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Tony Reinke

Tony Reinke serves as Senior Teacher for Desiring God, host of the Ask Pastor John podcast, and author of Ask Pastor John: 750 Bible Answers to Life’s Most Important Questions (2024). He and his wife live in Phoenix.

Is My Life Worthy of the King?

Is My Life Worthy of the King?

Four Tests

We are made worthy to live worthily.

All of Us Sinners, None of Us Freaks: Christian Convictions for the Transgender Age

All of Us Sinners, None of Us Freaks

Christian Convictions for the Transgender Age

This feature article highlights five key convictions for Christians to hold in the transgender age.

When Your Pastor Preaches a Sermon Dud

When Your Pastor Preaches a Sermon Dud

Even good pastors preach a bad sermon every once in a while. Here are six reminders for the listeners.

Know When to Walk Away

Know When to Walk Away

A Twelve-Step Digital Detox

We need discipline to find digital health and balance in a world without digital brakes. Here are twelve steps for a digital detox.

Walk the Worldwide Garden

Walk the Worldwide Garden

Protecting Your Home in the Digital Age

Parents who want to train their children for the unrestricted web they will someday face alone, face a difficult task. The Circle offers us one way to begin preparing them at home.

The Right Kind of Atheist

The Right Kind of Atheist

This is a story about two friends. One man seems to be the right kind of atheist; the other man seems to be the right kind of Christian.

Selfies and Polaroids of Intimacy

Selfies and Polaroids of Intimacy

Andy Warhol and My Smartphone

iPhones buffer us from other people, and selfies are nothing but a Polaroid of intimacy. Lessons we can learn looking at the life of Andy Warhol.

Discipleship in the Age of the Spectacle

Discipleship in the Age of the Spectacle

An Interview with Kevin Vanhoozer on Technology

I enjoy making the people I like uncomfortable, especially favorite theologians as I push them outside the comforts of their field of expertise to hear them address pressing contemporary issues. So when I first suggested Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer address connections…

Calvary Conquers the Fear of Death

Calvary Conquers the Fear of Death

Good Friday

People are rarely consumed by a constant, conscious fear of death. But most spend their lives just denying death exists with a million diversions. Jesus stared death in the face, and won.

Your Sorrow Will Turn to Joy

Your Sorrow Will Turn to Joy

Morning & Evening Meditations for Holy Week

A team of pastors and scholars walk us through Holy Week with short meditations for each morning and evening, from Palm Sunday to the triumph of Easter.

Tough and Tinder

Tough and Tinder

Does Easy Sex Make Rude Men?

Tinder is a popular dating app used by ten million people on average every day. The way many are using the service forces us to ask if easy sex makes rude men.

The Secrets of God in Our Suffering

The Secrets of God in Our Suffering

Trusting Him with Unanswered Questions

The riddles God reveals are more than enough to inspire our trust in his sovereign goodness, even when the specific why of our suffering remains a mystery.

Going Deep on Our Smartphone and Social Media Habits

Going Deep on Our Smartphone and Social Media Habits

An Interview with Alastair Roberts

Ah, the enigmatic smartphone. We are still just beginning to realize the layers of questions and implications related to our all-pervasive devices.

Breaking Through the Despair of Unbelief

Breaking Through the Despair of Unbelief

Michael Reeves may now serve as the President of Union School of Theology in Oxford and be recognized as the author of wonderful books like Delighting in the Trinity and Rejoicing in Christ — but those affections for God were hard-won.

The New Tolerance Must Crumble, Says Don Carson

The New Tolerance Must Crumble, Says Don Carson

The story of Kim Davis is worth pulling from the heap and revisiting as an opportunity for believers to think through complex issues of Christian faithfulness in a declining culture.

Rethinking Our Relaxing

Rethinking Our Relaxing

How should Christians plan for and enjoy rest and relaxation? We interviewed one author to dig into what the Sabbath means for us today.

Three Questions to Ask Before Listening to Any Sermon

Three Questions to Ask Before Listening to Any Sermon

The world is full of gospels. Having hope and living well depends on being able to hear them all and tell the difference. Here are three simple questions to ask of any sermon.

The Soul-Shattering Sting of Loneliness

The Soul-Shattering Sting of Loneliness

Humans were made for relationships. That makes the sting of loneliness all the more painful. Tony Reinke interviews Peter Leithart on a sensitive topic.

Top 15 Books of 2015

Top 15 Books of 2015

What was your favorite new book this year? Here’s our top 15 of 2015.

What Stops Our Fighting?

What Stops Our Fighting?

What causes fights and divisions between believers? James says it is the desires at war within us (and between us). We are all want-ers, and therein is our greatest weakness, and our greatest hope. The key to resolving the fights between us is resolving the desires within us.

Unsocial Media

Meeting the Digital Age Face to Face

Technology is often pulling us away each other into a habitat of loneliness. Let’s push back our phones in the morning to become more authentic people, and during the day to to build trust with people in our lives.

The Only FOMO to Fear

The Only FOMO to Fear

Missing the boat, missing the bus, missing a spouse, missing a promotion, missing a stock tip, or missing a date with friends — we have all experienced missing out. And that’s why the fear of missing out (FOMO) is a…

The Christian’s Pledge of Allegiance

The Christian’s Pledge of Allegiance

Does your heart rise when the Apostles’ Creed is read or recited on Sunday morning? Those eighteen lines have lost some of their power over time, but they were once simultaneously the greatest act of rebellion and the greatest act of allegiance. We need to recover our wonder before these truths.

Enjoy Your Possessions Before They Possess You

Enjoy Your Possessions Before They Possess You

So many people fail to enjoy their possessions because their possessions have possessed them. They’re so focused on money and all it can buy that they miss the goodness of the gifts. But God can free us to enjoy what he has given us to the fullest. Here are four ways he does it in the human heart.

The Good Samaritan’s Smartphone and the Law of Love

The Good Samaritan’s Smartphone and the Law of Love

The statistics are as clear as a red stoplight on a dark night. Talking on the phone while driving makes you 4-times more likely to get into an accident. Texting while driving makes you 23-times more likely to get into…

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