Ask Pastor John

Shopping today is more convenient than ever, especially online. But what should we do when online shopping becomes more than just a convenience?

The New Testament mentions greeting one another with a kiss four times. Is that just an outmoded cultural practice, or is there something we can learn from it today?

For every believer, we can know with complete confidence that God is not only with us sin our pain, but is producing glory through every ounce of our suffering.

God can use anything he wants — even sin — to lead and guide his people. But that doesn’t mean we should seek out sinful means just because God can sovereignly use them.

I’ve heard the gospel, but how can I be sure that I am truly ready to surrender my whole life to Jesus Christ?

God offers all of his children joy in Christ now. But compared to heaven, those are just mere glimpses of what is to come.

Throughout the Scriptures, God’s people feast as an expression of their joy in the Lord. What would it look like for the church to be known for celebration and joy?

Sin and anxiety threaten to still our happiness every day. Thankfully, Jesus offers us greater pleasure than sin and an antidote to all our worry.

As we read the Bible, we see a God who is righteously angry at sin. But we can’t let that overshadow the reality that God is a fundamentally happy being.

We often hear that joy and happiness are fundamentally different. But does this idea actually hold up to the way the Bible presents the concepts of happiness and joy to us?

If we are inclined to embrace emotion more than thinking, what biblical truths might help us embrace a balance between passion and intellect?

Do I dishonor God when I quit something that I have committed to? What if that commitment prevents me from doing other things that honor the Lord?

So much of our lives seem ordinary, or even trivial. But the truth is that nothing done for Christ’s sake is ever ordinary.

Our vocation isn’t something we do apart from efforts to know and enjoy God. Rather, our work should be the very sphere where we publicly enjoy and show off the glory of God.

Substitutionary atonement may not appeal to modern sensibilities, and even seems unjust to some. But if we lose Christ in our place, we lose the gospel.

The psalmists regularly plead their own righteousness before God. Can Christians today do the same, even though we know just how sinful we really are?

In our personal communion with the Lord, we want the highlight of our time to be worship an adoration, not just more ideas and notes for our next sermon or Bible study.

If God gave his only Son, then that means that we must receive him. But what does it really mean to receive Jesus Christ?

Pursuing romance outside of marriage might seem like it offers a path to pleasure and joy, but in the end, it obscures the only way to life and sets you on a road to destruction.

Every believing parent longs to see their children walking with the Lord. But what can a mom or dad do when their son or daughter rebels?