Author | Speaker | Pastor

Meet John Ortberg

John Ortberg is a pastor, author, and speaker. He’s been in ministry for over 40 years and teaches around a central theme of spiritual formation. John is a deep believer that the main thing God gets out of your life is the person you become. He desires for people to know God in an interactive, life-transforming way. Presently, John leads the ministry, Become New, focused on helping you grow spiritually one day at a time. His most recent book, Eternity is Now in Session, is now available wherever books are sold.

Featured Book

STEPS: A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn’t Enough

Admiration, comfort, love, power, success, pleasure, escape, control: we’re all addicted to something, whether we realize it or not.

In this deeply heartfelt book, author John Ortberg offers a guide for transformation when we know something needs to change but we can’t do it on our own. Rooted in the teachings of Jesus and using the framework of AAs 12 steps as a guide, Ortberg offers all of us a freeing roadmap for:

  • Giving up our exhausting and fruitless efforts to fix, manage, and control our own lives

  • Distinguishing between when willpower is essential and when it is futile

  • Discovering how God can do for us what we can’t do for ourselves, and

  • living authentically, joyfully and in communion with God and other people.

Ortberg shows us how to discover:

  • Our spiritual attachment styles

  • Our core doubts

  • The benefits of practices like prayer, meditation, and mindfulness

  • God’s sufficiency in our inadequacy

In Steps, find what’s needed to experience a new freedom, a new fellowship and a new happiness no matter our circumstances.

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