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Corona: Learning to Thrive in our Global Monastery

Richard Dahlstrom

Mar 22, 20206 min read

Corona: Learning to Thrive in our Global Monastery

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. - Blaise Pascal The picture you see here was taken...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Aug 24, 20194 min read

Guarding My Heart – Lessons learned from Running Slow

Today I finished a full loop from my tiny house, a full 3.5 miles, with only a little bit of walking and I can safely say that I’m nearly...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Jul 27, 20194 min read

Meditation: Good for the heart; the literal one that pumps your blood

Meanwhile, there’s a verse in the Bible that says, “above all else guard your heart”, for from it flow the wellsprings of life.” I’ve...

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Hungry for a Tribe – musings on isolation and consumerism

Richard Dahlstrom

Aug 3, 20184 min read

Hungry for a Tribe – musings on isolation and consumerism

What’s going on? Why does Joe Rogan have 30 million podcasts downloads each month? And, more cogent to this blog and my own musings:...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Nov 27, 20173 min read

Creating Habits that Lead to Life – with a free book chapter to help

One of the great paradoxes of Christianity is that there isn’t a single thing we can do save ourselves, transform ourselves, or grow...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Nov 25, 20174 min read

Sustainable Faith requires Practices

On Sunday November 25th I’ll be speaking at all our Bethany locations on the very important subject of how to turn spiritual disciplines...

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Soil Conditions for seeds of hope – Lessons learned on a bike ride

Richard Dahlstrom

Oct 7, 20173 min read

Soil Conditions for seeds of hope – Lessons learned on a bike ride

It’s no news that we live in a world of increasing insanity, where daily headlines serve to remind us that humanity is collectively, like...

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“Steal, Kill, and Destroy” – Your Time’s Been Stolen!

Richard Dahlstrom

Jul 13, 20174 min read

“Steal, Kill, and Destroy” – Your Time’s Been Stolen!

You’ve been ripped off I mean to live this year as if it were my last, and will hate every time I fall below that standard and fritter...

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Idol Busting and Fire Walking – the power of right habits

Richard Dahlstrom

Apr 4, 20174 min read

Idol Busting and Fire Walking – the power of right habits

“Nebuchadnezzar said to them: “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: Is it true that you don’t serve my gods or worship the gold statue I’ve...

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Setting Your Sights Higher: Why “Right Intentions” Matter so much

Richard Dahlstrom

Mar 3, 20154 min read

Setting Your Sights Higher: Why “Right Intentions” Matter so much

“Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the elders of Israel, and you shall worship at a distance. Moses...

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Adaptation to sameness – a skill to nurture and keep

Richard Dahlstrom

Jul 7, 20144 min read

Adaptation to sameness – a skill to nurture and keep

The training of the body of is vital for people like us, who have spent most of our waking hours during adulthood sitting in chairs. ...

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Achilles Heal: Lessons for life and leadership learned from a tendon

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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This one weird trick will change your life: Slow Down

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

May 31, 20114 min read

Don’t find your passion—find your lover

what skills are needed to get to the future? Graduation is in the air, and David Brooks’ excellent article about the wrong-headed...

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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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First Resolution: five options for five minutes of prayer

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 4, 20102 min read

“Occupied” – a key to joy filled living

If we’re going to live our lives well, we’re going to need to take out the garbage. The pain we’re carrying, the lies we believe, the...

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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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Big ears and a small mouth…a verse to live by

Richard Dahlstrom

Oct 21, 20103 min read

Big ears and a small mouth…a verse to live by

How about this: “…be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God” ...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Oct 19, 20104 min read

The roots of peace: Eternal Perspective

This is one of the most liberating verses in the Bible. When I began college, right after my dad had died, I was intent on “making my...

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