Ask Pastor John

The promise of future joy penetrates back into the present and sustains us with joy now in the midst of sorrow.

Our tragic loss of wonder and amazement is epidemic, especially in our age of ever-present distraction by superficial input from every manner of media.

Thinking that God owes us naturally leads to arrogant abuse. But knowing that we deserve nothing good from God naturally leads to brokenhearted love.

Don’t open your mouth to alcohol to numb your pain. Open your mouth to speak right things that would deliver you from misjudgment.

There will always be complementarians willing to die for the truth who will give their lives rather than conform to an unbiblical culture.

The key to persevering in a discouraging marriage is hope and faith from God’s word that he can overcome the divide.

Christ was a just and merciful substitute for sinners. When he died for his elect, he bore their punishment. They experience no condemnation.

Studying the historical and physical realities of crucifixion shows how deplorable and inhumane that form of human extermination is.

Jesus, God’s Son, died in the place of sinners and rose so that all who love him supremely might be forgiven all and have eternal joy in God.

When parachurch campus ministries are an extension of the local church, they can strategically reach and disciple the lost together.