Today's Devotions

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Showcase: Assorted Treats

  • Worry +

    Do we trust God to take care of each and every one of our troubles, or do we act like… Read More
  • One Prayer Away: Yolanda Adams +

    Yolanda Adams effectively portrays the experiences of brokenness and longing for change I know there are times in your life,When… Read More
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Audio & Video

Beyond Personality: Dallas Willard on book IV of Mere Christianity

Dallas-WillardPowerful, thought-provoking discussion by Dallas Willard on what CS Lewis discussed in book 4 of Mere Christianity. This was made in 2003, during the 40th anniversary of CS Lewis' death.

The following summary is from the UC SD website. There is a link to the video at the end of this summary.

Dallas Willard, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, addresses "Beyond Personality," dealing with the last book of Mere Christianityby C. S. Lewis. Willard begins his talk by showing us that the public's interest today in heroes-whether in movies, sports, politics-is about "transcending," that is, about getting beyond personalities. The hunger for transcendence, the desire to escape, entices everyone to try to get "beyond personality," to find what is real. Mere Christianity sets us on this path of discovery.

Read more: Beyond Personality: Dallas Willard on book IV of Mere Christianity

When I Survey by Tim Keller

kellKeller challenges us to consider why we don't go to Christ in prayer--why we avoid being strengthened through the power of Christ's Spirit in  communion with him in prayer. Why don't we allow his Spirit to work through us as thoroughly and completely as he can?

My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit - not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength -that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in.

Read more: When I Survey by Tim Keller

Reflections to Consider

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Publications

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Music

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Audio & Video

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Favorites

  • Embracing God's Mystery +

    One of the sad aspects of humanity is our jadedness, Read More
  • Soaring by Surrendering +

    How do birds soar? Read More
  • Transcendence & Immanence +

    Scripture Isaiah 57:15 For this is what the high and exalted One says— Read More
  • October Devotional: Deliverance +

    Isaiah 49: 8 This is what the Lord says: Read More
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Hidden Blessings

  • Transforming this World: The Hope of Glory by NT Wright +

    Wright confronts the perspective that this world doesn’t matter, and that we live only to be in heaven. He shows… Read More
  • What is Good in a World that Defies Hope: a talk by NT Wright +

    This is the second part of three talks by NT Wright at Harvard University in November, 2008 on the topic… Read More
  • The Stream, the Lake and the River: NT Wright +

      Acts 2.1-21; John 7.37-39; a sermon at the Eucharist on the Feast of Pentecost, 11 May 2008, by the… Read More
  • Jesus in the Perfect Storm by NT Wright +

    Zechariah 9.9-17; Luke 19.28-48; A sermon for Palm Sunday, April 17, 2011, In the University Chapel of St Salvator, St… Read More
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