My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two. John Ortberg confidencecontentmentdeep Change image and share on social
Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences. John Ortberg chessdependdifference Change image and share on social
Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart. John Ortberg cancerdeadlyform Change image and share on social
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. John Ortberg assumechurchdiscover share on social
Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all. John Ortberg inabilitylargeplane Change image and share on social
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness. John Ortberg aimlessnessfruitfulgrit Change image and share on social
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior. John Ortberg bitterchurchdecade Change image and share on social
There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text. John Ortberg messagemultiplepreach Change image and share on social
Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.' John Ortberg controlcoredivide Change image and share on social
There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God's counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator. John Ortberg counterpartcreatorcreature share on social
