#012: Ray Ortlund

An episode of the The Human Era podcast, hosted by with Kent Lapp, titled "#012: Ray Ortlund" was published on January 11, 2019 and runs 82 minutes.

January 11, 2019 ·82m · The Human Era

0:00 / 0:00

Summary

Today’s culture is consumed by self-care, expectations and success. But how do those fit in with the gospel? Ray Ortlund, senior pastor at Immanuel Nashville, explores how the gospel should guide our interactions with culture and our work. Ray has degrees from Wheaton College, Dallas Theological Seminary, The University of California and the University of Aberdeen. He began his ministry in 1975 at a church in Pasadena, California. Though Ray will retire from preaching in 2019, he will continue to serve on the Council of The Gospel Coalition and as the President of Renewal Ministries. In this episode, Ray discusses... How Christians should view self-care and selflessness. What the balance is between reason and faith. What Ecclesiastes is telling us, and why it matters. Advice for those who feel like they’re coming up short. Keys to a successful leadership succession. And much more.

Episode Description

Today’s culture is consumed by self-care, expectations and success. But how do those fit in with the gospel? Ray Ortlund, senior pastor at Immanuel Nashville, explores how the gospel should guide our interactions with culture and our work.

Ray has degrees from Wheaton College, Dallas Theological Seminary, The University of California and the University of Aberdeen. He began his ministry in 1975 at a church in Pasadena, California. Though Ray will retire from preaching in 2019, he will continue to serve on the Council of The Gospel Coalition and as the President of Renewal Ministries.

In this episode, Ray discusses...

How Christians should view self-care and selflessness.
What the balance is between reason and faith.
What Ecclesiastes is telling us, and why it matters.
Advice for those who feel like they’re coming up short.
Keys to a successful leadership succession.
And much more.

Share this episode

Similar Episodes

Turning Pain into Punchlines: The Human Side of Comedy with Danny Johnson

Apr 9, 2026 ·50m

[BONUS] Camel antibodies and colorful Greco-Roman statues: Tiny Show and Tell Us #44

Apr 8, 2026 ·16m

Winning The Amazing Race Was Just The Beginning with Alex Boylan

Apr 6, 2026 ·55m

A Naval Academy Life That Keeps Evolving with Jim Paulk

Apr 2, 2026 ·58m

Stinky white gold, Haber-Bosch, and ‘peecycling’: How fertilizer shapes our world

Apr 1, 2026 ·42m

Saving Elephants, Finding Purpose In Bali with Nigel Mason

Mar 26, 2026 ·44m

Similar Podcasts

The Human and The Machine Fully Connected How will technology affect us? Yes, we’ve been here before, the Industrial Revolution caused all kinds of social upheaval, good and bad. But can we compare that to where we are now? This era of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is transforming all we know and the risk is that the human becomes outsourced. On the Nature of Things (Leonard translation) by Titus Lucretius Carus Loyal Books On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philosophy and science to have survived from antiquity. Far from being a dry treatise on the many topics it covers, the original Latin version (entitled De Rerum Natura) was written in the form of an extended poem in hexameter, with a beauty of style that was admired and emulated by his successors, including Ovid and Cicero. The version read here is an English verse translation written by William Ellery Leonard. Although Leonard penned his version in the early twentieth century, he chose to adhere to both the vocabulary and meter (alternating between pentameter and hexameter) of Elizabethan-era poetry.While the six untitled books that comprise On the Nature of Things delve into a broad range of subjects, including the physical nature of the universe, the workings of the human mind and body, and the natural history of the Earth, Lucretius repeatedly assert Figure It Out w/ SP SP attempts to navigate the course of the human mammal in the era of synthetic landscape. Bring your own snacks. Tiny Matters Multitude Science shapes every facet of our lives, but so much of its influence is overlooked or buried in the past. Tiny Matters is an award-winning science podcast from the American Chemical Society about tiny things — from molecules to microbes — that have a big and often surprising impact on society, past and present. From deadly diseases to forensic toxicology to the search for extraterrestrial life, hosts and former scientists Sam Jones and Deboki Chakravarti embrace the awe and messiness of science and its significance, asking questions like, "how was IVF invented?," "what do glaciers tell us about Earth’s ancient past?," and "why is smallpox the only human infectious disease we’ve eradicated?" New episodes every Wednesday wherever you listen to podcasts.

URL copied to clipboard!