My 14-year old daughter, Alexis, overheard me the other day talking about my blog, and she asked me when I was going to write something about her.  I told her that I didn’t know what I would write about her, and besides, I said that people might find it kind of odd that I would [...]

Just spent the last hour-and-a-half writing a powerful blog about how we – as followers of Christ – are called by Him to bring redemption to those around us in Jesus’ name.  It was good.  It was life-changing.  It would have rocked the blogoshphere.  And then I lost it.
As I went to publish it, my [...]

Our church just spent the weekend with Kevin Higgins, the director of Global Teams – an organization that equips and sends missionary teams all over the world.  We’ve partnered with Kevin over the past sixteen years and have seen an entire church movement emerge in South Asia as a result.  Kevin and I spent a [...]

As Foothills wraps up our four-week church-wide fast, let me encourage you with these words from Acts 13:1-4:
Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. [...]

It’s not everyday that someone says they learned something positive from someone like former President Richard Nixon.  He was the only president to resign the office, and he did so after being mowed over by a self-made avalanche of lies and illegal activity.  In many ways, he’s the perfect example of what NOT to do [...]

As Foothills Fellowship embarks on voting to approve an amended constitution that calls for a Christ-ruled, elder-led church, I want to share some excerpts from an article entitled “A Proposal for Elder-led Church Government” by Dr. Bob Whitney, a seasoned pastor and Director of Ministry Support-Training for Slavic Gospel Association.  Here’s what he writes:

“Everything rises [...]

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. – [...]

In honor of the Pittsburgh Steelers opening the 2009 NFL season tonight against the Tennessee Titans, and because I live in a place infested with Dallas Cowboys fans, I offer you The Top 6 Reasons Why the Steelers Are Better Than the Cowboys. (Six because that’s how many Super Bowls the Steelers have won.)

6. [...]

I don’t like it when people speak and act in extreme ways.  I never liked it when my toddlers threw themselves on the grocery store floor in front of the gumball machine after I said “no,” and I can’t stand it when my teens say ridiculously extreme things like, “All my teachers are dumb and [...]

Not sure if you’ve seen this yet, but the more I think about this, the more my heart breaks…
Jonathan Ayers, pastor of Shoal Creek Baptist Church in Lavonia, Ga., died during the night of Sept. 1, hours after being shot by undercover police officers outside a gas station where he had just gotten money from [...]