Yesterday Was Easy – Apologia Studios

Be A Protector S01:E23

Apologia Studios — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 18:35:48 +0000

In this twenty-third episode, Pastor Luke wraps up his discussion of Voddie Baucham’s Four P’s of Family Shepherding, covering the Protector. A protector is a man who shields and defends the people God has placed under his care. He puts himself between his people and those who will harm them, whether it be physical, spiritual, or even from the culture and the technology it brings into your home. A protector is wise, not a fool. He is not someone who looks for nor invites trouble, but is also not someone who runs from it. The role of protector is one of position: you place yourself between the world and your loved ones. You act as a door, letting them out into the world as ambassadors for Christ to impact the culture for his glory, while at the same time, keeping the culture out, who would love nothing more than to devour your family. You are responsible to God for your loved ones. Guard them with your life. Be a protector. Yesterday was easy!

Be A Provider S01:E22

Apologia Studios — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:05:41 +0000

In this 22nd episode, Pastor Luke continues his discussion of Voddie Baucham’s Four P’s of Family Shepherding. This time, he covers the Provider. A provider is a man who humbly stands before God and makes sure his people have what they need. He must be a good steward of the gifts God has given him, and those living in a man’s household certainly fall into this category. Your wife and children are your most richest blessings and absolutely should be thought of in that way. A provider does not walk in idleness, but toils and labors both day and night in order to provide for his family. A provider is not a busybody, but is busy at work, doing his work quietly, earning his own living. He has a good biblical work ethic. He is not a mooch. He does not meddle in quarrels not his own, but minds his own business. Be a provider. Yesterday was easy!

Be A Prophet S01:E21

Apologia Studios — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:04:03 +0000

In this twenty first episode, Pastor Luke continues his discusses of Voddie Baucham’s Four P’s of Family Shepherding. This time he covers the Prophet. A prophet is a man who represents God before his people through proclamation of his word. A family shepherd is God’s representative to his household, and there is no neutral shepherding. You are either actively leading your family towards God through his Word, or actively leading them away from God, either directly toward some other false god, or allowing them to wander aimlessly through pure negligence. Brothers, if we are to speak for God to our families, we have to first know what God’s Word says. But we mustn’t stop there. We must also love and cherish it to the point it is continually on the tips of or tongues. We must then proclaim this truth to our households, and so with gentleness and respect, not lording it over those whom we love and are called to shepherd. Be a prophet. Yesterday was easy!

Be A Priest – S01:E20

Apologia Studios — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 22:17:33 +0000

In this twentieth episode, Pastor Luke discusses the first role of Voddie Baucham’s Four P’s of Family Shepherding, the Priest. A priest is a man who represents his people before God through prayer and worship. Therefore, a faithful family shepherd blesses his wife and children and continually intercedes for them. He rises early in the morning and prays for them. During the day he leads them in family worship and prays with them. Before he closes his eyes for sleep, he prays for them again. If we are to be honorable priests in our homes, then we must sacrificially lay our lives down for our families, and faithfully lead them in prayer and family worship. Be a priest. Yesterday was easy!

The War for The Cosmos – S01:E19

Apologia Studios — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:39:22 +0000

In this nineteenth episode, Pastor Luke pick up where he left off in the last episode to look at the biblical definition and purpose of the household. Household, or family government, is God’s second ordained sphere of government, extending larger than the individual sphere. This is even modeled in God’s created order for his people. You have Christ (the Groom) and the Church (his Bride), and then we, of course, as Christians, are his children and receive his inheritance. This is the whole story of history. HIS story! The Groom is pursuing his Bride until the great wedding day. At that moment, the Bride will become glorified and receive her inheritance, and together they will rule the cosmos, or the created order. When we love our wives like Christ loved the Church, and our wives respect us like the church respects Christ, we illustrate for our children, and for the world, a picture of the end of history. How you manage your household will have a cosmic affect. Know and understand that. You are never out of this fight whether you like it or not. Be broken over this reality or get broke. Go to war for the cosmos. Yesterday was easy!

Trad Dads – S01:E18

Apologia Studios — Wed, 28 May 2025 17:40:11 +0000

In this eighteenth episode, Pastor Luke discusses traditional fatherhood from a Biblical perspective, which C.R. Wiley defines as, “wisdom handed down to us in a set of customs, a way of doing things…and has been summarized in a set of categories: purpose, provision, and protection.” Fatherhood is to be considered something created by God himself, not a social construct invented by men. Being a traditional father is not a title given, but one that is earned, and the way you earn it is by owning it. Like your favorite pair of work jeans or worn-out flannel, you wear it. The rips and tears, the oil stains, the worndown knees and elbows, are the battle scars showing you have the right to wear the t-shirt with bold but simple lettering that reads “Trad Dad.” Be a Trad Dad. Yesterday was easy!

Bury The Excuses – S01:E17

Apologia Studios — Wed, 14 May 2025 17:56:37 +0000

In this seventeenth episode, Pastor Luke looks at the history of excuse making and talks about putting excuses to death. Far too many men in the Church make excuses for their failures, not because they are not capable of taking on responsibility, but because they are allergic to hard work. Responsibility involves sacrifice and selflessness and pain. Making excuses is easy and requires nothing more than creativity. It is selfish and painless. Hard work produces results, despising excuses. Great men don’t make excuses, but overcome them. Don’t be good at making excuses, but good at putting them do death. Bury the excuses. Yesterday was easy!

Be Intentional – S01:E16

Apologia Studios — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:20:13 +0000

In this sixteenth episode, Pastor Luke discusses intentionality. God is a god of purpose, and since we were created in his image, so should we be purposeful. Christian men must purpose to be hard workers. They must purpose to be good stewards of the bodies God has given us. They must purpose to be faithful husbands and fathers. And the only way to accomplish this is by not forsaking the work of hands. Be intentional in all that you do. Put your hands to the plow and get to work. Be intentional. Yesterday was easy!

Integrity – S01:E15

Apologia Studios — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 17:01:42 +0000

In this fifteenth episode, Pastor Luke discusses having integrity from two different perspectives. One, as defined by Scripture, and two as defined by his dear friend, soon to be retired Navy SEAL, Captain Brad Geary. Holistically walk in integrity. Let your wife see it. Let your children see it. Let the public see it. And most importantly, let your Creator who judges righteously see it! Have integrity. Yesterday was easy!

Freedom – S01:E14

Apologia Studios — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:04:20 +0000

In this fourteenth episode, Pastor Luke talks about his Great Uncle Charles Krieger, a POW during WWII, and discusses freedom from a biblical perspective. True freedom is rooted only in Christ. Plant your seed there. Put to death weakness and timidity. Put on the freedom of Christ and let that freedom ring! Freedom costs something. Yesterday was easy!