Thank you, David Powlison
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Remembering David Powlison moves me deeply. When everything was on the line for Jani and me, David and Nan were…
Posts by Ray Ortlund
Weil on fantasy versus reality
“Nothing is so beautiful, nothing is so continually fresh and surprising, so full of sweet and perpetual ecstasy as the…
How a true Calvinist fights
“As you are likely to be engaged in controversy, and your love of truth is joined with a natural warmth…
When the Spirit prevails
I believe we are nearing a tipping-point, as pressures upon us and within us intensify. We feel more urgency to…
Faith in Christ: a cheerful defiance
“I pray for you very earnestly, and I am deeply pained that you keep sucking up cares like a leech…
Here, now, us
“Unbelief says: Some other time, but not now; some other place, but not here; some other people, but not us. …
“We just were one”
In his prophetic book, The Mark of the Christian, Francis Schaeffer related two examples of reconciliation among Christians, which…
A basic twentieth-century text
“I remember on one occasion [the censor] shaking his head and saying to me, ‘You can’t say that, because it’s…
Healthy pastors, healthy churches
Attached is the text of my breakout session from Tuesday, “Pastor, you and your church can get healthy again”: Health…
Spirit-filled intelligence
“In our quest for the fullness of the Spirit, we have sometimes forgotten that a Spirit-filled intelligence is one of…
“Can he pray down the Holy Spirit?”
“Worldliness in the church is the number one enemy, and that comes in when we have unspiritual people, and we…