Become New with John Ortberg
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First Steps | A 10-Minute Look Inside the Live Masterclass with Dr. John Ortberg
Why do AA meetings sometimes feel like the safest place to tell the truth? And what could the church learn from that kind of honesty, acceptance, and shared dependence on God?In this episode, John Ortberg explores how the 12 Steps can he...
RR. I Desperately Need Peace
Can you have peace while the situation you’re facing is still unresolved? During one of the darkest periods of his life, John Ortberg found himself awake early in the morning, needing something solid to hold onto. A passage from Dallas Willard’...
RR. I Messed Up, I Made a Mistake, Now What?
What do you say to yourself when you make a mistake? For many of us, one wrong answer, awkward conversation, or disappointing performance can turn into a harsh verdict about who we are. John Ortberg offers a different response, borrowed from co...
RR. How to Wait on God: A Verse-by-Verse Guide (Matthew 15:21-28)
Why does God sometimes make us wait for something we’ve asked him for again and again? Jesus tells us to keep praying, asking, seeking, and knocking. Yet the silence can be difficult to understand, especially when someone we love needs help.
RR. How to Be Strong AND Vulnerable (feat. Alan George)
Can you lead with authority and still be genuinely vulnerable? Many of us treat those qualities as opposites. If we want to be strong, we assume we need to protect ourselves from being hurt. But in this conversation with Alan George, John Ortbe...
RR. The Good that Suffering Can Bring
What can still grow in your life after you’ve been hurt? John Ortberg explores that question through a story author James Michener remembered from childhood: an aging apple tree, eight rusty nails, and an unexpected harvest.Years later,...
RR. I'm Struggling to Find God
What do you do when God seems absent from your story? Maybe you still pray, read Scripture, and show up, but the closeness you once felt is gone. Does that mean you’ve done something wrong? Has God left?John Ortberg ex...
RR. Billions Invested in Leadership but Where are All the Good Leaders?
Everybody wants to make a difference. We spend billions developing leaders, and schools, businesses, and churches all talk about raising up the next generation of them. But when Jesus began the movement that would change countless lives, his in...
RR. We asked 1,000 people which habits they wish they could break.
Is there a habit you keep trying to break, or one you wish you could finally build? You’re in good company. When John Ortberg asked the Become New community about their habits, more than a thousand people responded. They named stru...
RR. How to Handle Your LIMIT
What do you do with a part of yourself you wish you could change? Maybe you feel limited by your personality, your abilities, your age, or something your body can’t do. It’s easy to compare yourself with someone else and believe th...
Psalms Bonus! What Happens When Someone Really Listens to You
What happens when someone really listens to you?In this special bonus episode, John Ortberg sits down with Become New Creative Director Jackson Lane, who shares a story about a childhood stuffed animal, a remarkable ninth-grade teacher,...
RR. The Most Important Thing to Believe About Jesus
Today we're revisiting an episode from SHINE, our walk through the book of Philippians. And there's a reason we're bringing this one back: we've just launched a new Bible reading plan on the Bible App based on the SHINE series. So if today's...
Thank You from John and Become New
Thank you for being part of Become New, a global community growing spiritually in Christ, one day at a time.With an impromptu message from John, filmed on his iPhone in the Grand Tetons, this video is a personal thank-you for bei...
87. The Lord of the Rings' Most Important Lesson
Why did Frodo need Gollum?Coming to you from Hobbiton, New Zealand, John Ortberg explores one of the deepest themes running through J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings:Mercy.Bilbo could have killed Gollum...
86. What the Psalms Are Trying to Teach Us
Your life was made to be a Psalm.As this journey through the Psalms draws toward its close, John Ortberg reflects on where the Psalter has been leading us all along.Psalm 1 begins by asking what kind of life we will live. T...
85. The Surprising Connection Between Therapy and the Psalms (w/Dr. Rick)
What can a therapist teach us about prayer?John Ortberg sits down with his longtime friend and therapist Dr. Rick to explore the Psalms as a kind of “divine therapy with God.”The Psalms are messy. Angry. Afraid. Contradicto...
84. How Hope Changes Suffering
Suffering can do one of two things: break us or break us open.Beginning with Frederick Buechner's unforgettable image, John Ortberg explores Psalm 110 and one of the deepest ways Christians have read the Psalms: seeing the story o...
83. Why Happiness Never Seems to Last
Are you actually experiencing joy, or are you mostly experiencing relief when problems finally go away?In Psalm 68, John Ortberg explores the biblical idea of exultation: deep, expressive joy that can exist even when life isn't go...
82. There Are 3 Kinds of Friends. Here’s the One You Need.
There are three kinds of friends. Two can be valuable, but the third can actually help you become the person God created you to be.Beginning with Psalm 122 and the simple words “Let us go,” John Ortberg explores why friendship...
81. Two Kinds of Commitment. Only One Transforms You.
There are two kinds of commitments: contracts and covenants.We need both. But John Ortberg explains why one can enhance your life while the other can actually transform it.Beginning with Psalm 35, John explores the differen...
80. How to Get "Unstuck" in Praise
Why does God want us to praise Him? And what if praising God sometimes feels awkward, artificial, or forced?In this reflection on Psalm 67, John Ortberg explores the same question that once troubled C. S. Lewis.Lewis eventu...
79. What to Do When You’re Afraid
What do you do when you're afraid?In this reflection on Psalm 62, John Ortberg shares a memorable Dallas Willard story about a terrified cat clinging to a tree, and asks a surprisingly revealing question:What's your branch?...
78. How to Not Waste Your Most Valuable Asset
Who has your attention?In a world where screens, money, health, worries, ambitions, and countless other forces compete for our focus, John Ortberg asks a deeper question: Who is my master?Psalm 143 teaches us how to pay att...
77. Finding Perspective Changes Everything
Sometimes you need to stop moving long enough to notice where you actually are.In this reflection on Psalm 100, John Ortberg pulls over at a vista point and invites us to create a “vista point” in our own day: pause, look around, ...
76. What Dallas Willard Taught Us About Psalm 23 (w/Keith Matthews)
What do people experience when they're around you?In this conversation on Psalm 23, John Ortberg is joined by Keith Matthews, who spent 18 years teaching alongside Dallas Willard.Keith shares what Dallas was really like, wh...
