Ask Pastor John

Tim Keller offers help for distracted believers who struggle to focus their minds and warm their hearts when they pray.

The Psalms can give us spiritual breath that we didn’t even know we needed. Tim Keller offers practical help to pray the Psalms.

For some, reading feels like a chore instead of a joy. Audio Bibles open the door to God’s word, even for those who don’t read.

World missions is the great work of the church, and David Platt exudes a passion to reach the unreached peoples with a massive God behind him.

Fight lust with a stronger weapon than guilt, shame, and fear. Fight lust by feeding faith with the knowledge of an irresistibly glorious God.

God doesn’t need anything from anyone, so when we obey God, do we obey him for his sake or for our own happiness?

Paul said that it is better to marry than to burn with passion. What does that mean for the person struggling with homosexual desire?

The message of Ecclesiastes: Life — and money and possessions — is empty and futile without God.

More than any other kind of person, Christians are able to delight in creation because they are not bound to worship it.

Pastor John points to the purpose of prayer — that God would look great in the world and in the lives of his people.

Predestination to hell is a heavy reality. But what is mysterious to us now will be revealed in the end. And we will see that it is right.

Even those who claim Christ can show themselves not to share in him if they refuse to repent of their sin.

The joys of pastoring may ebb and flow, but Pastor John offers ten hope-filled counsels to help pastors press on when ministry proves difficult.

Jesus is coming back. Pastor John shares what Christians should do while they wait for his return.

Pray because God tells us to. Pray because it increases our joy. Pray because the sovereign ruler of the universe makes things happen through prayer.

Sex is kept within a covenant between a man and a woman because it points to a greater covenant between humans and God.

Paul gives believers great freedom to eat the food offered to them. But do we have the freedom to eat halal meat?

Does spanking amount to abuse, or does it have a place in parenting? Ted Tripp counsels parents on when physical discipline is appropriate.

Ted Tripp offers his perspective on why parents should spank their kids and points out some of the advantages over other forms of discipline.

How can parents teach their kids to recognize idolatry in their own hearts? Ted Tripp offers some practical advice.