Become New with John Ortberg Episode 30 - Be Still. Be Real.
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Mar 30, 2021 A contemplative tour through Holy Week that centers on prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane. It explores why prayer can feel hard and encourages quieting the mind. Honest, candid prayer is modeled and invited. Listeners are led into guided stillness and practiced repetition to bring realness before God.
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Practice Stillness Before Prayer
- Be still when you pray by letting thoughts settle instead of arguing with them.
- John Ortberg uses Ruth Haley Barton's jar-of-pond-water image and Henry Nouwen's monkey-in-a-tree to show clarity comes from quieting the mind.
Bring Your Whole Self To God
- Be real in prayer by bringing your honest self, including anger, doubt, and hate, to God.
- Ortberg describes writing a painful sentence of hatred and being told to live with it as part of being human and honest before God.
Conversation That Prompted Honest Lament
- Ortberg recounts a conversation with his pastor friend Claude who urged him to be real with God like preachers in the black church.
- He watched the film The Apostle where the preacher yells at Jesus, prompting Ortberg to try candid lament.
