Northwest Leader - Brian Dolleman » Lent https://www.northwestleader.com Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:24:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 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 40… The Old Guard https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-40-old-guard/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-40-old-guard/#comments Sat, 15 Apr 2017 13:00:00 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6097 The old guard… that’s the group that always uses fear to keep themselves employed or in power. They make change out to be the big bad wolf (or antichrist or whatever). This is actually who was most threatened by Jesus, and this is who killed him. It wasn’t anarchists or the liberals or the foreigners […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-40-old-guard/feed/ 5 Lent Day 39… Death Machines And Darkness https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-39-death-machines-darkness/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-39-death-machines-darkness/#comments Fri, 14 Apr 2017 20:35:23 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6086 When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land. —Mark 15.33 I have always struggled to understand why today is called Good Friday. What I think would be more appropriate: switch names with Black Friday (the big day of shopping on Friday after Thanksgiving). Call the shopping day Good Friday, and the day of […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-39-death-machines-darkness/feed/ 0 Lent Day 38… To See Them Like Children https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-38-see-like-children/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-38-see-like-children/#comments Fri, 14 Apr 2017 01:32:00 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6080 Normally I have been posting each morning for this Lent series – but it is Spring Break and we are in Portland. Anyway, the internet was down at the Airbnb place we rented, so it’s only now that I’ve been able to get online. Today is Maundy Thursday. If you look that up on Wikipedia, it’ll […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-38-see-like-children/feed/ 2 Lent Day 37… There Is No Beauty Without Some Strangeness https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-37-beauty-without-strangeness/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-37-beauty-without-strangeness/#comments Wed, 12 Apr 2017 13:00:48 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6074 There is no beauty without some strangeness. —Edgar Allen Poe We’ve been in Portland for Spring break… It’s quirky, strange, beautiful, and 100% Northwest. There are bridges everywhere because, of course, there is water everywhere. We’re surrounded by green growing things and concrete and bricks and graffiti. It’s like a study in contrasts. Today we […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-37-beauty-without-strangeness/feed/ 1 Lent Day 36… The Little Tyrant Inside https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-36-little-tyrant-inside/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-36-little-tyrant-inside/#comments Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:00:37 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6067 You need power only when you want to do something harmful. Otherwise, love is enough to get everything done. —Charlie Chaplin Jean Vanier, in his book Community and Growth, wrote… We are so inclined to want authority for the honor, prestige and admiration that comes with it. Inside each of us is a little tyrant who […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-36-little-tyrant-inside/feed/ 2 Lent Day 35… Listening To God Is Far More Important Than Giving Him Our Ideas https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-35-listening-god-far-important-giving-ideas/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-35-listening-god-far-important-giving-ideas/#comments Mon, 10 Apr 2017 13:00:09 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6064 Why is it that when we speak to God we are said to be praying but when God speaks to us we are said to be schizophrenic? —Lily Tomlin I’ll admit it: whenever someone begins a sentence with, “God told me…” alarm bells go off in my head. It’s not that I don’t believe God […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-35-listening-god-far-important-giving-ideas/feed/ 0 Lent Day 34… Maybe You Weren’t Made For Greatness https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-34-maybe-werent-made-greatness/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-34-maybe-werent-made-greatness/#comments Sat, 08 Apr 2017 13:00:14 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6057 Question: does a palm tree have to be “great” in order for it to be valuable, useful, beautiful, or special? Does it matter if it is the tallest or fastest or largest? Do we need palm tree competitions and palm tree awards to validate their existence? God does not demand that I be successful. God […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-34-maybe-werent-made-greatness/feed/ 5 Lent Day 33… If I Cannot Find The Face Of Jesus https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-33-find-face-jesus/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-33-find-face-jesus/#comments Fri, 07 Apr 2017 13:00:00 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6053 Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this command to love our enemies is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes, it is love that will save our world and civilization, love even for enemies. —Martin Luther King Jr. (sermon at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, November 17, 1957) Jim […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-33-find-face-jesus/feed/ 0 Lent Day 29… Like A Toddler Driving A Tractor https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-29-like-toddler-driving-tractor/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-29-like-toddler-driving-tractor/#comments Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:34:50 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6031 “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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