Ask Pastor John

Pastor John discusses the importance of books and their impact on the Christian life. He highlights the power and significance of books in equipping individuals and emphasizes their transformative effects, including revealing the glory of God, convicting of sin, inspiring and encouraging, shaping thinking, and clarifying biblical concepts.

The podcast explores feeling distant from God and offers advice on how to find comfort and truth. It emphasizes the objective truth of God's love and offers biblical passages to counteract the feeling of not experiencing it. The speaker encourages boldness in confronting sin and weariness and reminds listeners of God's presence in darkness, ending with a prayer for strength and comprehension of God's love.

This podcast explores the importance of unconditional election for Christians. It provides ten reasons why this doctrine is significant, including how it humbles our hearts, highlights our faith as a gift from God, and assures our security in Him. Understanding unconditional election can provide hope, assurance, and a greater recognition of God's sovereignty in history.

Addressing ten criticisms of John Piper's preaching, including volume, tone dynamics, authenticity, appropriate speech, eye contact, avoiding anger, using understandable language, complexity, focus on God's glory and Calvinistic views, lack of real-life application, sermon length, and balancing congregational needs.

If Jesus and his apostles promised that faithful Christians would suffer, how can comfortable disciples make sense of their experience?

The Bible rings with the language of pleasure and joy in God. But how can we explain that pleasure and joy in ways non-Christian loved ones may understand?

World evangelization would spread more quickly, it may seem, if God had chosen the wise and powerful. So, why did he choose the foolish and weak instead?

When doubts disrupt our Bible reading, how can we resist the inner skeptic? Pastor John offers six ways to fight for faith in daily devotions.

Seasons of doubt may afflict our minds and shake our hearts, but they need not take our joy. Beneath the waves of doubt, joy’s deep waters can still remain calm.

The New Testament seems to connect the person of the Holy Spirit with the joy we experience as believers. But how do the two relate to each other?