Northwest Leader - Brian Dolleman » jonathan martin https://www.northwestleader.com Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:24:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Qualities of a Safe Church https://www.northwestleader.com/2022/qualities-safe-church/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2022/qualities-safe-church/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2022 01:09:20 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6790 These are the notes from a sermon I preached on the first Sunday of Summer – on June 26, 2022… Summer has officially arrived! Feels good, doesn’t it? It seems like the most difficult and life-altering days of pandemic life are behind us now, I hope, and we can once again enjoy meals together and […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2022/qualities-safe-church/feed/ 3 Favorite Books Read In 2016 https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/favorite-books-read-2016/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/favorite-books-read-2016/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2016 22:35:25 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5791 I thought I’d share the list of my favorite books read in 2016. A new thing (for me anyway) that I’ve been doing is reading poetry and fiction… I think Brian Zahnd convicted me with something he wrote that included the following quote from Eugene Peterson: Isn’t it odd that pastors, who are responsible for […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/favorite-books-read-2016/feed/ 3 Sunday Shout-Outs https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/sunday-shout-outs-4/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/sunday-shout-outs-4/#comments Sun, 13 Nov 2016 13:00:27 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5760 Two beautifully challenging pieces to share today—the first one is new, the other is a few years old… I Want To Help You Understand My Lament by Shannon Dingle. I’m hurting, friend. I’m hurting deeply. And I’m being told to suck it up and put away my pain and move on. Rather than call those responses […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/sunday-shout-outs-4/feed/ 1 The Liberating Truth of Limits https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/liberating-truth-limits/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/liberating-truth-limits/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:30:42 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5716 In two months, two high-profile megachurch celebrity pastors have resigned from their churches. What’s going on? Well, it’s easy to become unbalanced and unhealthy. It’s easy to overextend and heap way too much significance on the shoulders of one individual. It’s easy to mix mission (what God is calling us to do) with ambition (what […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/liberating-truth-limits/feed/ 2 Stammering Awkwardly and Boldly on Race and Violence (Holy Spirit, Help!) https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/stammering-awkwardly-boldly-race-violence-holy-spirit-help/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/stammering-awkwardly-boldly-race-violence-holy-spirit-help/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:42:57 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5638 The following are my notes from Sunday’s message – which included receiving communion together (with instructions to sit, holding the bread and cup, quiet and still before God—bringing our anger, hurt, sorrow, and fear into God’s presence, asking God to soften our hearts). *     *     * At the heart of the […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2015/good-kind-shouting/feed/ 0 Check. These. Out. https://www.northwestleader.com/2015/check/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2015/check/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2015 12:00:30 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=4915 Here’s my Sunday Shout Out offerings – what I read and loved from around the internet this past week. Serious, this stuff is good. Ya gotta check these out…   1. This Post by Richard Beck: Love Well Locally. The premise of this post is about Richard being asked how he keeps his self-esteem in check […]

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