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The Resurrection of the Body, and the Life Everlasting. Amen.

Every religious tradition, every culture, every family, and every individual has some concept of hope. It’s what you’re hoping for and what you hope in that drives everything about how you’re living your life.

We know that no matter what we achieve—greater freedom, greater liberty, better health, greater medical advances, fewer problems—things don’t get any better.  We may improve our quality of life—maybe—but sin, brokenness, and death are still inescapable. We can’t repair the fracture in our lives or in the world around us.

“The resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting”—this phrase is the foundation of Christian hope, Christian courage, and the ordering of the Christian life.

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Life Without Lack

This Thanksgiving is a great time to pause, reflect, and soak in the words of Psalm 23:1, “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” 

Pastor Larry Burtoft of Valley Vista Christian Community in Van Nuys, California, invited Dallas Willard to deliver a series of talks.  Willard’s talks ultimately led to the book entitled Life Without Lack, which Larry co-edited with Dallas’ daughter, Becky Willard Heatley.

Burtoft observes, “Dallas Willard discovered the secret to gaining what many people have sacrificed so much in time, money, and relationships trying to possess.  In a word, contentment.”

Like the apostle Paul said in Philippians 4:11, “I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.”

Dallas believed it was possible to keep our minds constantly on God and that this was the heart and soul of spiritual formation in the kingdom of God.

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