Ask Pastor John

Pastor John encourages Christian loners — even those who have been hurt by the church — to pursue God in Christ-exalting friendships.

All of history details the story of God's redemptive grace through Jesus Christ. We will not forget this story in heaven — we will rehearse it forever.

Pastor John explains how Christian Hedonism avoids idolizing joy.

Jesus surpasses whatever good the world has to offer. So rather than worship those good things, disciples of Jesus receive them as gifts.

The doctrine of God’s sovereignty doesn’t only mean that he controls everything, but that he controls everything for the good of his people.

Pastor John discusses how God's sovereignty relates to joy in God.

How has God designed our community to help keep us in Christ? Pastor John unpacks God’s prescriptions of prayer and exhortation.

God does not traffic in futility or vanity. He intends all things, even terrible calamity, for the ultimate good of his people.

Pastor John explains God's sovereignty over evil acts without himself being evil.

How do we reconcile seemingly conflicting commands from Scripture to hang out with the corrupt and to befriend them like Jesus?

Children are a blessing from the God who commands us to be fruitful and multiply. But how does that command fit in a world with orphans who need a home?

God calls pastors to lead their churches by serving, not dominating, and he calls congregations to follow with humble teachability.

Alcohol consumption is permissible and can be a blessing, but it is also fraught with dangers.

God is working a weight of glory through our hardships, even the ones that seem most trivial.

For Christians, to embrace the definite atonement is to embrace that Christ set his love on them particularly, specially, and certainly.

The forbidden tree was neither an arbitrary test of obedience nor a greedy restriction by a stingy God. It was an insurance policy to secure supreme pleasure.

Although Lewis held several defective doctrines, Pastor John gives six reasons why he remains so helpful to Christians worldwide.

A good imagination transforms the normal into the fantastic. A great imagination sees normal things for the wonders they really are.

God’s pursuit of his own glory is the best possible news for all who seek him because “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.”

Walking by the Spirit can seem vague and hard to live out. Pastor John gives believers practical steps to walk and live by the Spirit.