Apollos Watered Podcast

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 […]

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 in our modern world. It’s a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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? […]

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, […]