Ask Pastor John

Prayer offers us a lifeline to our Lord, a vital connection we need every day. But unless we plan ahead, we will be prone to wander.

The new birth brings an awakening of delight in Christ and increasing victory over sin. But how much delight and victory should Christians expect?

If you want to raise your children to know and love Jesus, then a regular rhythm of blessing may prove to be a helpful habit of grace.

If I believe all the right things, then why does my growth in holiness seem so tedious and slow?

Alcoholics Anonymous, and programs like it, seem to genuinely help hurting people. But what do such programs miss that Christians can’t overlook?

If the Bible says that loving pleasure is a sign of ungodliness, then can we really make joy and pleasure essential to our pursuit of God?

How do we lay down our anger, our bitterness, our grudges against those who have wronged us and gotten away with it?

God gets maximum glory from his people, not when we work for him out of begrudging duty, but when we run to him out of sheer delight.

If you live near a number of gospel-preaching churches, how do you decide which body is best for you to join? Pastor John suggests nine steps.

How do I become a sage who overflows with godly wisdom? Pastor John recommends a path too few of us choose to tread.

We all need private, regular communion with God. But the Bible presents a vision for prayer that reaches well beyond our personal quiet times.

The New Testament doesn’t apply the term “pastor” to any leader in the church, but only to qualified men who oversee and teach the flock.

The God of our Bibles is more glorious than we can even begin to imagine. And it all begins with this fact: God absolutely and simply is.

What happens when a preacher saturates himself with the Scriptures, walks into a pulpit, and overflows with a God-entranced vision of all things?

James tells us that we have not because we ask not. But do we still lack sometimes because we don’t ask with enough faith?

Evil goes beyond the harm we commit against other humans. Evil is preferring anything above God, even if we harm no one in the process.

Our perceptions of race relations in the church are of some importance. God’s vision for where race relations are heading is of infinite importance.

Most fundamentally, marriage is not a convenient matchup of vocations, but a covenant that displays the love Jesus has for his church.

Should parents require non-Christian teens to attend church with them? And if so, how do they avoid creating hypocrites of their kids?

The cross will seem like an overreaction as long as man is big and God is small. The essence of sin is not harm done to man, but indignities done to God.