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March 18 2011 at 5:40 pm

Ray Ortlund Here March 27

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Ray Ortlund will be with us on Sunday, March 27, preaching a sermon entitled “God Gives New Beginnings” from Psalm 85. Ray currently serves as lead pastor at Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tenn., part of the Acts 29 Network. He is a Council member and blogger with The Gospel Coalition.

Ray holds a Ph.D. from The University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and taught from 1989-1998 as Associate Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Ill.  He has pastored churches in California, Oregon and Georgia. In addition to a number of essays and articles, he has published five books. Ray also participated on the teams behind The New Living Translation and the English Standard Version of the Bible, contributing the introduction and study notes to the book of Isaiah in The ESV Study Bible.

Ray has been married to Jan Giles Ortlund for thirty-eight happy years, and they have four children. He says, “I have the most wonderful wife, I love my kids and grandkids, and I love Immanuel Church. My dream is that God would use us for true revival in our city.”





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