This is a personal website that I began to experiment with digital ministry. I no longer maintain or update the site. You are welcome to contact me directly.

I'm V. Blaine Hill, and this website shares my work as a pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA), and a few of my interests outside of service in the church. I have served as the Associate Pastor at Lake Murray Presbyterian Church in Chapin, SC, since 2016.  I served as pastor of Cherokee Presbyterian Church in Lexington, South Carolina, from 2005 to 2016, and the pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Waverly, New York, from 2001 to 2005.  I graduated from Hampden-Sydney College ('94) and Columbia Theological Seminary ('01).  I worked with emotionally disturbed boys in a wilderness program and as a business phone equipment salesman before attending seminary.  Ordained in 2001, I am a more theologically conservative person in a more theologically liberal denomination, the Presbyterian Church (USA).  My wife and I have been married since 1996, and we have four amazing children.  I continue to deny the persistent rumors that I paid for my education by spending the summers as a sword swallower in the circus.

Here is some of my work you can find on the website:

Podcasts: Currently, I publish the audio from my twice-a-week video devotionals for Lake Murray Presbyterian Church (available on YouTube and Facebook) as a podcast. I have used this podcast stream in the past to support a Sunday School class and to share my preaching. You may subscribe through iTunes.

Book Notes: Just one page to summarize a reading of a book. 12 point, New Times Roman, one-inch margins.

Sermons: A sample of some of my preaching.

If you are interested in learning more about me personally, feel free to reach out through email.

A word about sources. If you hear or read something amazing here, please assume I got the idea from somewhere else.  I may include a link to the source or mention the writer.  I often do not know where my ideas come from.  If I do know the source, and I think it is awesome, I will share it.  Sometimes you will find a link only because I want to be able to trace where the idea originated.