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
It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.
The New Testament doesn't present Jesus as a single man to cover up his humanity. It presents him as a single man because... he was a single man.
Although the church has often been far too slow to follow his lead, Jesus' insistence that women, as well as men, bear the full image of God has had a way of sparking reform movements across the centuries.
Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.
In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison.
In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.
When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with.
When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.
We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.
The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.
God has decided, for his own good reasons, that people are not transformed outside of community.
Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.
Tithing is considerably less popular than words like generosity or sharing.
Tithing is a bad ceiling but an excellent floor.