Ask Pastor John

Singing to the Lord can enrich your devotions and enliven your soul, even if you aren’t a natural singer.

A final act of self-murder is not necessarily decisive in determining if someone was saved. God regards the whole life.

Talking to your children about their adoption requires timing and initiation.

Adoption is an eternal reality. God planned it before he founded the earth. Now, we have the chance to act it out.

Adoption is hard, and parenting often hurts, but God can create happy stories even in those difficulties.

Vacations are a time to rest and refresh. What does it look like for a dad to share the leadership of the family with his wife while on break?

For believers, both work and rest become redemptive tools in God’s hands to advance his kingdom.

Sincere belief cannot exist apart from salvation. Pastor John unpacks the implications of believing that the Bible — all of it — is true.

Holiness, news, risk, and suffering. Pastor John offers four words for four tests to determine whether you love God or just love loving God.

God has sufficient grace for our sins, our weaknesses, and our failures. He can turn even our failures into gospel successes.

If God is everywhere, is he also in hell? If so, in what sense is God present in hell? Pastor John answers.

True modesty is the fruit of joyfully submitting to Christ, saturating ourselves with the word of God, and considering the good of others.

God’s glory is the goal of all things, and his freedom and his sovereignty are essential to his deity — and our salvation.

We don’t know how much the saints in heaven know about the events on earth. But the Bible’s promises for the joy of the saints are glorious.

Desires for marriage, even very strong desires, are not necessarily at odds with contentment in Christ.

Pastor John explains why God withdraws from his people in light of his new-covenant promises to stay with them forever.

Our battles against sin are not meant to be easy or pain-free. But they can — and should — be marked by joy and filled with the promises of God.

There is hope for those who regret past sexual mistakes and their current consequences in the context of marriage and engagement.

Pastor John remembers a painful time in Bethlehem’s history and encourages pastors to stay with their churches through seasons of discipline and grief.

How can anything make God more or less joyful than he already is? Does the joy of God ever fluctuate?