Pastors

On the October 3 episode of “Ask Pastor John,” theologian John Piper offers encouraging words to a listener who, for years, has asked his ministry the same short, powerful question: “How do I pray for my husband to be saved?”

This past year, it feels as though there has been a spell put on the world that has frozen hearts, frozen dreams, and is desiring to freeze our joy. There's a war we're facing in our world today, a war on Joy.

Whether you think you are, or know you aren’t a self-aware person, here are three keys to tapping into the power of self-awareness.

Because sloth is failure to pursue our first love, busyness can actually be a good cover for the sloth beneath the surface.

There are numerous reasons why people have become disillusioned with the American Evangelical church. Out of my own heart and with my ear to the ground, I’ve listed out at least fifteen reasons why.

As believers, we can be encouraged that God wants to give us a specific kind of help during difficult seasons like these. We don’t just go with the flow of culture, but we flow with the wind of the Holy Spirit. 

Life will likely not return to the old "normal" we experienced prior to the onset of the pandemic. And, truth be told, for most of us it shouldn’t. It certainly shouldn’t for much of Christ’s church.

“What is the matter with the world?” Martyn Lloyd-Jones asked. “Why . . . war and all this unhappiness and turmoil and discord amongst men? . . . There is only one answer to these questions—sin. Nothing else; it is just sin.”