Today’s sermon is up on my sermon blog. It’s the fifth in my series for the Easter Season this year — based on John 14:15-21 and entitled “An ‘Easter Church’ Makes A Difference”. Here’s a portion of it: A set of twin girls were born 12 weeks premature, each about two pounds. They were placed [...]
Several weeks ago I began posting about the Pew Foundation’s US Religious Landscape Survey 2008. The 5th “learning” from this survey is that: “More than six-in-ten Americans age 70 and older (62%) are Protestant but . . . this number is only about four-in-ten (43%) among American ages 18-29.” [p. 7] To me, this comes [...]
I’ve posted my sermon for today on my sermon blog. It’s the fifth in my Easter series on “An Easter Church” — based on John 14:1-14 and entitled “An ‘Easter Church’ Has Comfort”. Here’s a portion of it: In the “bad days” – the hardest days – the worst days of our lives – we [...]
I am the pastor of Hopewell Presbyterian Church in Florence, SC. I have been a Presbyterian Church (USA) pastor for over 20 years. I'm married, with no children - but 3 dogs! I enjoy meeting people, reading, blogging, watching sports, and fishing -- among other things.
The opinions you'll find here are mine alone. They do not necessarily express the views of my church, my Presbytery, my denomination, my family, my friends, or anyone else. The attempted humor you'll find here is definitely mine.
Bill Hayes
