Become New with John Ortberg

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 attention to God through two important practices: focused attention and open attention.
John explores why attention is so powerful, how what we consistently attend to can actually change us, and how we can learn to notice God's presence throughout an ordinary day.
The invitation is simple:
Pay attention to the God who is already paying attention to you.
In this episode: Psalm 143 • attention • distraction • spiritual formation • neuroscience • noticing God
#Psalm143 #JohnOrtberg #SpiritualFormation #Attention #Psalms #ChristianFaith
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00:00 Pay Very Careful Attention
 00:12 Are You Still With Me?
 00:31 Attention Is Something We Pay
 00:55 Who Is Your Master?
 01:18 God Is Paying Attention to You
 01:39 Two Kinds of Attention
 02:01 How Attention Changes Your World
 02:28 How Do You Attend to Other People?
 02:49 Attention Changes You
 03:15 You Become More Like What You Attend To
 03:45 Focused Attention
 04:14 How a Bird Pays Attention
 04:42 Open Attention
 05:09 Two Very Different Ways of Seeing
 05:33 Seeing Yourself as Part of Something Bigger
 05:56 The Fellowship of Toads 😂
 06:22 Why We Need Both Kinds of Attention
 06:41 Psalm 143: God, Hear Me
 06:53 Paying Attention to What's Wrong in Me
 07:17 Taking an Honest Inventory
 07:35 Who Is the Enemy?
 08:02 When the Enemy Is Inside Me
 08:30 Remember, Meditate, Consider
 09:24 Learning to Pay Attention to God
 09:48 God Is Paying Attention to Me
 10:06 Let the Morning Bring Me Word
 10:27 Show Me, Rescue Me, Teach Me, Lead Me
 10:51 Open Your Attention to God
 11:16 Focus on What's in Front of You
 11:39 God, How Are You Here?
 11:57 Who Is My Master?

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, notice the beauty and goodness of God, and make a joyful noise.
John also shares the remarkable story of a $3 thrift-store jersey that turned out to be worth $90,000. It looked discarded, but it was a treasure.
Maybe you need that reminder too.
You are not self-made. You are the work of a master craftsman.
So pause today. Look around. Say “Wow.” Say “Thank You.” And don't miss the view.
In this episode: Psalm 100 • gratitude • joy • identity • God's creation • serving with gladness
#Psalm100 #JohnOrtberg #Gratitude #Joy #SpiritualFormation #Psalms
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00:00 You Need a Vista Point Today
 00:26 Pull Over & Look Around
 00:43 Seeing Your Life From God's Perspective
 01:10 Psalm 100: Make a Joyful Noise
 01:32 All the Earth Is Invited
 01:51 John's Dad Makes a Joyful Noise
 02:14 “Why Don't You Just Say It, John?” 😂
 02:41 You Don't Need a Beautiful Voice
 03:01 How Can You Make a Joyful Noise Today?
 03:35 Notice What's Good
 03:48 Know That the Lord Is God
 04:14 There Is a God. It Is Not Me.
 04:44 God Is Pleased That You Exist
 05:07 The $3 Lakers Jersey
 05:32 Was It Really Wilt Chamberlain's?
 05:57 $3 Becomes $90,000
 06:23 You Are Not Self-Made
 06:50 You Are the Work of a Master Craftsman
 07:10 You Live in God's Pasture Today
 07:29 Serve the Lord With Gladness
 07:46 The Dog Situation Gets Worse 😂
 08:06 Pause. Look. Say Wow.
 08:21 You Are a Treasure

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, why he loved Psalm 23, and a remarkable story about a young woman whose life changed after simply watching Dallas interact with someone on the USC campus.
Dallas often prayed that people would have “a radiant life and a radiant death.” His life embodied a deep confidence in the sufficiency of God: The Lord is my shepherd. I have what I need.
Keith leaves us with a powerful thought:
“Our presence goes before us.”
What might your presence communicate to the people you encounter today?
In this episode: Psalm 23 • Dallas Willard • God's sufficiency • spiritual formation • becoming a radiant person
#Psalm23 #DallasWillard #JohnOrtberg #SpiritualFormation #ChristianFaith

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00:00 John & Keith Matthews
 00:28 An Undisclosed Location of Spiritual Formation 😂
 00:47 Spontaneity vs. Actually Preparing
 01:11 Why Psalm 23?
 01:38 Dallas Willard's Favorite Psalm
 01:57 Memorizing Scripture
 02:19 Teaching With Dallas for 18 Years
 02:38 Dallas the Person
 03:03 A Radiant Life & a Radiant Death
 03:20 What Does a Person Radiate?
 03:46 “The Lord Is My Shepherd”
 04:06 God Is Sufficient
 04:27 But What If I Really Need Something?
 04:48 Are You Happy With the Person You're Becoming?
 05:18 Living From a Full Cup
 05:38 “I Need ___ in Order to ___”
 05:55 Even a Radiant Death
 06:14 The Human Spirit as Personal Energy
 06:36 Why We Call It “Glo-ry”
 07:05 The Presence of Dallas Willard
 07:22 A Stranger Starts Crying
 07:39 “Who Is That Guy?”
 08:00 A Life Changed by an Encounter
 08:28 Your Presence Goes Before You
 08:52 What Must Jesus Have Been Like?
 09:10 You Have Everything You Need
 09:27 Leave Someone With a Little Smile

We're surrounded by voices telling us to maximize ourselves: our looks, productivity, wealth, health, status, experiences, and potential.
But Jesus offers a radically different path to maximum life.
In this episode, John Ortberg explores the “self-maximizer” inside us and contrasts it with John the Baptist's famous words: “He must increase; I must decrease.”
The paradox of God's kingdom is that abundant life doesn't come from making ourselves bigger. It comes as we loosen our grip on ego, reputation, and self-promotion and give ourselves to love and service.
Want to live life to the max?
Try a little less of yourself.
In this episode: life-maxing • John the Baptist • Philippians 2 • the self-maximizer • Psalm 146 • abundant life
#JohnOrtberg #SpiritualFormation #Psalm146 #AbundantLife #Jesus #ChristianFaith
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00:00 How to Maximize Your Life
 00:29 Welcome to the Age of Life-Maxing
 00:50 Looks, Status & Productivity Maxing
 01:08 What's Wrong With Self-Maxing?
 01:34 God Is Actually Into Abundance
 02:04 Biblical Maxers
 02:26 Absalom: The Looks-Maxer
 02:42 Five Pounds of Hair?!
 03:04 He Maxed Himself to Death
 03:26 The Wealth-Maxer & Bigger Barns
 03:47 Solomon Maxes Pleasure
 04:19 The Original God-Maxing Temptation
 04:30 The Self-Maximizer Inside You
 04:54 “My First Job Is to Realize My Potential”
 05:22 Is Commitment Keeping a Sucker's Game?
 05:48 The Self-Maximizer vs. Commitment
 06:02 What's in It for Me?
 06:25 When Self Becomes the Center
 06:53 The Ego-Driven Pastor
 07:14 The New Org Chart: Bigger Me
 07:38 There Is Another Way
 08:02 John the Baptist Starts Losing Followers
 08:24 You Need to Max!
 08:45 The Friend of the Bridegroom
 09:04 “He Must Increase, I Must Decrease”
 09:33 Jesus Minimizes Himself
 10:10 Meaning Is the New Maxing
 10:38 How to Min to Max Today
 11:05 Give, Encourage, Listen & Serve
 11:26 Less Ego, More Life
 11:54 Life to the Max
 12:03 John Forgot the Psalm 😂
 12:22 Psalm 146: God's Kind of Greatness
 12:43 Bonus Material

What does your soul actually need for self-care?
Psalm 19 gives a surprising answer: “The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.”
In this episode, John Ortberg explores why God's instruction isn't meant to burden us, but to help make us whole. Our souls become divided when our thoughts, desires, values, words, and actions pull in different directions. God's Word shows us what is good and helps bring our lives back into alignment.
John also shares how memorizing 1 Corinthians 13 helped him confront anger and resentment in his own life. Sometimes soul care is as simple as taking one piece of God's Word and asking Him to help us actually live it.
Go ahead and take the walk, light the candle, or get the massage. But don't miss the deeper invitation:
Let God revive your soul.
In this episode: Psalm 19 • wholeheartedness • internal integration • 1 Corinthians 13 • Dallas Willard • becoming whole
#Psalm19 #JohnOrtberg #SoulCare #SpiritualFormation #Psalms #BibleStudy #ChristianFaith
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00:00 What Does Your Soul Really Need?
 00:32 Self-Care Isn't Just Candles & Massages
 00:49 Psalm 19 & the Surprising Answer
 01:10 The Heavens Declare the Glory of God
 01:42 The Sun Is Not God
 02:27 Creation Is Good, But It's Not #1
 02:52 The Law Revives the Soul
 03:21 What Is the Soul?
 03:52 Seriously...the Law?
 04:12 Sweeter Than Honey, More Precious Than Gold
 04:31 Why Your Soul Needs God's Instruction
 04:56 What Does Wholeheartedness Mean?
 05:29 Internal Integration
 05:58 Becoming a Whole Person
 06:23 The Kind of Person You're Called to Be
 06:49 When Your Desires Pull in Opposite Directions
 07:20 How We Become Divided
 07:43 Can a Bad Person Be Wholehearted?
 08:08 Why a Disordered Soul Hurts
 08:32 Aristotle: The Soul in Strife
 09:00 Why Divided People Can't Be Fully Known
 09:16 “I Never Knew You”
 09:41 The Soul Needs the Good
 10:12 Choose One Thing to Practice Today
 10:42 Memorizing 1 Corinthians 13
 11:02 When John Wanted to Withdraw
 11:17 Love Is Patient, Love Is Kind
 12:01 Why God's Words Are Precious
 12:26 The Reward Is Becoming Whole
 12:50 The Real Meaning of Soul Care
 13:19 The Law of the Lord Revives the Soul