In Joshua 10, the sun stood still for about a whole day, and the Bible says there has never been a day like it before or since. John Ensor and Mark Nicholson look at why so many people try to explain miracles like this away, and at the story of two friends, Billy Graham and Chuck Templeton, who answered the same doubts in very different ways. Come discover why every part of Scripture, even the parts that are easy to understand, calls for your faith on this episode of PassionLife.

After years of serving side by side, John Ensor announces he will step down as president of PassionLife on December 31, and Mark Nicholson will lead the ministry starting January 1, 2027. They talk about the difference between holding on and handing off, the danger of “founder’s syndrome,” and why the deepest joy in leadership is watching others carry the work forward. They also share stories from Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Romania and beyond. Hear the news firsthand and join us in praying for this transition on this episode of PassionLife.

Most sins in Scripture apply equally to men and women, but Ephesians 6:4 gives fathers a specific warning: do not provoke your children to anger. John Ensor and Mark Nicholson talk about how uncontrolled anger wounds children, and John shares what it was like to grow up with an alcoholic father. John and Noël Piper also describe how their own fathers shaped their faith, so learn why fatherhood matters so much and how you can raise your children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord on this episode of PassionLife.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

John Ensor and Mark Nicholson sit down with PassionLife Operations Manager Christian Harris as he and Mark prepare to board a plane for Mozambique — a country PassionLife had to cancel on in 2025 amid armed conflict, natural disasters, and post-election unrest. They talk through the real risks of the trip: carrying five portable ultrasound machines across borders where medical technology is routinely confiscated, as well as the careful vetting and follow-up that ensures every ultrasound placed actually gets used to save lives. Watch the full conversation and find out how you can pray them over the border, on this episode of PassionLife.