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Dane Ortlund

Dane Ortlund serves as senior pastor of Naperville Presbyterian Church in Naperville, Illinois. He is the author of Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers and Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners. Dane and his wife, Stacey, have five children.

Discouragement Can Take You Deeper: Finding Christ in Our Failures

Discouragement Can Take You Deeper

Finding Christ in Our Failures

Discouragement over struggles with sin can be a good sign: it may show that we have tasted enough holiness to not be satisfied without it.

Dare to Feel Forgiven: Four Ways into the Heart of God

Dare to Feel Forgiven

Four Ways into the Heart of God

Do you struggle to feel forgiven? Dare, in Christ, to go deeper into the heart of God.

Safe Beneath His Sovereign God: Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)

Safe Beneath His Sovereign God

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)

Jonathan Edwards was perhaps the most brilliant pastor America has ever seen. And after decades of faithful ministry, he was fired from his church.

Joy Doesn’t Always Look Happy: Five Lessons for Spiritually Dry Seasons

Joy Doesn’t Always Look Happy

Five Lessons for Spiritually Dry Seasons

Not a dry season, not a lack of joy for a time, not felt distance from our Father — nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Does God Like Me?

Does God Like Me?

Thomas Goodwin on Our Deep Insecurity

God doesn’t count us righteous in Christ, but feel disgust for us personally when we sin. The God who justifies us loves us through it all.

God’s Beauty for the Bored, Busy, and Depressed: An Interview with Dane Ortlund

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