A Church Without Walls
My name is Mike Neelley. As a pastor and spiritual director, A Church Without Walls, seeks to create content and spaces for people to connect with the love of God the Father, the presence of the living Jesus, and the power of the Holy Spirit - right here, right now, whoever you are, wherever you are.
Episodes
75 episodes
Inherent Identity with Tyson Bradley
If you and Jesus walked into a room full of people, how would he introduce you? Are we able to believe and receive the goodness of what Jesus would say? I'd like to introduce you to my new friend, Tyson Bradley, as we explore some of this ident...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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51:15
Dealing with Our Idolatry
As we continue our exploration of Christian Nationalism, I believe what lies at the heart of it is an idolatry of nation. Yet, in the process of digging into that, we will uncover our own idolatries. Where are you feeling fear these days? Or an...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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40:52
Powers, Principalities and Renouncing the Idolatry of Nationalism
We are doing a deep dive into the Scriptures with Bob Ekblad as we cover a lot of biblical terrain regarding what are called "powers and principalities." The path leads us to some key scriptures where Paul describes idolatry as serving the crea...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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51:41
Spiritual Self-Care in a Season of Chaos
I am finding that my spiritual life is taking more time and intention these days. As I wrestle with what is going on in the world around me and not living from a place of constant reactivity, I hear Jesus calling me to set my mind on things abo...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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40:52
What IN THE WORLD is the Holy Spirit doing in Latin America!
Join me with Dr. Paul Olver, the Director of Operations for Impact Latin America as he shares about what the Holy Spirit is doing in Latin America and we reflect on our recent trip to Uruguay.
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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56:22
Biblical Prophets Speak Truth to Power
As we continue to discern whether the prophetic voices promoting Christian Nationalism are speaking God's heart and God's kingdom priorities, it is important to take a look at what the prophets were doing and saying in the Bible. We don't have ...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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40:52
The Need for Discernment in the Prophetic Movement, Part 2
I want to continue a conversation about something heavy on my heart concerning the need for greater discernment in the prophetic movement in the United States. My concern is that Christian Nationalism and the way it is being validated and promo...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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45:59
Signs that Make You Wonder
When the Apostle Paul talks about the Holy Spirit in 1 Corinthians 12, he distinguishes the gift of healing from the gift of miracles. In other places we read phrases that include "signs and wonders." What is Paul or Jesus talking about, where ...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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44:12
Hearing and Discerning God's Voice
With the New Year, we are revisiting some teaching from almost two years ago on the importance of discernment when we are listening for God's voice. Jesus tells us that he is the good shepherd and his sheep hear his voice, and he also warns us ...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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40:52
Hearing God in Prayer
I am revisiting some foundational stuff for me in prayer - that hearing God's voice changes everything. Maybe your experience feels more like silence and praying to the ceiling, but I want to encourage you that there are many ways you are alrea...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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40:52
What IN THE WORLD is the Holy Spirit doing?
When I was in my 20s and 30s, if we talked about the Holy Spirit at all, it was regarding rumors of miracles that seemed to happen in Africa. Most of this podcast has been to help us become more aware of what the Holy Spirit is doing right here...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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52:14
Prayer as a Conversation of Love with Jesus
Wherever you find yourself in prayer or out of it, Jesus is always waiting for us. Be encouraged, inspired, and invited deeper into love with Jesus in prayer by my friend Deborah Meador. She will draw you in with her the passion of her lived re...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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51:58
Kingdom Unity and the Election
Friends, I release this podcast the day before the election, out of my regular release sequence. I bring you this sermon I preached Sunday, November 3 in Bellingham, as a word to refocus us on where our hope lies, Jesus and His Kingdom. We may ...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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40:52
The Need for Discernment in the Prophetic Movement
We are back with Bob Ekblad to discuss the critical need for discernment as we listen for what God is saying, and especially as we listen to voices in the North American prophetic culture who claim to be speaking for God. As we listen for God a...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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57:14
Hearing and Following the Holy Spirit
As a teenager, Mitchell Senti wrestled through the disconnect of what he was reading in the Bible about the Holy Spirit speaking and the fact that his church wasn't saying anything like this. His exploration took him on a journey, not just of h...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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48:37
Kingdom Identity
Pastor Jonathan Hanson shares his journey in the Holy Spirit and how hearing God's voice is foundational. We start with the foundation of being a beloved daughter, a beloved son. Then God speaks a specific identity word in our lives that cuts t...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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44:05
What is the Kingdom of God and Why is it Important?
I've been thinking a lot about the Kingdom of God lately. It was the centerpiece of Jesus' teaching and he tells us that we "must be born again if we are to see the Kingdom of God." If the Kingdom is what we are "saved" and born again for, what...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:03:36
There is More!
Welcome to Season 3 in our continuing journey with the Person and Work of God the Holy Spirit. After taking two months off, I want to give us a jump start with the sermon I preached for Pentecost last Spring. If you've been living a faith life ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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40:52
Take My Yoke Upon You
As we enter into a season that includes rest and time off for some, how can we enter more deeply into the kind of rest we so desperately need? Jesus' invitation to "Come to me all who are weary and heavy laden" is for each of us. But what sort ...
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Season 2
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Episode 42
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36:28
Growing Together in the Holy Spirit
If we want to grow in knowing and co-laboring with the Holy Spirit, we will do this best in community. Why? Because the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Church for the Church, not simply on individuals. As long as our approach is just "me and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 41
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38:08
Inner Healing Prayer
Today I talk with my friend, Kathy Crosby, about her journey with the Holy Spirit in receiving and co-operating in inner healing prayer. Physical healing is much of what we see in the scriptures, though I would argue that inner healing is happe...
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Season 2
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Episode 40
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57:43
Do I Have to Speak in Tongues - One Pentecostal Perspective
I know many people who have been kept from being open to the Holy Spirit due to a particular Pentecostal doctrine/theology that said you must speak in tongues as a sign of the baptism of the Spirit. I wanted to have this conversation with...
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Season 2
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Episode 40
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40:00
There is a God in the Room with Us
If there is a God in the room with me then that is a completely different world I'm living in than if God is talking to me from a distance on a walkie-talkie. So says my guest, Alison Millikan, as she shares her journey through some of her obst...
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Season 2
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Episode 39
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48:20
When We Pray and Healing Doesn't Happen
As we begin to believe for more, there can be a greater experience of disappointment when the more doesn't happen in the way we want or desperately need. We continue our conversation with Andy Ekblad as he talks about the already and not ...
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Season 2
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Episode 38
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49:35