The 180 Church Podcast with Dr. Sammy and Friends

In today's podcast, the crew comes together to talk about loss, grief and how we can make sense of the pain and suffering we undergo with a spirit-filled community. It's not that community is a place where nothing bad happens, it's that when they do, it means more that we are with each other through it.

Every new, budding relationship has the stage commonly known as the "honeymoon phase". It’s the rose tinted, picture-perfect feeling we all know that eventually dissipates as reality comes into focus. It is this utopian ideal that often bleeds into our expectations of the church, though what we come to find is that any spirit-filled community will not as perfect as we deem it should be. The spirit-filled community is a learning community, who gleans wisdom from our personal shortcomings and fails forward, in the likeness of the Biblical forefathers.

Every new, budding relationship has the stage commonly known as the "honeymoon phase". It’s the rose tinted, picture-perfect feeling we all know that eventually dissipates as reality comes into focus. It is this utopian ideal that often bleeds into our expectations of the church, though what we come to find is that any spirit-filled community will not as perfect as we deem it should be. The spirit-filled community is a learning community, who gleans wisdom from our personal shortcomings and fails forward, in the likeness of the Biblical forefathers.

How do you know whether the Holy Spirit is leading our lives? By wind and fire. In today's podcast, we talk about how we distinguish the voice of God apart from the voices of this world and identify the fruit of the Spirit that provides evidence for the working of God's mission for humanity.

How do you know whether the Holy Spirit is leading our lives? By wind and fire. In today's podcast, we talk about how we distinguish the voice of God apart from the voices of this world and identify the fruit of the Spirit that provides evidence for the working of God's mission for humanity.

In this week's episode, the podcast crew discusses the mysterious nature of the third person of the Trinity: The Holy Spirit. Though hard to grasp, for us who are seeking and for believers alike, we are still able to recognize the work and influence of the Holy Spirit in our lives and witness the unbelievable transformations we experience through him. So, what does it mean to be filled by the Spirit? Some good indicators are changed hearts and lives.

In this week's episode, the podcast crew discusses the mysterious nature of the third person of the Trinity: The Holy Spirit. Though hard to grasp, for us who are seeking and for believers alike, we are still able to recognize the work and influence of the Holy Spirit in our lives and witness the unbelievable transformations we experience through him. So, what does it mean to be filled by the Spirit? Some good indicators are changed hearts and lives.

In this week's podcast, we are continuing on the series, "Holy Ghost" and talk about how we are invited into a family affair when we join the family of God. We're bombarded with the cultural voice that glorifies independence and seeks no help from God, our communities, and our friends, but kingdom culture goes against the very grain of self-reliance and calls for total dependence on it's family. Jesus leaves us with the Spirit so that we could join God in his mission, know the safety of his coddling, and be pushed beyond mediocrity.

In this week's podcast, we are continuing on the series, "Holy Ghost" and talk about how we are invited into a family affair when we join the family of God. We're bombarded with the cultural voice that glorifies independence and seeks no help from God, our communities, and our friends, but kingdom culture goes against the very grain of self-reliance and calls for total dependence on it's family. Jesus leaves us with the Spirit so that we could join God in his mission, know the safety of his coddling, and be pushed beyond mediocrity.

We are back after Good Friday and Easter Sunday with a message about what really happens after the resurrection of Jesus and what that means for us. For many of us, it can seem that faith erases all doubt from our minds and hearts and that everything becomes picture perfect with Jesus's victory over death, but we are left still with some doubts, uncertainty and the feeling that it could just be too good to be true. The reality is, faith is not opposed to doubt, and whether we are seeking, believe, or somewhere in the middle, the gift of the resurrection is meant to be received so that we can become something new.

Also, if anyone has any questions about faith, doubt or the process, feel free to send them at [email protected] so that we can answer them!