Northwest Leader - Brian Dolleman » Silence https://www.northwestleader.com Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:24:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 An Attitude Of Listening https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/attitude-listening/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/attitude-listening/#comments Wed, 21 Jun 2017 16:18:52 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6156 Continuing in this theme of stillness / quiet / silence / listening / hearing… a few more words from Sue Monk Kidd’s book God’s Joyful Surprise: The aim of silence is to create an attitude of listening to God. Without listening, silence is just a vacuum. Inside our silence, we seek an encounter, a dialog, […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/attitude-listening/feed/ 1 Silence. Quietness. Stillness. Is There Anything We Neglect More? https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/silence-quietness-stillness-anything-neglect/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/silence-quietness-stillness-anything-neglect/#comments Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:24:15 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6152 There’s a gas station near my house that I frequent. When I stopped in the other day, something was different. We were headed out together as a family for an adventure. As I stepped out of the car to fill it up, there was instant noise and flickering of lights… the gas station had upgraded […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/silence-quietness-stillness-anything-neglect/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 30… The Space Between The Notes https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-30-space-notes/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-30-space-notes/#comments Tue, 04 Apr 2017 13:00:05 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6040 Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God. —A.W. Tozer Sting (yup, Sting—as in the lead singer of the Police) once said… Silence is disturbing. It is disturbing because it is the wavelength of the soul. If we leave no space in our music—and I’m […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/listen-will-hear/feed/ 2 Filling All The Spaces With Noise https://www.northwestleader.com/2014/filling-spaces-noise/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2014/filling-spaces-noise/#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:52:59 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=4389 Hold, hold your tongue now. And let them all listen to your silence. —The Ting Tings, Silence We are addicted to filling all the spaces with noise. And when I say “we,” I mean us Charismatic Christians. That includes Pentecostals (who are the worst about this). Please don’t think I’m writing this to throw someone […]

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