Ask Pastor John

What might it look like for a Christian with significant disabilities to live a productive, spiritually fruitful, God-glorifying life?

Should I become a preacher? Pastor John’s own road to the pastorate shows that God often makes preachers in unexpected ways.

If Scripture doesn’t obligate parents to leave a financial inheritance to their children, how might Christians decide what to do with their money?

God will never leave or forsake his children. But for our lasting good, he may sometimes hide his face and allow us to walk through seasons of darkness.

When we memorize and meditate on God’s word, we create a deep, transforming connection between the Bible, our minds, and our hearts.

The Bible describes idols as actual objects people worship, but today many use the language of “idolatry” more broadly. So what is an idol?

In our pursuit to be holy as God is holy, how do we move past our failures to obey without feeling condemned in the process?

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God may use medicine to lengthen our lives, but he will always use habits of grace, like prayer and Bible reading, to sustain our faith in suffering.

We miss the miracle of what Christmas is if we forget why Christmas happened: God the Son became man — to die in our place.