Northwest Leader - Brian Dolleman » honesty http://www.northwestleader.com Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:24:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Lent Day 22… If you want to give anything worthwhile of yourself, you have to feel completely exposed http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-22-want-give-anything-worthwhile-feel-completely-exposed/ http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-22-want-give-anything-worthwhile-feel-completely-exposed/#comments Sat, 25 Mar 2017 13:00:31 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5996 On Wednesday of this week, we had an all-staff meeting at the church. This wasn’t one of those business, strategy, or calendar-planning types of meetings. Instead, it was going over a chapter in a book we have been reading together (Discovering Our Spiritual Identity: Practices for God’s Beloved by Trevor Hudson). As part of the […]

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]]> http://www.northwestleader.com/2016/questions-team-members/feed/ 2 Open Wounds http://www.northwestleader.com/2016/open-wounds/ http://www.northwestleader.com/2016/open-wounds/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2016 21:18:27 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5560 picture above: balloons being released by the grandkids after my mom’s memorial service this past August – yellow is my mom’s favorite color. Note—this post is by Debie Thomas, originally posted on the Journey with Jesus blog. *     *     * A few days ago, my daughter and I were looking at […]

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]]> http://www.northwestleader.com/2016/open-wounds/feed/ 2 Shadow Work http://www.northwestleader.com/2014/shadow-work/ http://www.northwestleader.com/2014/shadow-work/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:30:34 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=4445 First, let me start with something light and funny. I received the following e-mail from Andy Jones the other day: “Working on some Celebrate Recovery stuff and came across these self evaluation questions… Have you exaggerated yourself to make yourself look better?  In what areas of your past have you used false humility? Hahahahahahahahahaha All […]

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]]> http://www.northwestleader.com/2013/want-honest-really/feed/ 15 Honest People Scare Me (And I Think I’m Starting To Like It) http://www.northwestleader.com/2013/honest-people-scare-think-im-starting-like/ http://www.northwestleader.com/2013/honest-people-scare-think-im-starting-like/#comments Tue, 01 Oct 2013 15:20:38 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=3226 Honest people scare me. Maybe it’s because I believe that famous Jack Nicholson line from A Few Good Men, “You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth!” Or maybe it’s because I’m a control freak and allowing someone to say what they really think is handing over the controls to them. And who knows […]

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