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Richard Dahlstrom
Oct 10, 20205 min read
How do you KNOW something is true? Part 3
PRINCIPLES OF FAITH AND KNOWING: It’s quite the challenging time when part of the country wants to address systemic racism and another...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Sep 23, 20207 min read
How do you “Know” something is true? part 2
These times call for discernment, even more than most times, because competing truth-claims are loud, and the place you land with your...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Sep 11, 20205 min read
How do you “Know” something is true - Part 1
As fires torch California and Los Angeles, and fire specialists speak of the fire season having grown two months longer than it was...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Sep 7, 20202 min read
How do you decide what’s True?
Two contrasting statements from Jesus and a Roman Governor reveal both the hope and challenge of the question which frames this blog...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Aug 29, 20206 min read
Fallow: Learning from a "Covid-Time" necessity
But in the seventh year you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Aug 27, 20205 min read
Growing Old on Ancient Paths
I'm privileged to introduce an outstanding guest author, Kristi Dahlstrom, as she writes about embracing season changes in life. You can...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Aug 2, 20205 min read
Beating Anxiety: 3 Portions Needed... in proportion
I watch the news and hear reasonable and well-educated people fearing that the possibility of a constitutional crisis in the upcoming...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jul 17, 20205 min read
Drinking Spirit Water - How to tap into peace in an age of anxiety
You can feel everything heating up, can’t you? The election, geopolitical, and race conversations are heating up, and the likelihood is,...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jul 4, 20206 min read
National Humiliation, and a path forward
What is the source of the failure? It has many names — individualism, cultural libertarianism, atomism, selfishness, lack of social...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jun 21, 20205 min read
Blind to Collective Sin: A Case Study
I grew up in the land of individualism. I learned early on that the main point of the Christian life was to “accept Jesus Christ as my...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jun 3, 20205 min read
In a culture of death, choose Life
note to the reader: at the very time of this writing and publication, police cars are on fire in downtown Seattle - and there's a...
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Richard Dahlstrom
May 17, 20205 min read
Fully Present: How Jesus becomes Visible through you
Real and true faith in Christ is profoundly practical. It will, indeed must, ultimately present itself in your body, which is a way of...
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Richard Dahlstrom
May 9, 20205 min read
The Besetting Sin of Racism
Until we collectively own the racism that is our collective national history, we won’t move into the freedom and transformation awaiting us.
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Richard Dahlstrom
May 3, 20205 min read
Wholeness of Body: What it Means, Why it Matters, Next Steps
What Wholeness of Body Means: Christ followers have a long held tortured relationship with the body. In the church's earliest centuries,...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Apr 26, 20204 min read
Family Values - they’re supposed to shine in crisis times
Gandhi said, “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike Christ. Now, more than ever, time to change!
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Richard Dahlstrom
Apr 19, 20205 min read
It's Endurance Time - 3 tips to build it slowly
Just over a year ago I decided I wanted to do a February fun run in Seattle because they'd be tearing a road down with a stunning view,...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Apr 12, 20205 min read
Easter: The Land of the Living has never been more inviting!
I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living - Psalm 27:13 Let...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Apr 4, 20205 min read
Downward Ascent: Intersecting Covid-19 with Holy Week Crosses
Holy Week is an opportunity, because we’re not seeing Jesus through a, “look what he's done for me" lens. This year, the cross is ours too!
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Richard Dahlstrom
Mar 27, 20205 min read
What we do with the time we’ve been given... an invitation to join us
Note to reader: Now that “stay home” has elevated to the status of law in the state I live, my earlier thoughts about viewing this as an...
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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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