Northwest Leader - Brian Dolleman » Easter https://www.northwestleader.com Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:24:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 NWLife Weekly Conversation—Easter https://www.northwestleader.com/2020/nwlife-weekly-conversation-easter/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2020/nwlife-weekly-conversation-easter/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2020 14:45:00 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6551 Here is our fifth video NWLife podcast featuring our weekly conversation. Today’s theme: Easter Easter is the great reversal, the surprise of hope, the impossible made possible. Desmond Tutu said, “Good is stronger than evil, love is stronger than hate, light is stronger than darkness, life is stronger than death. Victory is ours, through him […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2020/nwlife-weekly-conversation-easter/feed/ 2 So that the world may be made Easter new, without greedy lack, but only wonder https://www.northwestleader.com/2020/world-may-made-easter-new-without-greedy-lack-wonder/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2020/world-may-made-easter-new-without-greedy-lack-wonder/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2020 01:57:30 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6546 Thankful Notes (#237) This was a good day. Maybe not a typical Saturday, but still… good. My dad has been in his new house next door for two nights now and we are in the beginning stages of establishing a new rhythm. Tomorrow is Easter Sunday, and, of course it will be different. I’m not […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2020/world-may-made-easter-new-without-greedy-lack-wonder/feed/ 0 The Light That Sweeps Over The Garden https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/light-sweeps-garden/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/light-sweeps-garden/#comments Sun, 16 Apr 2017 13:00:37 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6100 Wilderness and desert will sing joyously, the badlands will celebrate and flower—Like the crocus in spring, bursting into blossom, a symphony of song and color. —Isaiah 35.1-2 A sound behind her stirs A scatter of bright birdsong through the air. She turns, but cannot focus through her tears, Or recognize the Gardener standing there. She […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/light-sweeps-garden/feed/ 0 Lent Day 11… First Sadness, Then Gladness https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-11-first-sadness-gladness/ https://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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