Ask Pastor John

To be united to God is to be united in principle and in love to the people of God. We don’t choose between belonging to God and belonging to his people.

Don’t be paralyzed by feelings of regret. Rather let those very feelings empower you with a sense of greater grace, gratitude, and joy in God’s grace.

As you study the Bible, study larger portions by looking for similarities in the sections that fit together.

Spiritually dead and blind people are willfully dark. It’s what they prefer. Therefore, they can only be rescued by a divine miracle.

John Piper believes nothing is more important for his remaining years than to focus on the authority and the meaning and the heralding of God’s word.

Depression is not simply black and white. There are many degrees of discouragement, and God is able to provide help in them all.

Good commentaries should ask and answer questions that enable people to see things for themselves, and probe into reality, not just verbal relations.

God commands us not merely to flee evil, but to hate evil — not merely to do mercy, but to love mercy.

Christ’s righteousness is the sole ground of our acceptance into God’s favor, but our new life of holiness is necessary to demonstrate that we are truly in him.

Pursuing physical fitness becomes sinful self-glorification when we no longer do so to overcome our own sin, serve others, and glorify Christ.

Tell stories of Christians to inspire others to love Jesus, give them insight into perplexing difficulties, and motivate them to follow him no matter what.

Foolishness in the Bible is always sinful. To act foolishly is sin, and to sin is to act foolishly.

Renounce revenge, trust your cause to God, and return good for evil. You can do that whether your adversary admits wrong or not.

The blood of Christ is sufficient to wash away every sin and remove all judgment and bring us to everlasting healing and joy.

To come to true saving faith, you have to experience the miracle of spiritual sight of the supremely valuable glory of Christ, the image of God.

God intends for our real and wise fear of hell to be a means of clarifying and establishing his glory and truth in our hearts.

Teachers need to be vigilant over what they teach, and all Christians need to be vigilant over what they do with what they are taught.

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.