Ask Pastor John

How can Christians live fearlessly? Replace the fear of man with the fear of God. Fear man — live fearfully. Fear God — live fearlessly.

Godly submission does not require that a woman do everything her husband says. Before she is a wife who submits to her husband, she is a Christian who submits to Christ.

How do we know if we are able to bear the heavy calling of being the aroma of life to some and the aroma of death to others?

Pastors who flaunt their riches will not draw anyone to the hope of the gospel. They will draw men and women to the hope of luxury.

Men and women may face temptations peculiar to their sex, but we both share a deep, common depravity and a profound need for mercy.

Hope in God clothes a woman with a beauty that will never fade, never perish, and never cease to be precious in God’s sight.

How might we as parents teach our daughters, even at young ages, how to express their femininity without flaunting their body?

God calls church members to submit to their pastors, wives to their husbands, employees to their bosses. But is there also a sense in which God calls us to submit to everyone?

“Love your enemies,” Jesus says. But who are our enemies? The answer is broader than we might imagine.

In the wake of great betrayal, how do we respond with love and forgiveness without minimizing the evil of the sin?

Peter tells wives to win their husbands “without a word.” Does that mean a wife should never confront her husband over a pattern of habitual sin?

How can a father governed by anger begin to recover kindness and tenderheartedness? By freshly embracing God the Father’s forgiveness through Christ.

Is heartfelt anger toward God ever righteous, or even morally neutral — or is such anger always sinful?

Does the Bible teach that God has predestined some to disobedience and destruction, just as he has predestined some to salvation?

What are the two greatest questions in the universe? Pastor John explains by looking at 1 Peter 2:11–12.

When do innocent desires of the flesh become threats to the soul? When they cross over from serving God’s will to serving our rebellious self.

The biblical authors often intertwine faith and hope, yet they also distinguish them. So what is the difference between these two gifts of the Spirit?

When the light of Christ shines upon the darkness of our sin, we either run to Christ as the only covering for our shame, or we run further into darkness.

Scripture speaks of the Father judging the world, the Son judging the world, and sometimes even the word of Christ judging the world. So, in the end, who will judge?

The new birth is a sovereign work of the Spirit, but it is a work bound to the word. The Spirit of God works through the word of God to glorify the Son of God.