by Alan Briggs | Dec 7, 2017 | Archive, City, Family, Neighborhood
This has been the most meaningful Advent season I’ve ever experienced. Ever. We’ve engaged actively in the waiting as a collective through The Weary World Rejoices Advent movement. It’s been beautiful to be shaped by poems and posts and to...
by Alan Briggs | Dec 7, 2017 | Archive, City, Family, Neighborhood
Here’s a guest post from my friend Paul Pastor. We invite you to enter the pain and expectation and join our Advent movement; The Weary World Rejoices. “…Let earth receive her king.” In recent years, many low-church Protestants have embraced Advent as an...
by Alan Briggs | Dec 3, 2017 | Archive, City, Family, Neighborhood
Here’s a guest post from my friend Dan White. We invite you to enter the pain and expectation and join our Advent movement; The Weary World Rejoices. …In this Season of Advent we learn about waiting. Waiting is painful; it brings anxiety and in...
by Alan Briggs | Nov 30, 2017 | Archive, City, Family, Neighborhood
Let’s face it; Christmas is a letdown for most people. The anticipation is unrivaled; songs, smells, gifts, parties, movies and countdown calendars. But the Christmas season can leave us with an empty bank account, a full schedule of mediocre parties and a barrage of...
by Alan Briggs | Oct 30, 2017 | Archive, City, Family, Neighborhood
You can invite someone to the table, but you can’t make them eat. Although we may try, we can’t make others hungry. Hunger is a choice. It drives people to work harder than the rest, take painful steps, ask hard questions and keep grinding once...
by Alan Briggs | Oct 24, 2017 | Archive, City, Family, Neighborhood
We live in the age of discernment. Those who possess it will thrive. Those who lack it will destroy themselves. We carry computers in our pockets that shoot messages into into the minds of thousands of people. It’s scary. We post things in one emotional moment that...
