Apollos Watered Podcast

Does God hate? What does that mean? How does God love the sinner and hate the sin when biblically the two seem connected (Revelation 21:8)? Does God get envious or jealous? God’s jealousy disturbed Oprah so much that she left Christianity behind. But is God jealous? And if so, is that wrong? How does our […]

Does God get emotional? Does that sound strange? It isn’t. We talk about God’s emotions all the time. Isn’t love an emotion? God is love, but the Bible also says that God hates (Proverbs 6:16-19). That begs the question: does God have other emotions? What are the emotions of God? Is there more than love […]

Travis and Nancy continue their conversation on the war on toxic masculinity. They discuss what biblical masculinity is and what it’s not, what a “good man” is, the shape of the home, the industrial revolution, and some of the differences the data reveals between men and women. Nancy shows how the Bible gives a vision […]

Two words: Toxic masculinity. It seems to be everywhere, from secular newspapers to Christian bookstores carry articles discussing toxic masculinity and for many the root of it, or one of the biggest culprits anyway, is Christian men. Is Christian masculinity toxic? We know that pundits are saying so, but what about the actual data? And […]

In this second part of the conversation, Travis and Jeff discuss the mindset shift needed to embrace God’s work in the world today. What is that shift? Can anyone make it? What are the ramifications if we do? They continue their discussion of Jeff’s newest book, Once You See: Seven Temptations of the Western Church: […]

What happens when Jesus refugees from the majority world enter into a megachurch in the south? Have you seen God work in churches in the West in similar ways that we hear about in the majority world? Are pastors in the West today more concerned about the Sunday experience and the metrics of growth that […]

Is the Christian ideal that we aspire to in our lives really Christian? In our families? In what we do pursue? How do we separate the Gospel from the evangelical culture? And what happens when you address these things in our evangelical institutions? This week on Apollos Watered, we finish off our conversation about Karen’s […]

What is the “good life” to you? Is it the American Dream? Is it the kids getting a good education and job? What about the family? Is it the wife staying home while the husband goes to work? Taking a vacation someplace exotic on spring break? Where did we get these ideas on the good […]

Travis & Chris Coursey continue our conversation from Part 1, but this time, in Part 2, we go deeper into joy and how we cultivate it. What do we do when our joy switch gets turned off? What are some practical things that we can do to step back into joy? Listen in and find […]