First Love

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue in the Valley of Achor, explaining that after Jericho, Israel rode on its victory instead of returning to God for a new strategy, and sin in the camp stopped Him from moving. Achor means trouble, and in Hosea God promises to turn it into a door of hope. They say exposure with the safety of covenant leads to redemption, and redemption means revisit. They tie this to burying feelings alive, the nervous system craving completion, and memory reconsolidation, where old memories are updated with new meaning. They say healing is not amnesia, and that God gives feedback by feeding back into us what we never came to Him for. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Valley of Achor, Trouble and Hidden Sin, Achan and Ai, Door of Hope, Hosea 2:15, Redemption Means Revisit, Memory Reconsolidation, Healing Is Not Amnesia, Feedback From God Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas explain that there is one Valley Gate, not many, and define a stronghold as anything with a stronger hold on us than the Spirit of God. They say the Greek word wrestle in Ephesians 6 means hand to hand combat, so spiritual warfare is applied authority, not abracadabra, and we fight from victory. They walk through the armor: helmet of salvation, breastplate of righteousness, belt of truth, shield of faith with the Roman testudo, shoes of the gospel of peace, the sword of the Spirit and God's glory as rear guard. They then introduce the Valley of Achor, Joshua 7 and Hosea 2:15, and the idea that what remains unprocessed remains active. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Valley Gate, Strongholds, Ephesians 6, Wrestling Hand to Hand, Armor of God, Roman Testudo Formation, Rear Guard of Glory, Valley of Achor, Unprocessed Stays Active Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas turn to Saul, the one who failed the valley's stress test, contrasting Joseph's integrity, David's faith and Peter's unfinished formation with Saul's approval addiction. They read 1 Samuel 15, where Saul admits he feared the people, and say Saul had instruction but no preparation, so fear became his default. They contrast Saul the herder of donkeys, driven by fear, with David the shepherd, who leads by voice. They add that Samuel looked on the outward appearance while God looks at the heart. Citing Bruce Lipton and athletic training, they say the brain cannot tell imagined experience from lived experience, so we should rehearse what is lived in to live it out. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Saul's Valley, Approval Addiction, 1 Samuel 15, Fear of Man, Armor of God, Donkeys Versus Sheep, God Looks at the Heart, Bruce Lipton and the Brain, Lived In and Lived Out Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue in the Valley of Elah, saying the giant did not install David's faith but retrieved and revealed it. They explain that God is in control and the enemy is only allowed to be a garbage man. They look at Elah in Hebrew, Aleph, Lamed and Hey, as God teaching us to live by grace and the Holy Spirit rather than human strength, in contrast to Saul living by fear. They point to David's five stones as the fivefold ministry, which God chooses to use one at a time, and say they have only one Goliath to face alone. They say Goliath had stature but David had history with God, so remembrance overcomes intimidation and borrowed armor is stripped away. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Valley of Elah, Giant Reveals Faith, Hebrew Letters of Elah, Human Strength Versus Covenant, Five Stones, Fivefold Ministry, Remembrance Over Intimidation, Borrowed Armor, History With God Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas reflect on the season casting conference and the upcoming documentary The Purim Cycle, then continue through the Valley Gate with David and Goliath in 1 Samuel 17. They explain that David did not let Goliath reveal anything he had not already encountered with the Lord, connecting this to rehearsal, the Hebrew word for convocation in Leviticus 23, and the feasts as rehearsals. Israel saw a threat and feared, while David remembered the lion and the bear. They say the brain's prediction can serve God's glory, that David was formed in the valley and crowned in the palace, and that what we conquer privately prepares us for what we confront publicly. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Valley Gate, David and Goliath, 1 Samuel 17, Rehearsal Before the Call, Convocation in Leviticus 23, Threat Versus Remembrance, The Lion and the Bear, Brain Prediction, Formed in the Valley Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue their teaching on stress and the valley test by looking at biblical figures, beginning with Joseph. They offer a buffet analogy for taking in one thing at a time, and ask whether ancient truth went deep or was choked by the cares of this world. They walk through Joseph's valley from the pit to slavery, Potiphar's wife, and prison, noting his integrity in Genesis 39 as he reaches for his relationship with God. They also point out his later reaction with the request to be remembered, and later his response to his brothers. They conclude that repetition is preparation so you walk in rather than stumble in. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Stress Test of Biblical Figures, Joseph in Genesis 39, Integrity Under Pressure, Respond vs. React, Time Testing the Heart, Trusted With Power, Repetition as Preparation, Walk In Not Stumble In Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas return to the descent into the valley, asking whether God called you up or down. They explain that God takes you down the mountain to test what you have been given, mainly through resistance and stress. Using a cardiac stress test as an illustration, they show how pressure reveals what the heart cannot sustain, and they discuss how being stressed can become a coping mechanism. They introduce an acronym for stress: situation, trigger, response or reaction, exposure, selection, and strengthening. A family story about an audition illustrates responding rather than reacting. They also reframe repetition as another chance to hear God rather than judgment. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Descent Into the Valley, Called Up or Called Down, Resistance, Stress Test of the Heart, Stress as Coping Mechanism, Situation Trigger Response Exposure, Respond vs. React, Repetition as Another Chance Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue the mountain and valley series, cautioning against conference culture and chasing glory from peak to peak. They ask whether an experience changes how you treat people afterward. Referencing Psalm 23, they show how truth carried from the mountain shifts a response from panic to presence. Using the hippocampus, they explain that revelation must become memory. They also stress that the mountain is never for feeling superior, that Moses climbed empty-handed and returned with something for the nation, and that commandments must become commitments, covenants, and culture. They close by contrasting kairos and chronos, and by noting that water flows down into the valley to nourish. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Conference Culture, Glory Chasers, Psalm 23 Presence, Revelation Becomes Memory, Humility Over Superiority, Commandments as Culture, Kairos and Chronos, Water Flows to the Valley Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue their mountain and valley series with Moses. They explain why the first tablets were broken and how the law could not sustain without the Spirit. They describe the mountain as concentrated encounter and the valley as integrated embodiment, adding that elevation increases responsibility rather than making anyone superior. Drawing on neuroscience, they discuss limited attentional resource, competing sensory input, and cognitive reappraisal, and note that what feels like a new revelation is often an ancient truth repeated until it is lived. They also cover acclimatizing to higher altitude as a picture of character formation, and ask whether the mountain is meant to separate you so you can serve the crowd. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Mountain vs. Valley Continued, Broken Tablets, Concentrated Encounter, Integrated Embodiment, Responsibility Not Superiority, Attention and Neuroscience, Ancient Truth Repeated, Altitude and Character Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas ease back in after their annual Season Casting conference, recalling the weekend's prophetic presentations and the word for the year of Zion. They then open a new teaching on the difference between the mountain and the valley. The mountain gives perspective, while the valley shows where you are and lets God regulate what was revealed. Using Moses in Exodus 32, they explain that revelation on the mountain must be implemented in the valley, where dysfunction continues until it is governed. They discuss how stress narrows attention toward threats, why neither place is a permanent dwelling, and how thin mountain air illustrates carrying responsibility. Obedience, they say, is sometimes come up higher and sometimes get down. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Season Casting Conference Recap, Mountain vs. Valley, Regulation and Integration, Moses in Exodus 32, Stress and Narrow Focus, Implementing Revelation, Living at Altitude, Obedience to Where God Calls Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue through the Valley Gate while announcing that Season Casting begins that night at Times of Refreshing Christian Center in Manhattan. They contrast the Tower of Babel, where man ascends to make a name, with Jesus, who descends and is given the name above all names. They explain that independence can look successful and even godly, and that capacity is not permission, with a personal testimony of giving a choice back to God. They unpack the biology of independence and the brain's drive for prediction and control, and describe independence as making your ability your source and as the original sin. They close with an acronym for down and the wilderness Israelites, and note that Jesus depended fully on the Father. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Valley Gate, Season Casting Announcement, Tower of Babel vs. Jesus' Descent, Spirit of Independence, Capacity vs. Permission, Biology of Independence, Prediction and Control, Dependence vs. Self-Sufficiency, Israel in the Wilderness Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue their Valley Gate teaching, revisiting the "Jesus died spiritually" doctrine and showing that Jesus never manufactured His own ascent but waited for the Father to raise Him. They trace the downward path in Philippians 2 and say the valley reveals whether we can live from our identity when our environment stops affirming it. They discuss Jesus entering sorrow without letting it become His identity, and how the valley exposes our response to provision as well as pain. They speak about maturity, the danger of self-promotion, and the mountain versus the valley. They also explain that stress is meant to be balanced and handled, that "no thing" apart from Christ can be done, and that the cross stands beside resurrection. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Valley Gate, Jesus Died Spiritually Doctrine, Not Manufacturing Ascent, Philippians 2 Descent, Sorrow Without Identity, Response to Provision, Maturity in the Valley, Dependence and Abiding, Stress and Balance Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue through the Valley Gate, looking at the physiology of the valley and how Jesus experienced it in Gethsemane. They describe the body's fight-or-flight response and say these signals are symptoms to process in God's presence, not proof of a threat. They explain that Jesus asked why in the right way and stayed connected to the Father. They present the pattern of going down to come up, moving from the valley of dependence to "not my will, but Yours," and challenge the teaching that Jesus died spiritually, citing Psalm 22. They also compare the wilderness temptations and the cross to the question of self-preservation, and say sonship can kneel because identity is settled while insecurity needs elevation. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Valley Gate, Physiology of the Valley, Fight or Flight, Processing Through God's Presence, Gethsemane, Descent Before Ascent, Valley of Dependence, Jesus Died Spiritually Doctrine, Self-Preservation vs. Sonship Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue through the Valley Gate, explaining how pressure exposes the automatic brain and reveals what we have truly been feeding on. They ask whether God can trust us with His silence, using marriage as an example of silent intimacy. They point out that Jesus received only three public affirmations from the Father and never lost His first love. They say silence is connection, not rejection, and that belief lives in the heart while what we rehearse shapes our automatic responses. They walk through how the hippocampus, amygdala, insula, anterior cingulate cortex, prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia react to pressure. They also stress asking God why, tied to Jeremiah 1:5, as the question that exposes the schema and returns us to His original plan. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Valley Gate, The Automatic Brain, Pressure Reveals Patterns, Trusting God's Silence, Silent Intimacy, Jesus and the Father's Three Affirmations, Neuroscience of Stress, The Power of Why, Schema vs. Purpose Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas introduce the Valley Gate, the next gate of Jerusalem in their series through Nehemiah's rebuilding. They explain that the valley is a passage, not an identity, and that it is a place of inspection where God's Spirit goes low enough to see what is broken. Using Nehemiah 2 and 3 and Psalm 23, they note that a shadow implies light and that what God inspects in one season He rebuilds for His glory in another. They compare the valley to a diagnostic room, like an X-ray that finds the root of a break, and say a low environment does not mean a low identity. They also discuss the cause as the key, inward schemas, moving from reaction to response, and looking down from a seated position in Christ. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: The Valley Gate, Valley as Passage Not Identity, Nehemiah's Inspection, Psalm 23 Shadow of Death, Diagnostic Room, Low Environment vs. Low Identity, Finding the Cause, Schemas, Reaction vs. Response Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas conclude the Old Gate and introduce the Valley Gate from Nehemiah, where the movement is downward, not backward. They preview Season Casting 2027, the Hebraic year of Zion, and speak about trauma being stored in the body. Reading Nehemiah 2:13, they describe the Valley Gate as the gate of inspection: has the truth recovered at the Old Gate taken root, and can it be tested in low places? They preview upcoming teaching on the seven valleys, mountains versus valleys, and how the valley exposes coping mechanisms, which they say numb rather than heal. They note that a Sunday message will cover moving from schema to rhema. They close with Psalm 23: we walk through the valley, not live in it. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Old Gate Conclusion, Valley Gate Introduction, Season Casting 2027, Year of Zion, Trauma and the Body, Nehemiah 2 Inspection, Valleys vs. Mountains, Coping Mechanisms Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas complete their list of schema and rhema markers. They start with the peace marker, contrasting the peace of God with temporary relief, which comes when a threat is removed, and pointing to Philippians 4 and Jesus asleep in the boat. Next is the humility marker, using Peter's protest in Matthew 16 to show how a schema makes us unteachable. The love marker follows, with 1 Corinthians 13 and John 13:35: a rhema never produces cruelty, pride, or suspicion. Then comes the identity marker, using Jeremiah 1:5, 2 Corinthians 5:17, and Gideon's false humility. The outcome marker, with Mary's surrender, contrasts obedience with self-protection. A schema says my past has spoken; a rhema says God said, and it brings the old interpretation under the authority of God's Word. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Peace vs. Relief, Peace With God and Peace of God, Humility Marker, Peter's Protest, Love Marker, Identity Marker, Gideon and False Humility, Outcome Marker Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue identifying markers that separate a rhema from a schema, beginning with the control marker: does this require manipulation, deception, or pressure to make it happen? They discuss how a trigger activates a schema, how Saul dressed up disobedience in spiritual language, and how James 3:17 describes wisdom as willing to yield. They share the practice of inviting Jesus into their own self-talk, and connect it to Adam and Eve's imagination being opened. Next comes the testing marker: what God blesses, He tests. Citing 1 John 4:1, Proverbs, and Peter's vision at Simon the Tanner's house, they explain why a multitude of counselors matters and why no one has every gift, since a schema claims to have every answer while a rhema is willing to yield. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Control Marker, Manipulation and Maneuvering, Triggers and Schemas, Inviting the Lord Into Self-Talk, Testing Marker, Multitude of Counselors, Peter at Simon the Tanner's House, Gifts Are Distributed Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue their schema and rhema markers with the scripture marker and the fruit marker. A true rhema never contradicts the inspired written Word, and they contrast discernment with debate, pointing to Jesus answering the tempter with what is written. They discuss context over isolated verses, and they affirm that God's truth and love do not change. The fruit marker sets the fruits of the Spirit against the fruits of a schema: urgency, suspicion, accusation, control, secrecy, self-protection, and emotional certainty without humility. Citing James and John's request to call down fire, they warn against using spiritual language to justify retaliation or superiority. They close by noting the enemy wants us rehearsing the past, and by describing the double-edged blade of logos and rhema. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Scripture Marker, Discernment vs. Debate, Jesus and the Temptation, Fruit Marker, Fruits of the Spirit vs. Fruits of a Schema, Urgency and Suspicion, Self-Protection, Logos and Rhema Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas close out their look at the Old Gate and introduce the first of several markers for telling a schema from a rhema. They recall that Paul's word in Romans 12 for being conformed shares its root with schema, and that the gates of Nehemiah represent conversations in the believer's journey, with the Valley Gate coming next. The first marker is the source: did this begin in fear or in God? God does not birth anything through fear, and a schema feels powerful because it is familiar. Using 2 Timothy 1:7 and the story of Saul, who let a word about David become a schema through fear of being replaced, they show why we must examine the fruit. They preview the scripture marker for the next episode. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Schema vs. Rhema Markers, Romans 12 and Schema, Gates as Conversations, The Source Marker, Fear vs. Reverence, 2 Timothy 1:7, Saul and David, Valley Gate Preview Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas conclude their Old Gate series by focusing on the rhema. From Romans 10:17 they explain that the "word" is the Greek rhema, God's spoken word, which brings faith where a schema brings prediction. Joseph is the model of a dreamer who learned to interpret by God's rhema. They give markers for discerning it: a rhema that makes you less like Jesus is not His voice, it interrupts appetite (Matthew 4:4), it acts as the sword of the Spirit, and it overrides experience, as with Peter's net. Rhema is flexible, while scheming is rigid. They close by walking through the full process from experience to schema to scheme, and from interruption to renewal. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Rhema vs. Schema, Romans 10:17, Joseph the Dreamer, Markers of a Rhema, Matthew 4:4, Peter's Nets, Flexible vs. Rigid, Old Gate Wrap-Up Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue examining scheming and how God replaces it with His rhema, turning a schemer into a dreamer. Jacob's story is the main example: he dreams at Bethel yet interprets the dream through a scheme, until God wrestles him at Peniel and changes his name to Israel. They discuss Rebekah's fear that the word would fail, how manipulation replaces trust, and that God moves rather than maneuvers. Sometimes the behavior we use to protect ourselves prevents a schema from being disproven. The law interrupts scheming because it is love aligning us with His will. The rhema invites us to pause and not stop at the first interpretation, since interpretation belongs to the Lord. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Scheming vs. Dreaming, Jacob at Bethel and Peniel, Name Change to Israel, Rebekah's Manipulation, God Moves Not Maneuvers, Law Interrupts Scheming, Interpretation Belongs to God, Rhema Dreamer Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas explain how a schema becomes a scheme: the schema interprets, the prediction anticipates, and the scheme tries to control the outcome. Using examples of abandonment, mistrust, and powerlessness, they show how a distorted map produces distorted strategies. Sarah's plan to give Hagar to Abraham and Saul's pursuit of David illustrate schemes that interfere with God's dream. They describe how the body's threat response can become false evidence for a schema, and how control is often mistaken for safety. Doing whatever fear demands pulls us from intimacy into performance. God's rhema brings truth about the situation, calls us rather than predicts, and leads us to be dreamers, not schemers. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Schema to Scheme, Prediction and Control, Sarah's Scheme, Saul and David, Body's Threat Response, Fear as False Evidence, Control as Counterfeit Prophecy, Rhema Over Schema Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue the Old Gate series, saying Christians are often taught to put off but not to put on. They connect Ephesians 4:22 to Jesus laying aside His deity and being crowned, and to the priest's garments on the Day of Atonement. Focusing on sin makes us less focused on Him; small daily victories matter. They explain how confirmation bias and attention bias reinforce a schema, and that evidence gathered through a wounded lens can testify to a lie. With Isaiah 55, they say God cannot be fit into our framework. Gideon and Peter show that we can switch from a schema to a rhema. Fear is control dressed up, and the law is love aligning us with His will. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Put Off and Put On, Renewal of the Mind, Confirmation Bias, Wounded Lens, Isaiah 55 Higher Ways, Gideon's Schema, Peter's Rhema, Law as Love Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas open a new week at the Old Gate, recapping the law as love and the point that the fear of the Lord is a beginning, not an end. Returning to Jeremiah 6:16, they note that the real wrestle may be with God's way, not His Word or will. They introduce schemas as neural blueprints that help the brain process thousands of stimuli every second, likening them to a browser cache. Through Romans 12:2 and the Greek root behind "conformed," they show that Paul warns against superimposing a worldly blueprint on the mind. Transformation comes through renewal, not removal alone, since putting off requires putting on. A schema can become an internal interpretation that predicts rejection or abandonment and replaces being led by the Lord. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Old Gate Recap, The Law as Love, God's Word Will and Way, What Is a Schema, Romans 12:2 Blueprint, Renewal Not Removal, Metamorphosis, Schema as Prediction Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas wrap up the Old Gate with key statements: it is not taking you backward but reconnecting you to what should never have been left behind. They explain that the brain predicts what could and should happen, which triggers sympathetic responses, while Jesus never predicted but went back to what the Father had said. Healing changes yesterday's authority over today without rewriting its facts. They point to Jeremiah 1:5, Abraham, and memorial stones to show identity was established before wounds. Wrong remembrance removes responsibility, while right remembrance invites synaptic pruning, subtracting what should never have gone with us. Butterfly and tree analogies show renewal without loss of identity. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: The Old Gate Wrap-Up, Ancient vs. Old, Prediction and Fear, Prophecy vs. Prediction, Memorial Stones, Jeremiah 1:5, Responsibility and Remembrance, Synaptic Pruning, Anchored Believer Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas reflect on their three guest episodes with Dr. Tony Kassas and move the Old Gate into emotion and neuroscience. Where the fish gate was about remembering His voice, the old gate is about remembering His ways. They offer an acronym for pain and stresses that God does not erase the past but redeems it through remembrance. They contrast Joshua and Caleb with the ten spies, who remembered wounds rather than God's word, will, and way. Explaining memory reconsolidation, they teach that the facts remain but God can change the meaning, as with the disciples' twelve baskets, Joseph in Genesis 50:20, and Peter's original call to follow Jesus. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: The Old Gate, Remembering His Ways, Pain as a Messenger, Joshua and Caleb vs. the Ten Spies, Memory Reconsolidation, Twelve Baskets in the Boat, Joseph and Genesis 50:20, Peter's Original Call Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas welcome Dr. Tony Kassas for a third day on the Old Gate and ask whether Jesus came because of sin or because of love. Dr. Tony shares that he first came to Christ through fear and explains creation as God's love shared with a family, pointing to the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. The group discusses Adam obeying without trusting, obedience flowing from love, and the difference between seeing God's actions and seeing his motives. They separate the godly fear of the Lord, a reverent boundary of love, from fear that accuses, and describe living on a favor line of performance. The law is presented as a call to return. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: The Old Gate, Sin vs. Love, Lamb Slain Before the Foundation, Obedience and Trust, God's Motive, Fear of the Lord, The Favor Line, Return and Repair Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue the Old Gate with guest Dr. Tony Kassas. They ask whether believers are under law or grace, and Dr. Tony answers that the law is fulfilled by grace and led by the Spirit, a change of heart rather than of head. The hosts explain that the old gate speaks of what has stood the test of time and gives stable ground while everything else shifts. Using Abraham in Romans 4, they show that God's promise, not circumstances, is the stable reference point. From Jeremiah 6:16 they invite listeners to walk the old paths and find rest. Dr. Tony explains how the law is heightened, fulfilled, or abolished at the cross, and that God removes the stony heart rather than the law. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: The Old Gate, Law and Grace, Abraham and God's Promise, Stable Reference Points, Jeremiah 6:16, Old Paths, Jesus Fulfills the Law, Stony Heart vs. Written Law, Healing from Legalism Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas leave the Fish Gate and begin the Old Gate from Nehemiah 3:6, welcoming their first guest, Dr. Tony Kassas, who holds a doctorate in theology. The hosts note the gate was repaired, not built, and frame it as realignment: the sheep gate was identity, the fish gate hearing, and the old gate anchoring life in what God already established. Dr. Tony points to 2 Kings 22, where Josiah hears the rediscovered book of the law and tears his clothes, showing that revival needs no new revelation, only an old truth revived. They explain how wounds and circumstances disconnect us from an unchanging Word, and the group discusses retrieval and remembrance, Malachi 3:6, and the law fulfilled by the Spirit rather than by legalism or license. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: The Old Gate, Nehemiah 3:6, Repair Not Rebuilt, Josiah and the Book of the Law, Revival Through Old Truth, Legalism vs. License, God Never Changes, Retrieval and Remembrance Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas close out the Fish Gate and preview the Old Gate, where some things must change and others be remembered or forgotten. They teach that the sheep gate shows whose we are, the fish gate develops our response, and calling begins through following rather than striving. They discuss how the storm can dictate what we remember and the 40-year detour of going around the mountain. When Peter asks Jesus about John, Jesus tells him to mind his own business. The hosts examine comparison, which shifts our reference point from calling to ranking, warn against fishing in someone else's waters, and explain that being chosen, waiting for commission, and obedience go together. They end with come, follow, and abide. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Fish Gate Wrap-Up, Preview of the Old Gate, Calling Through Following, Jesus the Great Fisherman, Remembering and Forgetting, Peter and John, Comparison vs. Calling, Not Fishing in Others' Waters, Come Follow Abide Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas read John 21 and complete their study of Peter's reinstatement at the Fish Gate. They teach that Peter's guilt kept him from seeing Jesus on the shore, and that being made whole requires many pieces, as a whole pizza has many slices. They note that the net did not break under the 153 fish and that Jesus cooked breakfast for His disciples. Jesus asks Peter three times about love, addresses him as Simon, son of Jonah, and comes down to Peter's level. The hosts explain that present love can mediate past trauma, and that we recall our reaction to a memory rather than the event. They preview the Old Gate. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Peter's Reinstatement, John 21, Guilt vs. Wholeness, Made Whole (The Pizza Analogy), Breakfast with Jesus, Do You Love Me Three Times, Simon Son of Jonah, Present Love and Memory, Old Gate Preview Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas near the end of the Fish Gate with Peter in John 21, casting the net on the right side of the boat after the resurrection. They show that obeying the voice builds trust, and that the sheep gate recognizes the voice while the fish gate moves when He speaks. Truth is a person, not a personal version. Fish live immersed in water, so disciples do not merely visit Jesus but abide, and fans are not followers. They explore the 153 fish, tied in Hebrew to Ani Elohim, meaning God is the one bringing the harvest, and the fire on the shore that recalls Peter's denial. Jesus reinstates Peter by meeting him where he is. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Fish Gate Nearing Its End, Right Side of the Boat, Obedience Builds Trust, Truth as a Person, Fans vs. Followers, Abiding Like Fish in Water, 153 Fish and Ani Elohim, Peter's Fire of Restoration Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue the Fish Gate by focusing on spiritual discernment. They explain that God, the enemy, and our own thoughts all speak through the same channel, so faith and discernment are required. Comparing discernment to narrowing a fishing net, they show that the Holy Spirit still flows through while the old supply is filtered out, and they challenge listeners to narrow even their social media feeds. They teach that hearing and listening differ because listening gives attention to what we hear, and they touch on the brain's salience network. Peter's story of casting the net on the other side shows that Jesus' voice outranks personal experience, and that real hearing changes where you cast your net. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Spiritual Discernment, One Channel Three Voices, Narrowing the Net, Social Media Feed as Supply, Hearing vs. Listening, Attention and the Salience Network, Peter's Net on the Other Side, Voice Over Experience Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas broadcast from their new studio, now airing Monday to Friday, and continue the Fish Gate with the biology of hearing. They explain that identity is formed by listening, not speaking, and that obedience changes not what we hear but how we hear. Using the fish's lateral line, which senses the movement of water, they picture the Holy Spirit stirring within us for inner transformation, and they contrast the outer ear, which hears circumstances, with the inner ear. They distinguish sheep from fish, walk through Jesus' call to come, follow, and abide, and note that the Hebrew word for hearing is tied to obeying. They also stress fine-tuning, since God, the enemy, and our own thoughts all come through one channel. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Fish Gate and the Biology of Hearing, Identity Formed by Listening, Peter's Impetuousness, Sheep vs. Fish, Come Follow Abide, Outer Ear vs. Inner Ear, Hearing vs. Listening, Fine-Tuning the Voice, Three Voices Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue the fish gate series, teaching that God changes identity before He changes behavior. Following Peter's call in Matthew 4:19, they explain that discipleship means imitating Jesus, and that lasting change requires a new belief, not only new behavior. They share the idea of macro munching: choosing one small change and practicing it in three 21-day cycles so the brain rewires through neuroplasticity, likening it to chewing food before swallowing. They discuss rehearsing thoughts, the scrolling generation's expectation of instant change, and Romans 12:2-3, noting that you cannot have a new mind overnight. They also touch on the nervous system's stress response and Peter's impetuousness. Their encouragement is that one small consistent change can shift the wiring of the brain, and that the greatest miracle happened within Peter. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Identity Before Behavior, Discipleship as Imitation, Neuroplasticity, Macro Munching, 21-Day Cycles, Renewing the Mind, The Scrolling Generation, Nervous System Regulation Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue the fish gate series by looking at the psychology of following Jesus. They stress that broken people serving can only create more brokenness, that healing and service can grow together, and that being a human being comes before being a human doing. Reading Matthew 4:19 in parts, they show that Peter had to stop following what he had followed, and that Jesus, not Peter, does the making. They discuss identity-based behavior, the belief behind every decision, and Peter's motive and method being off when he tried to make Jesus follow him. Jesus calls us out not merely of what we were doing but of who we thought we were. They also note that Peter's transformation began by spending time in Jesus' presence, and that Jesus' words I will make you are the anchor when we fail. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Psychology of Following, Broken People Serving, Identity Before Assignment, I Will Make You, Identity-Based Behavior, Beliefs Behind Decisions, Motive and Method, Human Being vs. Human Doing Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas move from healing to purpose with the fish gate of Nehemiah 3. They explain that the fish gate supplied and fed the city, so the greatest healing is changing what supplies your life. Using Matthew 4:19, they show that Jesus said to Peter, follow me and I will make you fishers of men, forming his identity before giving an assignment. They connect this to neuroplasticity and discipleship as repeated obedience that creates new thinking, and to Jacob learning to walk anew after his hip was touched. Peter wanted the assignment without identity formation, and the hosts encourage listeners to let the Holy Spirit give them a new identity before a new assignment. They add that Jesus leads the sheep before He heals them, and that new mercies come as we are discipled into new responses. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: The Fish Gate, Purpose and Provision, Changing What Supplies Your Life, Follow Me and I Will Make You, Peter's Discipleship, Neuroplasticity, Jacob's Hip and a New Way of Walking, Identity Before Assignment Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas explain why the Pool of Bethesda sits beside the sheep gate: healing comes before purpose, because the death of the old life does not automatically heal its damage. From John 5 they explore the meaning of Bethesda as house of mercy, the five porches as grace, and why Jesus, who created the water, stepped in Himself rather than waiting for it to be stirred. They discuss the excuses and coping systems the paralyzed man built, and the question of whether we want to be made well. They also explain the brain's autopilot, or default mode, and how coping can be mistaken for healing. They note that God is not killing you but killing what has been killing you, such as fear, shame, and rejection. The message: do not ask for the water; ask for Him. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Pool of Bethesda, Healing Before Purpose, House of Mercy, Five Porches of Grace, Jesus as the Stirrer of Waters, Excuses and Coping Systems, Autopilot and Default Mode, Identity Over Activity Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas introduce First Love as it expands to a daily Monday-to-Friday time slot, sharing their backgrounds and their aim to make Jesus real, relevant, and relational. They launch a new series on the gates of Nehemiah 3, explaining that gates are meant to be walked through, not stood at, and that each gate is an entry point to a conversation with the Lord. Beginning with the sheep gate, they teach that before we can walk as the man of God we must become the lamb, laying down the old life. Drawing on 2 Corinthians 5:17 and 3:18, they describe salvation as a process of becoming new, and explain neuroplasticity as new thoughts strengthening new pathways while old ones fade, as Romans 12 describes. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Introduction to First Love, Daily Time Slot, Gates of Nehemiah 3, Gates as Conversations, The Sheep Gate, Laying Down the Old Life, Becoming New as a Process, Neuroplasticity Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Nathan Kassas and Dr. Robyn Kassas bring their Pool of Bethesda series to a close. From John 5 they show that many entered the water yet were not healed—healing is ultimately about identity, not activity. Jesus did not wait for the water; He is the One who created and moves upon it. The man had to grow weary of the mat that had become his security blanket, then rise and walk in active faith. The hosts unpack neuroplasticity: renewing the mind is not receiving a new idea but deconstructing old pathways and repeatedly practicing agreement with truth until a new way becomes natural. Instant healing still required learning to walk; the testimony is not merely the old life dying but what Christ builds where it once lived. This is also their final Monday-night broadcast as they move to a new daily timeslot. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Pool of Bethesda Conclusion, Identity vs. Activity, Security of the Mat, Active Faith & Walking, Neuroplasticity, Renewing the Mind, Testimony as What Christ Builds, Schedule Transition Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their First Love.

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue their Gates of Jerusalem series (Nehemiah 3), remaining at the Pool of Bethesda near the Sheep Gate. From John 5 they examine the man infirm for 38 years whose hope rested in stirred water, human help, and being first. Jesus does not compete with the man’s coping systems or place him in the pool; He confronts the identity formed around the condition and commands, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” The hosts unpack autopilot compensation, the safety of familiar dysfunction, responsibility as the ability to respond, and the call to carry what once carried you—recognizing not the stirring of the water but the One who created it and now stands before it. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Gates of Jerusalem Series, Pool of Bethesda, John 5, Stirring of the Waters, Identity Confrontation, Autopilot & Coping Mechanisms, Rise–Take–Walk, Responsibility as Ability to Respond, New Identity in Christ Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their first love

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue their series on the gates of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 3), focusing on the Sheep Gate as the place of surrendering the old life and the adjacent Pool of Bethesda as the necessary place of healing. They challenge the “get saved and serve” model, insisting healing must precede ministry so broken people do not wound others. Drawing from John 5, the five porches of grace, the man who waited 38 years, Psalm 23, and the bitter waters of Marah, they show that God must stir still waters to restore the soul. Believers often develop an identity around stagnation and protect the analysis of their pain instead of participating; true becoming is an ongoing process that requires surrendering both the condition and the story told about it. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Gates of Jerusalem Series, Sheep Gate & Sacrifice, Pool of Bethesda Healing, Five Porches of Grace, Stirring the Waters, Surrender Before Service, Analysis Paralysis, Ongoing Becoming & Transformation Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their first love

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue their series on the gates of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 3), focusing on the Sheep Gate as the vital first conversation with God. They correct the common misunderstanding of 2 Corinthians 5:17, explaining that we are not instantly “become new” but are continually becoming new—an ongoing process of transformation (present tense in the Greek). The Sheep Gate represents surrender and sacrifice of the old life, leading to the Pool of Bethesda (House of Mercy) for healing the lingering effects of the old nature. Drawing on Psalm 23, neuroscience (neuroplasticity and renewing the mind), and the story in John 5, they emphasize that the Shepherd leads us beside still waters that must be stirred for restoration. True healing requires full surrender; God does not leave us empty but fills and restores us progressively through relationship. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: Gates of Jerusalem Series, Sheep Gate & Sacrifice, Becoming New, Pool of Bethesda Healing, Shepherd Leads, Surrender Before Healing, Ongoing Sanctification & Transformation Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their first love

Show Notes: In this episode, Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas continue their series on the gates of Jerusalem from Nehemiah 3, finalizing the teaching on the Sheep Gate as the essential first conversation with God. They expose how believers often remove or skip these gates—just as Suleiman the Great did historically—because the Western gospel teaches that “all things have become new” instantly, allowing us to bypass the process. Drawing from 2 Corinthians 5:17, they clarify that we are not instantly “become new,” but are continually “becoming new” in quality as we live daily in Christ through the Lamb of God. The Sheep Gate reveals that entering God’s kingdom begins with sacrifice and allowing Jesus to come into us, not merely receiving Him from a distance; priesthood and true transformation start with the Lamb, not kingship or arrival. They show how this ongoing process of becoming restores hope and second chances, while warning that thinking we have already “arrived” causes us to stop needing relationship and stops our growth. This message calls listeners to stop skipping the conversations the Holy Spirit is highlighting and to walk through the Sheep Gate into the daily journey of becoming the finished work in Christ. Hosts: Dr. Robyn Kassas and Dr. Nathan Kassas Topics Covered: The Gates of Jerusalem Series (Nehemiah 3), The Sheep Gate – Conversation of Sacrifice, Becoming New vs. Become New (2 Corinthians 5:17), Walking Through the Gate vs. Standing Outside, Western Mindset of Skipping Process, Suleiman the Great & Removed Gates Parallel, Priesthood Begins with Sacrifice Not Kingship, Being “In Christ” Through the Lamb of God, The Ongoing Process of Transformation & Daily Becoming, Hope, Second Chances & Training for Reigning, Eden – Fellowship Restored Through Sacrifice, When We Think We’ve Arrived We Stop Growing, Living in the Finished Work, Ambassadors of Reconciliation, From First Love to Mature Love Through Process Visit the church: https://www.torcc.org/ ----------------------- About the program: “First Love” with Dr. Robyn and Dr. Nathan Kassas is a life-transforming broadcast that helps believers and seekers reclaim God’s story through healing, truth, and restoration. Each episode unpacks why it works, how it works, and the process to walk it out—making Him real, relevant, and relational, and returning hearts to Jesus as their first love