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
- Dec 15, 2018
- 4 min
Seasons of Life and Lessons in Staying and Letting Go
left to right: Martin, Director of Tauernhof, Richard, Charlie, board member of Tauernhof. “Stay a little longer” my friend Martin...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Dec 7, 2018
- 3 min
How Naming Your Values can Change Your Life
The sad reality, though, is that the testimonies offered that day also served as a grave reminder that courage, servanthood, generosity,...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Oct 6, 2018
- 4 min
The thing that mustn’t change: Use Your Gifts!
My predecessor just keep using his gifts day after day for 38 years. The difficult truth that few seem interested in hearing these days...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Sep 29, 2018
- 4 min
“…the time we’ve been given” – The Why and How of a Personal Mission Statement
1. Coffee. Always first: Coffee 2. Bible reading while drinking the first cup. 3. Meditation (from the Bible reading) 4. Writing in the...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Sep 6, 2018
- 4 min
Your “Sphere of Influence” is calling and You must go
The church hasn’t been immune to this polarizing. We’ve mirrored the culture’s political tribal hatred, enough so that it’s increasingly...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Apr 7, 2018
- 4 min
Awakening the Feminine Voice in the Church – What it means and Why it Matters
The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day… life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Dec 22, 2017
- 4 min
Lighten up! The value of Hope over rage, cynicism, and despondency
The first winter we lived in the mountains, an early storm knocked down hundreds of fir trees deep in the cascades, and those trees...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Dec 2, 2017
- 12 min
The Disco Ball of Success, and What to do when You’re Blinded by it
Here’s a free chapter for all those folks you know in your lives who have walked the road of success for a bit of distance and are both...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jun 9, 2017
- 4 min
Vicarious vs. Experience: Not Even Close
They would, in other words, rather look on a relationship from the outside, experiencing the hollow thrill of being an observer, rather...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Dec 24, 2016
- 4 min
The Gifts of Christmas #5 – Shepherd, Provider, Gift Giver
Over 37 years, two stockings have become ten. JOY! It was in the late summer of 1976 when I first made my way north to Seattle,...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Aug 26, 2016
- 5 min
Completion as a Starting Point
I started a little vacation about a week ago. The plan was to hike a big chunk of the Pacific Crest Trail with my wife of nearly 37...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Apr 18, 2016
- 6 min
Into the fog of discipleship…step by step
All right then. It will be a day to put on the touring skis, which means attaching friction creating skins to the base of the skis and...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Dec 20, 2014
- 4 min
Ambition or Temptation? How to tell the difference
“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might…” The Preacher in Ecclesiastes I’m sure you’ve been there. You want...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Sep 19, 2014
- 2 min
Last Journey’s the Best
It’s our last hike, the end of our forty days trekking through the Alps together. I’ll begin teaching next week and thinking about...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Aug 25, 2014
- 4 min
The Wind of the Spirit – blowing plans away day by day
Our view of guidance is important, because unless we believe God can still direct our lives, orchestrating encounters, moving us to...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jul 29, 2014
- 4 min
Eternity in our hearts – Leaning into our longings
Most years, the first or second week of December, I’m in the little town of Schladming, in the Austrian Alps, to teach at a Bible school...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jul 17, 2014
- 3 min
Obscurity has its privileges. Answers to feelings of insignificance.
In just a few short days, my wife and I will be off to Europe where we’ll trek through the Alps, fully expecting to find the fingerprints...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- May 27, 2014
- 5 min
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
- May 8, 2014
- 2 min
Life is a Journey: Step by Step
There’s a hearing. It comes to us in dreams, or songs, or after a conversation in the corner booth of a Tuesday night with the one we...
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