How Do I Address My Spouse’s Ongoing Sin?
Audio Transcript We end the week with a sobering email from an anonymous wife who listens to the podcast. She’s reaching out for help. This Read more
Inspiration
Put Your Anger to Bed: Five Lessons for Young Couples
“Don’t go to bed angry.” How many times have you heard some version of this marital proverb? Many bright-eyed couples hear it in premarital counseling Read more
Slow to Anger: The Beauty of God’s Perfect Patience
Many of the most common troubles in the Christian life come from relating to God as if he were like us — as if his Read more
Everything in God Is God: How to Think About His Attributes
Does theology serve doxology? It ought to. God means to be worshipped, but not in ignorance. He wants to be known and enjoyed and praised Read more
How Often Do You Think About Heaven?
Wait a minute. That can’t be right, can it? If you’ve taught the Bible a few times, you’ve had one of these moments. The construction Read more
Asleep in the Storm: Recovering the Grace of Calm Under Pressure (Equanimity)
I love the old word equanimity. It’s almost fallen out of use today. Perhaps that’s because, in part, the reality has become increasingly rare. Equanimity is a term Read more
A Rest Sweeter Than Sleep: Nighttime Prayer for a Troubled Conscience
Occasionally, as I lie down to sleep, a restlessness bends over my bed. A vague uneasiness. A nagging sense of some tension unresolved. Some door Read more
If Your Brother or Sister Sins Against You: How to Forgive and Let Go
Have you also found that it can be much easier to pray for your own sins than to deal with others’ sins against you? With Read more
Learning to Follow God’s Will
Now, Jesus taught us to pray every day, “Your will be done, on earth as it is done in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). Therefore, everyone who Read more
God’s Love and My Sickness
Audio Transcript Today on the podcast we look at God’s love to us. And we are going to look at his love to us when Read more
Love the Church As Christ Does
In an age when so many pastoral failures, missteps, and sins are posted for public exhibition, it’s easy to allow our warmth toward the church Read more
RELATIONSHIP EXTRA: Do Men Owe Women a Special Kind of Care?
Egalitarianism tends to obscure the deeper differences between manhood and womanhood. This has not served us well in the last fifty years. It has instead Read more
Marriage and Relationships: Counsel for Wives with Harsh Husbands
Audio Transcript:- Welcome back to the podcast. We end the week talking about a marriage struggle. We have talked about many of the struggles and Read more
Jesus Shall Reign: The Remarkable Story of the First Missionary Hymn
On Pentecost Sunday 1862, as Western eyes watched civil war rip through America, an event just as momentous unfolded half a world away, hidden from Read more
The Easiest Step of Love
Audio Transcript What is the easiest step of love — a step so easy, you can accomplish it before you even get out of bed Read more
What Is “Freedom in Christ”?
In New York Harbor stands a giant copper statue, 150 feet high — mounted on a base that’s another 150 feet high, putting the torch Read more
When you don’t know, God knows
Right now, there’s a lot I don’t know. I don’t know what today will bring. Or tomorrow, for that matter. I don’t know how long Read more
Stuck Between the World and God: How I Almost Died in Indecision
Some texts mark you for life. Just as Jacob, you grapple with them, and though you come away with a blessing, you leave with a Read more
Discouragement Can Take You Deeper: Finding Christ in Our Failures
Many of us will walk through a life-altering tragedy at some point in this short life. But for most of us, most of the time, Read more
How to Entertain the Holy Spirit
Here’s a thought to make the soul stagger: if you are in Christ, then the God of highest heaven has made your heart his home. Read more
Me, Myself, and Lies: The Spiritual Dangers of Isolation In Digital Age
Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment. (Proverbs 18:1) In March of 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first-ever Read more
‘My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?’ Didn’t Jesus Already Know?
Audio Transcript Welcome back to the Ask Pastor John podcast. Podcast listener Bridgette writes in to say: “Pastor John, I love the Lord deeply and Read more
Does God Delight in Justification or Holiness?
Audio Transcript Happy Friday, everyone. Today we talk about the pursuit of holiness as justified believers — something we must get right. It’s basically the question over Read more
Agony in the Garden: What JESUS Suffered In Gethsemane
ABSTRACT: In the garden of Gethsemane, as Peter, James, and John slept, Jesus engaged spiritually the forsakenness of the cross before he was actually arrested and Read more
CHRISTIANITY, AFRICA AND BEYOND
Christianity is 2000 years old. The whole faith began when Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, gave His life as a ransom for Read more
The Long History of God’s Love for Africa
In an episode of Ask Pastor John, Jason from Kampala (the capital of Uganda), asked Pastor John a pointed question regarding why Africans have suffered so much. Read more
The Best Sermon for Marriage: Seven Lessons for Lasting Love
Today marks seven years of marriage for me and my wife, Faye. Since our wedding day, I’ve learned that year seven has become something of Read more
How Does God Lead Us in Daily Decisions?
Audio Transcript How do I follow God’s lead in my daily decisions? I know he’s my shepherd. He’s leading me. I think so. But how Read more
The Subtle Way to Waste Your Life: Confessions of a Sophisticated Sloth
If you were told you had five years to live, would you live more in those five years than in the decades you might have Read more
Will I Trust God? Simple Prayer in a Desperate Moment
Had you been there that very moment, watching from a distance, you wouldn’t have observed anything dramatic. I’m talking about the moment Abraham (still called Read more
