by Peter Barfoot | Jul 22, 2025 | Blog
Many Christians think of The Acts of the Apostles as the primary source of information on spiritual gifts. Not so. The focus of the New Testament book of Acts is the distribution of The Gift, as distinct from the variety of spiritual gifts distributed...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 22, 2025 | Blog
Some people insist that the “other” tongues of Acts 2 and the “new” tongues of Mark 16 and 1 Corinthians 14 are known languages that when spoken in a church need to be translated. This denies the supernatural element of the gift of tongues....
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 22, 2025 | Blog
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...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 22, 2025 | Blog
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...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 22, 2025 | Blog
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....
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 22, 2025 | Blog
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....