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John Piper answering tough theological and pastoral questions.
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Dec 11, 2025 • 14min
Loving Aging Parents Well
How can we love our aging parents through the many challenges of caregiving? Pastor John shares counsel from Scripture and personal experience.

Dec 8, 2025 • 14min
Keeping Sovereign Grace in Gospel Partnerships
Why would a gospel-driven ministry define itself as Reformed? Because Reformed theology guards and glorifies the grace at the heart of the gospel.

Dec 4, 2025 • 15min
Marriage Survival After Betrayal
How can trust regrow in the aftermath of adultery? Pastor John identifies two needed miracles for a marriage to survive and thrive again.

Dec 1, 2025 • 12min
The Apostasy of Impatience
Can a Christian lose patience and not be in sin? Pastor John explains why patience and impatience may be more complicated than we think.

Nov 27, 2025 • 12min
Improving the Body Without Fixating on Image
As we steward the body, our appearance might change for the better. How do we keep our focus on being a whole person, not just an attractive shape?

Nov 24, 2025 • 15min
Why Satan Persists
Satan wouldn’t exist if God didn’t keep him around — so why is he here? Pastor John explains four ways in which God is using Satan for his glory.

Nov 20, 2025 • 13min
What False Teachings Should Make Me Leave a Church?
Differences in belief can feel bigger than they are — but sometimes they are truly big. What separates personal opinion from soul-damaging theology?

Nov 17, 2025 • 14min
The God Who Breaks Us with Kindness
If God refuses to act “for our sake,” does that mean he refuses to do us good? Pastor John resolves a perplexity and holds forth lavish grace from Ezekiel 36.

Nov 13, 2025 • 9min
How One Bible Verse Disarmed a Mob
Does Psalm 82 teach that human beings are gods? Pastor John describes the moment when Jesus quoted the psalm to escape an early death.

Nov 10, 2025 • 13min
Shame Today Is Worth It
How could Jesus, the King of kings and true Son of God, be ashamed at the final judgment? Pastor John digs into Jesus’s argument for following him.


