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99. Apprentice Institute Conference Workshop (2011)

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 02:00:00 -0500

Apprentice Institute Conference Workshop
September 23, 2011

Friends University Wichita, Kansas

Conference Theme: Formation in Christlikeness

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98. The Ingredients of Transformation into Christlikeness (2011)

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 02:00:00 -0500

The Ingredients of Transformation into Christlikeness

September 23, 2011

Friends University Wichita, Kansas

Conference Theme: Formation in Christlikeness

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97. Apprentice Institute Pre-Conference Dinner (2011)

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 02:00:00 -0500

Apprentice Institute Pre-Conference Dinner

September 22, 2011

Friends University

Wichita, Kansas

Conference Theme: Formation in Christlikeness

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96. Moral Education in the Academy: Optional or Necessary? (2004)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:00:00 -0500

Moral Education in the Academy: Optional or Necessary?
November 5, 2004

MacLaurin Institute Lecture
University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN

READING:
“The University’s Responsibility for Moral Guidance,” by Dallas Willard. The Real Issue, #1, March 2004.
“The Aims of Education” by John J. Mearsheimer, Philosophy and Literature, 1998, vol 22.
“The Disparity Between Intellect and Character,” by Robert Coles. The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol 42, #4 (Sept 1995).
The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality, by Julie Reuben.
From Soul to Mind: The Emergence of Psychology, from Erasmus Darwin to William James, by Edward Reed
“Aim Low: Confusing Democratic Values with Academic Ones Can Easily Damage the Quality of Education,” by Stanley Fish, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 16, 2003, Vol. 49, Issue. 36, page C. 5. The book Fish is commenting on is Educating Citizens: Preparing America’s Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility, Jossey-Bass, 2003.

The MacLaurin Institute is one of the oldest university-affiliated Christian study centers in the USA. It was rebranded as Anselm House in 2016.

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95. Taking the Kingdom of God to the World of Business and Government Today (2003)

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:00:00 -0500

Taking the Kingdom of God to the World of Business and Government Today

National Pastors Convention - San Diego, California

Conference Theme: Beyond Simple Answers: Real Ministry in a Complex World

February 26, 2003

Coventry Cathedral Prayer
The chapters Dallas recommended reading are chapters 10 and 11 of The Spirit of the Disciplines.
The stories of Corrie Ten Boom are in In My Father’s House.
The Charles Finney quote is from Lecture XIII – How Churches Can Help Ministers.

For more of Dallas’s teaching about business, visit Amazon.com and look for a little book titled Called to Business.

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94. Discipleship and the Disciplines for the Spiritual Life (1990)

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:00:00 -0500

Discipleship and the Disciplines for the Spiritual Life

A Series on What Jesus Believed and Taught—and Lived, Part 8

First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood

March 18, 1990

Handouts:

Learn more about The Divine Conspiracy at www.dwillard.org/resources/books/divine-conspiracy

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93. How to Become a Disciple (1990)

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:00:00 -0500

How to Become a Disciple

A Series on What Jesus Believed and Taught—and Lived, Part 7

First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood

March 11, 1990

DIG DEEPER:

Handouts: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com /Series_on_What_Jesus_Believed-Taught-Lived.pdf

Article: Why Bother with Discipleship? https://dwillard.org/resources/articles/why-bother-with-discipleship

The Divine Conspiracy: www.dwillard.org/resources/books/divine-conspiracy

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92. The Power of “the Word of the Kingdom” (1990)

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:00:00 -0500

The Power of “the Word of the Kingdom”

A Series on What Jesus Believed and Taught—and Lived, Part 6

First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood

March 4, 1990

Handouts:

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91. Beyond “the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees” – Part 2 (1990)

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:00:00 -0500

Beyond “the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees” – Part 2

A Series on What Jesus Believed and Taught—and Lived, Part 5
First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood
February 25, 1990

Handouts:
https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/Series_on_What_Jesus_Believed-Taught-Lived.pdf

The book excerpt Dallas mentioned called “Peculiar People” is by Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Willimon. Christianity Today, Vol 34, No 4, March 5, 1990, 16. Available for Christianity Today subscribers at https://www.christianitytoday.com/1990/03/book-expert-peculiar-people

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90. Beyond “the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees” – Part 1 (1990)

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:00:00 -0500

Beyond “the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees” – Part 1

A Series on What Jesus Believed and Taught—and Lived, Part 4

First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood

February 18, 1990

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89. The Beatitudes as Gospel. The MANNER of Jesus' Teaching (1990)

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:00:00 -0500

The Beatitudes as Gospel. The MANNER of Jesus' Teaching

A Series on What Jesus Believed and Taught—and Lived, Part 3

First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood
February 11, 1990

Handouts:
https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/Series_on_What_Jesus_Believed-Taught-Lived.pdf

The Divine Conspiracy for Young Adults Online Course: https://dwillard.org/resources/events/divine-conspiracy-course

Sundays, July 5-26, 2026
5:00 pm Pacific Time

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88. The Rule of Heaven in the Old Testament –– in Israel (1990)

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:00:00 -0500

The Rule of Heaven in the Old Testament –– in Israel
A Series on What Jesus Believed and Taught—and Lived, Part 2

First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood

February 4, 1990

The Divine Conspiracy for Young Adults Online Course

Sundays, July 5-26, 2026
5:00 pm Pacific Time

Handouts:

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87. Jesus’ Gospel and Ours (The Meaning of the "Rule of Heaven") (1990)

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:00:00 -0500

Jesus’ Gospel and Ours (The Meaning of the "Rule of Heaven")

A Series on What Jesus Believed and Taught—and Lived, Part 1

First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood

January 28, 1990

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86. Beyond Personality (2003)

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:00:00 -0500

Beyond Personality

C.S. Lewis Summer Conference

Theme: A celebration of Mere Christianity

University of San Diego

June 21, 2003

Learn more about the CS Lewis Foundation.

Learn more about Mere Christianity.

The book about naturalism Dallas recommended in this talk is Naturalism and the Human Spirit by Yervant Krikorian.

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85. Exactly Why the Local Church is the Hope of the World (2006)

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:00:00 -0500

Exactly Why the Local Church is the Hope of the World

Christ Community Evangelical Free Church

Kansas City, MO

October 1, 2006

Key Sermon Texts:

Ephesians 3:8-12

Ephesians 4:14-16

Philippians 2:3-11

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84. Everything in Common (2002)

Mon, 25 May 2026 02:00:00 -0500

Everything in Common

All Souls, Langham Place

May 26, 2002 (Trinity Sunday)

Sermon Texts

Acts 2:42-47

Genesis 11:1-9

https://www.allsouls.org

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83. Preparation for Pentecost (1972)

Mon, 18 May 2026 02:00:00 -0500

Preparation for Pentecost

Calvary Baptist Church in Nevada, MO

Summer, 1972

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82. Living in a Vision of the Greatness of Jesus Christ (2003)

Mon, 11 May 2026 02:00:00 -0500

Living in a Vision of the Greatness of Jesus Christ
The Navigators International Council May 6, 2003

Learn more about The Navigators at https://www.navigators.org/who-we-are

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81. The Passion to Know, Love, and Become Like Jesus Christ (2003)

Mon, 04 May 2026 02:00:00 -0500

The Passion to Know, Love, and Become Like Jesus Christ

The Navigators International Council

May 6, 2003

FOR FURTHER STUDY:

Diagram About the Self: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/Infinite-Environment.jpg

Learn more about spiritual transformation in Dallas’s book, Renovation of the Heart.

Learn more about The Navigators at https://www.navigators.org/who-we-are

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80. The Passion to Know, Love, and Become Like Jesus Christ (2003)

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:00:00 -0500

The Passion to Know, Love, and Become Like Jesus Christ

The Navigators International Council

May 5, 2003

Learn more about The Navigators at https://www.navigators.org

Clarification of Terms:

A Value: Something you aspire to have; a goal, an objective that is chosen.

A Goal: Something that you want to bring about.

A Passion: Something that can’t be chosen directly; it lays hold of you and primarily comes from a vision.

A Vision: A sense of how things are that grips you, determining your feelings and your automatic orientation and action.

Salvation: To be saved is to be caught up in the life that Jesus is now living on Earth.

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79. What Your U Won’t Teach U, But U Are Apt to Catch Anyway (2008)

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:00:00 -0500

What Your U Won’t Teach U, But U Are Apt to Catch Anyway

Veritas Forum

Louisiana State University

February 18, 2008

What is it that “your U won’t teach U but U are apt to catch anyway”? Dallas argues that it is shallow and dangerous morality.

PowerPoint Slides: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/2008-LSU-Veritas-What-Your-U-Wont-Teach-U.pdf

Recommended Reading:

The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality, by Julie Reuben.

“The Disparity Between Intellect and Character,” by Robert Coles. The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol 42, #4 (Sept 1995).

“The Aims of Education,” by John J. Mearsheimer. Philosophy and Literature, Vol. 22, #1 (April 1998)

Learn more about the Veritas Forum at https://www.veritas.org

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78. The Value of Truth and What Happens When U Don't Have It (2008)

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0500

The Value of Truth and What Happens When U Don't Have It

Veritas Forum at

Louisiana State University

February 17, 2008

Why is truth so valuable? It enables you to deal with reality successfully. Reality is what you run into when you’re wrong. Simply believing something doesn’t make it true or false. Truth is accuracy of representation. You know something if you’re able to represent it as it is on an appropriate basis of thought and experience.

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77. Eating the Flesh and Drinking the Blood of Jesus (2011)

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:00:00 -0500

Eating the Flesh and Drinking the Blood of Jesus: The Substance of Jesus Through His Word

August 7, 2011

St. Peter’s Anglican Church

Birmingham, AL

For Further Study

Compare Matthew 26:26-28 and John 6 verses 32-35 and 47-63.

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76. Celebration and Worship (1981)

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0500

Celebration and Worship

March 25, 1981

Rolling Hills Covenant Church

This is session #11 of an 11-part series called “The Disciple, the Disciplines and the Triumphant Life.”

A celebration is a joyous occasion engaged in “in honor” of something.

FOR FURTHER STUDY

Listen to episode 16 of this podcast: “Celebration: The Recollection of God”

Celebration of Discipline (1978) by Richard Foster

The Spirit of the Disciplines (1988) by Dallas Willard

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75. Fellowship and Submission (1981)

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:00:00 -0500

Fellowship and Submission

March 23, 1981

Rolling Hills Covenant Church

This is session #10 of an 11-part series called “The Disciple, the Disciplines and the Triumphant Life.”

Fellowship – Putting ourselves on the same plane with another person. We identify with them.

Submission - Putting our own interest under the interest of another person.

Dallas gives three words to help us relate to other people in fellowship and in submission:

1. Accept

2. Listen

3. Understand

The book Dallas mentioned was:

How To Be a People Helper, by Gary Collins

FOR FURTHER STUDY

Celebration of Discipline (1978) by Richard Foster

The Spirit of the Disciplines (1988) by Dallas Willard

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74. Prayer as Service of Love (1981)

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:00:00 -0500

Prayer as Service of Love

March 11, 1981

Rolling Hills Covenant Church

This is session #9 of an 11-part series called “The Disciple, the Disciplines and the Triumphant Life.”

Prayer is communication with God for the purpose of accomplishing His goals in our lives and in the world.

Helpful Resources Becoming a Person of Prayer

“Hearing the Voice of God” conference, episodes 21-28 of this podcast.

“Hearing God” Small Group Curriculum with Dallas Willard, Richard Foster and John Ortberg.

Prayer: Conversing with God (1964) by Rosalind Rinker

Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home (1992) by Richard Foster

Hearing God (1999) by Dallas Willard

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73. Service and Sacrifice (1981)

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:00:00 -0500

Service and Sacrifice

March 4, 1981

Rolling Hills Covenant Church

This is session #8 of an 11-part series called “The Disciple, the Disciplines and the Triumphant Life.”

FOR FURTHER STUDY

Celebration of Discipline (1978) by Richard Foster

The Spirit of the Disciplines (1988) by Dallas Willard

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72. Study and Meditation (1981)

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 02:00:00 -0600

Study and Meditation

February 25, 1981

Rolling Hills Covenant Church

This is session #7 of an 11-part series called “The Disciple, the Disciplines and the Triumphant Life.”

Terms:

Study is the direction of our thoughts in ways that enlarge the range and number of our ideas.

Meditation is the direction of our thoughts in ways that help us come to understand the things we already know.

Book recommendations

Study Martin Luther, St. Augustine (The Confessions, The City of God) or St. Paul ( A Man in Christ , by James S. Stewart).

Read books by people like St. Ignatius, Polycarp, and Tertullian.

Read books on the lives of people like John Wesley or more recent Christians like Billy Sunday.

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71. Celibacy, Chastity and Purity (1981)

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 02:00:00 -0600

Celibacy, Chastity and Purity

February 18, 1981

Rolling Hills Covenant Church

This is session #6 of an 11-part series called “The Disciple, the Disciplines and the Triumphant Life.”

Clarification of Terms:

Celibacy, chastity, and purity are three dimensions of the same topic.

Celibacy is the choice of a single life; the choice of a state without sexual relationships.

Chastity refers to restraining oneself within the bounds of proper sexual relations; mainly referring to external behavior.

Purity refers to the insides of the soul; not only to external behavior but also to the condition of the heart.

FOR FURTHER STUDY

Celebration of Discipline (1978) by Richard Foster

The Spirit of the Disciplines (1988) by Dallas Willard

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70. Simplicity, Frugality and Poverty (1981)

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 02:00:00 -0600

Simplicity, Frugality and Poverty

February 11, 1981

Rolling Hills Covenant Church

This is session #5 of an 11-part series called “The Disciple, the Disciplines and the Triumphant Life.”

Tim, I’m working on recreating the handout. I think it’s just the list of session topics with the scriptures for study.

DEFINITIONS

Simplicity: A lack of disjointed complexity in intention and will.

Frugality: Consuming only what is necessary.

Poverty: Absence of resources.

Simplicity and frugality are commands of the scripture. Poverty is not.

FOR FURTHER STUDY

Celebration of Discipline (1978) by Richard Foster

The Spirit of the Disciplines (1988) by Dallas Willard

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John Wesley's Extract of The Christian's Pattern

69. Solitude and Silence and the Tongue (1981)

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 02:00:00 -0600

Solitude and Silence and the Tongue

February 4, 1981

Rolling Hills Covenant Church

This is session #4 of an 11-part series called “The Disciple, the Disciplines and the Triumphant Life.”

FOR FURTHER STUDY:

Celebration of Discipline (1978) by Richard Foster

The Spirit of the Disciplines (1988) by Dallas Willard

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68. Fasting: The Paradigm of the Disciplines (1981)

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:00:00 -0600

Fasting: The Paradigm of the Disciplines

January 28, 1981

Rolling Hills Covenant Church

This is session #3 of an 11-part series called “The Disciple, the Disciplines and the Triumphant Life.”

FOR FURTHER STUDY:

Celebration of Discipline (1978) by Richard Foster

The Didache (There are many editions)

The Spirit of the Disciplines (1988) by Dallas Willard

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67. Presentation of the Body through the Consecration of its “Members” (1981)

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 02:00:00 -0600

Presentation of the Body through the Consecration of its “Members”

January 21, 1981

Rolling Hills Covenant Church

This is session #2 of “The Disciple, the Disciplines and the Triumphant Life.”

DEFINITIONS:

The Disciple is a person for whom the most important thing in the world is to be a disciple of Christ.

A discipline is a chosen activity wherein we learn to live by the power of God and in the character of God and by the grace of God.

The Triumphant Life is a life of holiness and spiritual power that manifests itself in likeness to Christ.

BOOKS:

Celebration of Discipline (1978) by Richard Foster

The Training of the Twelve (1928) by A.B. Bruce

The Spirit of the Disciplines (1988) by Dallas Willard

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66. “Adding to Your Faith” by Sowing to the Spirit and Exercising unto Godliness (1981)

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:00:00 -0600

“Adding to Your Faith” by Sowing to the Spirit and Exercising unto Godliness

January 14, 1981

Rolling Hills Covenant Church

This is session #1 of an 11-part series called “The Disciple, the Disciplines and the Triumphant Life.”

DEFINITIONS

The Disciple: A person for whom the most important thing in the world is to be a disciple of Christ.

The Disciplines: Chosen or purposeful activities wherein we learn to live by the power of God and in the character of God by the grace of God.
The Triumphant Life: A life of holiness and spiritual power that manifests itself in likeness to Christ.

Assignments for Next Time:

Study Romans 6:11-16, 7:5-25, 12:1-2.

Look in your concordance and study the role of the body in the life before God.

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65. Planning for Spiritual Formation in the Local Church (2012)

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:00:00 -0600

Planning for Spiritual Formation in the Local Church
January 24, 2012
Rolling Hills Covenant Church

With this teaching, Dallas offers very practical instruction for creating a vision to bring a culture of spiritual formation into our churches.

Slides: https://dwillard.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/2012+Rolling+Hills+Covenant.pdf
Video: https://youtu.be/5mhL3vY0YuY

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64. Pornography and Spiritual Formation (2008)

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 02:00:00 -0600

Pornography and Spiritual Formation

September 23, 2008
Christian Spirituality and Soul Care Lecture Series

Biola University

Dallas’s Handout: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/Beyond-Pornography-Handout.pdf

Q&A (with the last part of this talk): https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/Talks/2008-Pornography-and-Spiritual-Formation/2-of-2-Pornography-and-Spiritual-Formation-Part-2/02-Pornography-and-Spiritual-Formation-2.mp3

Dallas’s Additional Presentation:

Sexual Desire and Spiritual Formation with a Special Reference to Pornography: https://dwillard.org/resources/audio/sexual-desire-and-spiritual-formation

Somebody’s Daughter video: https://www.musicforthesoul.org/resources/somebodys-daughter/

Letters to Phillip and Letters to Karen, by Charlie W. Shedd.

Renovation of the Heart, by Dallas Willard

The Principles of Psychology, by William James

Civilization and It’s Discontents, by Sigmund Freud

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63. Incarnation and Celebration (2007)

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 04:00:00 -0600

Episode 63

Incarnation and Celebration

December 30, 2007

Valley Vineyard Christian Fellowship

Reseda, CA

This is the only recording we have of Dallas preaching a Christmas sermon.

Sermon Notes: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/Incarnation-and-Celebration-Notes.pdf

Incarnation and Celebration is also available in video format on the DWM YouTube channel.

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62. How Eternal Livers Bring Knowledge of Eternal Living to Those Without It (2010)

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 02:00:00 -0600

Episode 62

How Eternal Livers Bring Knowledge of Eternal Living to Those Without It

February 20, 2010

Church of the Apostles

Fairfax, Virginia

This is the final session of the “Living the Eternal Live Now” series. Dallas explains the importance of understanding that the Christian faith is a kind of knowledge that can be tested and proven. This teaching includes the four great questions of life: 1) What is the nature of reality? 2) Who is well-off? 3) Who is a “really good” person? 4) How do I become a really good person?

Session Nine Slides

Session Nine Video

To study the topics in this session further, see:

Knowing Christ Today, by Dallas Willard (https://dwillard.org/resources/books/knowing-christ-today)

“Knowledge of Christ in Today’s World” video series (https://youtu.be/N0Pn5Q6XFhA?si=8nwEdh31Gm4RGMO4)

The Making of the Modern University, by Julie Reuben ( https://amzn.to/4qWyDHH)

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61. Being a Disciple of Jesus, not Just a Christian (2010)

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 02:00:00 -0600

Episode 61

Being a Disciple of Jesus, not Just a Christian

February 20, 2010

Church of the Apostles

Fairfax, Virginia

This is session #8 of the “Living the Eternal Live Now” series. Dallas goes over the specifics of many of the more commonly practiced disciplines, and explains how to be a disciple and how to make a disciple.

Session Eight Slides

Session Eight Video

To study the topics in this session more deeply, see Dallas's book, The Spirit of the Disciplines.

For more on character formation, listen to episodes 33-36 of The Dallas Willard Podcast.

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60. Disciplines for Eternal (Spiritual) Living (2010)

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:00:00 -0600

Episode 60

Disciplines for Eternal (Spiritual) Living

February 20, 2010

Church of the Apostles

Fairfax, Virginia

This is session #7 of the “Living the Eternal Live Now” series.

Session Seven Slides

Session Seven Video

To study the topics in this session more deeply, see Dallas's book, The Spirit of the Disciplines.

For more on character formation, listen to episodes 33-36 of The Dallas Willard Podcast.

Visit DWillard.org for a wide variety of resources and opportunities that can serve as a means to help you “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”

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59. The Role of the Body in Spiritual and Unspiritual Life (2010)

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 02:00:00 -0600

Episode 59

The Role of the Body in Spiritual and Unspiritual Life

February 19, 2010

Church of the Apostles

Fairfax, Virginia

This is session #6 of the “Living the Eternal Live Now” series. After a study of Paul's teaching about the body, Dallas discusses what our body is to our personality, how we live from our body, and how to follow Paul’s instructions to “mortify” the body.

Session Six Slides

Session Six Video

To study the topics in sessions 4, 5 and 6 more deeply, see Dallas's book, "Renovation of the Heart" and the video series "Healing the Heart and Life by Walking with Jesus Daily."

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58. More Barriers to Eternal Living Now: Strongholds of Thought and Feeling (2010)

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 02:00:00 -0600

Episode 58
More Barriers to Eternal Living Now: Strongholds of Thought and Feeling
February 19, 2010
Church of the Apostles
Fairfax, Virginia

This is session #5 of the “Living the Eternal Live Now” series. Dallas discusses strongholds of thought and feeling that can be barriers to living the eternal life now.

Conference Handout

Session Five Slides

Session Five Video

To study the topics in sessions 4, 5 and 6 more deeply, see Dallas's book, "Renovation of the Heart" and the video series "Healing the Heart and Life by Walking with Jesus Daily."

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57. Some Barriers to Eternal Living Now: The Unsurrendered Will (2010)

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 02:00:00 -0600

Episode 57

Some Barriers to Eternal Living Now: The Unsurrendered Will

February 19, 2010

Church of the Apostles

Fairfax, Virginia

This is session #4 of the “Living the Eternal Live Now” series. Dallas teaches about the functionality of all the fundamental parts of the human person based on his diagram of Mark 12:30-31, and explains barriers that inhabit us and inhibit us through the various dimensions of human personality.

Session Four Slides

Session Four Video

(this link updated on Nov 4)

For further study on these topics, see Dallas’s book Renovation of the Heart, and the video series Healing the Heart and Life by Walking with Christ Jesus Daily.

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56. Grace as Day-to-Day Reality: How to Grow in Grace (2010)

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:00:00 -0600

Grace as Day-to-Day Reality: How to Grow in Grace

February 19, 2010

Church of the Apostles

Fairfax, Virginia

This is session #3 of the “Living the Eternal Live Now” series. Dallas explains various types of life, including our life as a spiritual being, and outlines the two landscapes of the flesh and the spirit.

Session Three Slides

Session Three Video

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55. What is Spiritual Life? Who is a Spiritual Person? (2010)

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 02:00:00 -0500

What is Spiritual Life? Who is a Spiritual Person?
February 19, 2010
Church of the Apostles
Fairfax, Virginia

This is session #2 of the “Living the Eternal Live Now” series. Dallas explains various types of life, including our life as a spiritual being, and outlines the two landscapes of the flesh and the spirit.

The poem Dallas quotes is “The Chambered Nautilus,” by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Conference Handout
Session Two Slides
Session Two Video

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54. Your Kingdom and God’s Kingdom (2010)

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:00:00 -0500

Episode 54

Your Kingdom and God’s Kingdom

February 18, 2010

Church of the Apostles

Fairfax, Virginia

This is session #1 of the “Living the Eternal Live Now” series. Dallas explains what a human kingdom is, what God's kingdom is, and how we are “training for reigning” as we begin living our eternal life with God now.

Four Guiding Texts for the Series

1. Matthew 6:33 and 4:17 (“Seek first the kingdom …”) and (“… the kingdom of the heavens is at hand.”)

2. Romans 5:17 “… they … shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.”

3. 2 Peter 3:18 “Grow in grace, and in the knowledge…”

4. Colossians 3:1-3 “… seek those things which are above...”

Session One Slides

Session One Video

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53. The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge: How It Happens and What It Means (2010)

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 02:00:00 -0500

The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge: How It Happens and What It Means

May 2, 2010
Psychiatry and Spirituality Forum at UC Irvine

(Co-sponsored by Fieldstead and Company)

Lecture Handout: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/DMK_2010_UCIrvine.pdf

Visit our website to learn more about The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge.

Books Dallas recommended:

1. After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre

2. The Making of the Modern University by Julie Reuben

3. Folkways by William Graham Sumner

Carl Jung’s Modern Man in Search of a Soul was also mentioned, but not necessarily recommended.

This presentation is also available on video on the Dallas Willard Ministries YouTube channel.

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52. Exercising the Power of God's Kingdom (1978)

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 02:00:00 -0500

Exercising the Power of God's Kingdom

June 30, 1978

Calvary Baptist Church

Nevada, Missouri

This is session #7 of the “Abundant Life in Jesus” series.

For Further Study:

The book of Judges, chapter 6

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51. The Mark of the Disciple (1978)

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 02:00:00 -0500

The Mark of the Disciple

June 29, 1978

Calvary Baptist Church

Nevada, Missouri

This is session #6 of the “Abundant Life in Jesus” series.

For Further Study:

“The Need, Vision and Strategy of Growing in Christlikeness,” by Dallas Willard.

The Divine Conspiracy, by Dallas Willard.

Listen to Episode 8 to learn more about the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares and the Parable of the Net.

Listen to Episode 5 to learn more about the Parable of the Sower.

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50. The Substance, Necessity and Evidence of Discipleship (1978)

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 02:00:00 -0500

The Substance, Necessity and Evidence of Discipleship

June 28, 1978

Calvary Baptist Church

Nevada, Missouri

This is session #5 of the “Abundant Life in Jesus” series.

For Further Study:

Listen to Episode 7 for a 40-minute teaching on the Parable of The Great Supper and the question of what is most important to us.

Listen to Episode 14 for further teaching on the Parable of the Unprofitable Servant.

The Divine Conspiracy, by Dallas Willard.

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49. The Righteousness Which is Beyond the Righteousness of the Scribes and the Pharisees, Part 2 (1978)

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 02:00:00 -0500

Episode 49

The Righteousness Which is Beyond the Righteousness of the Scribes and the Pharisees, Part 2

June 27, 1978

Calvary Baptist Church

Nevada, Missouri

This is session #4 of the “Abundant Life in Jesus” series.

For Further Study:

The Gospel of Matthew, chapters 5-7.

The Divine Conspiracy, by Dallas Willard.

A full chapter is devoted to the Parable of the Hours in “The Outrageous Compassion of God,” chapter 12 of The Scandal of the Kingdom by Dallas Willard.

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48. The Righteousness Which is Beyond the Righteousness of the Scribes and the Pharisees, Part 1 (1978)

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 02:00:00 -0500

Episode 48

The Righteousness Which is Beyond the Righteousness of the Scribes and the Pharisees, Part 1

June 26, 1978

Calvary Baptist Church

Nevada, Missouri

This is session #3 of the “Abundant Life in Christ Jesus” series.

For Further Study:

The Gospel of Matthew, chapter 5.

“Marriage and Divorce,” by Richard Foster and Dallas Willard

The Divine Conspiracy, by Dallas Willard.

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47. Jesus's Gospel of the Kingdom of God (1978)

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 02:00:00 -0500

Jesus’s Gospel of the Kingdom of God

June 25, 1978

Calvary Baptist Church

Nevada, Missouri

This is session #2 of the “Abundant Life in Jesus” series.

The gospel of Jesus was the availability and nature of the kingdom and rule of God in our lives. See Matthew chapters 3 and 4.

For Further Study:

The Divine Conspiracy, by Dallas Willard.

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46. Steps in the Victorious Life of a Disciple (1978)

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 02:00:00 -0500

Episode 46

Steps in the Victorious Life of a Disciple

June 25, 1978

Calvary Baptist Church

Nevada, Missouri

This is session #1 of the “Abundant Life in Jesus” series.

Four Great Dimensions of Abundant Life:

1. Forgiveness of sins (propitiation)

2. Provision (foresight)

3. Transformation of character

Power over evil

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45. Ordering the Spiritual Disciplines (1991)

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 02:00:00 -0500

Ordering the Spiritual Disciplines

4/13/1991

Renovaré Regional Conference

Conference Theme: Where New Life Begins

First United Methodist Church

Wichita, Kansas

The scripture Dallas opens with is 1 John 1:1-5.

This is part two of “The Spiritual Disciplines: Making Growth Possible.” These two talks were prepared as a follow up to Richard Foster’s book, Celebration of Discipline, and Dallas’s book, The Spirit of the Disciplines.

Download Dallas’s list of spiritual disciplines: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/DisciplinesList.pdf.

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44. Entering the Spiritual Disciplines (1991)

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 02:00:00 -0500

Entering the Spiritual Disciplines

4/13/1991

Renovaré Regional Conference

Conference Theme: Where New Life Begins

First United Methodist Church

Wichita, Kansas

This is part one of “The Spiritual Disciplines: Making Growth Possible.” These two talks were prepared as a follow up to Richard Foster’s book, Celebration of Discipline, and Dallas’s book, The Spirit of the Disciplines.

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43. What Matters to Me and Why: Realism (2003)

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 02:00:00 -0500

What Matters to Me and Why: Realism

January 15, 2003

University of Southern California

This was Dallas’s contribution to a series of lunchtime talks hosted by USC’s Office of Religious Life. The theme for the series was “What Matters to Me and Why.”

Explanations of Terms:

Philosophy: “I like to describe philosophy as the attempt to understand by rational means the necessary structure of the world in which we live.”

Realism: “Realism means that all of those things that you apprehend and perceive really do exist, are right where you experienced them, and they would be there if you didn't see them.”

For Further Study:

The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality, is the book by Julie Reuben that Dallas recommended.

“Naturalism’s Incapacity to Capture the Good Will” is the paper Dallas wrote about the idea that a purely physical entity would not be capable of goodwill.

The poem Dallas read is “The Truly Great,” by Stephen Spender.

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42. Living Wholeness of Life in the Kingdom and Power of God (2003)

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 02:00:00 -0500

42. Living Wholeness of Life in the Kingdom and Power of God (Oct 28, 2003)

Session #6 of Healing the Heart and Life by Walking with Jesus Christ Daily
Valley Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Reseda, CA
October 28, 2003

Presentation Slides: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/Healing-the-Heart-and-Life-6.pdf

Recommended Daily Practice: Continue to have daily times of prayer and meditation on scripture to keep your mind filled with God.

Everything we have related to this series is available at https://dwillard.org/resources/video/healing-the-heart-and-life.

For Further Study:

The scholarly journal Dallas mentioned because it deals entirely with the soul is The Journal of Psychology and Theology, Vol. 26, Issue 1, March 1998. (https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ptja/26/1)

Dallas’s article in the journal is “Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Formation, and the Restoration of the Soul.” (https://dwillard.org/resources/articles/spiritual-disciplines-spiritual-formation-and-the-restoration-of-the-soul)

Learn about Dallas’s VIM formula (Vision-Intention-Means) in episodes 29 and 30.

Renovation of the Heart: https://dwillard.org/resources/books/renovation-of-the-heart

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41. The Restoration of the Soul: 'He Restoreth my Soul' (2003)

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 02:00:00 -0500

Session #5 of Healing the Heart and Life by Walking with Jesus Christ Daily
Valley Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Reseda, CA

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40. The Broken Body and Its Social World. Healing the Family and Its Wounds (2003)

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 02:00:00 -0500

Session #4 of Healing the Heart and Life by Walking with Jesus Christ Daily
Valley Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Reseda, CA
October 14, 2003

Presentation Slides: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/Healing-the-Heart-and-Life-4.pdf

Recommended Daily Practice: Meditate on 1 Corinthians 13 twice daily for 2 weeks.

For further study: Renovation of the Heart: https://dwillard.org/resources/books/renovation-of-the-heart

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39. Out of the Furnace of Feeling. Escaping the Tyranny of Feeling, Passion & Emotion (2003)

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 02:00:00 -0500

Session #3 of Healing the Heart and Life by Walking with Jesus Christ Daily
Valley Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Reseda, CA
October 7, 2003

Presentation Slides: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/Healing-the-Heart-and-Life-3.pdf

Recommended Daily Practice:
Three times daily, spend 10-15 minutes in prayer and meditation with the 23rd Psalm, and as you do, focus on this statement from Paul: “In everything give thanks, for this as the will of God concerning you.”

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38. Understanding the Will and the Mind, the Center of Brokenness and of Healing (2003)

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 08:00:00 -0500

Session #2 of Healing the Heart and Life by Walking with Jesus Christ Daily

Valley Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Reseda, CA

September 30, 2003

Presentation Slides: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/Healing-the-Heart-and-Life-2.pdf

Recommended Daily Practice:

Three times daily, spend 10-15 minutes in prayer and meditation with the 23rd Psalm, and as you do, focus on this statement from Paul: “In everything give thanks, for this as the will of God concerning you.”

Learn more about Frank Laubach and Letters by a Modern Mystic: https://dwillard.org/resources/recommended-reading/letters-by-a-modern-mystic. Dallas said, “If you will patiently begin to follow the instructions given in this book, you will very quickly see the astonishing results.”

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37. How Our Hearts and Lives are Broken and the Promise of Healing (2003)

Mon, 26 May 2025 02:00:00 -0500

How Our Hearts and Lives are Broken and the Promise of Healing

Session #1 of Healing the Heart and Life by Walking with Jesus Christ Daily

Valley Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Reseda, CA

September 23, 2003

This is the first of six studies in how patient apprenticeship to Jesus leads us into the fullness of life for which God made us. Dallas presents how our hearts and lives are broken alongside the promise of healing. There are things that will change us and heal us, but healing is active, not passive, and there are things we need to do.

Presentation Slides: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/Healing-the-Heart-and-Life-1.pdf

The song Dallas said he’d like to sing every night of the series is “Change Me on the Inside” by Brian Doerksen.

For further study:

Renovation of the Heart: https://dwillard.org/resources/books/renovation-of-the-heart

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36. Church Activities Organized around Character Development (2010)

Mon, 19 May 2025 02:00:00 -0500

Church Activities Organized around Character Development – Really!

Kern Family Foundation Pastors Conference

Theme: Character Formation

July 6-7, 2010

This is the final session of a 4-part series on character formation. Reflecting back on the Great Commission and implementing the VIM model, Dallas coaches us in the ways we can realign our church activities around the vision, intention, and means of character formation in Christian community. Dallas offers advice to his audience of young pastors that is important for all of us in looking at how we approach our job, our ministry, our work (which is different from our job or ministry) and our own life.

Download the diagrams and definitions used in this session here: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/Kern-Character-Conference-4.pdf

For Further Study:

“Techniques Without Transformation” – James Bryan Smith, Christianity Today, 2022.

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35. Realism About Character Transformation (2010)

Mon, 12 May 2025 02:00:00 -0500

Realism about Character Transformation

– ‘Spiritual Formation’ and the ‘VIM’ Structure: Vision/Intention/Means.
Session 3 of this 4-part series is a high-level overview of how Christian character
formation works. Much of this material can be found in Dallas’s book, Renovation of the
Heart. This includes a study of how the human person is put together and a review of
the VIM strategy for growth.
Download the diagrams and definitions used in this session here:
https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/Kern-Character-Conference-3.pdf
For Further Study:
1. Renovation of the Heart, by Dallas Willard.
2. “How Do We Assess Spiritual Growth?” – Willard, Leadership magazine, 2010.
3. “Measuring Matters of the Heart: Spiritual Formation in the Age of Accountability" –
Willard, International Forum on Christian Higher Education, 2006.

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34. The Complexity, Components and Order of Character and Personality (2010)

Mon, 05 May 2025 02:00:00 -0500

Kern Family Foundation Pastors Conference
Theme: Character Formation

July 6-7, 2010

In session two of this 4-part 2010 series, Dallas emphasizes the centrality of knowledge to the Christian life. The historical drive against this view of Christianity is part of a battle for authority over public life. We have allowed our beliefs to be treated as “just faith” and need to reclaim the importance of the knowledge of reality that is contained in the teachings of Scripture. This is where we find the best answers to the Four Great Questions. The answer to the fourth question (how to become a good person, leads into a discussion of the makeup of the human personality and where our actions come from).

The overhead transparencies Dallas used in this session are collected in a document you can download here: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/Kern-Character-Conference-2.pdf

For Further Study:
Dallas responded to Steven Gould’s book Rocks of Ages at Stanford University’s 2002 Veritas Forum in Why Science and Religion Must Conflict.

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33. The Calling and Resources of the Pastor - The Gospel and Character (2010)

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:00:00 -0500

The Calling and Resources of the Pastor - The Gospel and Character

Kern Family Foundation Pastors Conference

Theme: Character Formation

July 6-7, 2010

Dallas defines character as acquired essence. “It is your identity as shaped by your experiences, and especially your choices, and interaction with other people.”

The first session in this 4-part series will give us a good understanding of what character is and how it is affected by our beliefs about the essential questions that shape human life. Dallas points out that the Great Commission (Mt. 28:18-20) includes character formation: that’s what we’re doing when we make disciples and teach them to do everything Jesus said.

The overhead transparencies Dallas used in this session are collected in a document you can download here: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/Kern-Character-Conference-1.pdf

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32. What if We Never Die? (1997)

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 05:00:00 -0500

What if We Never Die?

Sunday Morning Sermon

Valley Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Reseda, CA
October 5, 1997

Dallas firmly believed that followers of Jesus will never taste death. In this week’s podcast, he shows us where this is found in scripture:

· John 8:51

· John 11:1-44

· 2 Timothy 1:10

· Hebrews 2:14-15

For Further Study:

Preparing for Heaven: What Dallas Willard Taught Me About Living, Dying, and Eternal Life, by Gary Black Jr.

ON DECK: Kern Pastors Conference -- (2010) Kern Family Foundation - Green Lake, WI

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31. What's So Good About Good Friday (2010)

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 02:00:00 -0500

What’s Good About Good Friday?

A Sunday sermon given at The Church of the Apostles in Fairfax, Virginia.
February 21, 2010

For Futher Study:

1. Visit DWillard.org and read the “The Craftiness of Christ” to learn more about what was really happening on the way to the cross. There are two versions on our site, and we’re linking to “the Director’s Cut” because it includes more detail about what was happening in the spiritual battle between Jesus and Satan.

2. Dallas always encouraged everyone NOT to get wrapped up in atonement theories, but if you’re interested in more of Dallas’s thoughts about the primary strengths and weaknesses of the three most prominent atonement theories, see Getting the Elephant out of the Sanctuary on Conversatio.org. Many thanks to Gary Moon for convincing Dallas to sit down and talk with him about this!

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30. Doing What Jesus Did, Part 2: Intention and Means (2002)

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 02:00:00 -0500

Doing What Jesus Did, Part 2 – (Intention and Means)

Conference Theme: “Doing What Jesus Did.”

This is the second of two teaching sessions presented at the Vineyard Church of Columbus, Ohio.

November 16, 2002

In todays episode, we learn about…

The Three Kingdoms:

God’s kingdom
My kingdom
Satan’s kingdom

The VIM Pattern Applied to Learning to do What Jesus Said:

V – Vision of the Kingdom of God

I – Intention to be a disciple of Jesus

M – Means of inner transformation

Examples of Spiritual Practices:

Quiet time, Silence, Solitude, Sleep, Sabbath, Fasting, Scripture Memorization, Study.

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29. Doing What Jesus Did, Part 1: The Vision (2002)

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 02:00:00 -0500

Doing What Jesus Did, Part 1 (The Vision)
Conference Theme: “Doing What Jesus Did.”

This is the first of two teaching sessions presented at the Vineyard Church of Columbus, Ohio.
November 16, 2002

In this episode, Dallas presents a compelling vision of who Jesus is, opening with a study of Philippians 2:5-11:

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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28. Christ’s Community Power in Holiness Is for Now (1993)

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 02:00:00 -0500

Christ’s Community Power in Holiness Is for Now

This is the closing session of a 3-day conference hosted by African Enterprise with the theme “Hearing the Voice of God.”
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
August 18, 1993

Now that we’ve learned to hear God’s voice, Dallas brings us a vision of hope, abundance, and purpose that emphasizes how a hearing God life and a hearing God church can be a light to the nations. You’ll hear many of the reasons why Dallas began calling the church “the hope of the world.”

For further study:

Read Hearing God by Dallas Willard.

Gather a group of friends and go through the 6-session Hearing God small group study videos on the Dallas Willard Ministries YouTube channel.

Learn about the work of African Enterprise: https://africanenterprise.org/

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27. Life Beyond Guidance: God Is Still There When There Is No Word (1993)

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 02:00:00 -0500

Life Beyond Guidance: God Is Still There When There Is No Word

This is the seventh of eight sessions from a 3-day conference hosted by African Enterprise with the theme “Hearing the Voice of God.”
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
August 18, 1993

As Dallas prepares his students to put what they’ve learned into practice, he provides a practical framework for seeking, discerning, and acting on God’s guidance. Be sure to download a copy of the “A Formula for Living with Guidance” he put on the board for his students. If you have a copy of the book, Hearing God, you’ll find these points in detail on the last pages of the chapter called “A Life More than Guidance.”

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26. The Kind of Person That God Speaks to in Fullness (1993)

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 02:00:00 -0500

The Kind of Person That God Speaks to in Fullness

This is the sixth session from a 3-day conference hosted by African Enterprise with the theme “Hearing the Voice of God.”

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

August 17, 1993

The kind of person that God speaks to in fullness is the kind of person that the word of God flows into, overruns, overwhelms, moves through and becomes a social and historical reality where they are.

You’ll see this in:

1. People whose belief in the substance and power of God’s word opens them up like a channel.

2. Disciples of Jesus who have learned to work with the power and authority of the word.

3. Those who live with God’s word so richly that it becomes a reality that is working in its own right.

Some of the realities of God’s word that are touched on in this episode are explained more deeply in session three of Dallas’s series, “The Parabolic Teaching About Christ’s Kingdom by Christ Himself.”

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25. Does God Speak Today? : Facing the Issues (1993)

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 02:00:00 -0600

Does God Speak Today? : Facing the Issues

This is the fifth session from a 3-day conference hosted by African Enterprise with the theme “Hearing the Voice of God.”

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

August 17, 1993

This episode focuses on four general assumptions that keep people from entering into a life of conversation with God:

God would not communicate with run-of-the-mill human beings by surrounding them with His presence and speaking to them.
God does not communicate with individuals directly.
God cannot communicate with human beings.
God should not communicate with individuals.

For Further Study:

The Frank Laubach book Dallas wants us to rush right out and read is Game with Minutes. The other book mentioned is Letters by a Modern Mystic. Both of these are contained in Laubach’s book, Man of Prayer.

See Hearing God, chapter 4: “Our Communicating Cosmos.”

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24. Learning How to Reliably Recognize the Voice of God in Your Soul (1993)

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 02:00:00 -0600

Learning How to Reliably Recognize the Voice of God in Your Soul

This is the fourth session from a 3-day conference hosted by African Enterprise with the theme “Hearing the Voice of God.”

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

August 17, 1993

In today’s episode, Dallas is teaching about how we can learn to know God’s voice. There are three characteristics of God’s voice that we will learn to identify by experience: quality, spirit and content.

Dallas also refers back to this list of communication methods from the last session:

1. Phenomenon plus voice;

2. Supernatural messenger or angel;

3. Dreams and visions;

4. Audible voice;

5. The human voice; and

6. The "spirit of man," or the "still small voice."

For Further Study

Dallas mentioned FB Meyer’s book The Secret of Guidance. Read the foreword Dallas wrote for a new edition of the book in 2010.
The story about Gideon and the fleece is in Judges 6:36-40.

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23. The Still Small Voice and Its Rivals (1993)

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:00:00 -0600

The “Still Small Voice” and its Rivals: The Biblical Basis of Comparison

This is the third session from a 3-day conference hosted by African Enterprise with the theme “Hearing the Voice of God.”

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

August 17, 1993

In this episode, Dallas teaches about six ways in which people are addressed by God within the biblical record:

1. Phenomenon plus voice;

2. Supernatural messenger or angel;

3. Dreams and visions;

4. Audible voice;

5. The human voice; and

6. The "still small voice."

For Further Study:

See chapter 5 of Dallas’s book Hearing God. The chapter is called, “The Still Small Voice and its Rivals.”

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Spiritual Life Consists Of…

22. The Things That Are Above: The Present Presence of the Kingdom of God (1993)

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 02:00:00 -0600

The Things That Are Above: The Present Presence of the Kingdom of God

This is the second session from a 3-day conference hosted by African Enterprise with the theme “Hearing the Voice of God.”

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

August 16, 1993

The title of today’s talk reflects the foundation Dallas built last week with his study of Colossians 3:1-17. Be sure to go back and listen if you haven’t heard that episode.

We don’t have a copy of the handout Dallas distributed, but we can identify some of the segments mentioned:

Five Dimensions of Eternal Life

Disciplines for the Spiritual Life

Overhead Transparencies

What is Spirit?

Two Subordinations

Golden Triangle of Spiritual Growth

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21. The Life We are Given in Christ (1993)

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 02:00:00 -0600

The Life We Are Given in Christ

Today we begin a series of 8 episodes taken from a 3-day conference hosted by African Enterprise with the theme “Hearing the Voice of God.”

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

August 16, 1993

Dallas lays a foundation for the conference by explaining how a conversational relationship with God works, and he uses Colossian 3:1-17 to give us a vision of what the life we are given in Christ looks like.

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20. Living Without Hurry and Worry in “Such a Time as This” – a Letter from the Roman Jail (2004)

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 02:00:00 -0600

Living Without Hurry and Worry in “Such a Time as This” – a Letter from the Roman Jail

Baylor University and Truitt Seminary Church Staff Retreat
Retreat Theme: For Such a Time as This
February 23-24, 2004

Philippians 4:6-8

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.

Overheads Used in this Session:

What is a Discipline?
The Prayer of Saint Patrick
Leadership magazine “funny”
Aspects of Me That I Am in Great Danger of Confusing
(Job, Ministry, Work and Life, in a circle diagram)
“The Wind, One Brilliant Day," by Antonio Machado can be found at https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-17888

Dallas reads a passage about managing our calendars that is from The Art of Pastoring by William C. Martin. This little book contains helpful advice for anyone in leadership (and that includes parents!).

Hear the “For Such a Time as This” series in its entirety and with all the associated resources on DWillard.org: https://dwillard.org/resources/audio/for-such-a-time-as-this. You’ll also find the series on our YouTube channel, with helpful slides and fill-in-the-blank notes created by our wonderful DWM volunteers.

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The Heart That Jesus Gives Us—Seen in the Sermon on the Mount

19. Finding the Kingdom of God Now, Through Jesus and His Words (2004)

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 02:00:00 -0600

Finding the Kingdom of God Now, Through Jesus and His Words

Baylor University and Truitt Seminary Church Staff Retreat

Retreat Theme: For Such a Time as This

February 23-24, 2004

Overheads:

Obedience is the organ of knowledge in the spiritual life.
“If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things that are above where Christ sits on the right hand of the Father. Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth, for you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ and God. When Christ who is our life shall appear with him, glorious.” Colossians 3:1-4 (slightly paraphrased)
Does the gospel I preach have a natural tendency to produce disciples as distinguished from consumers of religious goods and services?
The Great Commission:
“I have been given say over everything in heaven and on earth. So, as you go, make disciples of all kinds of people, gather them in trinitarian reality, and teach them in such a way that they do all things I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you every moment, until the job is done.” Matt. 28:18-20 (Willard paraphrase)
Who is an Apprentice of Jesus?
As Jesus’ apprentice (disciple, student), I am learning from him how to lead my life in the Kingdom of God as he would lead my life if he were I.

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18. Streams In the Desert and Wells of Living Water: Christ's Congregations as Fountains of Light and Life (2004)

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:00:00 -0600

Streams In the Desert and Wells of Living Water: Christ's Congregations as Fountains of Light and Life

Baylor University and Truitt Seminary Church Staff Retreat
Retreat Theme: For Such a Time as This
February 23-24, 2004

In today’s episode, Dallas discusses the Four Great Questions of Human Life:

What is the nature of reality?
Who is well-off?
Who is a “really good” person?
How do I become a “really good” person?

Hear the series in its entirety on DWillard.org: https://dwillard.org/resources/audio/for-such-a-time-as-this

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17. An Invitation to a "With-God Life" in Jesus

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 02:00:00 -0600

An Invitation to a "With-God Life"; in Jesus

Today’s episode is a session from the Renovaré International Conference held in Denver, Colorado, on June 19-22, 2005. The conference title was, "The With-God Life: The Dynamics of Scripture for Christian Spiritual Transformation."

Dallas’s full title for this session was, "No Longer Alone with God as Jesus in the Eternal Kingdom - NOW: The’ With-God Life’ Under the New Covenant"

Download Dallas’s handout and follow along: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/2005-Renovare-No-Longer-Alone.pdf

You can see the video of this talk on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN1K43YePCc&t=807s

Audio of the full conference is available for purchase on ChristianAudio.com
The Renovaré Study Bible is still available, and we highly recommend it!

https://dwillard.org/resources/recommended-reading/the-life-with-god-bible
If this is the first time you’re hearing about Renovaré, we encourage you to visit their website and learn more. Dallas was a founding member of the team that created Renovaré under the leadership of Richard Foster in 1988. https://renovare.org

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16. Celebration: The Recollection of God (1997)

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 02:00:00 -0600

This is a seminar from the Creating Inner Peace conference hosted by Loyola Marymount University, March 15-16, 1996.

We have been unable to find a copy of the handout Dallas distributed. But you can find more of Dallas’s teaching on practicing the discipline of celebration in The Spirit of the Disciplines (https://dwillard.org/resources/books/spirit-of-the-disciplines).

The section on Celebration (referred to in this episode) includes comments on Deuteronomy 14:22-27. We also highly recommend the chapter on Celebration in Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline

(https://dwillard.org/resources/recommended-reading/celebration-of-discipline).

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15. The Good "Half-Breed" and the Full-Blooded Stinkers. The Neighborliness of the Kingdom. (1983)

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 02:00:00 -0600

The Good "Half-Breed" and the Full-Blooded Stinkers. The Neighborliness of the Kingdom.

Parable: The Good Samaritan

Presented at Harbor Church, Los Angeles, California

May 29, 1983

Scripture: Luke 10 :23-42

This is the final session of a 12-part series Dallas called “The Parabolic Teaching About Christ’s Kingdom by Christ Himself.” All the talks in this series, along with quite a bit of Dallas’s additional teaching about the parables of Jesus can be found in his book The Scandal of the Kingdom: How the Parables of Jesus Revolutionize Life with God. https://dwillard.org/resources/books/the-scandal-of-the-kingdom. The word “scandal” is in the title because of the way the religious leaders in Jesus’ day responded to him. As we’ve learned in this series, they thought Jesus’ behavior (eating with sinners!) and his teaching (saying all are welcome in the kingdom of heaven!) was scandalous.

If you’d like to explore some of the writing of G. Campbell Morgan that was so influential for Dallas in teaching this series, start here: https://amzn.to/3AW54AY

To learn more from Dallas about loving your neighbor, see the Neighborhood Initiative playlist on the Dallas Willard Ministries YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ7tmLfYg7S-VCAg20hSQKXILRx2iGC41

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14. Persistence is the Prerequisite: The “Unprofitable” Servant, and The Widow and the Mean Judge (1983)

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 07:00:00 -0600

Persistence is the Prerequisite: The “Unprofitable” Servant, and The Widow and the Mean Judge

Parables: The Unprofitable Servant, The Persistent Widow, The Pharisee and the Tax Collector

Presented at Harbor Church, Los Angeles, California

May 22, 1983

Scripture: Luke 17:3-10; Luke 18:1-17

“Strive to enter at the straight gate. For straight is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth into life, and few there be that find it.” Matthew 7:13

One of the better-known quotes from Dallas Willard is, “Grace is not opposed to effort; it is opposed to earning.” In today’s episode, Dallas is teaching on the persistent effort that is required if we expect to grow in our faith. Dallas says, “Faith is a matter of knowing how to speak the creative word of God with God. That's faith. Faith is seeing things to be so, which are in the will and vision and purpose of God, so that you are joined with God in speaking the creative words.”

This is the eleventh session of a 12-part series Dallas called “The Parabolic Teaching About Christ’s Kingdom by Christ Himself.” This series is the foundation for Dallas’s book, The Scandal of the Kingdom. https://dwillard.org/resources/books/the-scandal-of-the-kingdom Join us next time as Dallas wraps up the series with the parable of the Good Samaritan.

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13. The Folly of Possessions and Riches: The Rich Fool (1983)

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 08:00:00 -0600

The Folly of Possessions and Riches: The Rich Fool
Parable: The Rich Fool

Presented at Harbor Church, Los Angeles, California

May 15, 1983

Scripture: Luke 12:13-40

Today we’re studying the Parable of the Rich Fool. A fool is a person who misjudges means to ends and chooses the wrong end. The farmer in the Parable of the Rich Fool was a man who had chosen to let his soul rest in his wealth instead of in God.

In this parable and the story of what caused Jesus to tell it, we learn how to have a Kingdom mindset with our finances and other assets. Dallas helps us apply these concepts by inviting us to consider the question, “What is your life?”

John Wesley offered the following counsel on wealth management: “Get all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can.” Dallas recommends inserting “Use all you can” into Wesley’s instructions after “Save all you can.” Use what you have for the glory of God. It’s better to have wealth in the hands of Christ’s followers than anywhere else.

This is the tenth session of our 12-part series entitled “The Parabolic Teaching About Christ’s Kingdom by Christ Himself.” On the Sunday prior to teaching about the Parable of the Rich Fool, Dallas had taught a class based on The Parable of the Hours. We don’t have that recording, but where Dallas has taught it elsewhere, he used it to illustrate the upside-down kingdom in action through the way we do business and care for those less fortunate than us. That teaching is available along with more from Dallas about financial responsibility in the Kingdom of God in The Scandal of the Kingdom: https://dwillard.org/resources/books/the-scandal-of-the-kingdom

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12. The Unforgiving Servant (1983)

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 02:00:00 -0600

Session 9. The Forgiving Heart and the Kingdom of God

Parable: The Unforgiving Servant

Presented at Harbor Church, Los Angeles, California

May 1, 1983

Scripture: Matthew 18:15-35

This is the ninth session of a 12-part series Dallas called “The Parabolic Teaching About Christ’s Kingdom by Christ Himself,” and today’s focus is on the gift of forgiveness. Many of us have a hard time with forgiveness, and sometimes that’s because of misunderstandings about what it is and how we should approach it.

In this episode, Dallas clarifies what is and is not a part of what it means to forgive someone (i.e. it doesn’t mean you forget about it and your relationship becomes the same as before) and offers helpful advice about things we can do to help us practice forgiveness. He also shares his interpretation of Matthew 18:35 (So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.) and Matthew 6:12 (Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.).

If you’d like to learn more about how to make forgiveness a natural part of your life, visit our website and listen to the 3-hour workshop Dallas taught in 1996 called “From Forgiveness to Blessing.” https://dwillard.org/resources/audio/from-forgiveness-to-blessing

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https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/Parabolic-Teaching-Outline.pdf

11. The Ten Virgins and the Evil Watchman. “A Revelation of the Heart” (1983)

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 02:00:00 -0600

The Ten Virgins and the Evil Watchman. “A Revelation of the Heart”

Parables: The Evil Servant, The Ten Virgins

Presented at Harbor Church, Los Angeles, California

April 24, 1983

Scripture: Matthew 24:42-51, Matthew 25:1-13, Luke 12:41-48

Today’s episode brings us to the point in Jesus’ ministry when he was beginning to prepare his disciples for three aspects of the future:

1. Jesus’ upcoming crucifixion and resurrection,

2. How things will be during Christ’s absence from earth

3. How we should prepare ourselves and hold our hearts before him as we await Jesus’ return.

This is the eighth session of a 12-part series Dallas called “The Parabolic Teaching About Christ’s Kingdom by Christ Himself.” The main parables discussed are The Parable of the Evil Servant and the Parable of the Ten Virgins. You can dig deeper into Dallas’s teaching about these parables and the Parable of the Talents in chapter 7 of the book that is based on this parables series, The Scandal of the Kingdom.https://dwillard.org/resources/books/the-scandal-of-the-kingdom

Dallas mentioned the writing of G. Campbell Morgan in this session. We encourage you to look for Morgan’s books on the Parables and other New Testament topics.

The session outline Dallas distributed to the class gives the list of topics and scriptures covered throughout the series. He encouraged participants to read the scriptures for each week before coming to class. Download a copy here:

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10. Two Sons, Two Debtors and another Two Sons (1983)

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 02:00:00 -0500

Two Sons (Matt. 21:28-32), Two Debtors (Luke 7:36-50) and another Two Sons (Luke 15:11-32).

Parables: The Parable of the Two Sons, The Prodigal Son, and stories of two debtors.

Presented at Harbor Church, Los Angeles, California
April 17, 1983

Scripture: Luke 15:11-32; Luke 7:36-50; Matthew 21:28-32

In this episode we study two parables and two true stories about people who have been lost and then found their way back to God.

1. The Parable of the Two Sons who said one thing but did another.

2. The story of Zacchaeus

3. The Parable of the Prodigal Son

4. The story of the woman who washed Jesus’ feet at Simon’s house

In each case, the pharisees were on the scene. Jesus was trying to help them understand the ways we can be lost, and how ready God is to forgive and receive each of us when we come back to him.

This is the seventh session of a 12-part series Dallas called “The Parabolic Teaching About Christ’s Kingdom by Christ Himself.” This series is the foundation for Dallas’s book, The Scandal of the Kingdom, published October 15, 2024. Learn more about the book at

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09. The Vineyard and the Wicked Husbandmen (1983)

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 02:00:00 -0500

Parables #6. The Vineyard and the Wicked Husbandmen
Parable: The Parable of the Vineyard

Presented at Harbor Church, Los Angeles, California
April 10, 1983

Scripture: Luke 20:1-47, Matthew 21:33-46

In Matthew 7:15-23, Jesus talks about false prophets and knowing a tree by its fruit.

The Parable of the Vineyard points out that Israel had developed leaders who led against God instead of for him, and shows what happens to those who lead (even with God’s power), but are not with God in their hearts. Dallas looks at the context of this parable, as Israel’s religious leaders were clinging desperately to their authority in opposition and fear of the unique authority Jesus had. Such battles for spiritual authority continue today. It is important to try to understand just where the failure of these men were so we might understand ourselves better and guard our own hearts, and pray for those who lead us in an effective way.

This is the sixth session of a 12-part series Dallas called “The Parabolic Teaching About Christ’s Kingdom by Christ Himself.” This series is the foundation of a new book published on October 15th called “The Scandal of the Kingdom.” The book offers an opportunity to dig more deeply into the parables of Jesus. Learn more on our website:

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08. Growing Together Until the Harvest (1983)

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 02:00:00 -0500

Presented at Harbor Church, Los Angeles, California
April 3, 1983

Scripture: Matthew 13:1-30 (especially 24-30), Matthew 13:47-53

In today’s episode, we see how “The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares” and “The Parable of the Net” illustrate that there are many differences in the kinds of people who find a place in the kingdom of God. This includes understanding that some people who are living IN the kingdom or not OF the kingdom. Being IN something is a much more superficial thing than being OF it. But God has said “whosoever will may come,” and it is His desire for us to grow together. So we need
to be careful to stay focused on Jesus and the best ways to help ourselves and be his disciples.

This is the fifth session of a 12-part series Dallas called “The Parabolic Teaching About Christ’s Kingdom by Christ Himself.” The series is the foundation of a new book available on October 15th called “The Scandal of the Kingdom.” The book offers an opportunity to dig more deeply into the parables of Jesus. Learn more on our website: https://dwillard.org/resources/books/the-scandal-of-the-kingdom

The session outline Dallas distributed to his class participants gives the list of topics and scriptures covered throughout the series. He encouraged them to read the scriptures for each week before coming to class. Download a copy here:

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07. The Great Supper: One’s Kingdomly Birthright for a Mess of Pottage (1983)

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 02:00:00 -0500

The Great Supper: One’s Kingdomly Birthright for a Mess of Pottage
Parables: The Parable of the Great Supper, Jacob Steals Esau’s Birthright

Presented at Harbor Church, Los Angeles, California

March 27, 1983

Scripture: Luke 14:7-24, Matthew 22:1-14, Genesis 25:24-34

This is the fourth session of a 12-part series Dallas called “The Parabolic Teaching About Christ’s Kingdom by Christ Himself.”

Dallas focused on a sequence of teachings Jesus gave while dining at the home of a chief pharisee on a Sabbath day.

1. How to get the best seat at a banquet (Luke 14:8-11).

2. Inviting people to dinner regardless of their ability to repay you (Luke 14:12-14).

3. The Parable of the Great Supper (Luke 14:16-24).

Continuing this theme of pointing out where our priorities are, Dallas added:

4. Mary and Martha’s lesson on the “one thing” that is most important (Luke 10:38-42).

5. Esau trading his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of stew (Gen 25:24-34).

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06. The Secret Manner of the Kingdom’s Working: The Leaven and the Seed (1983)

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 02:00:00 -0500

3. The Secret Manner of the Kingdom’s Working: The Leaven and the Seed
Parables: The Parables of the Seed and of the Mustard Seed, more on The Parable of the Sower

Presented at Harbor Church, Los Angeles, California
March 20, 1983

Scripture: Matthew 13:33 and Mark 4:26-33
This is the third session of a 12-part series Dallas called “The Parabolic Teaching About Christ’s Kingdom by Christ Himself.” Dallas gives us a fascinating description of the way seeds work and points out why seeds are a perfect example of the workings of the kingdom of heaven.

The session outline Dallas distributed to the class gives the list of topics and scriptures covered throughout the series. He encouraged participants to read the scriptures for each week before coming to class. Download a copy here:

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05. The Diverse Receptions of the Word of the Kingdom (1983)

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 02:00:00 -0500

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04. The Gospel of the Kingdom of God and How it Comes: Why Parables? (1983)

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 02:00:00 -0500

The Availability of the Kingdom for Those Who Can See and Hear
Presented at Harbor Church, Los Angeles, California.
March 6, 1983

Scriptures: Matthew 3:2; Matthew 4:17; Matthew 12:14-21; Matthew 13:10-17, Matthew 13:37,
Luke 8:10, Mark 4:9-12; Isaiah 6:9-13

This is the first session of a 12-part series Dallas called “The Parabolic Teaching About Christ’s Kingdom by Christ Himself.” In introducing the series, Dallas talks about the carefully crafted teaching methods of Jesus and why he chose to use parables. He also explains some things about the faith and message of Jesus that we can enter into more fully in our own lives.

The session outline Dallas distributed to the class gives the list of topics and scriptures covered throughout the series. He encouraged participants to read the scriptures for each week before coming to class.

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03. Worship as the Fine Texture of Real Life (2008) - Dallas Willard

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 02:00:00 -0500

Worship as the Fine Texture of Real Life

January 25, 2008

At the 2008 Calvin College Symposium of Worship, Dallas spoke on “Worship as the Fine Texture of Real Life.” He explained what worship is and how it can become a part of everything we do.

Dallas read these two definitions of worship:

1. "In worship we engage ourselves with, dwell upon, and express the supreme greatness, beauty and goodness of God – primarily through thought and devotion of our wills, but usually also with the aid of words, rituals and symbols, frequently in union with others."
— Dallas Willard (The Spirit of the Disciplines)

2. "Worship is admiration to the point of wonder and delight."
— A.W. Tozer

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02. How to Save Your Life (2011) - Dallas Willard

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 02:00:00 -0500

How to Save Your Life

September 12, 2011

When you think about the phrase “being saved,” most people think about saving their soul. But what about the rest of you? Dallas explains that salvation is for every aspect of our lives and helps us understand how to redeem our time and bring everything we do back into the kingdom of God.

Definitions:

· “Spiritual formation” is the process of shaping the individual so that they love God with all their heart, with all their soul, with all their mind, and with all their strength, and they love their neighbor as themselves.

· “Salvation” is being caught up in the life that Jesus is now living on earth.

· “Redemption” is to buy something back.

· “Beauty” is goodness made present to the senses.

· “Truth” is a reflection of reality, including beauty and goodness.

· “Goodness” is all that nourishes and strengthens human life in a proper order.

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01. Taking on the Mind of Christ (2003) - Dallas Willard

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:00:00 -0500

Following Christ: Taking on the Mind of Christ

January 1, 2003

"The Following Christ conference was an annual event hosted by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Dallas had the honor of speaking at the closing session of the conference that took place in Atlanta, GA, December 28, 2002 - January 1, 2003. He painted a beautiful picture of what it means to follow Christ, urging believers to embrace the mind of Christ as outlined in Philippians 2.

Philippians 2:1-8
Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, as He already existed in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied Himself by taking the form of a bond-servant and being born in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death: death on a cross.

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00. Welcome to the Dallas Willard Podcast

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 05:00:00 -0500

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