John Ortberg, Jr. (born May 5, 1957) is an evangelical Christian author, speaker, and senior pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in California, an evangelical church with more than 4,000 members. Ortberg has published many books including the 2008 ECPA Christian Book Award winner When the Game is Over, and the 2002 Christianity Today Book Award winner If You Want to Walk on Water, besides The Life You’ve Always Wanted, which has sold more than 500,000 copies as of 2008.