Luke 24:32, "And they said one to another, 'Did not our heart burn within us, while He talked with us by the way, and while He opened to us the scriptures?'"
My Heart Is On Fire by Doug Apple - a short Christian devotional to open the Scriptures and make your heart burn within you!
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Luke 24:32, "And they said one to another, 'Did not our heart burn within us, while He talked with us by the way, and while He opened to us the scriptures?'"
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December 5, 2025
Say Less
You can read the whole text here: https://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) “I’m resolved to become a man of my word.” That’s what he told me, and I said, “That’s great! I have one piece of advice for you.” “What’s that?” he said. “Say less.” He laughed, probably because he knows he’s a big talker! Big talkers often have a problem keeping their word. The more you say, the harder it is to keep track of it all. So here is one huge piece of advice if you want to do better at keeping your word. Say less. In Matthew 5:37 Jesus said, “Let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Anything more than this comes from evil.” In other words…stop babbling! James 5:12 also says to let your yes be yes and your no be no, then adds, “…lest you fall into judgment.” Ecclesiastes 5:4 talks about the importance of keeping your word, and it says, “…for God has no pleasure in fools.” Do you ever add things to your words like, “I will, I promise”? Or worse, “I swear to God.” Listen, you should never have to add anything like that to your words, because your word alone says it all. If you have to add to it, you are already ruined. They don’t believe you, and you don’t believe you. And God has no pleasure in fools. So one way to do better at keeping your word is: say less. If you say less, you will commit to fewer things, making it much more likely that you will actually do all the things you say you will do. Fewer things are easier to remember. Proverbs 10:19 says, “When words are many, sin is unavoidable.” The more you talk, the more likely you are to sin. It’s like a water tap. Open it a little and you have complete control of it. You can fill a cup perfectly to the top and not spill a drop. That’s like keeping your word perfectly. You have it under control. But open up that water tap all the way and you lose control. And for some people, their mouth is like a loose fire hose! Have you ever seen a loose fire hose that is out of control? It’s flopping here and there and if you get near it you are going to get hurt. And if you get near someone whose mouth is a firehose…you are going to get hurt. And if YOUR mouth is the firehose, you are going to hurt people, and you probably already know that full well. Psalm 141:3 is a very powerful prayer, and it’s so good I’m going to give it to you from multiple translations. The King James says, “Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.” The New King James says, “Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth…” The NLT says, “Take control of what I say, O LORD…” This is a wonderful goal, to get your mouth under control. You want to become a man or a woman of your word. When you say something, people can count on it. And here is one major tip for keeping your word. Say less. May God bless you today. I’m Doug Apple.
November 11, 2025
Shula's
You can read the whole text here: https://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) My daughter was working the front counter at the Swan and Dolphin Resort at Disney World when a large family approached. An older woman stepped forward and simply said, “Shulas.” My daughter quickly intuited that they were coming for dinner at Shula’s Steak House which was right around the corner inside the resort. So she pointed where to go, and off the woman went, the family trailing behind her, including an older man in a wheel chair. A few minutes later my daughter saw the family coming back. The older woman stepped forward again and said, “No, we ARE the Shulas. We’re checking in to the resort.” My daughter hadn’t recognized Florida royalty, the Don Shula family! She was talking to Don Shula’s wife, and the Hall of Fame football coach himself was there in the wheelchair. I said he was Florida royalty, but every day people are born who have never heard of Don Shula. He was one of the best coaches in NFL history, and the only coach so far to lead his team to an undefeated season, which he did with the Miami Dolphins in 1972. The other day I was looking at a photo of one of their games. It was a photo of the Miami Orange Bowl taken high above the stadium. The people were just specks. I thought, “There’s Don Shula, one of the specks.” Then I thought of Larry Csonka. He was a big, bruising running back and one of the stars for the Dolphins. He was a little bigger and a little stronger and that’s why he was a star. But looking at the whole scene from just a few hundred feet above the stadium, it made no difference if one person was a little bigger or a little stronger. They were all just specks in the mass of humanity. In the end we are all just specks in the mass of humanity. What difference in the world does it make if one man is a little bigger or a little stronger? One person is considered better looking by mere millimeters of flesh being in this place rather than that place. We put our values, and even build our lives on these millimeters that in the long run don’t matter. Second Corinthians 4:18 says that, as Christians, we should spend our time looking at things “which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” One translation says, “For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.” The Miami Orange Bowl is gone. It was demolished in 2008. Most of the adults that were cheering on the Dolphins in 1972 are gone. Don Shula is gone. Even that Shula’s Steakhouse inside the resort is gone. First John 2:17 says this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But whoever does the will of God will live forever. Lord, please help me do Your will; not my will, but Your will. Colossians 3:2 says, “Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.” Lord, help me do this, set my mind on things above, not on things on the earth. Jesus said in Luke 16:15, “For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.” Lord, please, I want to highly esteem what You highly esteem. How can we get our values straightened out? We need to turn toward God and diligently seek Him. We need to get know His ways and His words. We need to spend time with God, like it says in Matthew 6:6, getting alone, shutting out distractions, and talking to our Father. One man said, “I worked so hard climbing the ladder of life, only to realize it was leaning against the wrong building.” Heavenly Father, please help me follow You closely. I want my values to be Your values. I want to focus on the main eternal things, and I don’t want to waste time on things that You do not highly esteem. I am open to Your paradigm shift, and I am trusting You to lead me every step of the way. In Jesus’ name. May God bless you today. I’m Doug Apple.
August 22, 2025
One of the Most Influential Men in My Life
You can read the whole text here: https://dougapple.blogspot.com/ +++++++ I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) “Who is one of the most influential men in your life?” That was the icebreaker at a men’s meeting I went to. Most men said that their father was the most influential man in their life, and that makes sense, but after your dad, who? One of the most influential men in my life was Dr. James Dobson, and here’s the story. In 1985 I was a rock and roll DJ, and I had a growing conviction that if I could do what I do full time for the Lord, then I should. I began pursuing the idea of working fulltime in Christian radio, but how should I go about it? I didn’t want to view it as a career trajectory, making decisions based on what was best to climb the career ladder. I also didn’t want to make my decisions based on who would pay me the most. What I really wanted was God’s perfect will. So I sent out resumes to Christian radio stations with one prayer, “God, please just open one door, just one, because if there is more than one, I won’t know how to choose the right one.” So I sent out the resumes with a pretty clear idea who would hire me. But, as you might imagine, that’s not how it went. Yes, just one radio station offered me a job, and it was a smaller station in a smaller market…definitely not what you would choose if you were trying to climb the career ladder. But that was my prayer and that was my heart, to do God’s will and follow His path for my life, and I believe He answered my prayer with this one radio station. So I went to work there and often asked myself, “Why here, of all places?” Meanwhile I was playing and hearing a particular radio program every day. I was a newlywed and soaking up this program’s marriage information. We started having children, and there I was, soaking up this program’s parenting information. Day in and day out I was being molded and shaped by the wisdom of Dr. James Dobson and his program Focus on the Family. It is not a program I would have naturally been drawn to, but since I was at this small radio station, wearing many hats, including handling the Focus on the Family program, I was exposed to the family teachings of Dr. Dobson year in and year out. I picked up priceless information for strengthening my marriage and family, for raising children, for being a Christian in the marketplace…on and on. Here is one example. Dr. Dobson talked about raising kids using the illustration of rafting down a river with your family. At first, it’s peaceful as you glide along in the river. That’s when your kids are young. But then the teenage years hit, and that’s when the raft hits the whitewater rapids. Everyone is tossed about. Everyone is getting wet. You’re going to lose some things from the boat…but the most important thing is…keep everyone in the boat. In other words, keep your relationship going with your teenage kids. Even when the water gets rough, keep them in the boat, because after a while they will grow out of it and you will be back in smoother waters and what will you still have from the whitewater rapids? Hopefully your kids will still be in the boat, in other words, you still have a relationship with them. As I write this, Dr. Dobson has just passed away, and I’m thinking of one of the most important messages he ever shared. It was after he played a pickup basketball game with one of the greatest players of all time, Pete Maravich. Dobson was going to interview Maravich that day, but the interview never happened. Maravich had a heart attack and died there on the court at just 40 years old. That night Dr. Dobson went home and talked to his 17-year-old son Ryan. He said, “Ryan, what happened to Pete Maravich today was not an isolated tragedy. This is the human condition. Sooner or later somebody is going to tell you that I am gone. My message to you is BE THERE. Be there to meet your mother and me in heaven. We will be looking for you. BE THERE, because that’s the one thing that matters.” Yes, Dr. Dobson taught me the importance of being there for my wife and kids, and he taught the importance of being there with them in eternity. I can picture him having a grand reunion with his parents and many others who have gone before. And one day we, too, will face the end of this life and the door to the next. As Dr. Dobson said, the important thing is to be there, in heaven. How does that happen? The Christian teaching is simple. Sin separates us from God, but Jesus shed His blood and died on the cross to pay the penalty for us and open the door for us to come back to God. So we say, “God, I’m sorry. I repent of my sins. I trust Jesus as my Savior. Please come into my life and save me so I can walk with You now, and be with You forever.” Amen. May God bless you today. I’m Doug Apple.
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