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I took the picture for this week’s photothursday contest (theme is water in case you hadn’t guessed) when we were on vacation in San Luis Obispo a couple months ago. We were geocaching in this park and came across a water fountain that wouldn’t turn off.

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This week’s photothursday contest was the most unique yet: “In life, this _ is something I savor.” Cool topic, but it was so wide I had trouble coming up with anything. Finally, driving home from class last night (coming from Pasadena at about 11pm) I realized there was one thing I definitely savored: [...]

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I preached tonight. Below is the sermon text. Folks seemed think it was alright. Hope you do to.
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Title: Disruptions
Author: Isaac S. Villegas
Date: May 15, 2005
Place: Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship
Lectionary Texts: Num. 11:24-30; Ps. 104:24-35; Acts 2:1-21

I spent my teenage years in Tucson—a city in the Sonoran Desert. Now, when most people think about the desert [...]

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After winning the photothursday competition for the first time last week I got to choose the topic for this week, and so chose self portrait. After taking a good hundred pictures that were blah I came up with a couple I liked. The inspiration for this one came from one of student photos [...]

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r e s t. That’s the theme for this week’s photothursday contest. Dogs seem to be popular subjects for the category which makes sense since that’s about all they do (true for Toby, anyhow). I like this one because I caught the grain of the wood and Toby just as he’s starting [...]

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The Third Council of Constantinople locates true humanity in Jesus Christ. He is “perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity, the same truly God and truly man.” If Jesus is perfect in humanity and truly human, then I have to wonder what it means to call myself “human.” What is a human? What are [...]

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