Ask Pastor John - Desiring God

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How Do I Not Provoke My Children? May 20, 2022

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How can we require obedience of our children without provoking and discouraging them? Pastor John offers eight pitfalls for fathers.

Do Answered Prayers Depend on My Holiness? May 18, 2022

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Throughout Scripture, God warns that he will not hear the prayers of the disobedient. So do answered prayers depend on our holiness?

For Christians Whose Testimony Seems Boring May 16, 2022

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We will never plumb the depths of sin and grace merely from past experience. Only God’s word can tell us how lost and dead we were, and how found and alive we are.

Would You Have Supported Prohibition in 1913? May 13, 2022

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In the early twentieth century, many Christian leaders lent their approval to the cause of Prohibition. Would Pastor John have done the same if he lived back then?

How Greatly Am I Loved? May 11, 2022

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In Christ, God has chosen us from eternity, and called us in time, so that we would boast no longer in ourselves, but only in him and his great love.

How Do I Make Christian Hedonism My Own? May 09, 2022

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Some teachers influence us so deeply that we find ourselves imitating them without trying. So how can we move past imitation to make biblical truth our own?

Why Dead Men Must Die May 06, 2022

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Paul says we all were dead apart from Christ, but he also says we died when we were united to Christ. In what sense, then, do dead men die?

God Saves to Make Much of Himself — Doesn’t That Lessen His Love? May 04, 2022

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Nothing but God can forever satisfy hearts that are made for God. And so, in great mercy, God loves us in a way that makes much of himself.

Should Gospel Disagreements End a Friendship? May 02, 2022

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Christians can disagree over many doctrines and stay friends. But what should we do when a friend rejects a doctrine central to the gospel?

My Spouse Died Prematurely — Was It My Fault? Apr 29, 2022

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How might Christians process feelings of guilt over the death of a loved one? Pastor John offers counsel to a new widow struggling not to blame herself.