Having explained what "death" really is, Dallas Willard takes that insight and applies it to life now. The fuller consciousness that we get as we transition into God's full world is actually something which we can use to make sense of our world now. What is small and insignificant in the one context is actually very important in the other context because the other context is the one in which God is active. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute ..read more

Since Jesus's friends never taste death, what will happen? In The Divine Conspiracy Dallas Willard gives some important teaching on that matter in part out of his work as a philosopher and in part out of his childhood as a Missouri hillbilly. Michael Stewart Robb also reads a story about a near-death experience which he found in the Missouri hills - one with a curious connection to Dallas Willard. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute ..read more

While it used to be common knowledge in Europe and North America that death wouldn't happen, now it is taken for granted. One is possibly unwise to not write a bucket list and pursue all the good things that death makes impossible. Dallas Willard in The Divine Conspiracy shows how Jesus pioneered wise living in light of the fact that death wasn't going to happen and Michael Stewart Robb explains why you don't need a bucket list. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute ..read more

Our phones and laptops are portals into this world. And we get into thinking that this world is all there is. But Dallas Willard in The Divine Conspiracy writes of how for Jesus's friends this is nonsense. Michael Stewart Robb comments in this episode about thoughts of the next life have disappeared from view. Perhaps because we all have phones in front of our faces. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute ..read more

The human quandary is how to rise above "lives of quiet desperation" to something transcendent. Aldous Huxley suggested drugs. Dallas Willard suggests spirituality because we are spiritual beings who are meant to live from the spiritual. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute ..read more

First off what is substance? We got to get a handle on that word in order to know what Dallas Willard is talking about. At a minimum, it means that something is capable of independent existence. But it means more than that and Michael Stewart Robb tries his best to do a little philosophy with you to get to Dallas's understanding of spiritual. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute ..read more

The will or heart is the innermost core of a human being. With all the current talk of spiritual and spirituality, does anyone have in mind the will? Or when people talk about the will, what is that? Just matter and energy? If we are going to describe the spiritual, Dallas Willard thinks we must take serious personality and get around to talking about its center, the will. This applies to God just the same as to humans. And Michael Stewart Robb tries to dissect this compact section of The Divine Conspiracy. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sa ..read more

Pretty crucial to Dallas Willard's theology and whole view of the Bible is that we can know spiritual reality. God is spirit and we can know what that means. We can know positively and not just negatively. And our means of knowledge, he holds, is through knowledge of ourselves. Listen this week for a tour through you as spirit and a lot of philosophical terms that Michael Stewart Robb wants to throw at you. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute ..read more

God wants to be seen, so why don't we see him? Dallas Willard in his The Divine Conspiracy answers this by pointing our wanting to see God. Do we really want to see him? But he also points to the need to develop in our ability to see. Seeing is not so straightforward as we might think. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute ..read more

Comparing God to humans can be dangerous business. But Dallas Willard feels confident to do it. And in this episode Michael Stewart Robb reaches Dallas's conclusion to how God is in space by exploring how you are in space. But in a century when spiritualism and pantheism are alive and well, Mike has some cautions to issue, the biggest being a reminder that Dallas really is a dualist. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute ..read more