Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. is the former and founding Pastor of Immanuel Church in

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. He now serves as President of Renewal Ministries and as Canon Theologian and Deacon in the Diocese of the Western Gulf Coast of the Anglican Church in North America.

Education

Ortlund received a B.A. from Wheaton College in 1971, a Th.M. from

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in 1975, an M.A. from the

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in 1978, and a Ph.D. from the

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, Scotland in 1985.Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
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Ministry

Ortlund was ordained by Lake Avenue Congregational Church, Pasadena, California in 1975. He served as a pastor in various churches from 1975 to 2019: *1975–1981: Pastoral staff, Peninsula Bible Church,

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. *1982–1985: Assistant Minister, Banchory Ternan West Parish Church (

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). *1985–1989: Pastor, Cascade Presbyterian Church (PCA),

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. *1989–1998: Associate Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School,

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. *1998–2003: Senior Pastor, First Presbyterian Church (PCA),

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. *2004–2007: Senior Pastor, Christ Presbyterian Church (PCA),

. *2008–2019: Senior Pastor, Immanuel Church (Acts 29),

Personal life

Ray and Jani Ortlund have been married for 51 years, with four children and fifteen grandchildren.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ortlund, Raymond C. Jr. Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Nashville, Tennessee Dallas Theological Seminary alumni Wheaton College (Illinois) alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Presbyterian Church in America ministers Alumni of the University of Aberdeen