Ray Ortlund
The Gospel Coalition
Nashville, TN, United States
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Past articles by Ray:
Ground-Level Gospel Culture
Ray Ortlund and T. J. Tims discuss how pastors cultivate gospel culture in their churches so that it becomes an intergenerational reality. → Read More
You're Not Crazy Podcast: Finding Rest for Your Soul
In this episode of ‘You’re Not Crazy,’ Ray Ortlund and Sam Allberry encourage pastors to rest their souls in Christ, not as an option but as an imperative. → Read More
Should or Can in 2022?
Pastor, you might be surprised at what a clear and unmixed message of grace can accmplish at your church in 2022. → Read More
The Cost of Gospel Culture
In this episode, Ray Ortlund and Sam Allberry discuss the cost of building and sustaining gospel culture. – Introduction—where you’d really like to preach (and Ray Ortlund’s kilt. And bagpipes.) – There’s a cost (4:08) – It’s not always going to be easy (6:27) – Nullifying the grace of God (8:56) – Time for some decisions (16:31) – Not just icing on the cake (20:36) – Linking arms… → Read More
What’s Allowed in Married Sex?
Ray Ortlund answers the question of what's permissible in the marriage bed: freedom, sensitivity, agreement, and exclusivity. → Read More
Gospel Culture and Leading
Ray Ortlund and Sam Allberry discuss the priorities of a pastor leading a church by gospel doctrine into gospel culture. → Read More
How to preach with biblical fullness
“I love the simplicity of the Scriptures, and I wish to receive and inculcate every truth precisely in the way, and to the extent, that it is set forth in the sacred Volume. Were this the habit of all divines, there would soon be an end to most of the controversies that have agitated and divided the Church of Christ. My endeavor is to bring out of Scripture what is there, and not to thrust in… → Read More
TGC Podcast: Ray Ortlund on Renewal for Tired Pastors
Originally delivered at TGC's 2019 National Conference, Ray Ortlund's workshop charted a course into biblical renewal for tired pastors and churches. → Read More
The kind of team everyone enjoys working with
Pat Macmillan, in “The Mission-Directed Ministry Team,” RTS Ministry, Winter 1994, quotes Peter Senge: “When a team becomes more aligned, a commonality of direction emerges, and individuals’ energies harmonize. There is less wasted energy. In fact, a resonance or synergy develops.” To achieve that powerful alignment among the individuals on a team, the stated mission must meet four criteria: 1.… → Read More
Ray Ortlund: Leaders Must Fight on Multiple Fronts
It can be easy for us to be half-right as we contend for some aspect of the gospel. And because we really are half-right, we do not see that we are also half-wrong. → Read More
How to build gospel culture in your church
Galatians 2:11-21 has been unsettling me for forty years. Paul rebuked Peter publicly — for what? They agreed on gospel doctrine: “We know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ” (verse 16). But they clashed on gospel culture: “How can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?” (verse 14). For that, Paul rebuked Peter openly and bluntly. Gospel… → Read More
Gospel + Safety + Time = A Church Where Anyone Can Grow
In a social environment of gospel + safety + time, anyone can get their life back and grow. That's a healthy church. → Read More
Church Conflict 101
Does the Bible teach us always to see wrong on both sides in every conflict? For example, what about Cain and Abel? Or Saul and David? The Pharisees and Jesus? → Read More
When We Coddle Porn
Ray Ortlund reviews Samuel Perry’s ′Addicted to Lust: Pornography in the Lives of Conservative Protestants’ (Oxford University Press, 2019). → Read More
A Person
“Our faith is a person; the gospel that we have to preach is a person; and go wherever we may, we have something solid and tangible to preach, for our gospel is a person. If you had asked the twelve Apostles in their day, ‘What do you believe in?’ they would not have stopped to go round about with a long sermon, but they would have pointed to their Master and they would have said, ‘We believe… → Read More
Immanuel
“‘Immanuel, God with us.’ It is hell’s terror. Satan trembles at the sound of it. . . . Let him come to you suddenly, and do you but whisper that word, ‘God with us,’ back he falls, confounded and confused. . . . ‘God with us’ is the laborer’s strength. How could he preach the gospel, how could he bend his knees in prayer, how could the missionary go into foreign lands, how could the martyr… → Read More
Who First Showed Ray Ortlund the Beauty of Jesus?
Ray Ortlund shares the ways his father reflected the beauty of Jesus in his character, demeanor, and trust in God no matter what. → Read More
Our three kinds of suffering
We experience three kinds of suffering in this life. One, deserved suffering. We sin, and we suffer misery for it. Sin always spawns misery. It’s all sin can do. So, deserved suffering is inevitable: “Be sure your sin will find you out” (Num. 32:23). When our sins catch up with us and we feel the pain, in humility, let’s humble ourselves and accept it. Deserved suffering is hard to bear. But our… → Read More
What I Wasn’t Ready for in Pastoral Ministry
Ray Ortlund tells young pastors that suffering, not being cool or even being successful, will typify a faithful local church pastor. → Read More
Ray Ortlund on 3 Ways to Stay Faithful as a Church
A talk by Ray Ortlund from Galatians 2:11-21 on how to develop gospel doctrine, gospel culture, and gospel spirituality leading to faithfulness in a church. → Read More