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Michael Stewart Robb is thinking about joy today. How did Jesus have it? Supposedly it was a part of his belief system. That this was a world where one could be joyous because joy is the only reasonable response. ⁠It's not about being happy. You can be happy one hour and sad the next. Happy is a feeling it is best not to worry about it. But joy should be pursued if you don't have it like Jesus.⁠ And here to help Mike is Dallas Willard's The Divine Conspiracy. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute⁠

Joy should characterize the life of Jesus's students. It doesn't so often because we don't know God like Jesus does. And here to help us learn theology from Jesus is Dallas Willard. Michael Stewart Robb discusses the third chapter of Willard's The Divine Conspiracy. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

It is psychologically impossible to believe a blur. But that is where modernity including postmodernity has left us with respect to God. Dallas Willard, a philosopher in his day job, saw that in the churches he entered. Thus it will be hard to believe in a God of joy, if we barely know what God is. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute/​

The challenge of Jesus' spirituality is coming to believe one thing, namely "our universe is a perfectly safe place to be."⁠ That may be a bit of an overstatement and you wouldn't want to build a whole systematic theology on it but you'd have most of Jesus' spirituality under your belt if you managed to believe it. Meaning, if you managed to internalize it. Michael Stewart Robb discusses this phrase which comes from chapter three of Dallas Willard's The Divine Conspiracy. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

Are you victim of a small version of the message of the Bible? Dallas Willard has the idea that the tagline of 20th century Christianity was written on a bumper sticker but also in big theology books and, sad to say, on many lives.⁠ Michael Stewart Robb begins chapter two of The Divine Conspiracy on gospels of sin management. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

In a day when someone might wish to see your vaccination status to let you in somewhere, one might appreciate Dallas Willard's metaphor for a type of Christianity which he's worried about. It is what he calls bar-code faith and he thinks that you have likely encountered it in your life and may even believe it. Join Michael Stewart Robb in another episode on The Divine Conspiracy. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute