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Richard Dahlstrom
- Aug 24, 2019
- 4 min
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, 2019
- 4 min
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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Richard Dahlstrom
- Aug 3, 2018
- 4 min
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, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2017
- 4 min
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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Richard Dahlstrom
- Oct 7, 2017
- 3 min
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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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jul 13, 2017
- 4 min
“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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Richard Dahlstrom
- Apr 4, 2017
- 4 min
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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Richard Dahlstrom
- Mar 3, 2015
- 4 min
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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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jul 7, 2014
- 4 min
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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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
- Mar 19, 2014
- 5 min
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, 2011
- 4 min
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, 2011
- 3 min
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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Richard Dahlstrom
- Dec 28, 2010
- 3 min
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, 2010
- 2 min
“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, 2010
- 3 min
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
- Oct 21, 2010
- 3 min
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, 2010
- 4 min
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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