<ul><li>ECPA 2019 Christian Book Award Finalist</li></ul>
<ul><li>2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalists - Biography</li></ul> Dallas Willard was a personal mentor and inspiration to hundreds of pastors, philosophers, and average churchgoers. His presence and ideas rippled through the lives of many prominent leaders and authors, such as John Ortberg, Richard Foster, James Bryan Smith, Paula Huston, and J. P. Moreland. As a result of these relationships and the books he wrote, he fundamentally altered the way tens of thousands of Christians have understood and experienced the spiritual life. Whether great or small, everyone who met Dallas was impressed by his personal attention, his calm confidence, his wisdom, and his profound sense of the spiritual. But he was not always the man who lived on a different plane of reality than so many of the rest of us. He was someone who had to learn to be a husband, a parent, a teacher, a Christ follower. The journey was not an easy one. He absorbed some of the harshest and most unfair blows life can land. His mother died when he was two, and after his father remarried he was exiled from his stepmother’s home. Growing up in Depression-era, rural Missouri and educated in a one-room schoolhouse, he knew poverty, deprivation, anxiety, self-doubt, and depression. Though the pews he sat in during his early years were not offering much by way of love and mercy, Dallas, instead of turning away, kept looking for the company of a living, present, and personal God. In Gary W. Moon’s candid and inspiring biography, we read how Willard became the person who mentored and partnered with his young pastor, Richard Foster, to inspire some of the most influential books on spirituality of the last generation. We see how his love of learning took him on to Baylor, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Southern California, where he became a beloved professor and one of the most versatile members of the philosophy department. The life of Dallas Willard deserves attention because he became a person who himself experienced authentic transformation of life and character. Dallas Willard not only taught about spiritual disciplines, he became a different person because of them. He became a grounded person, a spiritually alive person as he put them into practice, finding God, as he often said, "at the end of his rope." Here is a life that gives us all hope.

Becoming Dallas Willard: The Formation of a Philosopher, Teacher, and Christ Follower

Biographies & Memoirs

Ortberg, John

FOSTER, Richard J.

Moon, Gary W.

Community & Culture

Falling in love is one of life’s greatest joys. So imagine the endless joy of falling head over heels for God. Falling in love is one of the most magnificent experiences of human life. Remember what it feels like? How it happens? You spend time with that special someone, get to know each other, and then one day find yourselves so intimately connected it is as though your souls have become intertwined. Compare that experience with your current relationship with God. Why doesn’t it feel just as passionate, just as wonderful? Gary Moon believes it can. If you’re not head over heels in love with God, you’re missing out on an incredible experience–but you’re not without hope. Falling for God will inspire you to pursue a passionate, intimate relationship with a God who–even though he doesn’t need anything from you–wants more than anything to be united with you. Through Bible study, personal meditation, and classic spiritual exercises, you’ll discover how to experience this loving connection with the lover of your soul. The journey will take you through honest conversation and active communion to a deeper experience of intimate union with God. Falling for God will move you to embrace an all-out passion for joyful and abundant living.

Falling for God: Saying Yes to His Extravagant Proposal

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

PRH Christian Publishing

More family devotions that are fun for the entire family!

The Bible Ride (The Bible Ride, Bk. 2)

Vine Books

Confessions about the Journey of a Soul

Homesick for Eden: Confessions About the Journey of a Soul

LifeSprings Resources

The Bible Ride

Children's Books

Religions

Advocate Pr

Curated by Dallas Willard's long - time colleague and friend Gary Moon, this medley of images, snapshots and ''''Dallas - isms'''' moves readers toward deeper experiences of God. Whether influenced by him as a family member, friend, professor, philosopher or reformer, contributors bring refreshing insight into his ideas, what shaped him and also his contagious theology of grace and joy.

Eternal Living: Reflections on Dallas Willard's Teaching on Faith and Formation

ReadHowYouWant

IVP Formatio

Gary Mood identifies that undefined yearning that we all feel from time to time as a homesickness for paradise, a return to relationship and perfection that existed before sin ruined it all. Homesick for Eden will stretch your thinking about the Kingdom of God.

Homesick for Eden: A Soul's Journey to Joy

Servant Pubns

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