Wives, submit to your husbands. Posted by appolus on June 11, 2023 Eph 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. This might be one of the most controversial scriptures in the NT in our day. We are at least three generations into feminism and that very feminism has permeated its way…
Category: Health
‘Lead Me into Temptation’: How We Make Room for Sin
In the book of Romans, the apostle Paul gives a simple yet profound exhortation to Christians that illuminates our fight with sin: Make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. (Romans 13:14) The exhortation suggests that not only do we sin by gratifying sinful desires, but we can actually create space for such…
When God Sets Sunsets Free: Imagining the World to Come
We often think of creation — forests and oceans, tornados and earthquakes, lions, tigers, and bears — as wild and untamed compared with normal life. And we’re not wrong. When God placed Adam into the world he had made, even before that world fell into disorder through sin, he charged the man “to work it…
Tribulation, the birthplace of hope.
Tribulation, the birthplace of hope. Posted by appolus on June 9, 2023 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope:…
Young Men with Holy Habits
What young men will be, in all probability, depends on what they are now. Young men seem to forget this. I am a pastor, and my occupational duty requires me to read. So for the past 35 years, I have acquired literally tons of books. My office, my house, and even my bedroom are all…
Hi Blood still flows!
Hi Blood still flows! Posted by appolus on June 8, 2023 The sands of time are running low Yet the river still continues to flow It flows for you and it flows for me And it still flows from Calvary His Blood cries out and still it saves It pulls men out from stormy waves His…
How Much Should Pastors Make?
Audio Transcript How much should a pastor make? The pastor’s salary is a question we get often. The topic has actually factored into at least three episodes in the past that I can remember, back in APJ episodes 217, 472, and 912. But the pastor’s salary was only a subtheme in all three of those…
The Best Use of Your Short Life
I sometimes feel that I am living just as long as I have something great to work for. My mother-in-law, Joni, lives with my wife and me. She’s in relatively good health for being 100 years old. She laughs. She cries. She jokes a bit. Her grandchildren and great-grandchildren love to visit. They’re intrigued by…
Good Leaders Fail Well: How Mistakes Become a Staircase
As a younger man, I expected that leadership would mean responsibility, burden, and difficult decision-making. I didn’t know, however, that leadership would also mean a good deal of failure. I don’t have in mind large-scale, shocking failures — the kind that disqualify a man from pastoral ministry, for example. No, I mainly have in mind…
Free speech and true love
Free speech and true love Posted by appolus on June 6, 2023 Luk 6:32 For if you love them which love you, what credit is that to you? For sinners also love those that love them. It is said about free speech that it only really counts when you tolerate speech that is extremely offensive to…