Richard DahlstromDec 30, 20182 minDear Green Lake: Merry Christmas, and Happy New YearDear Green Lake Before my five year departure from Washington, I walked the frozen shores with the woman who is now my wife and after...
Richard DahlstromApr 14, 20153 minSteps 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...
Richard DahlstromNov 19, 20144 minPursuing 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...
Richard DahlstromMay 27, 20145 minAchilles Heal: Lessons for life and leadership learned from a tendonThe Achilles story is appropriate because this tendon seems the bane of countless athletes. Anatomy for Runners tells the story of a...
Richard DahlstromMar 19, 20145 minThis one weird trick will change your life: Slow DownOur children are growing, as we do too, slowly; imperceptibly every day. The meat in the crock pot is tenderizing; slowly. Our world,...
Richard DahlstromOct 31, 20133 minThe Most Important Thing You can do for your Transformationprevious post about “the end of sex as we know it” because it addresses an important trend in our culture. But a convergence of...
Richard DahlstromOct 22, 20134 minEmbodiment 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...
Richard DahlstromAug 28, 20134 minWhen Everything’s Collapsing? The Ancient PathsMeanwhile, our pop culture offers one of it’s stars at a music awards show and we’re struck with the realization that nobility,...
Richard DahlstromAug 5, 20133 minWhen Life produces Too Much Life: The Value of QuittingThe 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. ...
Richard DahlstromJun 7, 20114 minSkinny Church – the wrong fast for a hungry worldVegetarian 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...
Richard DahlstromMay 14, 20113 minWeekend: Lessons from backyard and bibleWhile on the surface, they appear to be two wildly different worlds, they came together this morning in my quiet moments in the backyard....
Richard DahlstromMay 13, 20112 minQuiet…an endangered speciesModernity isn’t just philosophical–it’s chemical. It’s mechanical. And though the industrial revolution brought us lots of great stuff,...
Richard DahlstromApr 19, 20113 minInsanity antidote: simplicityour economy: climbing without a rope If you’re reading these words, you’re likely among the top 10% of wealthiest people in the world....
Richard DahlstromApr 13, 20112 minThanks Dietrich…words for the agesTo live faithfully is to live 'fully present in this world' Last night I was privileged to participate in a panel discussion about the...
Richard DahlstromApr 7, 20113 minAn 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,...
Richard DahlstromMar 21, 20113 minCrazy Confidence in a Shaky Worldthere'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...
Richard DahlstromFeb 7, 20113 minHow 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...
Richard DahlstromDec 28, 20103 minFirst Resolution: five options for five minutes of prayerI’ve felt this way too much in 2010, and so I’m heading back to “first things”, foundational truths that are considered foundational...
Richard DahlstromDec 22, 20103 minChristmas Vacation: filling hospitality with joy instead of tensionLooking for a better way of being together than “Christmas Vacation”? read on: “Dwelling” is a great word. It can mean the space in...
Richard DahlstromNov 8, 20103 min…”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...