Rev Bill

The grandmother of Patricia, my nephew Rob’s wife, died this week. Keep the family in your prayers.

Rob wrote a wonderful piece on Loss as a response to his grandmother’s death, Patricia’s grandmother’s death, and several other things going on in their lives. Here’s a part of it:
A friend of mine once said in [...]

I try to encourage the members of Hopewell to think of innovative ways to reach out to the community. Here’s one:
A Church in Oklahoma had a campaign where they paid 20 cents of every gallon of gasoline at a local pump in a one hour period. I don’t [...]

I ran across this article today. Apparently Bethel Temple Community Church in Evansville, Ind, has ended a 21 day campaign aimed at getting folks to stop complaining. The bracelets — with Philippians 2:14 engraved on them — were given to members of the church to remind them to try to not complain.
This could [...]

Bob Dylan once wrote:
“I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.”
I thought about this as I read this article in the New York Times e-headlines about young people being more liberal than older people. I’m not so sure that’s “news” — it may be merely an example of the age old [...]

Todd Rhoades of Monday Morning Insgights writes that statistics show that 1 in 4 church attendees switch churches every 5 years, and that only 7% of new attendees to a church consider themselves “unchurched” — which tells me they are switching from one church to another.
These statistics raise a couple of questions for me:
1. [...]