Ask Pastor John

Pastor John gives an update about the ways God worked through Desiring God in 2014, and shares goals of the ministry for 2015.

Pastor John and Noel talk about how they celebrated Christmas in their home as their kids were growing up and their two overarching goals.

Establish a principled and emotionally healthy and happy place at your church where people, especially women, feel safe to hug or not to hug.

God’s glory does not rise and fall as our effectiveness in showing him glorious rises and falls.

The most important thing we do every day is make our souls happy in God by praying over the Bible.

Submission is mainly a wife’s intelligent, happy, wise support for her husband’s leadership.

We can’t explain precisely what the star of Bethlehem was, but we do know God formed it to bring the nations to their Savior.

There are certain tests from the Bible that help us know if our relationship with God is a good one.

If you think the New Testament simply sets a trajectory for ethics, you might effectively strip the Bible of its final authority.

Unless the Spirit gives us eyes to see that the true God is beautiful and desirable, we won’t seek him.

Trusting your parents by being honest is a huge honor to them.

There is a mean streak in Christianity, and it is not against anybody else but ourselves and our sinfulness.

Men like John and Charles Wesley, G.K. Chesterton, George MacDonald, and, in a sense, C.S. Lewis have been the most influential Arminians in Pastor John's life.

Christian fellowship does not distract from the supreme glory of God in the believer’s life, it testifies to it.

An addiction to video games says something about a man’s subjection to Christ, state of mind, self-control, and fitness to lead a family.

For fathers of new sons, Pastor John summarizes his encouragement: Be a weeping, happy, loving father full of God, full of truth, full of joy.

If you want your kids, spouse, parents, coworkers, and friends to know God — if you want to know God — rehearse Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3.

When we enjoy what God has created, we know and enjoy God more. And when what has been created fails us, our Creator never will.

We are satisfied in God rather than by God if God is the object of our satisfaction, not simply the provider of it.

The prosperity gospel falls short on two counts: It presents a weak God, and it neglects to reckon with the Bible’s teaching on suffering.