Isaac S. Villegas MWR Book Review January 2011 A Neo-Anabaptist Vision? James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, & Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2010). In his analysis of Christian witness in North America, James Davison Hunter discusses a movement he names “Neo-Anabaptism.” The heart of [...]

Why Fire? Acts 2:1-21 by Catherine Thiel Lee May 27, 2012 Joe asked me what I was preaching about this week. “Pentecost,” I told him.  “Do you remember what happens at Pentecost?”  His eyes got wide and he grinned and nodded.  “There’s fire! And Jesus sends it on their heads.” If I may brag on [...]

Wilderness roads Acts 8:26-40, 1 Jn 4:7-21, Jn 15:1-8 by Isaac S. Villegas May 6, 2012 “I am the vine, you are the branches,” Jesus says to the disciples, “Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit” (Jn 15:5). There are some grapevines that grow in a little plot of land [...]

Cornerstone Acts 4:5-12, 1 John 3:16-24 by Martha King April 29, 2012 It just so happens that I preached the on Good Shepherd Sunday last year; so I’ll admit that instead of writing another sermon on the 23rd Psalm, I decided to look elsewhere in our passages for the week and pick up with Isaac’s [...]