by Peter Barfoot | Apr 21, 2025 | Blog
In summertime, during my years working on dairy farms, I would crank up the engine of an old tractor on the bank of a river to pump water into irrigation channels that ran through the fields. Before doing that, I had to prime the pump with a bucketful of...
by Peter Barfoot | Apr 21, 2025 | Blog
THE FOURTH MOVER AND SHAKER: HAGGAIThere are times when God’s people need to be shaken, and there are occasions when they need to be moved – aroused, motivated, energized – to finish what they have started.Haggai is called a Minor Prophet. His...
by Peter Barfoot | Apr 21, 2025 | Blog
INTRODUCTIONMovers and shakers are people who do the things that others dream of doing. They don’t just rock the boat and make waves but are involved in what God is doing in the world. As a result, they find themselves in the company of, or follow, other movers...
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...