Eddiefied

What does it look like to follow Jesus in modern medicine?

In this episode of Eddiefied, Eddie sits down with Dr. AndyTak, an internal medicine physician with over 30 years of experience and anelder at City Bible Church (Sacramento).

Dr. Andy shares his personal testimony, his journey intomedicine, and what it looks like to follow Jesus faithfully in one of the most demanding and ethically complex professions. From navigating moral and cultural pressures in modern healthcare to balancing professional boundaries withspiritual care, this conversation explores how faith shapes conviction, compassion, and integrity in the exam room.

This podcast addresses:

- How Christian doctors can practice medicine with humilityand integrity

- Navigating moral and ethical gray areas with biblicalconviction

- The role of prayer, healing, and medical intervention

- Caring for patients spiritually while honoringprofessional boundaries

-  Guarding identity,compassion, and faith in a demanding field

- Encouragement for students, residents, and believerspursuing medicine

At its core, this episode is about calling — and how Goduses believers in every sphere, including healthcare, to be salt and light.

📖 Hebrews 10:24 remindsus to “consider how to spur one another on to love and good works.” Our prayeris that this conversation encourages you to do exactly that.

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In this episode, Eddie sits down with Ralph and Ana Mendez for a raw, honest, and deeply encouraging conversation about redemption, obedience, and walking faithfully with Jesus through every season of life.Ralph shares about growing up in a broken home, the environments that shaped his early worldview, and how God met him in a place he never expected. Together, Ralph and Ana open up about their journey of faith, marriage, trusting God through disappointment and waiting, and learning to remain available to the Lord wherever He leads.This conversation also addresses important topics for believers today, including:- Overcoming a victim mindset through a biblical worldview- Understanding identity, responsibility, and purpose in Christ- Learning to serve God faithfully regardless of past mistakes- What it means to be “useful” in God’s Kingdom How Hebrews 10:24 shapes everyday Christian livingWhether you are new to faith, wrestling with your past, or seeking encouragement to keep serving where God has placed you, this episode is a reminder that no story is beyond God’s redemption and no life surrendered to Christ is wasted.📖 “Let us consider how to stir one another on to love and good works.” — Hebrews 10:24👉 If this episode encourages you, please Like, Subscribe, and Share it with someone who needs hope today.Thank you for watching—and as always, stay encouraged, stay faithful, and stay Eddiefied.

What does faith look like when the battle doesn’t end after the first victory?

In this deeply personal episode of The Eddiefied Podcast, Eddie sits down with close friends Dan and Anna to share their journey through cancer — a battle Anna has faced three separate times since 2020, including a recent surgery earlier this year.

This is not a story about having all the answers, or surface-level encouragement. It’s about walking with God through uncertainty, learning how to trust Him when the future feels fragile, discovering peace when fear wants to take over, and clinging to biblical truth when uncertainty tries to take over.

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This podcast wouldn’t be what it is without their support, generosity, and excellence behind the scenes. If you’re a creator, business, or church looking for high-quality production or studio services, these are people you can trust and work with confidently.

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Dan and Anna open up about:

• Receiving a stage-4 cancer diagnosis

• Navigating treatment decisions during COVID

• Choosing an integrative approach to healing

• Facing multiple recurrences after remission

• Guarding their hearts against fear, bitterness, and discouragement

• Balancing medical stewardship with spiritual trust

• How suffering reshaped their marriage, parenting, and faith

• Walking forward with peace as they await future scans

Throughout the episode, Eddie grounds the conversation in Scripture and the heart of Hebrews 10:24 — encouraging believers to stir one another toward love, endurance, and obedience, especially in seasons of suffering.

If you or someone you love is walking through illness, chronic pain, or fear of the unknown, or simply wrestling with the question “Why would God allow this?”— this episode is for you. And if you’re supporting someone in a hard season, this conversation will help you love them well.

🎙️ Listen, be encouraged, and remember: God is near you in the valley.

What is a Christian’s role in politics?
Is disengagement faithfulness — or surrender?

In Episode 3 of Eddiefied, Eddie Lyashenko sits down with Sam Chung, a senior leader in California government and public policy, to wrestle with one of the most divisive questions facing believers today: How should Christians engage politics without compromising the gospel?

Sam shares his personal journey — from growing up in a Korean-American household, to coming to faith in Christ, to serving at the highest levels of state government as a Chief of Staff and senior advocate. Drawing from nearly two decades inside the political arena, Sam offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at how policy is shaped, how power really works, and why Christian presence still matters — even when outcomes don’t go our way.

This episode tackles hard but necessary questions:

• Should Christians withdraw from politics because the system is broken?

• How do believers remain salt and light in morally gray environments?

• What is Christian nationalism, and how does it differ from faithful public witness?

• How should Christians respond when measures they oppose still pass?

• What does Hebrews 10:24 look like lived out in public life?

Rather than offering partisan talking points, this conversation calls believers to faithful presence, humility, courage, and obedience — trusting God’s sovereignty while refusing to disengage from loving our neighbors through public life.

📖 “And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works.” — Hebrews 10:24 (ESV)

Whether you’re discouraged, disengaged, or discerning your calling, this episode is an invitation to rethink how faith, love, and good works show up beyond the church walls.

In this Episode of Eddiefied, Eddie sits down with Tyler and Kristin Miller to share the powerful story of how God led them from fostering to adopting three children into their family of five.

What began as a simple step of obedience turned into a life-changing journey of love, resilience, and radical faith. Tyler and Kristin open up about the moment God stirred their hearts, the challenges and beauty of the foster system, the confirmations that carried them forward, and how adoption reshaped their understanding of God’s love for His people.

This episode is a living picture of Hebrews 10:24 — “let us consider how to stir one another to love and good works.”
If you’ve ever wondered what it looks like to say “yes” to God in the unknown, this conversation will encourage and inspire you.

In this episode:
• The calling that led them to foster• Unexpected challenges & God’s faithfulness along the way• How fostering became adoption• Building a family on obedience, sacrifice, and grace• Encouragement for believers feeling called to foster or adopt

Whether fostering, adopting, or simply wanting to live a faith that moves — this story will stir your heart.
Stay encouraged. Stay faithful. Stay Eddiefied.

Part 2 continues the story with Pastor Vlad as we look at how God shaped him through Seminary, and the calling to plant City Bible Church.
This episode is full of encouragement for anyone pursuing ministry, leadership, or a deeper obedience to Christ.

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Part 1 of our conversation with Pastor Vlad Burlaka explores his testimony, early faith journey, and the moment God called him into ministry.
If you’re wrestling with purpose, calling, or spiritual identity, this episode will encourage and strengthen your faith.

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