Jeremy L. Berg

In a recent sermon I shared on navigating life’s valleys, I suggested packing and relying on the Psalm 23 Survival Kit to help you come out the other side. This beloved Psalm is packed full of essential truths and God’s promises to help carry you through “the valley of the shadow of death.”

As a follow up resource, I want to recommend Dallas Willard’s little book on Psalm 23 called Life Without Lack. Here’s a description from his ministry page including a link to an 8-part teaching series you can check out!

Learn the secret of living with contentment, peace, and security.

Pause for a moment and ask yourself what your life would be like if it were completely without fear? If you did not fear death. If you did not fear life and what it might bring. If you did not fear any man, or woman, or any living creature. Would you live differently?

The teaching in Life Without Lack revolutionizes our understanding of Psalm 23 by taking this comfortably familiar passage and revealing its extraordinary promises: “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want…. I will fear no evil.” The psalmist claims to live without any need and without any fear. How is that possible?

Written with Dallas Willard’s characteristic gentle wisdom, Life Without Lack reveals the secret to enjoying God’s presence and becoming utterly caught up in his abundant generosity. The more we practice living in his presence, the more we experience the peace and freedom from worry that is promised in the psalm. Based on a series of talks by the late author and edited by his friend Larry Burtoft and his daughter, Rebecca Willard Heatley, Life Without Lack will forever change the way you understand and apply the most well-known passage in all of Scripture.

You may enjoy listening to the 8-part Life Without Lack teaching series that became the foundation of this book.

Available in hardcover (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Christian Book), Paperback (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Christian Book) Ebook (Kindle, Nook, CBDReader) and Audio (CD, Audible) formats.