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Church Without All The BS

Brian Dolleman — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 20:52:52 +0000

These are the notes from my sermon preached on 11.21.21 at NWLife Church – the 9th in a series of 10 sermons based on the book of Nehemiah called “When Everything’s On Fire.” The title of my sermon today is: “Church Without All The BS.” Up to this point, Nehemiah has had quite the journey… A […]

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Advent Day 9: Grace Takes Us To Unexpected Places

Brian Dolleman — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:23:03 +0000

*picture above: a statue of Mary in a church we visited this summer in Narni (an ancient hilltop village in the Umbrian region of Italy) And Mary said, My soul magnifies the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my savior. For he took notice of his lowly servant girl, and now generation after generation forever shall […]

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Now I See

Brian Dolleman — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:36:34 +0000

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I am found, was blind, but now I see. —John Newton Now I see that God’s love does not seek value, it creates it. Now I see that my identity is a gift from God, not an […]

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Lent Day 29… Like A Toddler Driving A Tractor

Brian Dolleman — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:34:50 +0000

“Sensible people, of course, should need only about thirty seconds of careful thought to realize that getting off scot-free is the only way any of us is going to get off at all. But if all we can think of is God as the Eternal Bookkeeper putting down black marks against sinners—or God as the […]

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Lent Day 28… Martha Was The Worst

Brian Dolleman — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 16:30:19 +0000

Today’s post is from Sarah Condon’s book Churchy: The Real Life Adventures of a Wife, Mom & Priest… Selected portions from the chapter titled, “Martha Was The Worst” - People do not want to chastise the lady who is just trying to get the dishes done. I get that. The last thing I want to […]

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The Final Word Is Love

Brian Dolleman — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:30:02 +0000

*pictured above: my friend Reggie who was over-the-moon happy to come help get the church ready for our Sunday services. Some powerful thoughts from Dorothy Day… The final word is love. The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in […]

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Real Grace Is Always A Little And Maybe A Lot Scandalous

Brian Dolleman — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 16:39:36 +0000

…women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift? —Philip Yancey In Philip Yancey’s book, What’s So Amazing about Grace? he recounts a story about C. S. Lewis: During a […]

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So The Whole World Falls In

Brian Dolleman — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:49:49 +0000

Evangelism as embodied by Jesus… implies the all-embracing love evident in Mother Teresa’s prayer: May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in. Not just her fellow nuns, Catholics, Calcuttans, potential converts. The whole world. It gives me pause to realize that, were such a prayer said by me and answered by […]

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And He Says, “Take The Risk”

Brian Dolleman — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 17:43:23 +0000

Whoever we may be, living authentically in God’s image is a risk, because it is a rejection of the self-serving drives that enthrall us and keep us afraid to put our integrity on the line and release our compassion. The choice is whether on this day to be full of ourselves or have fullness of […]

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The Attraction Of Small Graces & Specific Kindnesses

Brian Dolleman — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:00:53 +0000

In Phil Needham’s book When God Becomes Small, he shares the following… I love the story Kathleen Norris tells about her three-year old niece. The girl’s father would drive her to day care in the morning on the way to work, and her mother would pick her up on the way home. Often the mother […]

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