blip : Beyond Lost Intellectual Ponderings :

I gave a short meditation during a worship service for our Virginia Mennonite Conference summer assembly. They asked me to share about Jesus’ beatitude on peacemaking from Matthew 5: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” Below is what I came up with.
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Isaac S. Villegas
VMC Assembly
July 24, 2009

Power

I will start [...]

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I was asked to introduce Shane Claiborne at a seminar he did at our Mennonite Church USA convention a few weeks ago. Here’s what I said:

When folks ask me what I think about Shane Claiborne, I like to say that I cam glad that what he says is right and true. If he were a [...]

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Title: Desire
Date: July 12, 2009
Texts: 2 Sam 6:1-5, 122 Sam 6:1-5, 12English: Contemporary English Version (1999) – CEVDavid Brings the Sacred Chest Back to Jerusalem

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1 David brought together thirty thousand of Israel’s best soldiers and

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