The Dallas Willard Podcast

By Dallas Willard

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.

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November 17, 2025 58. More Barriers to Eternal Living Now: Strongholds of Thought and Feeling (2010)
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."

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

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1h 23min
November 10, 2025 57. Some Barriers to Eternal Living Now: The Unsurrendered Will (2010)
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.

Conference Handout
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.
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

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1h 14min
November 03, 2025 56. Grace as Day-to-Day Reality: How to Grow in Grace (2010)
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.

Conference Handout
Session Three Slides
Session Three Video
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

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1h 9min
October 27, 2025 55. What is Spiritual Life? Who is a Spiritual Person? (2010)
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

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

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1h 16min
October 20, 2025 54. Your Kingdom and God’s Kingdom (2010)
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...”

Conference Handout
Session One Slides
Session One Video
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

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1h 44min
October 13, 2025 53. The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge: How It Happens and What It Means (2010)
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.

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

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1h 39min
October 06, 2025 52. Exercising the Power of God's Kingdom (1978)
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
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

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1h 21min
September 29, 2025 51. The Mark of the Disciple (1978)
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.
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

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1h 15min
September 22, 2025 50. The Substance, Necessity and Evidence of Discipleship (1978)
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.
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

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1h 17min
September 15, 2025 49. The Righteousness Which is Beyond the Righteousness of the Scribes and the Pharisees, Part 2 (1978)
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.
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

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1h 21min

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