Hillside Foursquare Church - Reno

Hillside member and Marriage & Family Therapist, Jake Wiskerchen, helps us to understand human emotions and use that understanding as a pathway to connecting and drawing nearer to God.   #Hillside4 #EmotionalIntelligence

Cassidy Pocock provides an answer to the ultimate questions of why we are here and how we can find purpose, meaning, and contentment in life.   Ecclesiastes Romans 8:19-21 1 Timothy 6:6-10   #Hillside4 #meaningoflife #purpose #contentment

This week we are joined by Tim Russell who shares a message of what it is to not just exist in, but to LIVE IN the NEW birth.   Ephesians 2:1-7

Pastor Jeff Young joins us to share a message of knowing who God made us to be and, consequently, who he made us NOT to be.    John 1:1-8,19-23 Ephesians 2:10 Isaiah 43:1   #Hillside4 #FathersDay #identity 

Special guest, Mike Mercer, joins us to encourage us to never lose sight of Jesus.

Louie and Joni Locke teach us of the command and the joy of entering into God’s rest as they prepare for their Sabbatical this summer. They share their personal journey of learning the need for rest and implementing it into their lives and relationship.    Genesis 2:1-3 Matthew 11:28-30   #Hillside4 #rest #Sabbath 

Louie Locke teaches us of the command and the joy of entering into God’s rest as he prepares for his Sabbatical this summer. How can we face and resist the temptation in our culture to be constantly busy?   Matthew 11:28-30 Exodus 5:6-9   #Hillside4 #rest #Sabbath 

Louie Locke teaches us of the command and the joy of entering into God’s rest as he prepares for his Sabbatical this summer.   Matthew 11:28-30 Genesis 2:1-3 Exodus 20:8-11 John 10:10 Romans 12:1-2   #Hillside4 #rest #Sabbath 

Louie Locke completes our series on a few of Hillside’s founding principles of love, acceptance, and forgiveness by sharing that as God offers forgiveness without compromise to us, so we are to extend it to each other.    Psalm 130:3-4 Ephesians 4:32 Luke 6:37-38   #Hillside4 #love #acceptance #forgiveness 

Louie Locke encourages us that as Christians, we can be accepting of all people no matter where they are in their spiritual journey without affirming un-Godly behavior. John 13:34-35 Mark 2:14-17 #Hillside4 #love #acceptance #forgiveness 

Louie Locke begins our new series - Love, Acceptance, and Forgiveness - with a message about what love is and what it means to love as Christ loves. John 13:34-35 1 John 3:14; 4:7-8 #Hillside4 #love #acceptance #forgiveness

Cassidy Pocock finishes our Believe series by encouraging us to put our belief into practice and let God work through us to carry out the work He has prepared for us.   James 2:14-16 Hebrews 11:1,6 Ephesians 2:10   #Hillside4 #beleive #faith #action #practice

Louie Locke shares the good news of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection that brings us the opportunity of new life in Him.   John 3:14-18; 20:30-31 Mark 1:14-15 Romans 10:9-10 Acts 2:38,42 1 John 1:9   #Hillside4 #believe #faith #Easter #HeIsRisen

Louie Locke shares what Jesus says is the next step for us after we believe in Christ - to remain in His word, grow as a disciple, and make disciples of others.   John 8:28-38 1 Corinthians 1:18-21   #Hillside4 #believe #faith #Easter #HeIsRisen

Louie Locke begins our Easter series, Believe. Today we hear how God’s work for us is to believe in the One He sent and to believe is to put into practice everything God reveals to us.    John 6:25-35 Hebrews 11:1   #Hillside4 #believe #faith #Easter #HeIsRisen

Louie Locke shows how Jesus used stories to help people understand His ministry, His purpose, His death, and His resurrection. Likewise, our own stories of what Jesus has done can help others understand God’s love and their need for Jesus’ redemption.    Romans 10:17 John 3:14-18 John 12:23-26,32,33 Colossians 3:15-17   #Hillside4 #disciples #story #stories

Louie Locke shares a story of Isaac’s life to show that God honors and blesses obedience, and he encourages us to use our own stories to show others the power, provision, and love of God.    Romans 10:17 Psalm 71:14-18 Genesis 26:1-6   #Hillside4 #disciples #story #stories

Louie Locke shares how we can use the amazing stories of what God had done to make us disciples who make more disciples.    Romans 10:17 Hebrews 10:22-25, 36-39; 11:1-2, 6 Joshua 2   #Hillside4 #disciples #story #stories

Louie Locke begins a new series, Amazing Stories, helping us understand the story of Scripture and how we can share our faith in simple ways using the amazing stories of God in our lives.    Romans 10:17 Revelation 12:10-11 Psalm 71:14-18   #Hillside4 #story #stories

Louie Locke encourages us that in the midst of a storm or a scary time we are never alone. We can draw close to God, His Holy Spirit lives in us, and His peace has been given to us.    Proverbs 3:1-8 John 14:23-27 Acts 1:8; 2:42-47   #Hillside4 #peace #wisdom #trust #obey #promise #presence #close

Louie Locke reminds us that going to God for help and direction is not just reserved for the big stuff. It is an everyday practice to commit our ways to the direction of the Lord.  Joshua 9 Psalm 37:1-9 #Hillside4 #commit #promise #presence #close 

Louie Locke continues through the book of Joshua, sharing a message of trusting God and being careful to obey all you have been commanded, even if you cannot understand how it will lead to a desirable outcome.  Joshua 1:7-9; 6 Deuteronomy 6:3 #Hillside4 #trust #victory #promise #presence #close 

This temporary life is a spiritual war. Louie Locke encourages us that when we go into battle, if we are on God’s side, we don’t have to fight FOR victory but can fight FROM victory, with confidence, because God has gone before us and the war has been won.  Joshua 5:13-15 #Hillside4 #victory #war #battle #promise #presence #close

Louie Locke shares that while God’s covenant with His people had outward, physical signs, they were meant to be reminders of and inward change and a giving of our hearts to Him.  Joshua 5:1-9 Deuteronomy 10:12,13,16 #Hillside4 #close #covenant #promise #presence 

Louie Locke encourages us that God’s presence walks before us into unfamiliar territory to make a way for us to enter His promise.    Joshua 3:1-17   #Hillside4 #close #covenant #promise #presence