John Ortberg
John Ortberg
John Ortberg, Jr.is an evangelical Christian author, speaker, and senior pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in Menlo Park, California, an evangelical church with more than 4,000 members. Ortberg has published many books including the 2008 ECPA Christian Book Award winner When the Game is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box, and the 2002 Christianity Today Book Award winner If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat. Another of his publications,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth5 May 1957
CountryUnited States of America
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
"Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them."
Many Christians expend so much energy and worry trying not to sin. The goal is not to try to sin less. In all your efforts to keep from sinning, what are you focusing on? Sin. God wants you to focus on him. To be with him. “Abide in me.” Just relax and learn to enjoy his presence. Every day is a collection of moments, 86,400 seconds in a day. How many of them can you live with God? Start where you are and grow from there. God wants to be with you every moment.
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series of demotions. The problem with spending our lives climbing up the ladder is that we will go right past Jesus, for He's coming down.
You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.