Ask Pastor John

A warm, practical, affectionate relationship with the living Christ really matters.

God intends for his children to take heart from his promises to preserve them to the end.

Jesus does not seek private glory apart from the Father’s glory, but he does seek his glory through the Father after his redemptive work is done.

Both God and his people love their human enemies, but not in the same way, since God is all-wise and all-governing, and we are finite.

God causes the miracle of unhardening our hearts, and we act the miracle of unhardening them.

Christ shared in our suffering as fallen mortals so that we could be included in the divine family, with Christ as our superior older brother.

The command to “pray without ceasing” should motivate rather than intimidate us. Armed with joy and thankfulness, we can overflow in prayer.

Nowhere in the New Testament is it commanded or forbidden that local churches meet in homes. Leaders must use other factors to make that decision.

Pastors must affirm the absolute power, goodness, and wisdom of God during the most tragic of circumstances to give their people comfort and hope.

Jesus’s miracle of fish and bread proves it. An appetite for miracles is no proof one is a Christian. As John Piper explains, “Seeing the mere event of an external physical miracle should never be the goal of the Christian.”