The Dallas Willard Podcast

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).Visit https://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.” Dallas Willard Ministries exists to proclaim, teach and manifest the love, truth and transforming power of Christ and the Kingdom of God. We invite you to partner with us by praying for our ministry team, praying for the students in the School of Kingdom Living, sharing your talents as a volunteer, or contributing financial gifts. Visit https://dwillard.org/donate if you’d like to help us increase the availability of Dallas’s teaching to help people become more like Jesus. WAYS TO CONNECT WITH US: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dallaswillard Facebook Group: Dallas Willard is My Homeboy Signup for the Dallas Willard Legacy Update at DWillard.org/mailing-list Contact the team at Dallas Willard Ministries by writing us at [email protected]. Instagram: dallas_willard_ministries Facebook: dallas.willard.0717 and SchoolOfKingdomLiving Threads: dallas_willard_ministries X (Twitter): @DallasAWillard LinkedIn: Dallas Willard Ministries, and School of Kingdom Living The contents of this recording are © Willard Family Trust. Used by permission. For permission to reproduce any of this content, please contact Dallas Willard Publicatio...

The Good "Half-Breed" and the Full-Blooded Stinkers. The Neighborliness of the Kingdom. Parable: The Good SamaritanPresented at Harbor Church, Los Angeles, CaliforniaMay 29, 1983 Scripture: Luke 10 :23-42This 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/3AW54AYTo 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-VCAg20hSQKXILRx2iGC41Visit https://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.” Dallas Willard Ministries exists to proclaim, teach and manifest the love, truth and transforming power of Christ and the Kingdom of God. We invite you to partner with us by praying for our ministry team, praying for the students in the School of Kingdom Living, sharing your talents as a volunteer, or contributing financial gifts. Visit https://dwillard.org/donate if you’d like to help us increase the availability of Dallas’s teaching to help people become more like Jesus. WAYS TO CONNECT WITH US: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dallaswillard Facebook Group: Dallas Willard is My Homeboy Signup for the Dallas Willard Legacy Update at DWillard.org/mailing-list Contact the team at Dallas Willard Ministries by writing us at [email protected]. Instagram: dallas_willard_ministries Facebook: dallas.willard.0717 and SchoolOfKingdomLiving Threads: dallas_willard_ministries X (Twitter): @DallasAWillard LinkedIn: Dallas Willard Ministries, and School of Kingdom Living The contents of this recording are © Willard Family Trust. Used by permission. For permission to reproduce any of this content, please contact Dallas Willard Publicatio...

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 CollectorPresented at Harbor Church, Los Angeles, CaliforniaMay 22, 1983Scripture: 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 7:13One 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.Visit https://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.” Dallas Willard Ministries exists to proclaim, teach and manifest the love, truth and transforming power of Christ and the Kingdom of God. We invite you to partner with us by praying for our ministry team, praying for the students in the School of Kingdom Living, sharing your talents as a volunteer, or contributing financial gifts. Visit https://dwillard.org/donate if you’d like to help us increase the availability of Dallas’s teaching to help people become more like Jesus. WAYS TO CONNECT WITH US: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dallaswillard Facebook Group: Dallas Willard is My Homeboy Signup for the Dallas Willard Legacy Update at DWillard.org/mailing-list Contact the team at Dallas Willard Ministries by writing us at [email protected]. Instagram: dallas_willard_ministries Facebook: dallas.willard.0717 and SchoolOfKingdomLiving Threads: dallas_willard_ministries X (Twitter): @DallasAWillard LinkedIn: Dallas Willard Ministries, and School of Kingdom Living The contents of this recording are © Willard Family Trust. Used by permission. For permission to reproduce any of this content, please contact Dallas Willard Publicatio...

The Folly of Possessions and Riches: The Rich FoolParable: The Rich Fool Presented at Harbor Church, Los Angeles, CaliforniaMay 15, 1983Scripture: Luke 12:13-40Today 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-kingdomVisit https://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.” Dallas Willard Ministries exists to proclaim, teach and manifest the love, truth and transforming power of Christ and the Kingdom of God. We invite you to partner with us by praying for our ministry team, praying for the students in the School of Kingdom Living, sharing your talents as a volunteer, or contributing financial gifts. Visit https://dwillard.org/donate if you’d like to help us increase the availability of Dallas’s teaching to help people become more like Jesus. WAYS TO CONNECT WITH US: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dallaswillard Facebook Group: Dallas Willard is My Homeboy Signup for the Dallas Willard Legacy Update at DWillard.org/mailing-list Contact the team at Dallas Willard Ministries by writing us at [email protected]. Instagram: dallas_willard_ministries Facebook: dallas.willard.0717 and SchoolOfKingdomLiving Threads: dallas_willard_ministries X (Twitter): @DallasAWillard LinkedIn: Dallas Willard Ministries, and School of Kingdom Living The contents of this recording are © Willard Family Trust. Used by permission. For permission to reproduce any of this content, please contact Dallas Willard Publicatio...