Sanctus Forum

Conspiracy Commentaries: §18 The Presence of God in Action

What did it mean for Jesus' first listeners to encounter him? Why did he make such an impression on them? Dallas Willard explains in The Divine Conspiracy what he thinks was happening when Jesus showed up. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

Conspiracy Commentaries: §19 God's Rule Extended Onward Through Us

We don't talk much about power in church, though those of us in responsibility seem to need it. The basic human condition is one of weakness and wealth and reputation, even brute strength ("brains and brawn") won't accomplish the most important things in life. In this episode we talk about Dallas Willard's The Divine Conspiracy and the gospel of God coming to work with us. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

Conspiracy Commentaries: Conversations ft. Seán Mullan // on “Word from a Different Reality ” by Dallas Willard

Michael Stewart Robb and Irish social entrepreneur and pastor-at-large Seán Mullan discuss Dallas Willard's presentation of Jesus in The Divine Conspiracy, how Jesus made a point of being in regular places, how he occupies a strange "religious" role in Europe but how he can still be found in everyday life, ready to co-operate with us. Seán shares his decades of wisdom, having lived with The Divine Conspiracy. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

Conspiracy Commentaries: §20 What a "Kingdom" Is

Kingdoms as Dallas Willard philosophizes about them are everyday personal realities. You are aware of your kingdom every day of the week. And it's important to God's future for us that we have kingdoms or queendoms. C.S. Lewis got it right in Narnia. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

Conspiracy Commentaries: §21 God's "Creation Covenant" with Human Beings

Your human job description - what is it? You were put here to be in charge and to be creative with what you were given, to do it with others and to do it with God. Yet we are far from this says Dallas Willard in The Divine Conspiracy. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

Conspiracy Commentaries: §22 Redemption of Our Rule

Frank Laubach is one of the 20th century's great people who you don't know. And nobody knew him when he lived on an island in the Philippines and started experimenting with prayer and co-working with God. Now that is what he is most known for. His experiments and life were very influential on Dallas Willard who write about him in The Divine Conspiracy. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

Conspiracy Commentaries: §23 Our Kingdom Extended — into Eternity

Anybody feel like what you are in charge of is astonishingly small? Dallas Willard in The Divine Conspiracy teaches that God's intent is that our "kingdom" expand. God is the one very often who puts more in our hands. But even if our rule stays small in this life, he reminds us that this life is only the training ground for our rule in eternity. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

Conspiracy Commentaries: §24 God‘s Kingdom

Dallas Willard’s understanding of the kingdom didn’t fit with other theologians. In The Divine Conspiracy he contrasts his view with a few others that have been proposed. In this episode we discuss five. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

Conspiracy Commentaries: §25 The Kingdom Is Now ”at Hand”

Perhaps one of the most confusing things about Dallas Willard’s view of the kingdom of God is that Jesus didn’t start it and it wasn’t some eschatology before it’s time. The kingdom has been around as long as God has been around, says Willard. The kingdom is NOW. Welcome In! BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

Conspiracy Commentaries: Conversations ft. John Ortberg // on “Made to Rule” by Dallas Willard

Michael Stewart sits down (in his parents' basement) to talk with John Ortberg about an extremely important section of The Divine Conspiracy. They get into the nature of persons, having wills, having bodies, what's at the end of your rope, Frank Laubach, finding God's kingdom in life and in the Bible, eschatology and New Testament guilds and how to not be a Willard-ite. [Sorry, by the way, for the bad audio around 48 minutes in!] BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute