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How Can I Convince Comfortable People to Embrace Christ?
6 juni 2024 · 12 min
No matter how comfortable our friends and neighbors may seem, they are headed for hell unless they repent. So, what words might break through their comfort?
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Satan, the ‘Prince of the Air’ — What Does That Mean?
3 juni 2024 · 14 min
Why does Paul call Satan “the prince of the power of the air”? Pastor John explores the extent of Satan’s authority and Christ’s decisive victory.
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If I’m Not Elect, How Am I Guilty for Not Believing?
30 mei 2024 · 11 min
If God has not chosen to save me, then why would he condemn me for not believing? Pastor John explains the kind of inability that does not remove responsibility.
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What Shia LaBeouf Gets Wrong About Joy
27 mei 2024 · 13 min
Is Shia LaBeouf right to say that Jesus experienced “maximum joy” as he died? Pastor John considers the joy set before Christ and the horrors of the cross.
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Killing Lust with the Cross of Christ
23 mei 2024 · 11 min
“Cross,” “nails,” “spear,” and “thorns” are words that evoke images in our minds — images with tremendous power to dispel lustful thoughts.
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Ten Questions for Readers of Erotica
20 mei 2024 · 11 min
How should Christians think about sexually explicit material on the page rather than the screen? Pastor John offers ten questions for readers of erotica.
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Warning Our Children of Rebellion
16 mei 2024 · 12 min
Parents have the God-given duty to warn their children not to rebel against Christ, and some of the most powerful warnings come from stories of failed rebellions.
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Mom’s Role in Raising Boys
13 mei 2024 · 12 min
How can a mom raise boys to become strong and godly men? Pastor John offers counsel for training up the next generation.
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The Prayer You Don’t Want Answered
9 mei 2024 · 12 min
Sometimes, God responds to our sinful requests with a merciful no. But other times, he gives what we ask, brings misery with it, and then amazingly works good through it.
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How Can I Grow in Expressing Affection?
6 mei 2024 · 12 min
How can Christians grow in expressing their deepest affections for God and others? Pastor John offers eight pieces of counsel for those who struggle to speak.
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Why Does God Allow Satan to Block the Gospel?
2 mei 2024 · 13 min
God could destroy Satan at any moment. So, why has God allowed Satan to blind the minds of unbelievers from seeing the glory of Christ?
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Are Parents to Blame for Prodigals?
29 april 2024 · 15 min
Does Proverbs 22:6 promise that children raised by godly parents will become Christians? Pastor John explains the proverb and points parents to their ultimate hope.
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How to Write a Good Sentence
25 april 2024 · 14 min
What makes a good sentence? Good sentences are true, clear, authentic, thoughtful, creative, well-timed, clean, loving, and glorifying to God.
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A Daily Morning Exercise
22 april 2024 · 11 min
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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Am I Confident or Arrogant?
18 april 2024 · 12 min
In a society steeped in self-worth and self-esteem, how can Christians aim for significance in a way that glorifies Christ?
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Should the Church ‘Bless’ Same-Sex Relationships?
15 april 2024 · 12 min
Should churches be willing to somehow “bless” same-sex relationships? Pastor John responds to Pope Francis’s concerning proposal.
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How Can I Glorify God as I Pray for Myself?
11 april 2024 · 12 min
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?
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Am I Abusing Caffeine?
8 april 2024 · 13 min
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.
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‘Death Is Yours’ — What Does Paul Mean?
4 april 2024 · 13 min
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.
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The Man Who Died in the Pulpit
1 april 2024 · 14 min
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.
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How Do I Forget My Sinful Past?
28 maart 2024 · 14 min
Some Christians carry an ongoing sense of guilt for sins confessed long ago. What can we do with these stubborn guilt feelings?
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God Delivers from the Suffering He Ordains
25 maart 2024 · 11 min
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.
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The Gift of God’s God-Centeredness
21 maart 2024 · 11 min
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.
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Should Confidence in Sovereignty Make Me Prayerless?
18 maart 2024 · 11 min
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.
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Your Most-Asked-About Bible Verse
14 maart 2024 · 15 min
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.
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How Much Error Can I Believe and Still Be Saved?
11 maart 2024 · 12 min
Some biblical truths are essential to believe for salvation — but not all. So, how much error can someone hold and still be saved?
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Is My Child Transgender Because of Me?
7 maart 2024 · 14 min
How can parents resist the despair that comes from feeling like failures? Pastor John offers ten words of hope for parents of prodigals.
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The ‘Ask Pastor John’ Book Is Here
5 maart 2024 · 16 min
After ten years and two thousand episodes, Tony Reinke has distilled the best of ‘Ask Pastor John’ in a remarkable new book.
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Is Obedience Without Affection Still Love?
4 maart 2024 · 12 min
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.
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How Preachers Grow Graceless
29 februari 2024 · 15 min
How do preachers guard themselves from hypocrisy? Pastor John traces double-faced preaching to its deepest root: the love of human praise.
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Your Suffering Is Not Meaningless
26 februari 2024 · 15 min
How did Paul endure such unimaginable sufferings without turning from Christ? Pastor John traces three threads of the apostle’s perseverance.
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Why Did God Stigmatize the Disabled?
22 februari 2024 · 12 min
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?
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Enjoying God in His Gifts
19 februari 2024 · 15 min
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.
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What’s the Essence of Love?
15 februari 2024 · 14 min
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.
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Political Flag-Waving Isn’t Enough
12 februari 2024 · 12 min
Christians have not only the right but the calling to speak truth to power. But such speech differs greatly from mere political flag-waving.
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Does Hidden Sin Bring Physical Suffering?
8 februari 2024 · 14 min
The wrath of God is gone for those who are in Christ. But does God still sometimes bring physical suffering in response to unconfessed sin?
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How Should I Choose a College Major?
5 februari 2024 · 14 min
What factors should Christian students consider when choosing a college or major? Pastor John gives five guidelines for those who don’t want to waste their lives.
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Do I Have a Hard Heart?
1 februari 2024 · 12 min
How can we know if our heart is hard toward God? Pastor John diagnoses hardness of heart, and gives a remedy for remaining soft to God’s Spirit.
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Was Jesus Confused by the Cross?
29 januari 2024 · 11 min
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Do these haunting words from Jesus suggest he was confused by the horrors of the cross?
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What Would World War III Mean for Missions?
25 januari 2024 · 14 min
We live in a time of mounting global tensions, of wars and rumors of wars. What hope do we have for the future of missions should conflict continue to build?
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Strategies for Building a Reverent Church
22 januari 2024 · 17 min
In a day starving for transcendence, how might church leaders arrange every element of the Sunday gathering to promote joyful Godward reverence?
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Leading a Church out of Casual Culture
18 januari 2024 · 14 min
How might churches move away from casual culture toward heartfelt, happy reverence on Sunday morning? Pastor John shares five steps for preachers.
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On Coffee-Sipping in the Sanctuary
15 januari 2024 · 14 min
Is it wrong to drink coffee during corporate worship? Pastor John moves beyond mugs to the heart of the issue.
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Should Christians Make Bucket Lists?
11 januari 2024 · 12 min
From college grads to retirees, many people love to keep bucket lists. Should Christians? Pastor John puts rest and recreation within a biblical mindset.
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How Do I Find the Main Point of a Psalm?
8 januari 2024 · 11 min
How can we discern the main point of not only a single verse, but an entire paragraph, section, or even chapter of the Bible?
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The Good News of God’s Faithfulness to God
4 januari 2024 · 14 min
God’s faithfulness to God may not sound like good news. But the foundation of our hope rests on God’s zeal to display the worth of his name.
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Read the Bible with Us in 2024
1 januari 2024 · 13 min
On the first day of a new year, Pastor John commends a yearlong Bible-reading plan and invites listeners to join him from Genesis to Revelation.
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My Bible Reading Feels Flat — What Can I Do?
28 december 2023 · 18 min
Sometimes, perhaps even often, we read Scripture with our eyes, grasp its truth in our minds, yet feel little pleasure in our hearts. What can we do in such moments?
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Four Reasons Christmas Is Special
25 december 2023 · 12 min
Christmas is a day for marveling. Pastor John shares four earth-shaking, soul-satisfying reasons to glory in the coming of the Son of God.
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Looking Back at 2023, Looking Ahead to 2024
21 december 2023 · 13 min
As a new year nears, Pastor John marvels at God’s grace from 2023 and shares exciting plans for the months ahead.