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CWW is brought to you by Emmaus Road Ministries NW. My name is Mike Neelley. As a pastor and spiritual director, I want to help people to connect with the goodness of the often unrecognized presence of the living Jesus, right here, right now, whoever you are, wherever you are.
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Right now, 100% of the Father's love is for you. But we aren't experiencing it. Church Without Walls is launching with an eight part series on the Father love of God and exploring some of the obstacles that keep us from entering in and receiving more fully the love of the Father. Whoever you are, wherever you are, there is more.
In Galatians 4, Paul tells us that one of the reasons the Father sent the Son was to rescue us from the Law, that we might receive adoption. Is it possible the have been rescued but not truly entered into the experience of our adoption as beloved daughters and sons?
"Mother is the name of god on the hearts and lips of all children." In our journey to go deeper in the Father's love, one of the primary obstacles has to do with the fact that, no matter what we say we believe about God and His love, in our hearts we often relate to God through the filter of our relationships with our parents.
How can we know for sure what the Father is like and how He feels about us? It's not enough to say that the Bible tells us what God is like. God is like Jesus.God has always been like Jesus.There has never been a time when God was not like Jesus.We have not always known what God is like—But now we do.
One of the greatest obstacles in our journey toward God as Father is our complicated relationships with our earthly fathers, especially when we've been hurt by them. If we’ve had no father or bad fathers, or even average or good but not perfect fathers, how do we get to the Father revealed by Jesus, who looks, acts, tastes, smells and feels like Jesus?
We are so wired for performance in every relationship. We get the job because of how we’ve performed in other places. We keep the job or get a promotion because of how we’ve performed in the job. Even our closest relationships have an element of performance. But our relationship with the Father is one of being loved by Him first, before we’ve done anything – no performance! We want to move from our performance-based identity to a baptismal identity where we can receive what the Father has to ...
Our identity, as ones who have been born from above, is to come from what the Father says and must trump any other identity, every other value. An idol is anything that we have put in place of the Father. And whatever is in the place of the Father is calling the shots.
I share a picture of my inward journey that has resulted from praying, "Father, take me deeper in Your love." David Banner, in his book, The Gift of Being Yourself, frames what deeper looks like. “The self that God persistently loves is not my prettied up pretend self but my actual self – the real me. But, master of delusion that I am, I have trouble penetrating my web of deceptions and knowing this real me. I continually confuse it with some ideal self I wish I were.”
Today I talk with Bob Ekblad, founder and director of Tierra Nueva in NW Washington State, a ministry that seeks to share the good news of God's total liberation, healing, and transformation in Jesus Christ with people on the margins, especially those affected by immigration, incarceration, and addiction. Bob shares his approach to the Father of Jesus as it impacts our orphan hearts and the drive to perform.
In this episode I share a prayer practice that has been part of going deeper in the Father's love - the Welcoming Prayer. I hope this will help frame our time as we seek to be still and make space to receive what God already wants to give us.
Spiritual orphans function out of our experience of abandonment, rejection, isolation. These experiences create beliefs about who we are, what we are worth and how we must live in order to have security, significance and acceptance. It is a bottomless pit. We feel we have no name and so must work to build a name for ourselves. There can be a deep sense of lostness, ungroundedness, loneliness. They are well acquainted with the feelings of fear, rejection and anxiety that accompany homelessness...
I'm excited to share this interview with my friend, Drew Shih, as he brings a multi-cultural lens to our conversation about God the Father. Drew leads LED, a ministry catalyst for relational discipling and shepherding, and has been in senior leadership in South Korea, Taiwan, Canada, and now in San Francisco. Drew invites us to "taste and see" the Father's heart rather than simply "think and agree" that God is good.
I'm so excited for this conversation with my friend, Willow Weston. She is the founder and directer of www.wecollide.net in Bellingham, Washington and today she allows us into her story of pain and healing with the Father and the journey of learning to be a daughter. She brings a much needed voice to this conversation. You will be ministered to by this.
We are starting a new season exploring the Person and Work of God the Holy Spirit. There is probably as much avoidance, resistance, and misunderstanding about the Holy Spirit as there was in our previous series on God as Father. For an introduction, today we look at some of the obstacles and stories of how the Holy Spirit overcame them. We'll hear again from Bob Ekblad and I will share some of my journey to get us started.
As we continue our exploration into the Person and Work of God the Holy Spirit, we look more closely at what the Bible has to show us about the empowering work of the Holy Spirit. The question for this episode is, "What changed at Pentecost?"
"I've got Jesus, the Church and the Bible, why do I need the Holy Spirit?" The world around us is desperate for encounters with God that bring healing, restoration and transformation, where they feel seen and known by God. I want to live a life and be part of a community of faith where things happen that can only be explained by God.
Supernatural (Holy Spirit) ministry is weird by definition. So says Jordan Seng in his book Miracle Work. But one of the weirdest seems to be the Holy Spirit phenomenon called speaking in tongues. What is it and why is it so controversial? We'll explore the scriptures and some 20th Century history to see if we can better understand what the Holy Spirit is doing in this unique and strange gift.
How are we to be led by the Holy Spirit unless God is speaking to us in some manner? This brings up all sorts of issues and questions for people, including many who feel that God doesn't speak, or if God does, they don't hear. I'd like to suggest that you are already hearing in many ways, and we will explore some of them together and see what God is doing.
Today you all to get to hear from my long-time friend, Libby Chapman. Libby brings a wealth of experience and wisdom, shaped with sensitivity and deep compassion, as she describes her own journey with the person of the Holy Spirit and brings her insights into our topic: what does it mean to hear God? In Libby’s work as a spiritual director she has accompanied many people who feel they don’t hear God, and she has helped them step into a greater awareness of how God is communicating with them.&...
Buckle up for this ride with the Wild Goose of the Holy Spirit. My friend, Heidi Basley, has been called to follow the Holy Spirit since she was young and has known the Holy Spirit is always about mission - leaving what is familiar and going to the least. For Heidi, being led means being surrendered and willing to follow. Follow vs. fear. Get ready.
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