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About John Ortberg
American evangelical Christian author, speaker, and pastor
John Carl Ortberg Jr. is an American evangelical Christian author, speaker, and pastor. He served for 17 years as senior pastor of Menlo Church in Menlo Park, California. Ortberg is known for writing and speaking on Christian faith and for his work in church leadership. Menlo Church is an ECO Presbyterian congregation, and during his tenure it had more than 4,000 members.
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- “Startups alternate between nostalgia for the garage and millennial longing for a lucrative exit. But what I a…”Glenn Kelman
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- “Though I never really had you….… to me you will always be the one that got away.”Ranata Suzuki
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- “When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from…”Plato
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Books by John Ortberg
God Is Closer Than You Think
2005
When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box
2007
Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
2005
The life you've always wanted
1997
Soul keeping
2014