I gave a short meditation during a worship service for our Virginia Mennonite Conference summer assembly: “Jesus is our peace.” 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. ————————————————————– Isaac S. [...]

Mennonite Church USA Delegate Assembly 2009 Report by Ryan Koch, Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship July 7th, 2009 Tom, Isaac, and I arrived in Columbus on Tuesday afternoon just in time for evening worship which inaugurated the conference. A few details about the conference: all together nearly 7500 individuals attended. The total number of delegates was [...]

Title: Desire Date: July 12, 2009 Texts: 2 Sam 6:1-5, 12b-19; Mk 6:14-29 Author: Isaac Villegas Lord of life, lead us into your grace and truth. Give us eyes to see the truth about ourselves, and the grace to not run away from what we see, but receive your new life. Amen. Sometimes the truth [...]

Title: Weakness and Perseverance Texts: Mk 6:1-13, 2 Cor 12:2-10 Date: July 5th, 2009 Author: Dave Nickel 1.     The church we attended in Phoenix had a “mentoring” program.  Through this program, I was asked to mentor a high school student named Dan. I agreed to try, but I didn’t know what it meant to [...]