Audio Transcript It’s Job week on the podcast. The book of Job is a source of a lot of APJ questions, and the source of a lot of answers too on all sorts of topics over the years. We have eighty episodes now mentioning Job — on every topic you can imagine. I’m surprised how…
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Make the Most of Sunday Mornings: Two Simple Changes
Ah, Sunday. That majestic morning when my children awake to the aroma of eggs and bacon and fresh-squeezed orange juice. When they bound down the stairs, Bibles in hand and a song in their hearts. When I lead them in family worship over breakfast, and my wife plays the piano as we prepare our hearts…
Strangely Hospitable: What Sets Apart a Christian Home
In 2003, when my husband and I exchanged rings and vows, Martha Stewart was the gold standard in hospitality. While her focus on the home may have inspired a renaissance of the domestic arts, it set an impossible standard for most women. Many of us could barely pronounce the ingredients in her recipes, much less…
Good Night, My Son: A Father’s Tribute Through Tragic Loss
Thursday, November 16, 2023 — one year ago today — will be etched in my memory as the night that started the journey of my worst fears: losing a family member to the cold hand of death. Around midnight, I got the call that Mwansa, our beloved 32-year-old son, had collapsed and was being rushed…
When Your Heart Condemns You
The apostle John gives us a phrase full of angst when he writes, “whenever our heart condemns us . . .” (1 John 3:20). Has your heart ever condemned you; shut up your happiness in a coffin? Has it replayed your sin on the big screen and made you watch it on repeat? “Whenever our…
The unseen beauty that is our God
The unseen beauty that is our God Posted by appolus on November 14, 2024 A conversation between Kalli Womack Cook and Frank McEleny, brother and sister in the Lord. Kalli…………. The Father said, “There is beauty in the earth.” The child asked, “Where?” The Father said, “A flower blooms in the desert.” And the child responded,…
Can a Church Require Tithing?
Audio Transcript Tithing — giving ten percent of our income to a church — is a common theme here on the Ask Pastor John podcast. Not so much recently, but in our first decade it did come up a lot, and you can see how in the APJ book, on pages 101–103, if you have…
Restore Our Joy in You: A Prayer for Revival
Last week, we were doing some work on our basement bathroom, getting ready to host a family of seven. A couple of days before the family flew in, we were putting some final touches on the paint and installing a nice vintage mirror Faye thrifted and a couple of cute shelves when she noticed that…
Joy Against Boredom: How Christians Resist a Culture of Death
Which of these two people is bored? One man has to sit through an entire three-hour baseball game, yawning, uninterested in the action and the rules, yearning to be anywhere else. The other man spent three anxious hours rattling through two-thirds of his to-do list, purchasing two new household items from Amazon, deciding which workout…
Songs of worship for today.
Songs of worship for today. Posted by appolus on November 12, 2024 Hi brothers. Post cancer I have been writing a lot of songs. It seems to be the season that I am in. I am interested in creating songs and hymns that actually say something. It seems that many modern Christian songs are very lacking…