Open Doors: Conversations with Heart of the Father

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...

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 wi...

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...

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...

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 i...

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 reali...

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,...

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 beautif...

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 gro...

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 th...

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. Th...

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 ho...

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 Blessi...

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. Quot...

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...

 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 unders...

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...

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 pa...

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 sh...

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 feeli...

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 F...

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 watc...

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 Unbou...

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 yo...

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...