Apollos Watered Podcast

There are startups that change how we live-Ford, Apple, Google, Amazon, but one startup that we don’t think about is one that began over 2,000 years ago-the church! Let’s go back and see what made the church start and why we need it. If Covid has taught us anything, we need one another. It is […]

Join Travis as he has a deep conversation with Keith Draper. Rev. Keith Draper and his wife Barbara have served the Lord in the Chicagoland area for over 30 years now. He began his work in the far west suburbs of Chicago as a campus minister at Wheaton College and College of DuPage. Through his ongoing missionary […]

No one knows what the future holds, but we do know Him who holds the future! It is so easy to stress ourselves into silence; instead, I think we need to look at those who have gone before us-men and women of conviction and action-who were courageous and testified during uncertain and confusing times. It […]

Join Travis as he talks with E. Randolph “Randy” Richards as they talk about all things culture, eating insects, and stuff like individualism, collectivism, patronage, kinship, brokerage, modesty, and the Godfather!? Randy Richards is a Ph.D. who loves training students for ministry, both domestically and internationally. He has been teaching since 1986, originally at a […]

This is part 2 of a 2 part deep conversation that Travis has with Karl “KJ” Johnson. KJ is the director of the C.S. Lewis Institute. KJ grew up in Chicago, attended the Univ. of IL Urbana-Champaign, and served 20 years of active duty in the United States Marine Corps as an assault support helicopter […]

This is part 1 of a 2 part deep conversation that Travis has with Karl “KJ” Johnson. KJ is the director of the C.S. Lewis Institute. KJ grew up in Chicago, attended the Univ. of IL Urbana-Champaign, and served 20 years of active duty in the United States Marine Corps as an assault support helicopter […]

Travis talks about all things Christmas-rocket launching angels, God’s way of doing stuff is WAY outside of how we do things, Christmas ornaments, family, and how all of the madness of Christmas is a beautiful mess that shows how much God loves us. Sign up for the Apollos Watered newsletter. Help support the ministry of […]

Join Travis as he talks about Christmas, cross-culturing, the necessity of Jesus being the God-man, and a simple way we can understand it with a homeless man, a Chicago cop, and the President of a sovereign nation. Not only is the incarnation the ultimate cross-culturing experience, but it also shows the depth of how far […]

A conversation with Robert White from Care for Pastors on the absolute necessity of soul care, pastors, forced resignations, the state of the church, what it means to be worthy of God’s love (it’s not what you think!), STAY principle, boundaries, priorities, and some laughs and prayers along the way. It’s really about how to […]

Tight rope walkers & wheelbarrows, Proverbs 3:5-10, Blind skiers, barometers, money, Romans 1, pornography’s chemical effects, and the book of Haggai all talk about what happens when you trust in the wrong things. Who do you trust? How do we trust? Listen in as Travis takes us through the Scriptures and shows us how! Sign […]