Rev Bill

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 as [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday I began a series of posts on my thoughts as I read George Bullard’s book Pursing The Full Kingdom Potential Of Your Congregation. I mentioned that Bullard sees this as a journey a congregation enters into — what he calls a Spiritual Strategic Journey.
That term sounds impressive — but what does [...]

I’m reading a great book by George Bullard of the Columbia Partnership entitled Pursuing The Full Kingdom Potential Of Your Congregation. I have not finished the book, but have decided to share some thoughts about it as I read it.
The first thought I’d like to share is that pursuing the [...]