by Peter Barfoot | Apr 21, 2025 | Blog
Sung by pilgrims on their ascent to the feasts at Jerusalem, psalms 120 to 134 are called Psalms of Degrees. Three times yearly, every male 30 years old and over went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the feasts of Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. Not only was each...
by Peter Barfoot | Apr 17, 2025 | Blog
“Disappointment”: “The failure or defeat of success.” (Webster’s Dictionary) The story so far… Two men, saddened by the sudden death of a close friend, have left the city where they live and are walking together along a country road. Their destination is a...
by Peter Barfoot | Apr 17, 2025 | Blog
Jesus is not a disappointment! How many times have you lived in expectation of things that never happened? You will have found that the greater the expectation, the deeper the disappointment. In the time of Jesus Christ, Emmaus was an obscure village about 16km...
by Peter Barfoot | Apr 14, 2025 | Blog
“Which is easier?” Jesus asked his critics: “To say, ‘Your sins are forgiven’, or (turning to the paralysed man) ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk.'” (Mark 3, Luke 5, Matthew 9). In the time of Jesus, people believed in...
by Peter Barfoot | Apr 14, 2025 | Blog
The term “pastor” is mentioned only once in the New Testament (in Ephesians 4:11). Elsewhere, it is translated “shepherd”, and except for a reference to the Lord as “the Great Shepherd” and pastors as “overseers” (Acts...
by Peter Barfoot | Apr 14, 2025 | Blog
The four seasons influence us more than we realize. In autumn we plant seeds without thinking of how they relate to other things we hope for. Not to plant would be not to hope, which is unthinkable. “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat,...