Ask Pastor John

The secret to enjoying Grape Nuts is so special, John Piper wrote a limerick to explain.

Although we don’t know how much our loved ones in heaven can watch us, we do know that they would encourage us to fix our eyes on Jesus.

The Bible is God’s word not simply because the authors said so, but because of the way God’s glory shines through it.

When God calls a woman to be a mother, it is a glorious calling, and such women should consider and embrace those glories.

Listen to John Piper’s heart and Godward hopes for the 45th presidency of the United States.

The ultimate hope for all Christians is the new heaven and the new earth, where everyone will see God as King over all.

If your child has turned from Christ, don’t despair. God loves to hear your prayers and can meet your situation with power.

If you find praise from other people more satisfying than praise from God, you will not be able to believe on Jesus.

With every difference between men and women, there is a kind of counterpoint of indispensability.

If you are a weary pastor, ask God to protect you from wasted leisure and to help you pursue God-honoring refreshment.

Engagement is a golden opportunity for men to set patterns of spiritual leadership and talk with their ladies about biblical and spiritual realities.

Some people use Matthew 14:4 to justify divorce. But Piper shares three uncertainties in the text that should keep us from doing so.

If you are a member in good standing at your local church, renounce sin, and treasure Christ, then you should eat the Lord’s Supper with hope.

God promises to give his single children an everlasting monument and name better than sons and daughters.

We must not find satisfaction in the praise of men, but in God himself and in helping others find that same satisfaction.

More single women serve in missions than single men, but God is able to give grace for every circumstance.

When we see all of Jesus’s virtuous capacities and magnificent achievements, it is natural, not awkward, to call him beautiful.

We must see how sacrifice works as a theme in all of the Bible in order to fully appreciate the cross of Christ.

And it’s a rather obscure German hymn you’ve probably never heard — until now.

If being Jesus-focused is a killjoy for your Christmas, you don’t know him well.

We should not exclude the prospect of trembling in and of itself from our glorified state in the age to come.

A pregnancy outside of marriage exposes a previous sin, but pregnancy itself is not sin. Pastor John gives three reasons why.

It is wise to pursue a measured use of wide reading and listening — including non-Christian authors.

In the age to come, when there will be no more sorrow or sin, we will experience perfect freedom for the first time.

As you make plans, know that when God works for you, the goal of his work is to fit you for enjoying God himself.

Quenching the Spirit means despising or neglecting his gifts, refusing to express spiritual emotion, and resisting his fruit.

God will give us everything we need to do his will and to glorify him most fully, even if it means death.

We are heirs of all God’s promises. But they are fulfilled differently today because of the work of Jesus.

Only Christ-centered commitment enables spouses to be honest with each other about their sexual purity.

God does not mean to remove suffering in this life, but assure us in suffering that nothing can separate us from his love.

Remember your corruption enough to humble yourself, but forget whatever keeps you back from pressing on toward Christ.

Your conscience should be clear in marrying a godly, Christ-exalting spouse, whatever his or her race.

The Bible portrays the unfolding of history under the sovereignty of God to bring about his purposes in line with his promises.

Christ’s advocacy is the ongoing presentation of our union with him established at the cross through faith by the Spirit.

God wills a new humility and submission and faith through our sin and the pain of loss.

The prohibition of eating pork is a refusal to submit to God’s plan for the fulfillment of the Law in Jesus.

The fullness of our joy in God will climax when we delight in the Son with the very delight that the Father has in him.

Definite atonement triumphs over unbelief and hardness of heart and brings to pass salvation and all the purposes of God that depend on it.

We think of our Bibles as two testaments, but the notion of covenant shapes much of how God has shaped the Scriptures.

The greatest happiness God pursues is the delight he takes in the echoes of his excellence in the supremely happy praises of the saints.

The Reformation celebrates how embracing Christ as our supreme treasure in faith is how we enjoy God’s fellowship.

If the Bible is God’s word, by definition no human authority can serve alongside it with equal authority.

It is inconceivable that the pleasures Christ has in the church would be stimulated by his imaging a prostitute to get his juices flowing.

God is capable of bringing something about and both lamenting that act in one regard, while affirming it as best in another.

Our loving behavior must always include gladness in God that overflows in the hope of including other people in our joy.

Real obedience to God, even though imperfect, is made possible through the work of Christ for all who believe in him.

Given the way he chose to make the gospel clear in the world, God’s preparations for Christ were necessary and fitting.

Pastors should notify parents when they need to address difficult topics so they can decide if they want their children present.

There should be a never-ending stream of creativity in helping our people reach the lost, but theological faithfulness is essential.

Help your children prepare to suffer by teaching them a biblical worldview, disciplining them, and modeling joy through your own sorrow.