Ask Pastor John

The Bible calls us to serve God, but we must remember that we can only do that because God first came to serve and help us.

Studying the Bible does not need to be complex. Simple tools can help us glean amazing insights from the word.

A careful study of New Testament prophecy should never lead us to assume that Jesus and the apostles were wrong about the timing of Jesus’s return.

“Think over what I say,” commands the Lord. How can a faithful student of the Bible do this without leaning on commentaries and scholars?

When suffering drones on and on, what can we do to stay steadfast in our call to share in this suffering?

Settle it in your mind and heart whether you believe Christ purchased you. If so, you are utterly dependent on God for life, meaning, and satisfaction.

If you live in the flesh, you will never please God. But those who have the Spirit delight God as they bear fruit. Even the small harvests please him.

God’s people must not consult with mediums — not because there’s no such thing as communication with the dead, but because it is an abomination to do so.

To be united to God is to be united in principle and in love to the people of God. We don’t choose between belonging to God and belonging to his people.

Don’t be paralyzed by feelings of regret. Rather let those very feelings empower you with a sense of greater grace, gratitude, and joy in God’s grace.

As you study the Bible, study larger portions by looking for similarities in the sections that fit together.

Spiritually dead and blind people are willfully dark. It’s what they prefer. Therefore, they can only be rescued by a divine miracle.

John Piper believes nothing is more important for his remaining years than to focus on the authority and the meaning and the heralding of God’s word.

Depression is not simply black and white. There are many degrees of discouragement, and God is able to provide help in them all.

Good commentaries should ask and answer questions that enable people to see things for themselves, and probe into reality, not just verbal relations.

God commands us not merely to flee evil, but to hate evil — not merely to do mercy, but to love mercy.

Christ’s righteousness is the sole ground of our acceptance into God’s favor, but our new life of holiness is necessary to demonstrate that we are truly in him.

Pursuing physical fitness becomes sinful self-glorification when we no longer do so to overcome our own sin, serve others, and glorify Christ.

Tell stories of Christians to inspire others to love Jesus, give them insight into perplexing difficulties, and motivate them to follow him no matter what.

Foolishness in the Bible is always sinful. To act foolishly is sin, and to sin is to act foolishly.