The Dallas Willard Podcast
Join us each week as we go back to the archives and share all of Dallas Willard's original, long-form teaching. Hosted by his daughter, Rebecca Willard Heatley.
Episodes
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 ...
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 af...
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, a...
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 bat...
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...
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 b...
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 man...
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...
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 ...
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 speak...
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.
...
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 visi...
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 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.
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 than...
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...
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” per...
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’ W...
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 episo...
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...
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