The Dallas Willard Podcast

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: “I...

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: “...

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 alongsid...

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...

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. Do...

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 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 char...

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 Dalla...

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 wha...

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...

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, di...

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...

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 gu...

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 r...

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 surround...

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 e...

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 me...

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...

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 ar...

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 su...

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 a...

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...

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 King...

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...

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 o...