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A Daily Morning Exercise
How can we walk through this world of sin, suffering, and futility with strength and joy? Psalm 90:14 holds the key.
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Yesterday
A Daily Morning Exercise
How can we walk through this world of sin, suffering, and futility with strength and joy? Psalm 90:14 holds the key.
5d ago
Am I Confident or Arrogant?
In a society steeped in self-worth and self-esteem, how can Christians aim for significance in a way that glorifies Christ?
15-04-2024
Should the Church ‘Bless’ Same-Sex Relationships?
Should churches be willing to somehow “bless” same-sex relationships? Pastor John responds to Pope Francis’s concerning proposal.
11-04-2024
How Can I Glorify God as I Pray for Myself?
God does everything he does for his glory, including answering our prayers. So, how can we align all our requests with this big, overarching purpose?
08-04-2024
Am I Abusing Caffeine?
How can we tell if we’re abusing caffeine (or any food or drink)? Pastor John offers three questions to guide a Christian’s consumption.
04-04-2024
‘Death Is Yours’ — What Does Paul Mean?
If death belongs to the children of God, as the apostle Paul says, then death not only loses its sting, but it turns around and becomes our servant.
01-04-2024
The Man Who Died in the Pulpit
On September 22, 1967, V. Raymond Edman collapsed while delivering a chapel message at Wheaton. Pastor John reflects on his college chancellor’s final words.
28-03-2024
How Do I Forget My Sinful Past?
Some Christians carry an ongoing sense of guilt for sins confessed long ago. What can we do with these stubborn guilt feelings?
25-03-2024
God Delivers from the Suffering He Ordains
If God is sovereign over our suffering, then we can trust him to strengthen us in suffering, sanctify us through suffering, and ultimately save us from suffering.
21-03-2024
The Gift of God’s God-Centeredness
From eternity, God has been self-sufficiently happy in himself. And because he has no needs of his own, he is gloriously free to meet ours.
18-03-2024
Should Confidence in Sovereignty Make Me Prayerless?
If our souls are deeply satisfied in God, what room is there for petitionary prayer? Pastor John reframes the question by clarifying the nature of prayer.
14-03-2024
Your Most-Asked-About Bible Verse
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.
11-03-2024
How Much Error Can I Believe and Still Be Saved?
Some biblical truths are essential to believe for salvation — but not all. So, how much error can someone hold and still be saved?
07-03-2024
Is My Child Transgender Because of Me?
How can parents resist the despair that comes from feeling like failures? Pastor John offers ten words of hope for parents of prodigals.
05-03-2024
The ‘Ask Pastor John’ Book Is Here
After ten years and two thousand episodes, Tony Reinke has distilled the best of ‘Ask Pastor John’ in a remarkable new book.
04-03-2024
Is Obedience Without Affection Still Love?
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.
29-02-2024
How Preachers Grow Graceless
How do preachers guard themselves from hypocrisy? Pastor John traces double-faced preaching to its deepest root: the love of human praise.
26-02-2024
Your Suffering Is Not Meaningless
How did Paul endure such unimaginable sufferings without turning from Christ? Pastor John traces three threads of the apostle’s perseverance.
22-02-2024
Why Did God Stigmatize the Disabled?
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?
19-02-2024
Enjoying God in His Gifts
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.