Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear

God’s work of restoration often includes many callings working together. This devotional looks at Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther to remind you that your faithful work matters, whether you are serving through ministry, leadership, or reform.

The strongest relationships aren’t built on fleeting chemistry but on a foundation of faith, friendship, and trust. The marriage pyramid—spiritual, emotional, and physical oneness—reveals why lasting love is more than just attraction. Discover why God’s design for love, dating, and marriage leads to the most fulfilling romance of all.

Ever feel like you’re doing all the right things, but nothing’s happening? Just like the Israelites circling Jericho, we often walk in faith without seeing immediate results.

Many people are attracted to the big, quick answer to prayer—but new life comes only through persistent, unceasing, and belabored prayer.

Chemistry may bring people together, but it’s character that keeps them together.

Jesus and the apostles saw singleness as a powerful calling, not a second-class status.

What if the way you use your money revealed what you truly believe about eternity?

Are you climbing the generosity ladder? Discover how biblical principles of giving can transform not just your finances but your entire perspective on life. From firstfruit offerings to legacy investments in eternity, this article explores how to align your heart, possessions, and purpose with God’s eternal mission.

Jesus’ warnings in Revelation reveal the danger of a lukewarm heart that looks religious but has grown self-sufficient, prayerless, casual about sin, and quick to use God only in crisis. This article names three signs of lukewarm faith and reminds readers that Jesus confronts spiritual complacency in love so He can restore passion, dependence, repentance, and first love for Him.

Nehemiah’s story reminds us that God is often at work long before we recognize it. From Cyrus’s decree to the rebuilding of Jerusalem to a modern church’s mission to plant churches, this article shows how believers can discern God’s activity through Scripture, holy burdens, open doors, and shared vision and step with confidence into what God has already begun.

Nehemiah’s response to Jerusalem’s brokenness gives Christians a powerful model for prayer. His prayer begins with adoration, moves through honest confession, and appeals to the promises of God. This article shows how believers can pray with humility and faith by remembering who God is, coming empty-handed before His grace, and learning to pray Scripture back to Him.

What does it mean that Jesus fulfilled the Law?It means that every law pointed to him.

If Christians are saved by grace, what role do the Ten Commandments still play? This article explains how God’s Law continues to guide believers, reveal sin, and point us back to the grace we need in Christ.