by Peter Barfoot | May 5, 2026 | Blog
Ministry is not a title but a word, one that covers what we do in life for our Lord. Jesus not only saves but also baptizes those who are in the Holy Spirit. The Spirit then distributes spiritual gifts to them at will according to (but not limited to) the natural...
by Peter Barfoot | May 5, 2026 | Blog
We live in ‘interesting times’ but the last twenty years of the 1700s were a lot more so. In 1770, Australia was claimed for Britain by Captain Cook and in 1778 the First Fleet arrived on its eastern coast. In 1776, just two years earlier, America had...
by Peter Barfoot | May 5, 2026 | Blog
One evening, in a small village in Central Luzon, I was preaching in a dusty plaza and a commotion took place in the crowd. A 78-year-old grandfather appeared and suddenly died. I stopped and tried to get to him so I could pray for him, but the villagers had formed a...
by Peter Barfoot | Apr 30, 2026 | Blog
In John’s Gospel, Jesus often speaks of things on two levels, leaving the separation to those who are spiritual. This is the case with the Lord’s two statements about the Kingdom of God. The first, in John 3:3, refers to a condition resulting from...
by Peter Barfoot | Apr 30, 2026 | Blog
In 1991, Lorraine and I arrived in Urdaneta, on the central island of Luzon, Philippines, where I was to teach a class of thirty or so bible students. The senior pastor led us to our bedroom and told us that a shower room was located outside the building. When I slid...
by Peter Barfoot | Apr 28, 2026 | Blog
I revere the Bible record but am glad that God interacts with us through the depths within its pages. We know this because we experience the “rhema”: the word that is being spoken, day by day — or should. The “rhema” word — the word...