Ask Pastor John

It is wise to pursue a measured use of wide reading and listening — including non-Christian authors.

In the age to come, when there will be no more sorrow or sin, we will experience perfect freedom for the first time.

As you make plans, know that when God works for you, the goal of his work is to fit you for enjoying God himself.

Quenching the Spirit means despising or neglecting his gifts, refusing to express spiritual emotion, and resisting his fruit.

God will give us everything we need to do his will and to glorify him most fully, even if it means death.

We are heirs of all God’s promises. But they are fulfilled differently today because of the work of Jesus.

Only Christ-centered commitment enables spouses to be honest with each other about their sexual purity.

God does not mean to remove suffering in this life, but assure us in suffering that nothing can separate us from his love.

Remember your corruption enough to humble yourself, but forget whatever keeps you back from pressing on toward Christ.

Your conscience should be clear in marrying a godly, Christ-exalting spouse, whatever his or her race.

The Bible portrays the unfolding of history under the sovereignty of God to bring about his purposes in line with his promises.

Christ’s advocacy is the ongoing presentation of our union with him established at the cross through faith by the Spirit.

God wills a new humility and submission and faith through our sin and the pain of loss.

The prohibition of eating pork is a refusal to submit to God’s plan for the fulfillment of the Law in Jesus.

The fullness of our joy in God will climax when we delight in the Son with the very delight that the Father has in him.

Definite atonement triumphs over unbelief and hardness of heart and brings to pass salvation and all the purposes of God that depend on it.

We think of our Bibles as two testaments, but the notion of covenant shapes much of how God has shaped the Scriptures.

The greatest happiness God pursues is the delight he takes in the echoes of his excellence in the supremely happy praises of the saints.

The Reformation celebrates how embracing Christ as our supreme treasure in faith is how we enjoy God’s fellowship.

If the Bible is God’s word, by definition no human authority can serve alongside it with equal authority.