Ministry Deep Dive

We welcome neurotheologian Jim Wilder back to the show to discuss his newest book, Escaping Enemy Mode. What are the signs of spiritual maturity? Jim believes that it is the ability to endure suffering well, but it also means loving our enemies. How do we do that when we seemingly have enemies everywhere? How do we stand for truth and love them without giving away our convictions? You must listen...

During the Christmas season, Mary often gets a lot of press, but Joseph's faith often gets overlooked. But was his faith less than hers? You might even say that he had more faith to trust than Mary did. Her too personified a generosity of spirit that we can do well to emulate. But how? Listen in and find out! Sign up for the Apollos Watered newsletter . Check out our YouTube channel . Help support...

Travis welcomes Jerry Root to the show in this second half of our conversation. In this conversation, Jerry narrows in on evangelism, loving all people, meeting people where they are, C.S. Lewis, and some practical tools for sharing the Gospel in our modern world. It's a conversation that will feed your soul. Learn more about Jerry . Sign up for the Apollos Watered newsletter . Check out our YouTu...

The Christmas season is a time of generosity and one of the greatest examples of generosity is found in Mary, the mother of Jesus. She personified generosity, but not in the financial sense. She was generous in the sense of giving up herself, her reputation, and her status in the immediate moment, to serve and fulfill the purpose of God. Her life is a lesson for us in generosity and service. But h...

C.S. Lewis has had a huge influence on so many people. He was a man that so many still read and influenced their walk with Jesus. Travis welcomes Jerry Root to the show! Jerry is a renaissance man, one of the people you want to sit down with and have a cup of coffee, and simply soak up the wisdom. We talk about Christ, culture, Christianity, C.S. Lewis, and practical tools for sharing the Gospel i...

We love a good story and each one of us has the Divine Author weaving it together for our good. My story. Your story. Our story. God has woven our stories together to transform lives around the world. None of us can do it by ourselves. We need one another. That's why we want to have stories of generosity of supporting the work of God so that others' lives might be changed and their stories reflect...

In this second part of our conversation w/John Hannigan, Executive Director of Celebrate Kids. In our previous conversation, we learned his story—how he grew up in the church and struggled with same-sex attraction and sought help but found none. In his late teens, he was done fighting his desires and urges and decided to pursue the life he desired away from God. But God wasn't done with John, and...

Join this week's episode as Wayne Stender, our podcast producer, interviews Travis and Melissa Fleming about their story and the Apollos Watered Missioholistic approach to faith. There are so many issues that are facing Christians and the church today that it seems overwhelming. Church members are tired, some have deconstructed and left the faith altogether and pastors are burning out. What's the...

Travis welcomes John Hannigan to the show. John is the Executive Director of Celebrate Kids, a ministry dedicated to offering peace to anxious students, extending hope to depressed teens, and providing encouragement to discouraged moms and dads who want the best for their children. John is a unique, fun, larger-than-life personality that has God's grace written all over his life. John's story is o...

The values of our modern world are individualism, productivity, and efficiency, and while not bad things in themselves, they have so crept into our Christian experience unnoticed. In fact, they have been adopted and Christianized--used to justify ministry, busy-ness, and the inhumanity of man. What if God wants something altogether different for us? What if He wants us to not only make disciples b...

Do you ever feel guilt and shame at the end of the day for not getting stuff done? Why? Why do we feel like we can do everything and be everything? We know that we have limitations and yet we live and think that we do not. Have we believed something about ourselves that is wrong? Perhaps we have forgotten something about ourselves that we are creatures with limitations and that is a good thing? Tr...

Our tagline is simple: "Water your faith. Water your world." But for us, it's more than a slogan. It's what we want to help people do. What does it mean to have your faith watered? And then in turn, what does it mean to water your world? What does it look like in everyday life? During the month of November, you will be hearing various stories of people whose lives were in desperate need of water....

Travis welcomes Alan Noble to the show as they discuss his book You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World . Once again they discuss what it means to live in our modern-day world. They discuss our fixation w/ self-medication, technique, the burden of self-justification, and guys like Charles Taylor, Jacques Ellul, and Zygmunt Bauman-fun names to say, eh? These are deep thinkers who...

We welcome Alan Noble to the show! Alan is a professor, beard enthusiast, onion field lover, and fan of 1940's men's fashion. He is also the author of You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World . Today, Travis and Alan discuss what it means to live in our modern-day world. It seems that everywhere we turn, there are promises of living a better life, of being a better you, of fill-i...

Travis welcomes Karl Payne to the show! Travis and Karl discuss the three-headed dragon of the world, flesh, and the powers of darkness. How do they work together? Why is it important to know which one we are fighting? How does the devil affect our minds? Karl gives us insight, direction, and above all hope of living a victorious Christian life! Karl is an author, pastor, frequent guest on Moody r...

Travis welcomes Karl Payne to the show! There are so many questions that Christians have in regard to spiritual warfare and so much misunderstanding. In fact, the subject has largely disappeared from most churches. Why? What has been behind the shift? And what can be done to help Christians understand and engage in spiritual warfare? Many Christians would rather ignore the subject altogether, hopi...

In this second part of our conversation, New Testament scholar, Craig Keener shows us how miracles were not just in the world of the New Testament, but are taking place in our world today. We hear about them taking place in various places throughout the world, but why not in the West? What about disabilities? Does God heal those? What role or roles do demons play in causing some of these issues? W...

Do the miracles in the Bible still happen today? How can we really know? Can we trust contemporary accounts? These are just some of the questions that we want to have answered and there is no one better to answer the question than New Testament scholar Craig Keener. Statistics show a majority of people believe in the miraculous, but saying we believe something is very different than experiencing i...

Part 2! Marcus Warner shares with us some of the legal authority we have as Christ-followers, the RIP principle for understanding demons (regional, institutional, and personal), and why so many Christians have difficulty finding freedom and victory in Christ. Many of our contemporary church models follow the ABCs of discipleship-Academic training, Behavior modification, and Church activities, but...

Travis welcomes Marcus Warner to the show! Have you ever felt that you are doing all the right things, yet God feels distant? Have you felt that there are wounds from your past that can't be healed? Or have you wondered if there may be some demonic influence in your life that won't leave you alone? Many of our contemporary church models follow the ABC's of discipleship-Academic training, Behavior...

Travis welcomes Chris Castaldo to the show! Chris is one of the leading evangelical experts on Roman Catholicism today. A former Catholic himself, his story is refreshing, encouraging, and filled with insight and hope. Chris is an expert at building bridges between Roman Catholics and evangelicals having dialogued with some of the leading Roman Catholic scholars today. He finds points of agreement...

Travis and Te-Li are back discussing shame-its downfalls, confusion surrounding it, and how it should function in the church. Listen in as Travis and Te-Li discuss shame, what it is, how it manifests itself, and how God wants us to relate to it. Get the book Defending Shame . Sign up for the Apollos Watered newsletter . Help support the ministry of Apollos Watered and transform your world today!

Travis welcomes New Testament scholar Te-Li Lau to the show! Shame is everywhere today. We hear terms like fat-shaming, slut-shaming, etc. Add to that the idea of cancel culture, shame is everywhere we turn and many want to get rid of any idea of shame, but is that right? What does the Bible say about shame? Is shame always bad? Or can it be something good? Listen in as Travis and Te-Li discuss sh...

Travis, Jay Moon & Bud Simon keep the conversation going with tips on how to share the good news of Jesus in a diverse world. Travis, Jay, & Bud discuss their book, Intercultural Evangelism, and talk through some of the mindset shifts that need to occur for us to share Jesus effectively with those who come from different cultural backgrounds. They discuss four cultural operating systems th...

Travis welcomes Jay Moon & Bud Simon to the show! Have you ever tried to share Jesus with someone from a different religion and crashed and burned? Have you found the approaches you've been taught for sharing Jesus to be ineffective? Especially with people who have no familiarity with Jesus or the Christian faith? Drawing upon their experiences as missionaries, Jay Moon and Bud Simon act as gu...