Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. (born 1949[1]) is the former and founding pastor of Immanuel Church in Nashville, Tennessee.[2] He is the son of Renewal Ministries founders Ray and Anne Ortlund.
Ortlund has served in pastoral ministry and is the author of several Bible commentaries and other books. He taught Old Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois for nine years. He has served on the translation committees of the New Living Translation and English Standard Version Bible translations, and provided the study notes on Isaiah for the ESV Study Bible.
He now serves as president of Renewal Ministries[2] and as Canon Theologian in the Diocese of the Western Gulf Coast of the Anglican Church in North America.[3]