1: An Introduction to Your Soul (or “How to Save Your Life”)
In this sermon Dallas discusses what the soul is, its worth, and how we feel and think about our souls. He suggests the sermon could be simply titled: How to Save Your Life.
A 3-part sermon series from Valley Vista Community Church, Dallas’s home church, in August 1990.
In this series, Dallas states that he is “working through three topics that are intimately related.” The soul (session 1), God (session #2), and Prayer (session 3).
This teaching makes prayer more accessible (and God more approachable) by putting conversation with God in the context of a working relationship with him.
In this sermon Dallas discusses what the soul is, its worth, and how we feel and think about our souls. He suggests the sermon could be simply titled: How to Save Your Life.
The soul is matched by God, and God alone is sufficient for the soul. Dallas discusses the fact that God is absolutely sufficient unto himself and is totally independent of anything else.
This series goes through a discussion of who we are as God's creatures, what a soul is, and then to God, before coming now to prayer, because prayer is the most natural thing that we do when we understand who God is and what we are.
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In this sermon Dallas discusses what the soul is, its worth, and how we feel and think about our souls. He suggests the sermon could be simply titled: How to Save Your Life.
Dallas defines the soul as: “the unity and substance of your life. It's what makes you tick. It is the overall order or disorder that moves and organizes through your experiences. That's what your soul is. It is a power to live; and, as it goes along, it picks up the result of the experience.”
The following topics are discussed:
Dallas reads a passage from The Weight of Glory by C. S. Lewis to emphasize the value and the glory of the human soul.
The soul is matched by God, and God alone is sufficient for the soul. Dallas discusses the fact that God is absolutely sufficient unto himself and is totally independent of anything else.
We can know the sufficiency of God by placing the Lord before us and keeping him there in our mind through practicing spiritual disciplines, waiting on the Lord by trusting and relying upon him to deal with the issues that face us, and through the interaction within our souls and around us that assures us of a new reality in him.
This sermon includes two poems related to the soul:
“Invictus” by W. E. Henley and “The Wind, One Brilliant Day” by Antonio Machado.
Dallas makes several points about prayer:
A “re-phrasing” of the Lord’s Prayer (Disciples’ Prayer) is included and discussed.
