by PassionLife Ministries | Sep 21, 2026 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Biblical Thinking, Culture, John, Mark, Missions, podcast, video
John Piper says it’s heresy to claim God took a risk by creating the world or sending his Son, because a God who knows everything and can do anything never has to guess how things will turn out. That same sovereign God is what frees you to step out in faith when you can’t see the outcome, because nothing bad can happen to you that isn’t good for you. Take a look at Piper’s banquet keynote with John Ensor and Mark Nicholson, from Joab’s battle cry to the promise of Romans 8, and find the courage for your own next step of faith on this episode of PassionLife.
by PassionLife Ministries | Sep 14, 2026 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Biblical Thinking, Culture, John, Mark, Missions, podcast, video
John Ensor and Mark keep unpacking John Piper’s keynote on “Risk-Taking for Life and Fruitfulness,” this time looking at what it means to suffer for the sake of Christ. John tells about his 1989 arrest at a peaceful pro-life sit-in in Boston, where he ended up preaching to 40 men in jail, and Mark tells about being pulled off a sidewalk by plainclothes police while he was a missionary in the Far East. Find out why suffering for the gospel shouldn’t surprise you, how God gives boldness and peace when it comes, and why your fruitful life may depend on taking the risky road, on this episode of PassionLife.
by PassionLife Ministries | Sep 7, 2026 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Biblical Thinking, Culture, John, Mark, Missions, podcast, video
For eight years John Piper couldn’t stand in front of a group without his throat closing, he once accepted a C in civics rather than give an oral book report. Then a chaplain asked him to pray for thirty seconds in chapel, and the vow he made walking across campus that day set the course of his entire ministry. Hear the risk that changed everything, and consider the fork in the road waiting for you, on this episode of PassionLife.
by PassionLife Ministries | Aug 31, 2026 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Biblical Thinking, Culture, John, Mark, Missions, podcast, video
John and Mark have both stood beside death this month — Mark marking the second anniversary of his 21-year-old son David’s passing, and John saying goodbye to his 103-year-old mother-in-law Johnny, who spent her last hours on a broken hip preaching Christ to the EMTs. They talk honestly about the anguish of a life cut short and the satisfaction of a life lived long, why Scripture makes room for weeping and rejoicing at the same time, and what the shrinking lifespans of Genesis tell us about what we were made for. Listen and be reminded that God has numbered your days — and given you everything you need for the hardest ones — on this episode of PassionLife.
by PassionLife Ministries | Aug 24, 2026 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Biblical Thinking, Culture, John, Mark, Missions, podcast, video
In 2006, Miami-Dade County led the nation in abortions per capita and had not a single pregnancy help medical clinic — so Martha Avila and Jeannie Pernia left good jobs to open one, and 19 years later Heartbeat of Miami has rescued more than 75,000 babies and their mothers from abortion. They tell John Ensor what it cost: a stolen ultrasound machine their first week, vandalism and bomb threats after Roe fell, and the day Jeannie walked back through the doors of the very building where she once helped provide abortions — and where she aborted her own first child. Watch and see how God turns a place of death into a place of rescue, on this episode of PassionLife.
