The Only Acceptable Image of God on Earth

The Only Acceptable Image of God on Earth

When people damage their bodies through substance abuse, obesity, sexually transmitted diseases, or any other sin, they damage the only image of God on earth. The original image was the First Adam, whom God made in His own image and likeness. That Adam disobeyed God...
A Monument to Mutual Distrust

A Monument to Mutual Distrust

When Jacob’s uncle, Laban, caught up with him as he fled from twenty years of trickery, the two came to a mutual arrangement. Jacob set up a monument of gathered stones and said to Laban, “Behold this pillar which I have built between me and you. May...
The Real Superman

The Real Superman

The fabled Superman of comic books, and movies. is that of a male baby who arrives from a planet beyond our universe and found in a barn by a childless couple. The baby is then raised on the couple’s farm near the obscure rural town of Smallville....
The Heavenly Power of Jesus in the Here and Now

The Heavenly Power of Jesus in the Here and Now

Psalm 110:1 is the most-often-quoted Old Testament verse in the New Testament. No doubt because it conveys God’s invitation to the Risen Messiah to be seated at His “right hand” — the ultimate position of acceptance, power and authority....
Our Heavenly Standing and Our Earthly State

Our Heavenly Standing and Our Earthly State

Do you live with an alter ego — another self? When you are “not yourself” — who are you? Do you know what it is to be dead to the world (and I don’t mean asleep)? Christians are “dead to the world” in the sense that they are...
A Hug to End All Hugs

A Hug to End All Hugs

How long has it been since you embraced something extra-ordinary? Hebrews 11:13 informs us that those who had faith saw the promises from afar, and “embraced” them — stretched out their arms, drew them to themselves, in faith embraced them, and confessed...

Peter E. Barfoot