John Ortberg

John Ortberg is a pastor, author, and speaker. He presently leads the ministry Become New focused on helping people grow spiritually one day at a time.

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When do you feel closest to God?

The full conversation with Kara Powell is available now.

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Ron Johnson on meeting Steve Jobs.

The full conversation is out now!

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Our latest guest on the Formation Podcast:

Ron Johnson helped transform Target, built the Apple Store alongside Steve Jobs, and later became CEO of JCPenney. Across a career spent reimagining some of the biggest names in retail, he came to believe that your most important contribution at work is something no résumé can capture: your inner voice. It’s the perspective you discover when you get still enough to realize what you actually believe.

The full conversation is available now.

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Here's to friends who keep us afloat.

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False needs make you wildly unreliable.

You can no longer see what the situation requires and you are acting out of your own need.

From our conversation with Steve Cuss.

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I have found no one who remotely compares with Jesus Christ as a practical guide to how things are and should be in human life.
- Dallas Willard

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Thank you to Joni Eareckson Tada for sharing her story with us on the Formation Podcast.

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Kara Powell refuses the comfortable version of the trust problem. Young people distrust the church, and her read is that the church gave them reasons to.

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Confidence built on fear, then handed a Bible degree.

A wise reflection from our friend Steve Cuss.

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Do you want to get out of depression?

"In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." - 1 Thessalonians 5:18

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An excerpt from our conversation with @gpackiam. Full episode is available now.

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An excerpt from our conversation with Kara Powell on the Formation Podcast.

Full episode is available now.

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There's only three reasons someone needs to be managed:

1. Lacking competence
2. Lacking context
3. Lack conscientiousness

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Many years ago a wise friend named Max DePree told me he had a little cabinet or secretariat of three people who served as mentors or guides or wisdom figures for his life. He would keep questions about his life and faith and family and work and learning during the week, and then once a month check in with each of these three.

Max was wayyyyy smarter than me, so I thought if he could benefit from that I need it twice as much. Which has turned out to be true. - John

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Every system resists change... including its leader.

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"Let all guests who arrive be received like Christ, for he is going to say: I came as a guest, and you received Me..."

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An excerpt from our conversation with Glenn Packiam on the 12-step tradition applied to spiritual formation.

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Why Steve quit practicing reactivity on Twitter:

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Practice routinely purposeful kindness and intelligent acts of beauty.
- Dallas Willard

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My parents used to tell the story of visiting an open house when two enormous and aggressive German Shepherds came racing around the corner. My mother (not a dog fan) jumped inside the house and slammed the door shut. My father banged on the door and begged to be let in. "No John," came the answer. "I love you. But those dogs..."

I think it is fear, more than anything else, that causes us to close the door of our hearts. Love (almost) always opens doors. - John