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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
Dec 1, 20103 min read
REAL freedom
Thee gospel clearly speaks to God’s intention for the world to be a place characterized by political and economic peace and freedom, and...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Nov 10, 20102 min read
10 things I’m praying for this Advent…
Today I had the morning for sermon prep, and it needed to be concentrated because I’m heading down to California to catch up with my mom....
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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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Richard Dahlstrom
Oct 6, 20102 min read
Belayed for life…
7:00 AM. We leave the Denny’s parking lot just as the sky behind the Cascades to the east is brightening, as we drive together up a road...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Sep 25, 20103 min read
Lessons learned from downed trees…
how the "mighty" have fallen I came home yesterday in the late afternoon and wondered, as I climbed the steps to my upstairs office, how...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Sep 17, 20104 min read
Eighth Letter…A new TULIP for 2010
found here. It’s called the Eighth Letter and the link will explain why. Here’s my offering to the project… To the North American...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Sep 9, 20104 min read
The Healer speaks through the stars…
silence and stars - God's elixir If there’s a time for everything, then there’s a time for grenades of darkness to pummel our souls,...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Sep 7, 20104 min read
Adaptive Leadership –
deadliest day, in the deadliest year, of Everest mountaineering history. One of the heroic stories of that day was the actions of Ed...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Sep 4, 20103 min read
As if…a tiny anniversary meditation.
one of the actors on “The Middle” because his dad and I were in architecture school together. We were all together at a conference where...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Aug 31, 20102 min read
Soul Geyser…
Maybe you’ve been to Yellowstone and seen Old Faithful? That’s the one that gushes on schedule, the heat of the earth bursting out every...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Aug 30, 20103 min read
Surf’s Up…NOW!
I grew up in Central California, closer to mountains than water. When I attended college on the coast, those pesky architecture labs and...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jul 10, 20102 min read
Showing up for each other…year after year
raising kids and loving God...together I just finished a week of ministry at Forest Home, a marvelous ministry in Southern California...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jul 8, 20103 min read
The kids at the camp…
like kids in a candy shop Tuesday, 3:30 PM, Forest Falls, California, by the side of the swimming pool. I’m spending an hour lazing in...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jun 18, 20103 min read
Guest post: Leaving as Following
This coming Sunday, as we begin a new series at my church, I’ll be sharing about the tension between being sojourners and settling down....
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jun 17, 20103 min read
The Liberating Power of One
I pick up the other book I’m reading called “Practicing the Presence of God” by a 17th century French monk named “Brother Lawrence”. ...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jun 7, 20102 min read
A step towards Abounding in Hope
To make things more exciting, we had our over-confident participants do the ropes course blindfolded. They’d climb the rope ladder and...
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Richard Dahlstrom
May 21, 20103 min read
“Perhaps” – the paralysis of fear, and power of risk
It’s terrible irony that the very thing they fear, ends up happening, precisely because they’re afraid of it happening. “Fear” it turns...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Apr 19, 20103 min read
Driving to San Diego…
I turn on the radio and start fiddling with the AM little realizing what’s about to happen. “Good afternoon!” says the familiar voice....
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jan 22, 20103 min read
Our Prayers: Thermometer of our world view…
I recently read a survey that indicated 90% of American men self identify as being “above average fitness” compared to their peers. When...
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