Tom Bishop is a man who is passionate about prayer. He’s the author of several self-published booklets on prayer including the book, Praying Down the Path of Your Child’s Life. He believes that prayer is the most powerful tool by far in a parents arsenal. Here is what he told me a while back about [...]

I’ve heard of crying to get out of a traffic ticket, but I’ve never heard of crying in order to get out of being robbed…until now!  Police in Indianapolis say an armed robber spent nearly 10 minutes on his knees praying with a clerk at an Indianapolis check-cashing business before fleeing with $20 from the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

My church – Foothills Fellowship – is currently involved in a four-week fast.  No, we’re not going without food for 28 straight days; that might be considered borderline cultish…and really hard to do.  What we’re doing is asking as many people in the church who are able to go without food for 24-hours once a [...]

It’s been a pretty sober day for me after learning of the murder of Pastor Fred Winters of First Baptist Church in Maryville, IL. Evidently, while Pastor Winters was preaching yesterday morning, a 27-year-old man walked right up the center isle and shot him at point blank range, killing him in front of 150 of [...]

I was running on the treadmill yesterday, pondering the new year. At the same time, I was listening to a song by a (now defunct) band called Church of Rhythm. They were a group of guys from WillowCreek Church in Chicago who put out two really good albums in the 1990′s. One of the band [...]