Open Doors: Conversations with Heart of the Father

Don’t miss this captivating episode as Neal Lozano hosts Capuchin Franciscan friar Fr. Diogo Escudero who serves the Brazilian and Portuguese communities in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Fr. Diogo remembers first experiencing Unbound in 2015 as a seminarian and being prayed for by Neal. He knew it was something he needed personally, and it was the beginning of a journey. First serving under Msg...

Meet Amanda and Jonathan Teixeira, cofounders of WalletWin, a ministry that helps folks in all stages of life improve their finances while getting at some of the deeper places of the heart! Learn the Teixeiras’ story – how they met and what inspired them to start a finance ministry. Matt shares how finances can reveal heart issues and often come up in Unbound sessions. Wounds, mistrust, and family...

Join Neal as he hosts Susan Walsh, Regional Coordinator of Unbound Ministry in England, and Fr. Antonio Ritaccio, a seasoned diocesan priest and Pastoral Director at the Diocesan Seminary in London.  Together, they reflect on the transformative Unbound Priest Retreat held in England and share stories of healing, renewal, and fraternity among clergy. Discover how the Unbound is equipping priests wi...

Join with Neal, Jacqueline and Lisa in conversation surrounding Advent Four’s scripture readings from Micah, Psalms, Hebrews, and Luke. Neal describes how captivating he found the Gospel reading, pondering the moment John the Baptist leapt in his mother’s womb and Elizabeth’s joy-filled response. “Did John leap first or was Elizabeth filled with the Holy Spirit when she declared with a loud voice...

Have a listen as Jenn, Matt, and Jacqueline share personal examples and meaningful reflections based upon scriptures from the third week in Advent. These passages from Zephaniah, Isaiah, Philippians, and Luke, all exhort us to rejoice! Sometimes our circumstances don’t feel joyful but Jesus offers us inestimable joy within the hidden place as we get to know him more deeply. When people receive Unb...

Experience a joy-filled dialogue between Lisa, Jenn, and Janet as they ponder four scriptures which speak of promise, confidence, hope, and joy for the second week of Advent. The passage from Luke shows how an unknown person, John the Baptist, was called from the desert to be the courier for the King of Kings. He was a hinge, opening the way, and a voice crying in the desert, exhorting people to p...

We’re thrilled to begin our Advent series, reflecting upon scriptures surrounding the coming of Jesus whether it be as a baby, into our hearts, or His second coming. Advent is a time of preparation that can be frenetic with activity and yet we are challenged be still before the Lord as we consider his coming to earth. Lisa emphasizes the heartfelt response of Psalm 25, “To you O Lord, I lift up my...

Experience the Father’s Blessing with a sweet listen as Neal shares from his deep well of experience and wisdom regarding the extraordinary Fifth Key of Unbound. The enemy always works to steal our identity and destiny, wanting to lead us deeper and deeper into loneliness and isolation. An Unbound Ministry session allows for restoration of our identity and healing of our heart. Healing is an integ...

Warm, wise, compassionate, and oh so real! Meet Emily Wilson, Heart of the Father’s newest team member. Emily, our Resources and Sales Coordinator, hails from California’s Bay Area but has embraced Philly and loves to “talk about the Eagles, eat a cheesesteak, and ride public transportation home.” A graduate of Villanova University and the Augustine Institute, Emily has been a missionary in Hondur...

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 h...

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 define...

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 a recent member of the Vatican's Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, and more. T...

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...

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 Unbo...

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...

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 empowere...

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...

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 profe...

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...

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...

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 ef...

“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....

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...

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 he...

“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...