The Dallas Willard Podcast

Dallas Willard, philosopher and Christian author known for spiritual formation and the Kingdom of God, delivers a sermon on Jesus’ striking words about eating his flesh and drinking his blood. He contrasts crowd expectations with spiritual hunger. He links the Lord’s Supper, Scripture, and the Spirit as means to receive Christ’s life and invites listeners to abide in that reality.

Dallas Willard, philosophy professor and spiritual teacher known for writings on spiritual formation, delivers a recorded 1981 lecture on celebration as a spiritual discipline. He defines joyful honor, links celebration to Sabbath, Jubilee, and Scripture, and explores practical balance with fasting and solitude. He encourages choosing genuine delights, praising God in enjoyment, and experimenting with spiritual practices to grow in Christlikeness.

Dallas Willard, philosopher and Christian teacher known for writing on spiritual formation, offers a long-form teaching on fellowship and submission. He explains fellowship as identifying with others and submission as esteeming others above oneself. He gives practical guidance like accept, listen, understand, and urges regular, love-driven communal practices for mutual support and growth.

Dallas Willard, philosopher and Christian spiritual teacher, offers a long-form lecture on prayer as a disciplined service of love. He explores prayer as priestly intercession, prayer as service to God, and praying without obsession over outcomes. He highlights prayer as a continual condition of the soul and gives conversational and practical practices to build a daily life of prayer.

Talks about memorizing and meditating on Scripture as a discipline that shapes thought and action. Explores humble, everyday service from foot washing to offering a cup of cold water. Reinterprets greatness as servanthood and explains how service frees you from self-centered living. Highlights sacrificial giving and the difference between duty and genuine service.

Dallas Willard, philosopher and Christian author known for spiritual formation, delivers a lecture on study and meditation. He contrasts disciplines of abstinence and engagement. He defines study as enlarging ideas and meditation as deepening understanding. He critiques passive Bible study and points to practices like concentrated time, repetition, and studying Scripture and lives of Christians.

Dallas Willard, philosophy professor and Christian author focused on spiritual formation, presents a lecture on sexuality and spiritual life. He defines celibacy, chastity, and purity. He discusses the power of sexual desire, Jesus and Paul on celibacy, stewarding energy for prayer, and guarding the mind from sexualized culture.

Dallas Willard, philosopher and Christian teacher known for spiritual formation, speaks on silence, the power of the tongue, and living simply. He defines simplicity, frugality, and poverty. Short, practical lessons cover controlling speech, cultivating meekness, consuming only what is necessary, resisting wealth’s pull, and practices like planned silence and saying no.

Dallas Willard, philosopher and Christian writer known for spiritual formation, delivers a long-form lecture. He explores solitude and silence as spiritual practices. He links fasting, prayer, and bodily experience to growth. He discusses watching, waiting, restraint of speech, and learning disciplines gradually.

Dallas Willard, philosopher and Christian spiritual teacher known for writings on spiritual formation, leads a recorded 1981 lecture on fasting. He frames fasting as a core discipline, explains what fasting is, its history, and practical cautions. He connects fasting to training desire, trusting God's word, Jesus' 40-day fast, and how disciplines shape spiritual formation.