well as  the ChristLife courses.   

But the thing we most love about Dave is his passion to help others to know the love of God the Father in Jesus Christ.

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Release: April 2023
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Reflecting on John 11:17-44, Matt Lozano is joined in this episode by Nick Jorgenson from Acts XXIX Ministries. 

"So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, 'Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.'" John 11:41-42 NIV.

Jesus is God speaking human. He chooses to speak with us through the humanity of His Son, Jesus Christ. 

Like the tomb of Lazarus, we have parts of ourselves that we shrink away from, things in our life that we want to hide from Jesus. But it is in our darkest place, our vulnerable moments, that the Gospel holds the most truth. 


As He did for Lazarus, He longs to  call your name. In calling YOUR name from YOUR tomb,  He's saying that He knows you. He knows all of you. He desires you.  He desires ALL of you.  

He says,  "Dead man come out!" 

We all have access to the Father. God always hears us! He rejoices in our triumphs and weeps for our sorrows.

What is the Good News for you today?

Can you hear Him call YOUR name?

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Release: March 2023
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As we continue these beautiful Lenten reflections on the Gospel readings, join Jacqueline and Ann in today's podcast on John 9:1-41, the story of the man born blind. 

What does it mean to be seen? How does it feel to be known? 

What can we learn from this story of Jesus seeing and knowing and healing the man born blind?

Like the disciples, our first response to a problem is often with a "fix-it" mentality -- what did I do wrong, and how can I make it right? If we focus on what we see on the surface, we miss out on understanding the truth. Where is God when we face trials? How does He reveal Himself to us and make Himself known? How deeply do we understand that we are known by Him?

From understanding comes healing. 

Listen to the word of God and our reflection on the story of the man born blind. What is the Lord's invitation for you to respond to him today?

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when He found him, He said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

"Who is he, sir?" the man asked. "Tell me so that I may believe in him."

Jesus said, "You have now seen Him; in fact, He is the one speaking with you."

Then the man said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshipped Him. 

Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into this world, so that they blind will see and those who see will become blind." 

(John 9:35-39 NIV)

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Release: March 2023
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In today's episode, Rachel and Neal reflect on Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well, found in John 4:5-42. 

A beautiful story of conversion, this passage illustrates the intentionality of Jesus when He encounters the Samaritan woman and the same intentionality He has for each of us. 

He knows our hearts and is always waiting for our response, just as He waited and revealed Himself to the truth-seeking heart of the Samaritan woman. 

This passage is read in the middle of Lent, a sacred time of preparation for the renewal of internal faith through external practices. Fasting, almsgiving, and prayer are powerful reflections of our internal conversions and gratitude for what the Lord has given us. These things are fulfilled with a deep connection to Jesus, with a heart in pursuit of God. 

What is going on in your life as you listen today? 

What are you experiencing?

Through suffering and triumphs, Jesus sits at the well and awaits your engagement to reveal the Love of the Father. 

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In this beautiful episode, Janet and Jenn reflect on the gospel reading from  this past Sunday,  the Transfiguration of Jesus in Matthew 17:1-9.

This powerful account starts with Jesus taking Peter, James and John high up on that mountain.  These were the same three disciples who were going to be with Him in the Garden of Gethsemane on another mountain, the Mount of Olive. He was transfigured before them.

What was this transfiguration?

What was the meaning of the transfiguration for Jesus?

What did it mean for His disciples?

Why were Moses and Elijah there?

Join today's conversation and hear some beautiful thoughts on this powerful gospel. 

May His face shine upon you!

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Release: March 2023
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During the next few weeks, we're going to  be reflecting on the Lenten gospel passages and having some special guests as well, so that we can really prepare ourselves for this season.

Today though, we want to do something a little different. Recently, all of us at Heart of the Father Ministries were shocked and saddened by the news of the tragic death of Bishop David O'Connell, an Auxiliary Bishop in the Diocese of Los Angeles. Bishop Dave was a servant of the poor, the immigrant, and the marginalized.

 He spent most of his priesthood loving the people in the city of Los Angeles. He had a tremendous sense of humor and  a warmth for everyone he met. Bishop Dave was a friend of ours and an enthusiastic supporter of Unbound. He hosted two Unbound priest retreats in his diocese, and he never hesitated to share his testimony about how he experienced freedom when a friend ministered to him using the Five Keys.

So in this episode, we share with you a beautiful interview  Father Boniface Hicks OSB did with Bishop Dave in 2017 on WAOB Radio. Bishop Dave tells his story of freedom and  talks about the great need people have for deliverance in their lives. We know you'll be blessed to hear Bishop Dave, and we just want to honor and thank God for his life.

Well done. Good and faithful servant David O'Connell.

Thank you Fr. Boniface Hicks, OSB.
Interview used with the permission of WAOB (We Are One Body) Radio.

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Release: March 2023
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We have two very special people joining us today, Elaine and Miguel Ventura, a beautiful couple passionate about sharing God's love with others. Elaine and Miguel help lead a ministry called Ministerio Catolico Jesus esta Vivo (Jesus is Alive) in Northern Virginia. They spend most of their free time evangelizing and sharing the message of freedom in Christ in the US and beyond. 

Join us for a warm-hearted and soul-touching episode filled with stories of God's faithfulness and compassion. Hear how lives have been changed!

It was this thirst for God that He gave me about His word, and I felt so much love from the Father that He loved me. There was this fire that He put inside of my heart, and I just felt so much love. And I told God,  "I hope that this passion that you gave me for you, that's this love that I feel that you have for me, that it doesn't go away." And it's going to be 31 years now since He first came to me.

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Release: February 2023
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What happens when we offer the Lord the bread we have to share with others, even if it doesn't look like enough?

Yes, it's true. He multiplies it!

In this episode, join Jenn and Neal as they go deeper with our February theme of Evangelism. Listen to Neal talk about Unbound's beginnings so many years ago when he and Janet prayed in Poland and where God has taken Heart of the Father since.

"We asked that God would give us the bread for the nations, the bread of the gospel, the bread of truth, the bread from heaven." He has taken what we could offer and multiplied it beyond expectation.

Hear amazing stories of Unbound's impact on hearts across the world, including testimonies from Japan, India, Slovakia, Africa, Croatia, New Zealand, Taiwan, France, Mexico, and Cameroon. Be inspired and filled with awe. 

The simple yet profound Five Keys of Unbound have helped people open their hearts to the Holy Spirit and embrace the truth that sets them free. 

Through the saving power of Jesus Christ, Unbound ministry is changing individuals, marriages, families, churches, and communities.  

"Bring them here to me," He said. And He directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, He gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.

Matthew 14:18-21

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Release: February 2023
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Have you experienced freedom in Christ and desire to share it with others - but are not sure how? 

In this encouraging episode, Rachel is joined by Lorelei Low, a leader of the Unbound team in San Francisco, CA. Lorelei shares the Five Keys of Unbound as an official team leader, but also on a personal level through interactions with friends and family. 

Join Rachel and Lorelei as they discuss how to invite others to participate in the power of prayer and forgiveness. Whether during a casual conversation, sharing a copy of Unbound with a friend, or through direct prayer, God will sow seeds when we step into boldness and say "yes." 

Let go of fears of imperfection or imposition, and remember that what matters is the heart behind what you are sharing. Invite others in as an offering, and God will use it. 

"You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh: rather, serve one another humbly in love." Galatians 5:13

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Release: February 2023
Music by Christian Harper. 
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Who do you believe you are? What do you believe you were created for? 

We are made by Love, for love, to love. 

In this episode, Matt sits down with Lindsay Fay Costello, a former missionary at The Culture Project, to discuss freedom as it relates to love, sexuality, and relationships. Lindsay has served for years as a minister to young people, sharing with them the Good News and how to respond with chastity and virtue to today's distorted messages. 

Chastity is the integration of our bodies and souls. Moment to moment, it is not running away in shame but checking in with our hearts and minds as we turn our temptations into prayer that we offer up to God. Virtue is an apprenticeship in self-mastery: either we govern our passions or our passions govern us. 

At the core of our desires is the desire for union, communion, life, and love. Seeking each of these allows us to surrender to the Lord for healing. He restores us and brings us back to life.

We do not have a sexuality problem as much as we have an identity problem.  The good news is that we can renounce false identities, find healing in freedom from shame and culture wounds, and no longer make room for the messages from the enemy.

"But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me." (2 Corinthians 12:9, NIV)

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Release: February 2023
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He said to them, 'When you pray, say: "Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation."'" Luke 11:2-4, NIV

In today's episode, Ed and Lisa Crenshaw join Jenn to discuss the Lord's Prayer in Luke's gospel. As head pastors of Victory Church in Trooper, PA, Ed and Lisa developed a curriculum called Teach Us to Pray which focuses on Luke's emphases. It is built around the Lord's prayer and is represented by the acronym PRAY:

P - Press into God

R - Resist the status quo

A - Ask for what you need

Y - Yield to God's grace

Prayer can be intimidating for many people. When we compare the way we pray to others, we may feel inadequate. Teach Us to Pray is a tool that helps make prayer accessible to anyone. 

Our sins are not God's priority -- He seeks a relationship with us, built on prayer. Our needs for forgiveness and grace flow naturally from putting God's Kingdom first. 

Listen to today's podcast to learn more about how to PRAY and what Ed and Lisa learned about prayer and worship on their recent sabbatical.

Go Deeper Still!

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Release: January 2023
Music by Christian Harper. 
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How do we pray for someone we love? 

Can we effectively pray for those who are struggling?

What should we ask the Lord for when we ourselves are in need?

Often  our prayers become solely petitions for what we want rather than embracing God's plan and purposes. 

While the Lord cares for the desires of our hearts, intercession is praying God's heart back to Him. Intercession moves us past our own inclinations and towards the Lord's kingdom on earth.

Join Rachel Lozano, Ann Stevens, and Donna Drennen as they discuss the practicalities and wonders of intercession. Listen as they share how they have powerfully experienced the Father's heart in interceding for others.

Hear about some amazing answered prayers!

"Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died--more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us."

Romans 8:34

Be inspired to enter into a prayer bigger than yourself and grow in praying the Lord's heart for His people.

Go deeper still this month as we ask the Lord to Teach Us to Pray!

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Release: January 2023
Music by Christian Harper. 
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The Our Father is for everyone,  anytime, anywhere, NOW and FOREVER!

The Lord’s Prayer, also known as the ‘Our Father,’ comes from the Gospel of Matthew, with a shorter version in the Gospel of Luke. It continues to be one of the most popular Christian prayers.

But have you ever taken the time to reflect on it, line by line, and consider how it could transform your life?

Join Neal and Jacqueline in a deep dive into the seven lines of the prayer Jesus gave us, often called the Seven Petitions. Listen and be inspired to invite His kingdom more fully into your life and the lives of those you love. 

“Pray then in this way: ‘Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”

Matthew 6:9-13

Go deeper still this month as we ask the Lord to Teach Us to Pray!

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Release: January 2023
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New Year, new goals? Want to grow in the gift of giving thanks? Join Matt as he shares with Jacqueline what Thanksgiving means to him and how we're called to walk with gratitude. Go deeper in grace this year and join us for a profound discussion on aligning our hearts with reality.

When you hear the word Thanksgiving, what does it mean to you? What do you think about? Do you think about reality?

The act of giving thanks can align our hearts with the reality that we are loved and that everything is grace. Everything is a gift.  Life itself is gratuitous.

Matt takes us back to the scriptures. When you read in Romans one, there's a description of the fall, and it says although they knew God, they neither acknowledged Him as God nor gave Him thanks. So the beginning of the fall was a lack of gratitude.

Romans 1;21  For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

By detaching themselves from the reality of who God is, they lacked in giving thanks.  A lack of gratitude, which doesn't see God for who He is nor give Him thanks,  resulted in a darkened mind. The darkened mind led to idolatry and all sorts of other problems for humanity.

So if the fall involved ingratitude, our redemption will involve Thanksgiving.

Go deeper still this month as we ask the Lord to Teach Us to Pray!

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Release: January 2023
Music by Christian Harper. Vocals by Halle Martin.
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In this final week of Advent, we light the purple candle of peace. In prayer and penance, we wait for the birth of our Savior. We are called to step away from the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, quiet ourselves, and prepare the center place in our hearts for Christ Jesus. It is in the peace and quiet of the midnight hours that the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.

Our special guest, Bonnie O'Neil, Executive Director of Alpha Mid-Atlantic, author, spiritual director, Bible teacher, and engaging speaker, takes a deep dive into understanding Joseph. She joins Jenn, Rachel, and Jacqueline to discuss Matthew 1:18-24, where we are given a small glimpse of the man God chose to be the earthly father of His Son. We have much to learn from Joseph's unwavering faithfulness and obedience to God.

The Lord's plans do not always make sense to us, but they are always good. We may ask, "God, why is life not easier?" Advent invites us to embrace the mystery of faith that God is always working things together for our good. In order to hear God and recognize His voice, we must be quiet. How are you listening to God? How does He speak to you?

The Lord promised Joseph that Mary would give birth to a son who will save His people from their sins. While this was not Joseph's initial plan for his life, his personal faith provided his willingness to mold his desires to match the Lord's. 

In this season of Advent, press into your deepest longings and desires as you wait for the Lord. 

"But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, 'Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins.'" (Matthew 1:20-21).

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Release: December 2022
Music by Christian Harper. Vocals by Halle Martin.
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This past Sunday, we lit the third candle, the rose candle of joy, as a moment of rejoicing while we await the birth of our Savior.

Advent can be a powerful time to reflect and prepare our hearts for Jesus, to allow Him to reach us in ways we have not yet known Him.

The scriptures this week give us much pause for joy.

Who is this Jesus? Why did He come?

Join us today as Janet leads us in a beautiful reflection on Psalm 146:6-10 and come to know Him just a little deeper still.

He is the maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.
He remains faithful forever.
He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets free the prisoner.
The Lord gives sight to the blind.
The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down.
The Lord loves the righteous.
The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but He frustrates the ways of the wicked.

The God of heaven became a man that He might become our salvation.

He became one of us.

Lord, we thank you today for who you are, and for what you've done. We recognize that you love us incredibly, and we can trust in You. Thank You for becoming one of us.

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Release: December 2022
Music by Christian Harper. Vocals by Halle Martin.
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During this second week of Advent,  the candle we light on the advent wreath represents faith. And there's a lot of faith required  in this passage we're discussing today from Isaiah 11:1-10.

It's that one that begins, "A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse;
 from his roots a branch will bear fruit."

When you look at a stump, you don't usually see new trees growing out of it. A stump is usually dead, and you're just waiting for it to decay. This represents David and his kingdom and his family line.

But Jesus is a really unexpected surprise.

David's line had appeared to be done for as the last of the Davidic kings had been carted off to Babylon. Then they return, and there are a few of them that try to set up the kingdom, but they fail and they're under oppression.

But Isaiah speaks of a shoot that will bear fruit.

So, you know, Jesus. He is not what people expect. He's a surprise.

In the passage on the wedding in Cana , there is wine that is saved for the last. That's kind of like Jesus. It's a description of Jesus.

This wine is amazing, intoxicating,  and flavorful. Where did this come from?  That wine is like this shoot coming out of the stump of Jesse.

And so, in Jesus, something that was lost is being restored. Even something that people were hoping for comes to us in a marvelous way.

Jesus arrives in the fullness of time.

He's unexpected and He's better than anything we could imagine. That's the faith that this passage is indicating-Jesus is something you've never seen before.

The Messiah's kingdom is so much more than we can get our heads around. He's going to bring wisdom and order to all of creation. We're going to see an end to things that we thought were never going to be possible. 

This Advent,  respond to the invitation to groan along with all creation, to groan for Messiah's Kingdom, to groan for Jesus, and for His glory to be revealed.

The words He longs to speak to you are astonishingly and astoundingly good.

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Release: December 2022
Music by Christian Harper. Vocals by Halle Martin.
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Looking for a kairos moment?

Well, isn't Advent that sort of time?

The birth of Jesus,  the Incarnation- could there have been another kairos moment like that? 

For hundreds and hundreds of years, people were waiting for a Messiah. But they didn't just get a Messiah.

They got God Incarnate!

So they got more than they hoped for, more than they imagined, more than they could expect, and they almost missed it because He didn't come in the way they expected.

We don't want to be those people that miss the moment during Advent.  We don't want to miss out on the best Christmas celebration.

We want to draw near to Him because we're not just hoping for a Messiah. We're not just hoping for a nice celebration; we're hoping for a deeper encounter with Jesus Christ,  the Son of the Living God.

He has been born among us, lives among us, and by His Holy Spirit dwells in us. So,  this is a kairos moment, a powerful time,  an extraordinary time!

Join us as we reflect today on Romans 13:11-12 and be drawn into the extraordinary!

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Release: December 2022
Music by Christian Harper. Vocals by Halle Martin.
Artwork by Rosemary Strohm at Command-S

Do you long to grow in loving those around you yet sometimes find it a challenge in the day to day? 

In this episode, Matt sat down with the wonderful, godly couple, Peter and Debbie Herbeck to discuss the Herbeck’s new book Lessons from the School of Love coming in January 2023.
 
Enjoy their insightful and often humorous stories of facing life's challenges and knowing God’s faithfulness. Though Peter and Debbie come from wildly different worlds, their marriage is founded on their mutual transformation by Jesus Christ. This beautiful conversation centers on  faith, family, forgiveness, and love as they share life stories with Matt. 

Peter Herbeck is the Executive Vice President and Director of Missions for Renewal Ministries. For more than thirty years, he has been actively involved in evangelization and Catholic renewal throughout the US, Canada, Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. Debbie has worked extensively in youth and women’s ministry and has spoken at Franciscan University Conferences, Legatus chapters, and women’s events throughout the world. She is the founder and executive director of Pine Hills Girls Camp and the founder and director of the Be Love Revolution. When they are not writing books or traveling the world, they enjoy loving and celebrating life with their four children and nine grandchildren.

The Herbeck family motto is: “We make our aim to please the Lord”. Empowered through their marital vows and mutual commitment to Jesus, Peter and Debbie set a strong precedent for their children growing up in serving the Lord through all that they did and do.

The Herbecks share how Family is the school of love. Referring to the 2nd Key of Unbound, FORGIVENESS, Peter tells how families need to lavish forgiveness on each other and be in each other’s corner.

They take a deep dive into some practicals for responding to the call to parenthood. One snippet of their advice: have a weekly parent meeting where you talk about all the practical and important issues as well as seek the Lord together for decisions and prayer for your children. Listen for more!

Peter and Debbie share candidly about the many challenges they faced as parents and invite others to impact eternity by responding to this profound call. 

Look out for the release of Lessons from the School of Love in early 2023! 

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Release: November 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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As children of a loving God, we were created to live in relationship with Him. Yet often in our daily lives, we struggle with knowing who we are called to be. Why are we here? Where are we going? What is this all about?

1 John 3:1: "See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!"

How good to know His great love and how important to bring our children into a deeper knowledge and experience of God's blessing. 

Join Rachel and Jacqueline as they reflect on the captivating children's book Will You Bless Me? and the powerful impact it had on their children and themselves. Listen as they share about creating a culture of blessing in their families and more deeply knowing the blessing of the Father for themselves. 

Written by Neal Lozano and illustrated by Ben Hatke, Will You Bless Me?  is a book for all ages that helps parents speak blessing over their child's identity. The book teaches both parent and child to ask for and receive blessings from their Heavenly Father through the gentle stories of Anna and Jesus. 

The belief that who we are is determined by what we do is a lie from the enemy and the world--parent or child, we come down hard on ourselves if we fail to meet expectations placed on us. It is important that we are able to receive the words of encouragement that the Lord has for us and for who he made us to be. 

Whether for children to receive blessings from their parents or for adults to meditate on the Father's encouragement, Will You Bless Me?  illustrates the significance of speaking honor over our identities so that we may hold close the life God has for us and hold loosely that which does not define us.

Be filled with love and hope!

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Release: November 2022
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Do you know your heavenly Father's love? Do you long for more of Him? Jesus came to reveal the Father's heart and bring us home to the Father where we can find rest and be renewed in our identity, purpose, and destiny.  The Father longs to whisper words of love and encouragement to you.

Join  Neal and Jenn as they take a closer look at one of our favorite topics, the Father's Blessing. Be moved by profound insight and beautiful reflections!

In this episode, you'll learn to fill your heart with the word of God, to pause and explore His great love.  Allow Him to go deeper in blessing you and grow in blessing others.

Zephaniah 3:17

The Lord your God is in your midst,
    a mighty one who will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness;
    He will quiet you by His love;
He will exult over you with loud singing.

Luke 12:7

But even the hairs of your head are all counted. Do not fear; you are more valuable than a great number of sparrows.

Ministry Tips: Growing in Speaking the Father's Blessing

Tip #2  Focus on the Source of the Father's Blessing

Tip #3  Fill Your Heart with the Word of God

Tip #4 Getting in Touch with the Needs of a Child's Heart

Previous podcast on the Father's Blessing - "Encounter the Father's Blessing Like Never Before" with Neal Lozano and Jacqueline Harper

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Release: November 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
Artwork by Rosemary Strohm at Command-S

Join us for today's episode as Jenn shares her personal testimony of coming to know the Father's embrace. 

She shares deeply about her walk as a wife,  mom, daughter, servant, and woman of faith.  

You'll hear Jenn talk about some significant freedom experiences and learning to walk in a lifestyle of repentance, abiding, and gratitude.

You'll want to listen more than once.

Quotes:

“The greatest demand love makes on us is that we help one another into the kingdom of God” 

-Magnificat Sept. 6, 2020

2 Corinthians 7, “Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation.”    

“Abiding with Jesus is nothing but the giving up of oneself to be ruled, taught and led and so to rest in the arms of everlasting love.”  -Andrew Murray

Dave Walker, Revolve Church NJ Sermon Aug. 28, 2022

“Be the gardener of my heart, tend the soil of my soul.  Break up the fallow ground, cut back the overgrown, And I won’t shy away, I will let the branches fall.  So what you want can stay and what you love can grow.”  

’Tend’ by Bethel Music

One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp

“I’m so blessed, I’m so blessed, Got this heartbeat in my chest.”

“I’m so Blessed” by Cain.

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Release: October 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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Want to be blown away by the love of God and the plan He has for your life?

Listen to this episode with Matt and Encounter Ministries' Patrick Reis discussing the overflowing love of God and the blessing of the Holy Spirit revealed in the lives of the saints. 

Patrick is the Executive Director of Encounter Ministries and has a passion and drive to see Catholics empowered to walk in the power and love of the Holy Spirit. He carries a strong heart for evangelization, healing, prophetic ministry, contemplative prayer and Christian unity. Patrick ministers and speaks at conferences internationally and was featured in the 2017 groundbreaking “Fearless” documentary and the 2019 “Revive” documentary. He is married to Emily and together they have six children.

Listen to Patrick share about his recently published book Supernatural Saints and be moved to walk more fully in the life God has for you.

A recent review of his book:

Dr. Mary Healy, S.T.D., Professor of Scripture at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, bestselling author, and international speaker:

“I thought I knew these saints, but Patrick Reis draws out lessons from their lives that are new, amazing, eye-opening, practical, and exactly what is needed for the Church’s mission today. I find myself deeply challenged and inspired by this book.”

Don't miss this episode: it might just change your life!

“Who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these...” John 14:12

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Release: October 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
Artwork by Rosemary Strohm at Command-S

 What does it mean to be sons and daughters of God?

In today's episode, Janet and Rachel continue the discussion of the Four Pillars of Unbound through beautiful teaching and powerful stories.

This week they talk about humility and compassion; it is HOLY GROUND!

Be struck by the beauty of Jesus’ character. In His humility, He lay down His life for us, and in His compassion, He sees and understands us. 

Jesus laid down His life and entered our stories. He longs to more deeply enter yours!

 Know the Father loves you so much, He is running after you, and He longs to fill you with His humility and compassion!


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Release: October 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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In this episode, Neal and Jacqueline reflect on two pillars of Unbound Ministry through their own stories of how the Holy Spirit has revealed to them the hidden love of God. First, knowing God’s delight—when we encounter the Lord we encounter His love. He desires deep fellowship with us but His heart breaks when we step away from Him. Whether we have always known His love for us or we struggle to feel worthy, Unbound focuses on removing the obstacles to knowing God’s love for us. 

The second pillar is the necessity of the Holy Spirit to experience God’s love. Neal shares his own personal revelations of who the Holy Spirit is as a companion. St. Paul encourages us to have companionship with the Holy Spirit. The mission of the Holy Spirit is to reveal the love of God through Jesus Christ for the glory of God. When we lean into that and receive it, we can experience deep fellowship with the Spirit.

Experience the Love of God and go DEEPER in your walk with Him!

Mark 1:11 “And a voice came from Heaven, ‘You are my beloved Son; with you I am well-pleased.’” 

2 Corinthians 13:14 “May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.”

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Release: October 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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Have you ever struggled with knowing God's personal love for you, believing that He loves you unconditionally? Do you know who you are as His daughter, as His son?

Today you are in for a treat as Janet hosts and Rachel shares her personal Unbound testimony about getting set free from confusion and more.

Rachel is our local ministry team leader and intake coordinator. She's an integral part of our team at Heart of the Father, overseeing countless projects and details.  More importantly, she's Janet's wonderful daughter-in-law!

"I was insecure. I struggled with perfection and insecurity, and I had grown up in a home that felt very confusing.  I had two parents that loved me but did not love each other. I had not been introduced to a Lord who loved me, and it led to confusion in my life about what it meant to be a daughter of God, what it meant to be a person in the world.

And so that (renouncing confusion) was really key for me in that session...

I definitely experienced the heart of the father during that Unbound session... and I really experienced the Father's love. I can look back and know how much He loves me."

Listen as Rachel talks about walking more deeply in her identity as a beloved daughter, and hear the cool story about how she met her husband and became part of the Lozano family!

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Release: September 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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How transformative is the powerful freedom found in our Father! But what does it look like to walk daily in this new world of freedom—one often full of challenges? Join Jacqueline as she interviews Ann Stevens, a powerful speaker at our Freedom in Christ conferences in Philadelphia and beyond, where she talks about walking in the fullness of freedom in our true identity in Christ.

Listen as Ann shares the testimony of her first time working through the Five Keys, having to navigate coming out of the dark cave and into the wide open world—a world that challenges and tests her freedom to this day. Ann shares deeper insight into her “Staying Free” talk and offers best practices in being open to what the Lord is doing in those uncomfortable moments. 

Go deeper, being open to the Lord—He wants to bring greater freedom to you and help you hang onto that freedom!

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Release: September 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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Do you know the Lord but long to go deeper in your walk with Him?

Have you experienced a great loss in your life but have just believed that life goes on and so you just moved on?

Have you ever struggled with habitual sin, and no matter how hard you try you just can't seem to break free?

Or have you had a difficult relationship with someone and still have a hard time overcoming negative feelings about them?

The Lord longs for you to walk deeper in freedom and He desires to take you to new levels of healing and forgiveness.

Meet Tony and Toni, two beautiful souls from the Diocese of Wichita, Kansas, who lead a flourishing Unbound Ministry there.  Listen as they both share with Rachel incredibly moving testimonies of God's faithfulness in touching the deepest places of their hearts, especially through forgiveness.

Listen as they talk about the power of renunciation and the beauty of saying YES to ministering to others.

Toni: And even after the  Unbound session, I was still thinking about the freedom that came from forgiving that person for what they had done and truly releasing them. There is something to true forgiveness. Like until that point I had not experienced what true forgiveness was...

It was really difficult. I really had to dig deep and ask the Lord to help me with this, because this was something that I had carried around for quite some time.

And the next day I remember feeling like WOW, when I think about this person, I no longer have the feeling that I had before. I just didn't feel anything negative towards them (anymore).

Hear more about how the Lord changed their lives through the ministry of Unbound and why Tony and Toni long to share the message of freedom in Christ with others.

Want more of what you heard today?

Tony and Toni's Unbound team are hosting an Unbound Freedom in Christ retreat from October 21st to the 23rd. So definitely go check it out!

Or join us for another Freedom in Christ conference this fall. Visit our events page and invite a friend to join you!

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Release: September 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
Artwork by Rosemary Strohm at Command-S.

Have you heard about the Five Keys of Unbound? If so, well you are going to love this episode about going deeper with the Keys. If not, you'll still in for a wonderful treat. 

The Five Keys are simple responses to the good news that help us to cooperate with God's grace.  Each key helps us to access this grace and unlock the door to greater freedom.

The first three keys, Repentance and Faith, Forgiveness, and Renunciation,  are about responding to the gospel.  

Those keys are about turning to Jesus and expressing faith, and more deeply experiencing the power of His kingdom released into our hearts. 

Then the last two keys are Authority and The Father's Blessing. These are really about the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

These keys work intimately together to both give expression to a person's heart as they cooperate with what God's doing, but also to proclaim the good news over a person’s life.

These keys are SO SIMPLE, yet SO DEEP.  Every time we minister to someone, we learn something new along the way!

Join Matt and Jenn as they take us Deeper with the Keys and get into the layers of repentance, the less obvious need for forgiveness, and the power of revelation in renunciation.

Listen as they dive into learning not only about blessing a person's identity, purpose, and destiny, but taking it further by blessing areas in their lives that have been discouraged, hidden, or cursed.
 
Whether you are new to Unbound or have been leading ministry sessions for years, you will hear some profound insight and beautiful testimonies,  and you'll be inspired along the way.

Renunciation List
A Ring on Our Finger podcast
The Overview of the Five Keys talk
Leadership Conference information

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Release: September 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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Join Janet as she interviews our friend Therese Griffin, and you'll hear a beautiful story of zeal for God's kingdom, hunger for more of Him, and a heart of compassion for the lost.

 Aside from loving her expanding family, Therese is  currently a physical therapist in  Maryland, but her favorite thing to do (in her ownd words) "is just to minister to people on the streets and watch God move on people and see their faces light up". She loves to see lies broken about what they believed God thought of them and what God really thinks about them, whether ministering in an Unbound session, at a methadone clinic, or out on the streets.

"That is always the most joyful moment, getting to see what freedom looks like on a person's face or as they express it out of their heart, it's just really amazing. It is life changing for the person and it's food for my soul."

Be encouraged and empowered today!

(Please accept our apologies for the occasional slight static in this episodes. We had technical difficutlies and did our best to fix it. We know you are going to LOVE this conversation and didn't want you to miss it!)

Note:, this is the last podcast for this season, Season 1, and it's been just such a joy to be on this journey with you all.  We look forward to beginning again with our podcasts on September 9th! Join us for Season 2 of Open Doors: Conversations with Heart of the Father and go DEEPER STILL!

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Release: July 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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Matt's excited to interview one of our really good friends, John Paul Ngotty, a leader in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Tanzania.

John Paul traveled with Matt to different countries to share the message of Unbound. He has also trained hundreds and hundreds of people to use Unbound for deliverance.

John Paul loves Unbound for "we experience a real freedom" and after using Unbound Ministry instead of more confrontational deliverance models, people are "completely set free!"

"It's very easy, like coffee or tea! People get very free."

We pray that God gives John Paul more opportunities to travel and share the message of Unbound with many people. We believe he has a gift and a calling to share the message of freedom not only to Tanzania and Nigeria but beyond. 

Join Matt and John Paul today for a powerful conversation about deliverance ministry made simple! You are going to LOVE him!

(Next week join us as Janet interviews our good friend Therese Griffin from Maryland. Then we'll be taking off the month of August- a good time to catch up on missed episodes!)

Hear John Paul's powerful testimony from our Leadership Conference.

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Release: July 2022
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Join us today and you're going to hear a beautiful story of humility of heart, willingness to serve, and faithfulness to the call.

Our guest today, Ben Akery,  reminds us of Samuel who heard the Lord's voice and responded, " Here I am, Lord; you called me?"

Ben is on the pastoral staff at Crosstown Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Born in Missouri, Ben spent most of his young life in Southern California.

He began his career as an engineer, which brought his wife and him to many different places.   They moved frequently, but they always found themselves ending up in churches where they could serve and support.

Finally, in 2007, Ben and his late wife Candy were ordained into ministry at Crosstown Church in South Carolina. It was around this time that they discovered Unbound and have gone on to raise a great team and help many other teams get started.

A few of Ben's sweet and powerful musings:

"God doesn't want us to be tormented by anything-doubt, shame, fear, all those related spirits, all those things in the back of the (Unbound) book...

But I realize...  that God sent Jesus Christ not only to save us from our sins,  but also to give us the abundant life that we always hear about.  The Holy Spirit convicted me that the peace that surpasses understanding, the one that can give us the joy of the Lord, is unlimited.

So there's no problem you have that's greater than the peace that God can give you... it can't be restricted at all by your ability to understand it, because if you were able to understand, it'd probably blow your head off!

I mean, it's just more than you can handle. So it's greater than we would ever need. It doesn't matter if we understand it or not. It's a peace that God gives us, not based on any of our own understanding."

Come be encouraged and inspired by Ben and Jen today.

You might just be blown away!

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Release: July 2022
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What is spiritual authority?

 Authority is such an important part of our Christian life.

Yet, many of us don't have a good or clear understanding of the authority that we carry as followers of Christ.

So what is authority in the context of the Christian life?

Why is it important for us to walk in it?

John 1:12 says, "but to all who receive Him, who believe in His name, He gave the power to become children of God."  The word translated power there is literally translated authority.

So, He's given us power and authority. Jesus has restored our identity as sons and daughters of God, and now we can use this power and authority to live in the freedom of who we are, the children of God. 

But wait,  there's more!

Authority is also given to us so that we can share in His mission- and two things about this mission.

Jesus has come to reveal the Father and to advance the Kingdom of God.

Remember the Prodigal Son story?

His father saw him and ran to him. He ran to him and he hugged him and he kissed him and he put a robe on him, put sandals on him, and he put a ring on his finger.

Join us today and get a deeper understanding of the "ring on your finger!"

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Release: July 2022
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 You'll be so blessed by the beautiful Susana de la Piedra. Born in Chile,  when she was a little girl,  Susana left her country to live in Brazil and then later in South Africa and Australia.

Now back and raising a family in Chile, she has been instrumental in sharing the message of Unbound there.

Susana, a nurse by profession, cares for her husband and five kids while ministering through the Regnum Christi movement. She exudes a love for others and her passion is to see people set free.

Listen to her testimony of deep healing and forgiveness...and allow the Lord to take you deeper and deeper into His heart.

"How much He loves us and how much MORE He has in store for us."

Expect something beautiful!

"It  was obvious that this was the way the Lord wanted me to walk so I read the books and then I took the Basic Training and after that the Mentoring, ( and then the Advanced Training.) I just, I just was so hungry, Rachel, for more, and I wanted to understand better and go deeper. So it was a beautiful gift to come across the training and the Five Keys, and to know that there was a nonconfrontational model that we could use to bring freedom to the people."

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Release: June 2022
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We're excited to introduce to you our good friend, Fr. Antonio Ritaccio. Fr. Antonio grew up the youngest of five children in an Italian Catholic family in Bedford, England, entered the seminary in 1990, and was ordained a diocese and priest for the Archdiocese of Westminster in 1999.

Since then he's had many chaplaincy roles, including Westminster Cathedral College of Chaplains, Diocesan Youth Chaplain, and more recently has been assigned Pastoral Director of the Archdiocesan Seminary in London among others. We're grateful he will be the Spiritual Director for the Catholic Priest Retreat: Training in Unbound Ministry this July 25-29 in Wichita, Kansas.

Hear how the Lord profoundly made Himself known and touched Fr. Antonio's heart as a young man. Listen as he shares his journey to the West Indies, and as the only Catholic priest around, got called upon to do deliverance ministry there.

Upon returning to London, he dove deep into learning all he could about deliverance, hopped on a plane to an Unbound Priest Retreat, and has been ministering using the Five Keys ever since.

"And I got a bit of a reputation...(people started showing up at my door) and I would find that I would go out in the morning and there would be people waiting for me to get prayer ministry. So I had to start hiding at one point because I just couldn't manage the amount of people coming to me daily."

Don't miss some powerful stories and profound insights.

"Unbound is really a very simplified synthesis of what the church teaches on baptism and the catechumenate."

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Release: June 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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Today, we have a treat for you. We share a great talk that Matt Lozano gave at our last in-person Leadership Conference called The Kingdom is a Family.

The gospel is a message of family. The gospel is the good news that the Father is inviting all to become members of His family. The gospel is covenant love offered to strangers. The gospel turns slaves into sons and daughters. The gospel ends division, and it makes one people out of two.

In Luke 7, Jesus went to a town called Nain, and His disciples, in a large crowd, went along with Him. As He approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out, but not just a dead person, the only son of his mother.

The inheritance is dead. The legacy is gone. This is a widow. This is a widow who has lost her future. Her life is gone. And a large crowd from the town was with her, and the Lord saw her, and His heart went out to her. God is drawn to the orphan, the widow, and the alien. This is the response of the gospel.

He went up and he touched the coffin. They were carrying him on. He touched it. He reached out and grabbed ahold of death, and the bearer stood still. Isn't that awesome. Stop. the funeral.; Jesus is here!

He said to the man young man, "I say to you, get up."  The dead man sat up and began to talk,  and Jesus gave him back to his mother. The result of the kingdom's power is to bring dead men to life and give them back to their mothers.  A son is reborn.

This is our model for ministry.

Family is where we belong. We are called to touch the place of death and destruction with the power of Jesus.

You won't want to miss this powerful episode.

Know you are a part of this family!

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Release: June 2022
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What it's like to have a mom and a daughter share about Unbound ministry, looking back over many, many years and hearing about the fruit that it's produced in their lives?

Meet Carolina Prada, originally from Costa Rica, now married and raising her family in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. She and her husband have a powerful conversion story and then the Lord led them to serve in Apape Street Ministry, healing ministries, RCIA, and Unbound. 

Hear her personal testimony of freedom from nightmares which led Carolina to bring Unbound to her church, her family, and friends.

Carolina: (On my behalf) my husband went to talk to a priest who told him to get the book (Unbound) and to do it right away. So he got the last copy and brought it home to me.

I read it…and the rest is history!

Hannah (her 15-year-old daughter): I got introduced to Unbound when I was three years old, which was a huge blessing. And since then my mom and I use it all the time and this has just built a beautiful relationship of trust between us…Our doing Unbound together has really helped me pinpoint things in my life that I need to get rid of like unhealthy attachments and such…

Carolina: In praying together, Unbound has basically created a very special bond between us because sometimes I'm the problem. I haven't realized it is something I've said or the way I've said it or the timing has just been so wrong. And then I offer Hannah (or my other children) prayer and as we pray at some point, it will come out…and it's this safe place where our Lord is so present, and they can really open up and just say exactly how they feel, without feeling shame or feeling afraid…we can truly open our hearts for Him to heal.

Whether you long to grow in listening, desire more healing in your family, or just want to be blessed, join us today and be filled with hope!

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Release: June 2022
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Meet Fr. Charlie Garza. He's a Catholic priest and the pastor at St. Albert the Great in the Austin, Texas area. 

Fr. Charlie attended one of our Unbound priest retreats recently and has become a friend.

Listen as he shares candidly about his priestly call, his parish mission, and his desire to see others get set free to serve!

Fr. Charlie on on his call: "Believe it or not,  one of the ways the enemy kind of held me back for a bit  was through that shyness and just believing that I didn't have what it took to be a priest."

Fr. Charlie on the blessing of Unbound ministry at his parish: " We tried to do a catechesis, even small face sharing groups previously, and it just seemed like we kind of run into some hurdles. And what we found is that there were different blocks, in lies of the enemy, that our parishioners had bought into, unconsciously.  So as we started to pray with people with the Unbound model, we found that people started to become more open in their relationship with Christ, but also in the ways that they started to step into true discipleship and serving. So it really helped to open up ways that people received the gospel in new ways. But I would say even more importantly, we're starting to spread and share the gospel in ways that they hadn’t (before).

Fr. Charlie on the Priest Retreat: "I think the blessing of that was that opportunity to let the guard down in a sense of...it's okay for me to receive and see my brother priests (receive) too.   It's like, wow, I can receive; I don't have to give in this moment.  I remember in my session with you, Matt, seeing the love that you have for me as a brother in Christ.  I think that too was something very,  very healing for me, because again, sometimes, the enemy has come at me like, okay, well,  when are you going to be able to receive, you've always got to give, you've always got to give...so just in that mere fact of being ministered to myself, I would say, was very healing.

Join us today for this beautiful conversation that's not JUST for Catholics or for priests.

Be inspired to get free to serve!

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Release: June 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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"And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. " Luke 15:20

The father saw the son coming from far off, not so close that he would recognize his face, but he saw the son's gait and his stature and he recognized him.

There are two things there, one, that he recognized his son by just the outline of his body, and, and two, that he was looking for his son.

As parents, as moms, as dads, we can be looking for things in our children, looking for their hearts, listening to their hearts and seeing them, really seeing them.

So today join Rachel, Jenn, and Jacqueline as they share a little bit about walking through the mud of parenting and how the Lord comes and rescues. Embrace with them the joy of walking with some tools, especially those of forgiveness and blessing, while looking and listening for those moments to really see our kids.

Learn to let the power of the gospel and the responses of the five keys become a part of your family culture.

Blessing becomes a part of your life in big events like birthdays and graduations, but also in an everyday part of your life where you're looking- How can I speak blessing and truth into my kids' lives? How can we speak about their identity?  That's all about what Unbound is- stripping away what our identity isn't and stepping into what our identity really is!

"Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable. "

― David W. Augsburger, Caring Enough to Hear and Be Heard

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Release: May 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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Today Matt has the privilege of introducing Father Mike Schmitz, Catholic priest, author, and speaker in the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota. He works with Ascension Press, has been featured in many study programs, and has been the primary personality involved in Ascension Presents with weekly YouTube offerings. He's the host of several podcasts including the very popular Bible in a Year Podcast. He runs the Newman Center at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and he's the director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry for the Diocese.

Does he ever sleep?

Listen as Matt and Fr. Mike uncover some of the most powerful aspects of freedom.

Fr.  Mike...

What inspired you to do a podcast,  reading the Bible in a year?

 What does freedom mean to you?

Could you share something in your life that maybe you see over time in your relationship with the Lord, like, oh, He actually brought more freedom into my life?

How do you help students break out of their stories, those small stories that kind of trap them?

How do you help folks to forgive who may be struggling to take that next step of forgiveness?

What's a good takeaway from the past year?

And, what's something that's feeding your soul these days?

Listen and listen again!

Share with a friend! You might just bring the hope they have been longing for!

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Release: May 2022
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Quite often at an Unbound conference, we’re asked if Unbound Ministry can be used with children. Neal’s first response is always that parents should receive so they really understand the Five Keys, but there's so much more to say to help parents minister to their children in this way. 

Meet Sandi Lebel, an impressive servant of God and powerful force in the church. Hear some incredible stories of how the Five Keys of Unbound have significantly impacted her, her family, and her ministry.  

Among many things, Sandi is on the National Service Committee for the Catholic Charismatic Renewal and in the Archdiocese of Miami and served as Program Director for Respect Life Pregnancy Help Centers. Later Sandi served there as an education coordinator, and she has spoken to thousands of teens in Catholic high schools on issues of life such as chastity and abortion.

Sandy is zealous for God and always joyful and enthusiastic and ready to serve. And those early years, when we at Heart of the Father were developing our training materials, she helped us transcribe leaders' training talks and transcribed and translated the Unbound Freedom and Christ DVDs into Spanish.

In this fun and enlightening conversation with Neal, you’ll hear how it’s just the most natural thing in the world to listen to your child and help them to respond to the truth of the gospel.

“(At my first Unbound conference) I was blown away by how profound the self-awareness without the self-condemnation in such a short amount of time that the Holy Spirit was doing.”

Shortly after, she had an opportunity to help her young son through a challenge. 

“So I just told him, okay, sometimes when things like this happen,  you have feelings that are stuck inside of you, but in Jesus' Name, we can kick them out. So then we started to renounce anger and sadness and guilt. Without me prompting him in any way, he started to just exhale and say, ‘Mommy, Mommy, they're leaving.’

Truly out of the mouths of babes. He even said,  ‘I feel lighter.’ I mean, this was unbelievable to me to have been at a conference for three days and have read an entire book, and here’s an eight-year-old child instinctively knowing the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit.”

What's most incredible is how even now, as a young adult, her son sees the fruit of Unbound in his life and encourages all families to learn and use it with a heart of compassion and a posture of humility. 

Come experience freedom and learn more about bringing greater freedom to your family, in a simple way, as you learn to listen to your child and help them to respond to the truth of the gospel.

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Release: May 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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Do you know your Heavenly Father? Do you know He longs to bless you? He has been waiting, looking, searching, longing for you. 

Perhaps today as you look to Him, you will see the Father running toward you. He longs to whisper in your ear!

He has a great plan for your life. You have a unique significance, there's a reason you were born, and there's a place for you in heaven!

He wants to fill our hearts with an understanding of this great, great love, and He wants us to speak blessing to others.

When we speak blessing, it means to speak the thoughts of God into the heart of another person.

Words have the power to change lives, and the Father longs for His words of blessing to change yours and enable you to share this gift with others.

Isn't that the ministry of Jesus, to restore us and bless our broken hearts?

Join us today and encounter the Father's Blessing like never before.

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Release: May 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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Meet Joe and Becky Dougherty, prayer warriors and persistent missionaries, who are sold out for the Lord and for others. Join us as they share how God led them to  Unbound and now serve as a couple both near and far. You have to hear their amazing story of how the Lord brought them together, a wonderful Unbound moment. Be inspired by other stories of  God's presence changing lives and His miracles happening!

"I think we've both been blessed in the area of the prophetic and a lot of times we'll be praying with the person and through Unbound.  And there's a moment when there's a Holy Spirit 'breakdown', and that's when I find that people's hearts are really touched.

It's in those Holy Spirit 'breakdown' moments that God just enters in. He starts to do things that we're not even thinking about or contemplating that He might be doing. We had a situation just recently where we were praying Unbound with an individual, and he was asking for one thing, but when we prayed with him, something happened in his chest.

I was just thinking, well, that's the Holy Spirit coming upon him.  But later he wrote back to us and said, 'I think when you prayed with me, a miracle took place because I had this lump in my chest about the size of my thumb.  Afterward, when I went home, it just became like the tip of my finger, I could feel it was different. So I want to get it x-rayed and the x-ray showed that it had almost entirely disappeared!' "

Yes, in God's presence miracles happen!

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Release: April 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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Do you have a heart of compassion?

Have you experienced deep freedom in Christ and long to share that with others?

Do you long to give the good news of the gospel and the blessing of the Five Keys of Unbound to others?

Join Rachel and Janet today as they touch on the practical ways and powerful reasons why ministering to others is a gift.

Perhaps you've thought about getting trained in Unbound Ministry. Well, what you receive when you minister to someone else using the Five Keys is such a gift to you!  It's priceless to see someone's life changed, to hear their story, to experience the heart of the Father for somebody.

It's amazing!

Janet Lozano is the Assistant Executive Director at Heart of the Father Ministries, and she's served alongside Neal for more than 40 years in pastoral care missions and Unbound conference ministry.

Rachel Lozano is our administrator for the Heart of the Father Ministry Team and coordinates local ministry days and evenings as well as our conference ministry sessions.

Both Janet and Rachel play a significant role in training people in Unbound ministry.

Join them in giving away this gift!

" A heart of compassion is the number one requirement for Unbound Ministry!"

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Release: April 2022
Music by Christian Harper.
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