Ask Pastor John

Ask Pastor John

John Piper answering tough theological and pastoral questions.

Episodes

Can a Single Pastor Date in His Church?

July 25, 2024 • 12 mins
Where should an unmarried pastor look for a wife? Pastor John encourages single men in ministry to take practical steps while trusting God’s providence.
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What Makes a True Friend?

July 22, 2024 • 12 mins
What makes for a true friend, according to God’s word? Pastor John sketches the nature and importance of friendship across the Scriptures.
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God Is Eager to Work for You

July 18, 2024 • 13 mins
God looks throughout the earth, eager to work for those whose hearts are whole toward him. Pastor John unfolds glory from a favorite verse.
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Will God Judge People for Being Born Muslim?

July 15, 2024 • 11 mins
Will God condemn someone for being born into another religion? Pastor John responds to a former Muslim deeply worried about her loved ones.
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On Repetitive Worship Songs

July 11, 2024 • 11 mins
“For his steadfast love endures forever” appears 26 times in Psalm 136. What might we learn from this psalm about the right kind of repetition in worship?
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Let the Bible Smash Your Bad Theology

July 8, 2024 • 9 mins
If you want more of your thoughts to become captive to Christ, open the Bible and pray, “Anything in my thinking that needs to be destroyed, destroy it.”
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The Good Grace of Being American

July 4, 2024 • 12 mins
American citizens enjoy lavish blessings of common grace. Pastor John calls us to give thanks without giving away our far deeper allegiance to God’s special grace.
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Is My Joy Commanded or Spontaneous?

July 1, 2024 • 11 mins
If joy in God is a gift from God, why does he also command us to rejoice? Pastor John takes us into a paradox that lies at the heart of the God-glorifying life.
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The Next Generation of Missionaries

June 27, 2024 • 10 mins
The local church’s task of sending and sustaining long-term missionaries rests on several deep biblical assumptions. Pastor John shares five.
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How Your Heart Governs Your Mind

June 24, 2024 • 11 mins
At the root of our sin is not a mind ignorant of God’s ways, but a darkened love, a hardened heart, and a will bent away from God’s ways.
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Resurrection Power for Our Pain

June 20, 2024 • 11 mins
In this fallen age, resurrection power does not keep us from pain. Instead, it brings life to others as we keep loving Jesus in our pain.
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The Emotional Roller Coaster of Bible Reading

June 17, 2024 • 12 mins
Bible reading can bring comfort, but Bible reading can also bring fear. How can we rightly embrace both the comfort of God’s promises and the fear of his warnings?
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Taste Test Your Way to God’s Will

June 13, 2024 • 9 mins
Paul says that the renewed mind discerns God’s good will “by testing.” What does that testing look like in the thousands of everyday decisions we make?
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God’s Purpose in Our Boredom

June 10, 2024 • 12 mins
Our boredom in this world is meant to point us to another world — a world where the infinitely interesting God will banish boredom forever.
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How Can I Convince Comfortable People to Embrace Christ?

June 6, 2024 • 12 mins
No matter how comfortable our friends and neighbors may seem, they are headed for hell unless they repent. So, what words might break through their comfort?
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Satan, the ‘Prince of the Air’ — What Does That Mean?

June 3, 2024 • 13 mins
Why does Paul call Satan “the prince of the power of the air”? Pastor John explores the extent of Satan’s authority and Christ’s decisive victory.
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If I’m Not Elect, How Am I Guilty for Not Believing?

May 30, 2024 • 11 mins
If God has not chosen to save me, then why would he condemn me for not believing? Pastor John explains the kind of inability that does not remove responsibility.
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What Shia LaBeouf Gets Wrong About Joy

May 27, 2024 • 13 mins
Is Shia LaBeouf right to say that Jesus experienced “maximum joy” as he died? Pastor John considers the joy set before Christ and the horrors of the cross.
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Killing Lust with the Cross of Christ

May 23, 2024 • 10 mins
“Cross,” “nails,” “spear,” and “thorns” are words that evoke images in our minds — images with tremendous power to dispel lustful thoughts.
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Ten Questions for Readers of Erotica

May 20, 2024 • 10 mins
How should Christians think about sexually explicit material on the page rather than the screen? Pastor John offers ten questions for readers of erotica.
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