The 180 Church Podcast with Dr. Sammy and Friends

Lent: Fasting Self-Reliance

In today's podcast, the crew has a real open conversation about fasting self-reliance and the illusion of being self-made. We all culturally bought into a belief that the self-made, independent person is a mark of success though the reality is, no one built their success on their own. Far from it actually. The truth is, it takes a village for us to thrive and to find that the richness of life is found in the fruitfulness of our relationships and dependency on one another.

Lent: Fasting and Prayer

Today's podcast is about the reason why we fast during Lent. Often times fasting becomes the goal and end-all, but it is really a means to an end, to unleash and experience the power of God that changes lives. That is why Jesus fasted. He fasted to pray, to feed on fellowship and communion with God which led him to overcome the temptations of the devil. In the same way, we fast to pray and to draw near to God and when we draw near to God through fasting, we will experience the power of God. Tune in to find out how you can experience the power of God in your life and for your destiny.

Lent: Fast to Feast

For many Christians, when Lent season comes around, we partake in a period of fasting where we give something up to observe and remember the life of Jesus. However, we can get confused in thinking that Lent is for personal development when the real reason why we fast is to develop an awareness of our deep-seated dependence on God. The season of Lent captures the essence of the three-act drama leading up to Easter Sunday: we look within ourselves to identify our default operations of living, we look upwards to the Father and tune into what he is doing, and we look outwards to share the celebration that is Easter Sunday.

Real-Talk: Subjugation Schema

Many of us have experienced a need to serve others in order to avoid anger or abandonment by suppressing our own preferences and desires. Though we may do so to gain approval, this schema afflicts us by either breeding passive-aggression or worse: we manifest our anger to those closest to us because we only serve others out of fear or guilt. We become a shell of who we can be since we’re only doing things that someone tells us to. If constantly subjugating ourselves feels as if we’re being robbed of what God created us to be, the gospel truth teaches us to not only act on what we care about but also to die for the correct things because we have an example in Jesus, who lived a life surrendered to others for the sake of love.

Spiritual Emptiness

We live in an incredible time that is collectively wealthier, more technologically advanced, and materialistically provided for than ever. And yet, many of us can acknowledge an unmet, deep longing—one that makes us wonder whether if there is more than just this. This inconsolable longing of the human heart can lead us to seek transcendence in nature, the beauty of a sunrise, or travels to new places, but we find ourselves crippled by angst, anxiety, depression, and an unfulfilled emptiness. This thirst describes the symptoms of spiritual emptiness, a longing set deep within our hearts since the beginning of time that the voice of God echoing in eternity seeks to satisfy in all of us.

Real-Talk: Entitlement Schema

Today’s message and podcast is about the Entitlement Schema also referred to as “spoiled child,” schema. It is a schema that is easy to identify in others but very difficult to become aware of and acknowledge within self because it has everything to do with one’s feeling of entitlement from this world and others. In this message and podcast, we discover how we can get our needs met the healthier way by others and most importantly by God, the perfect Father. God cares so much about our needs and will love us as we are meant to be loved! Tune in and find out how this schema affects us and the people around us, and how Abba meets us in this messy place!

Real-Talk: The Mistrust Schema

This week’s message covers the Mistrust schema and how the gospel can save us and heal us from it. The mistrust schema is a schema in which one develops mistrust and creates distance with people due to hurt and trauma from the past. We will be joined by guests, Jenny Tsang-Lee and her husband Ahnmin to discuss their own experience of healing and ways and resources that will aid the process of healing and recovery for anyone who identifies with mistrust in their lives.

Real-Talk: Approval Seeking Schema (A.S.S.)

The Approval Seeking Schema (A.S.S.) is rooted in the idea that the reactions and opinions of others to our achievements, status, net worth or social acceptance equates to our self worth. In today's podcast, the crew is joined by returning guests Sarah Bennett and Henry Kim, along with fellow 180 member and brother Andy Luo, to talk about the ways in which this schema is triggered in our lives and how the gospel helps us revisit these wounds to restore the beauty in our identities in Jesus.

Real-Talk: E.D.S. (Emotional Deprivation Schema)

This week, the podcast crew gets together to discuss E.D.S. - the emotional deprivation schema - with some returning guests Michelle Sohn, and podcast team members Stewart Still and Keigo Tanaka. We discuss the different ways in how our unmet emotional needs from childhood tend to manifest in our lives today and how the Spirit of God fulfills these needs for love and guidance.

Self-Talk: “B.A.R.” Being Always Right

Believe it or not, Being Always Right is one of the Cognitive Behavior Distortions. Learn the affects of this maladaptive thinking and how the gospel plays a crucial role in helping us out of it, saving us and our relationships.