Rev Bill

I am starting something new today.  I can’t promise I’ll do it every Sunday — especially after the NFL football season starts — but I want to start a weekly post to give a "tip of the hat" to bloggers who link to my blog or make outstanding comments. I enjoy blogging — and want [...]

Thankfully this was a relatively "slow week" in the news — after the last 4 weeks it was time for things to "quiet down" somewhat!
From reading my last 3 weekly reflection posts — which (you can read here, here, and here ) you can see that I have been trying to present the fact [...]

I just finished and posted on my Sermon Blog my sermon for tomorrow.  It’s based on Matthew 14:13-21, and entitled "Counting On Jesus."   
Here’s a portion of it:

Aren’t there times we want to ask –

God  — surely you don’t expect me to take care of all these needs –

Like the disciples – we [...]

One news item this week was the House passing CAFTA – the Central American Free Trade Agreement. Scott Ott at ScappleFace has uncovered a piece of legislation you might not be as familiar with — LAFTA — the Liberal American Free Trade Agreement.   This agreement, as Ott reports,
drops the requirement that left-leaning consumers feel [...]

It seems that everywhere I turn these days I get the feeling that unless I am politically right wing I can not be Christian.   My exchange of ideas with PBS Watcher this week made me feel he was not so much interested in reading what I had to write as he was interested in belittling [...]