Jesus came to show us truth, to reveal reality — the way things really are.

As a professor of philosophy and a student of Jesus, Dallas Willard spent his life exploring and transcribing reality to help the rest of us access it more deeply. Seven years ago today his knowledge of Kingdom realities vastly expanded when he passed from life to life. 

Forgive us if we talk too much about Dallas around here. It’s just that for so many of us he shone a light on the gospel that revealed Jesus and his ways to be as beautiful as they truly are. It’s not hyperbole to say he changed our lives. In the forward to Becoming Dallas Willard, Richard Foster wrote:

“If we are fortunate, once in our lifetime a human supernova presence streaks across our mental and emotional horizon, and the intensity of this light changes us forever. Dallas Willard was such a supernova for me.”

Dallas’s writing is so compelling that it’s easy to camp out in the ideas, only engaging them in the abstract. Talking about the Kingdom of God is fun and can be helpful. But Dallas wouldn’t have us just talking about it. He invited people to live in it; to try prayer experiments; to practice what Jesus practiced; to, as he learned from Frank Laubach, make God the brightest star of every constellation of thought. 

This Wednesday, Dallas’s daughter, Becky Willard Heatley, and his former pastor, Larry Burtoft, will host a free webinar called Is It Really Possible to Live Without Lack. They’ll discuss the reality of God’s care to help us better live in it. We hope you can join us.