Ask Pastor John

Pastor John shares five specific principles from the Bible relating to food. God created food good, but there is a right and wrong way to enjoy it.

How can Christians detect the beginnings of prosperity preaching? Pastor John shares six signs.

The five solas unite Reformed Christians past and present, but Pastor John notes how seven factors may be creating a new mold under the same banner.

If Jesus calls his followers to turn the other cheek, then can a Christian serve society as a cop or a soldier?

Self-sacrifice and just punishment under ruling authorities image God’s love and justice. Pastor John shares more thoughts on Christians’ use of force.

Reformed theology, as a biblical expression of the gospel, is relevant for every problem in every ethnicity of every stress and stripe.

Pastor John describes the growing need for a theology of race in reformed circles and for pastors’ to purposely pursue ethnic diversity in their churches.

Scripture tells us to test all things. But overanalyzing what the pastor is saying keeps us from being in awe of what God said.

Some of the most surprising challenges to effective ministry will stem from family and marriage. How has Pastor John experienced God’s grace in his?

How important is reformed doctrine for Christians who are seeking out a church home? Pastor John shares his thoughts.

Pastor John reflects on the staying power of Westminster Seminary and the inescapably Reformed theology of the Bible.

God calls his children to fear him with trembling, reverence, awe, and worship — but not with cowering.

When Christ frees a Christian, he frees her to love him. Only those who delight to obey God are truly free.

No human being has the power to conquer sin. Yet God righteously holds everyone responsible for their failure. How can both realities be true?

In our flesh, we walk morally ruined, spiritually blind, and broken-willed. But our salvation depends on God’s free grace, not on our free choice.

Given the Christian man’s duty to protect his family, self-defense may seem appropriate. But Scripture calls him to an even higher standard of love.

Believer’s baptism requires assent, so what about people who cannot give it? Pastor John explores baptism for people with mental disabilities.

For every lustful thought or nude picture that plagues the mind, a visualized image of the bloodied, crucified Jesus can turn a battle into victory.

Without joy in Christ and his word, pastors have nothing to offer to their people. Joy — or joylessness — is powerful and contagious.

While books like ‘Heaven Is for Real’ offer guesswork, the Bible offers certain, infallible truths about heaven that would take lifetimes to explore.