My Heart Is On Fire by Doug Apple - a short Christian devotional to open the Scriptures and make your heart burn within you!

You can read the whole text here: https://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) This is a great and terrible phrase: “fully involved.” It’s terrible when you’re talking about a fire. When a fire is fully involved, it means the entire structure is on fire, flames are visible in all areas. No one is going in. No one is getting rescued. All they can do...

You can read the whole text here: https://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) “I’m resolved to become a man of my word.” That’s what he told me, and I said, “That’s great! I have one piece of advice for you.” “What’s that?” he said. “Say less.” He laughed, probably because he knows he’s a big talker! Big talkers often have a problem keeping their...

You can read the whole text here: https://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) My daughter was working the front counter at the Swan and Dolphin Resort at Disney World when a large family approached. An older woman stepped forward and simply said, “Shulas.” My daughter quickly intuited that they were coming for dinner at Shula’s Steak House which w...

You can read the whole text here: https://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) “Who is one of the most influential men in your life?” That was the icebreaker at a men’s meeting I went to. Most men said that their father was the most influential man in their life, and that makes sense, but after your dad, who? One of the most influential men in my l...

You can read the whole text here: https://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) I was training an intern in the art of digital audio editing. I said, “You’re going to be doing a lot of zooming in and zooming out.” “Why?” she said. “Because you have to zoom in close to make tight cuts,” I said. “But then you have to zoom back out to listen to the edi...

You can read the whole text here: https://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) Honor your father and mother…but what if your parents aren’t worthy of honor? It’s pretty clear in the Bible that we are to honor our parents. It’s even in the Ten Commandments. Exodus 20:12 says, “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land...

You can read the whole text here: https://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) Psalm 145:18 says, “The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon Him…” Well…I’M calling upon Him! Are you? I am calling upon the Lord every day and this is great news! When I call upon Him, He is near to me. I want the Lord to ALWAYS be near to me because I need Him. I...

You can read the whole text here: https://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) The Character of Caleb. It’s easy to study the life of Caleb because there’s not that much about him in the Bible, but what IS there is very inspiring. He shows up in Numbers chapter 13 when God tells Moses to send spies into the land of Canaan. Moses has to pick one man...

You can read the whole text here: https://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) I heard an acrostic for the word “poor” and I can’t get it out of my mind. It said the letters P-O-O-R stand for Passing Over Opportunities Repeatedly. In other words, if you want to be poor, just keep passing up on the opportunities that come your way. Sometimes people...

You can read the whole text here: https://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) “For Thine is the kingdom.” That’s what it says near the end of The Lord’s Prayer. I pray through The Lord’s Prayer most days and when I come to this part I expound on it. “Lord, the kingdom is Yours. Everything belongs to You, and I belong to You in your kingdom.” A kin...

You can read the whole text here: https://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) I finally fixed our shower doors. I don’t know why I waited so long. At first they just started closing a little roughly. It finally got to where one of the doors wouldn’t move at all without making the loudest screech and feeling like it was going to fall off and shatte...

You can read the whole text here: https://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) Are you keeping your eyes on aging family members and calculating what you will get when they die? Are you ready to fight with other people to get what you think should be yours? Why are you doing that? So many family divisions have happened over stuff. People value the...

Read the blog here: http://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) “I’ve spent a good portion of my life disappointed with God.” That’s what he said, and it got me thinking. Am I disappointed with God? Have I been disappointed with God? Was I ever disappointed with God? I can’t think of a time when I was ever disapp...

Read the blog here: http://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) How can you have more freedom by living with more restrictions? It sounds counterintuitive. It sounds like nonsense. We want to be free to do whatever we want, whenever we want. The more limits, the less freedom, right? It’s a one-to-one ratio. Yet we find a different conce...

Read the blog here: http://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) Yay, it’s time to go to the festival! Thankfully you have an umbrella stroller for the baby. Just unfold it, strap him in, and off you go. Watch out for rocks, though. And uneven sidewalks. And sticks. In fact, just watch out for everything, because the wheels on an umbrell...

Read the blog here: http://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) “The bathtub has arrived!” A huge man waddles in carrying a heavy bathtub. It’s a new house. The walls are up. The smell of sawdust is in the air. And it’s time to install the bathtub. The man sets it down in the only place it can go, touching the walls on...

Read the blog here: http://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) Jesus said something that sounds almost cruel. He said, “Whoever has, to him more will be given, and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.” That sounds like the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. So let’s look at...

Read the blog here: http://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) I was talking to an evolutionist, the kind that believes that everything evolved from nothing after a big bang. I said, “Just look at food, for example. You think it just evolved on this big rock hurtling through space after a big bang?” “Well, it took billions...

Read the blog here: http://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) A highway is a road built up to make travel easier. That’s what the footnote in my Bible says under Isaiah chapter 35 verse 8. That verse is talking about a highway, so the footnote tells us what a highway is. It’s a road built up to make travel easier. You aren&rsquo...

Read the blog here: http://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) Why is Home Depot on lockdown? I just wanted to run in, buy a new weed eater, and go home. But that’s not how it works these days. Why? Because Home Depot is on lockdown. What I mean is, some of their stuff is now literally chained up behind bars right there on the shelf. A...

Read the blog here: http://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) A man makes his plans, but the Lord directs his steps. That’s what it says in Proverbs 16:9. We see a great example of this when looking at Mary Magdalene at the tomb of Jesus. Jesus was crucified. He declared, “It is finished.” And Mary Magdalene was part of th...

Read the blog here: http://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) Colossians 4:6 says, “Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt…” Speaking with grace might seem obvious, but what does it mean “seasoned with salt”? Here’s one way to look at it. Seasoned with salt makes it delicious and people want more of it! How do most people feel a...

Read the blog here: http://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) Have you ever heard of mesothelioma? Most likely you’ve heard of it from the class action lawsuit ads on television. The ads are run by lawyers who want you to sign up for the class action lawsuit, IF you are one of the people negatively affected by the defendant. If you an...

Read the blog here: http://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ Read the blog here: http://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) What is sin? The Greek word for sin in the Bible is ἁμαρτία which is pronounced ham-ar-TEE-ah. It’s literal meaning is “to miss the mark.” Sometimes we whitewash sin....

Read the blog here: http://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) “The other driver got aggressive, so I got aggressive, too.” That’s what my friend said. He continued, “But I don’t do that anymore. The Bible says, ‘Don’t return evil for evil,” so when another driver gets aggressive, I just let hi...