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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 29, 20182 min read
Dear Green Lake: Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year
Dear Green Lake Before my five year departure from Washington, I walked the frozen shores with the woman who is now my wife and after...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Apr 14, 20153 min read
Steps to Peace, Jesus Style (part 2)
We know the Bible, the words on scroll, know it like the back of our hands. But the Bible doesn’t bring peace. Neither does...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Nov 19, 20144 min read
Pursuing Peace – to what end?
As a result, I’ve had time to think, and the convergence zone of some teaching I’m doing for staff at the church I lead, and my reading...
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Richard Dahlstrom
May 27, 20145 min read
Achilles Heal: Lessons for life and leadership learned from a tendon
The Achilles story is appropriate because this tendon seems the bane of countless athletes. Anatomy for Runners tells the story of a...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Mar 19, 20145 min read
This one weird trick will change your life: Slow Down
Our children are growing, as we do too, slowly; imperceptibly every day. The meat in the crock pot is tenderizing; slowly. Our world,...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Oct 31, 20133 min read
The Most Important Thing You can do for your Transformation
previous post about “the end of sex as we know it” because it addresses an important trend in our culture. But a convergence of...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Oct 22, 20134 min read
Embodiment Part One: Getting out of our heads and off of our phones.
Embodiment is the answer. I’m old enough to know that if I don’t get up and do something with my body before the day gets on, I won’t do...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Aug 28, 20134 min read
When Everything’s Collapsing? The Ancient Paths
Meanwhile, our pop culture offers one of it’s stars at a music awards show and we’re struck with the realization that nobility,...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Aug 5, 20133 min read
When Life produces Too Much Life: The Value of Quitting
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. – Michael Porter There’s a forest in m Too many trees. Too many buds on the vine. ...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jun 7, 20114 min read
Skinny Church – the wrong fast for a hungry world
Vegetarian Myth (a favorite book of mine) takes pretty much the opposite approach. Back in the day, low fat was all the rage. Now it’s...
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Richard Dahlstrom
May 14, 20113 min read
Weekend: Lessons from backyard and bible
While on the surface, they appear to be two wildly different worlds, they came together this morning in my quiet moments in the backyard....
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Richard Dahlstrom
May 13, 20112 min read
Quiet…an endangered species
Modernity isn’t just philosophical–it’s chemical. It’s mechanical. And though the industrial revolution brought us lots of great stuff,...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Apr 19, 20113 min read
Insanity antidote: simplicity
our economy: climbing without a rope If you’re reading these words, you’re likely among the top 10% of wealthiest people in the world....
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Richard Dahlstrom
Apr 13, 20112 min read
Thanks Dietrich…words for the ages
To live faithfully is to live 'fully present in this world' Last night I was privileged to participate in a panel discussion about the...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Apr 7, 20113 min read
An example of “coffee with God”
does decaf affect the quality of coffee with God? In the church I lead, I’ve been teaching from II Corinthians 3 and 4 these past weeks,...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Mar 21, 20113 min read
Crazy Confidence in a Shaky World
there's a new way to live...better, freer It’s available for all of us. It’s not contingent (thank God) on circumstances. It’s able to...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Feb 7, 20113 min read
How to pray when it’s all “too much”
“This is my life” you say, punctuating the observation sometimes with a question mark, and other times with an exclamation point and an...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 28, 20103 min read
First Resolution: five options for five minutes of prayer
I’ve felt this way too much in 2010, and so I’m heading back to “first things”, foundational truths that are considered foundational...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 22, 20103 min read
Christmas Vacation: filling hospitality with joy instead of tension
Looking for a better way of being together than “Christmas Vacation”? read on: “Dwelling” is a great word. It can mean the space in...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Nov 8, 20103 min read
…”simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ”
II Corinthians, but it’s a phrase ripe with meaning. It’s a phrase which, along with a passage from Jeremiah, God has used over and over...
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