by Peter Barfoot | Jul 28, 2025 | Blog
The first apostles understood clearly that the Jewish age was about to end. Peter saw the spirit of Joel’s prophecy in the outpouring that took place on the Day of Pentecost (which was but a sample of a final outpouring that is yet to come). Paul...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 25, 2025 | Blog
Lateral thinking tells us to not ‘raise the bridge’ but instead ‘lower the river’.’. There are times when an answer to a problem is found by turning it on its head. When we had too many Ibis (dump birds) stalking close to the CBD of...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 25, 2025 | Blog
Christians rightly see the outpouring of the Spirit of God on the Day of Pentecost as a marker between the old and the new. God, who had been with His people, now comes and dwells in them. But it’s easy to use the conflict between those Jews who believed...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 25, 2025 | Blog
The years between AD70 to AD 70 were both a beginning and an end. The Jewish leaders of the Apostle Peter’s time had murdered their long-promised Messiah, but his resurrection revived Peter and added urgency to his preaching, in which there was now a sense of...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 25, 2025 | Blog
Have you noticed that whenever a threat of war arises in the Middle East, many Christians begin to talk of The End Time and prepare for the Second Coming of Christ? Jesus did warn that wars would be inevitable, but He also said that they would not indicate The End. In...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 25, 2025 | Blog
The greatest realities — the most real things in life — are not what we see in the media but what God has given us and where He has placed us. These are: 1. A New Kind of Life. Life not as we know it, but as our Lord experienced it. We received that...