The Weekly Update – February 15th, 2026
Dane Ortlund’s book ‘GENTLE and LOWLY’ will certainly be one we will keep on our bookshelf. Here are some extracts:
“…when we can’t sort out our emotions, when the longtime friend lets us down, when a family member betrays us, when we feel deeply misunderstood… – there, right there, we have a Friend who knows exactly what such testing feels like, and sits close to us, embraces us. With us.”
“ We are never alone. That sorrow that feels so isolating, so unique, was endured by Him in the past and is now shouldered by Him in the present.”
“ He ‘co-suffers’ with us.”
“Jesus deals gently and only gently with all sinners who come to him, irrespective of their particular offence and just how heinous it is.”
“ As long as you fix your attention on your sin, you will fail to see how you can be safe. But as long as you look to this High Priest, you will fail to see how you can be in danger. Looking inside ourselves, we can anticipate only harshness from heaven. Looking out to Christ, we can anticipate only gentleness.”
“ Every human friend has a limit. If we offend enough, if a relationship gets damaged enough, if we betray enough times, we are cast out. The walls go up. With Christ, our sins and weaknesses are the very resumé items that qualify us to approach him. Nothing but coming to him is required – first at conversion and a thousand times thereafter until we are with him upon death.”
“Whoever comes to me I will never cast out.” Jesus
Timothée & Yukki