Foothills Church

Frank Sinatra’s song “My Way” expresses one of America’s highest aspirations/ideals, that of the self-made man, the self-sufficient/reliant woman; we don’t need anyone. I’m autonomous/independent. I’ll do things my way. I’ll make my decisions. I don’t need anyone else. That’s really the opposite of what we see in Scripture. Psalm 1 teaches us that choosing […]

Most of us think we’re pretty good self-evaluators, we assess ourselves and think “I’m a pretty good person”. The issue is that self-evaluation involves interpretation and for most people the way they interpret themselves is skewed. This is one of the many reasons we need God to intervene, which He does with the good news […]

The cross has the power to draw sinners to Jesus and restore them to God. When people look to Jesus and rely upon Him our soul does not need to be troubled anymore because in Jesus we’re forgiven. We’re free. We’re guiltless. We’re accepted. So find rest for your weary soul.

Peter Williams says that “God’s questions are meant to teach us something, or to expose to us our inner selves when we are guilty of sin or disobedience…so whenever we read the Bible and come across a question, we ought to ask ourselves, ‘Is God addressing that question to me, and if so what am […]

Our God is a merciful God and He many times gives second chances. In Jonah 3 we see the mercy of God in giving Jonah another opportunity to be obedient, as well as choosing to rescue the Ninevites, rather than destroying them. Scripture: Jonah 3

God said “Go,” but Jonah said “No” and ran. God wasn’t going to let him go, so he graciously brings Jonah down: physically, emotionally and spiritually. He did this not to pay him back for disobedience, but to bring him back to faithfulness. At the bottom of the sea, in the dark belly of that […]

In Jonah 1 we see God’s pursuit of not only the people in Nineveh but also the heart of Jonah. We also see that sin makes us do dumb things. It makes us go against logic. It makes us speak things, think things, do things that go against the nature of what it means to […]

God wants us to grow in our knowledge and insight of who He is. That knowledge is always meant to be transferred to application in our everyday life. One such application is speaking the message of Jesus into people’s lives. Scripture: Acts 26:1-32

Everyone understands the tongue as an instrument of the body that was created to communicate with other people. Everyone also understands the power that the tongue has. Since Jesus, through the gospel, has changed our very nature (2 Corinthians 5:17) we now have the ability to use the tongue as an instrument to refresh, affirm […]

As we read 2 Corinthians 9:1-15 we see that gracious giving gives evidence that we believe that God is gracious. God is gracious because He did not withhold His very own Son. Scripture: 2 Corinthians 9:1-15