Episodes

Episode 2028

Your Most-Asked-About Bible Verse

The Sovereignty of God
If God is sovereign over salvation, do the non-elect even have a chance to repent? Pastor John addresses Romans 9:22, your most-asked-about Bible verse.
Episode 2027

How Much Error Can I Believe and Still Be Saved?

Faith
Some biblical truths are essential to believe for salvation — but not all. So, how much error can someone hold and still be saved?
Episode 2026

Is My Child Transgender Because of Me?

Parenting
How can parents resist the despair that comes from feeling like failures? Pastor John offers ten words of hope for parents of prodigals.
Special Episode

The ‘Ask Pastor John’ Book Is Here

Wisdom
After ten years and two thousand episodes, Tony Reinke has distilled the best of ‘Ask Pastor John’ in a remarkable new book.
Episode 2025

Is Obedience Without Affection Still Love?

Pursuit of Holiness
If we obey God outwardly but feel no affection for him inwardly, is our obedience still love? Pastor John takes us to the heart beneath God-pleasing obedience.
Episode 2024

How Preachers Grow Graceless

Preaching & Teaching
How do preachers guard themselves from hypocrisy? Pastor John traces double-faced preaching to its deepest root: the love of human praise.
Episode 2023

Your Suffering Is Not Meaningless

Suffering
How did Paul endure such unimaginable sufferings without turning from Christ? Pastor John traces three threads of the apostle’s perseverance.
Episode 2022

Why Did God Stigmatize the Disabled?

Redemptive History
In Leviticus 21, God forbids men with physical defects from participating as full priests. How do we reconcile this prohibition with Jesus’s approach to the disabled?
Episode 2021

Enjoying God in His Gifts

Creation
How do we enjoy pizza, friendship, or any other good gift without committing idolatry? Not only by enjoying God more than his gifts, but also by enjoying him in them.
Episode 2020

What’s the Essence of Love?

The Love of God
How do Paul’s travel plans relate to the Trinitarian depths of God’s love? Pastor John shows how ultimate reality undergirds the love between the saints.