Doomscrolling Done Right
How does God intend for us to deal with tragedy in the news? Pastor John offers six reasons why suffering should drive us to repentance and...
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20 of 2,314 episodesWhen Your Boss Expects You to Lie
How do we respond when an employer expects us to compromise the truth? Pastor John offers counsel for keeping an uncompromised faith in the...
Surviving Financial Panics
How can we fight anxiety through financial panic and stress? Pastor John offers five truths about God’s character to calm our hearts and min...
If Jesus Returns Tonight
How would we use our time if Christ were coming back tonight? Pastor John gives ten transforming ways to live while waiting for the second c...
Why Good Men Fail God
King Asa worshiped God almost all his days, but he drifted in his old age. So, how should we respond when sin corrupts good men?
Should You Marry Her Anyway?
Does past sexual sin ruin a future marriage? Pastor John counsels a confused young man to trust God’s redeeming love for repentant sexual si...
God’s Plan for Your Prayers
If God is sovereign, why should we pray? Pastor John encourages us to seek God with confidence in his power and plan for our lives.
When Your Pastor Feels Distant
How can the pastor of a growing church care for each member? Pastor John encourages shepherds to care tenderly for the flock and depend on G...
Breaking Prayer Ruts
How can we shift our prayers from rote repetition to an awareness of God’s larger purposes? Pastor John models praying Scripture back to God...
Obedience Will Never Ruin Your Life
How can Christians act in obedience when they face a life-changing cost? Grace can sustain us through the painful consequences of following...
Why God’s Protection Still Hurts
How can we reconcile the pain we feel in this fallen world with God’s promise to keep us from all evil? Pastor John applies Psalm 121 to thi...
Sovereignty and My Murdered Friend
Even great evil serves God’s eternal purposes — yet God also gives us precious promises to comfort us in the midst of our pain and grief.
How to Save a Marriage
To redeem relationships, we need humility — but how do we get that kind of sacrificial heart? Looking to Christ and his cross strips away en...
Zeal For God Gone Wrong
How can Christians tell the difference between true and false zeal for God’s name? Pastor John examines Jehu’s tragic history in 2 Kings.
Preaching Outrage
Should pastors expose every fresh cultural outrage from the pulpit? Pastor John encourages pastors to condemn sin without being consumed.
Defeating Daily Anxiety
When we face day-to-day pressure and stress, Jesus’s teaching steadies our hearts and minds. Pastor John offers eight truths to fight anxiet...
The God Who Gives You Worth
Is God’s pursuit of his glory and man’s pursuit of our joy a selfish transaction? Pastor John insists on keeping our joy in God connected to...
Kill Your Ego, Find Your Joy
Every recognition and reward we receive is a gift of God’s steadfast love, poured out so that we might magnify the glory of his undeserved g...
The Secret Superpower of Silence
How does Jesus’s silence before his accusers teach us how to suffer? Pastor John offers encouragement for Christians facing unjust treatment...