Ask Pastor John

God’s love and election work hand and hand. There’s no election that is not loving, and there’s no initiating love that is not electing.

When thinking about TV, music, or movies, don't ask, “What’s wrong with this?” but, instead, “Will it maximize my holiness?”

Wartime lifestyle seeks to glorify God — not to live with the least amount of stuff. It simply admits that life must be different during a battle.

When is it right to please people? When is it wrong to please people? Motive matters.

God has designed marriage to bring about a kind of cherishing that emerges nowhere else. But that doesn’t mean you are uncherishable if your single.

Jesus faced more opposition from the Pharisees than the Romans. Are religious formalists a greater threat to the church today than our secular neighbors?

Students, attending college means stepping out into the front line of the war for your faith. In order to hold fast, arm yourself for battle.

God created sex for marriage. He designed it as beautiful gift and placed it precisely where he knew it should be.

We by nature don’t delight in God but in his gifts. New cars, our job, even our phones all compete for our supreme joy unless God transforms our hearts.

One way to honor our parents is to love them as we love ourselves. If we would hope to be helped in our old age, we should find ways to help our parents.

Members of our churches learn truth not only from the sermons they hear, but also from the songs they sing. Lyrics on Sunday morning matter.

Jesus provides the litmus test for all religions. Any religion that refuses to worship him is a false religion.

Two parents are better than one. But does God require a single parent to marry if he or she doesn’t desire marriage?

Following Jesus brings suffering we could have avoided. But the alternative is losing your soul while only gaining the cheap pleasures of the world.

Was Piper right to say, “You don’t have a chance against the devil unless you know how to read and understand God’s word”?

A catechism can help children interpret the Bible, point them to important Scriptures, and capture the whole counsel of God’s word.

For millions of people, the future reign of God is terrible news. His rule will not be an invitation to eternal joy, but a final verdict: eternal damnation.

Joy will come, even when it feels like the pain will never end. In the meantime, God promises to be near you in ways you can’t feel outside of suffering.

Our aging bodies and nearness to death need not sap the joy that God gives us while we remain on earth. He still has a purpose for us.

When couples temporarily suspend sexual intimacy for the purpose of prayer, they say with their bodies how desperate they are for God to answer.