Northwest Leader - Brian Dolleman » sadness 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 11… First Sadness, Then Gladness http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-11-first-sadness-gladness/ http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-11-first-sadness-gladness/#comments Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:00:23 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5925 Today’s Lent post is from Walter Brueggemann’s devotional book, A Way Other Than Our Own. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep. —Luke 6.21b, 25b In his “woe,” Jesus reviews the “laugh now” party. The “laugh now” party consists […]

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