by Peter Barfoot | Apr 14, 2026 | Blog
“I have seen servants on horses, with princes walking as servants on earth.” So wrote the disillusioned “I’ve seen it all” King Solomon in his later years (Ecclesiastes 10:7). There’s plenty of disillusionment nowadays in...
by Peter Barfoot | Apr 14, 2026 | Blog
God told the children of Israel that He had not permitted Joshua to remove all their enemies from Canaan so that He could test those who had “not known war” (there had been no enemy forces in the wilderness). The younger generation’s resolve would be tested by the...
by Peter Barfoot | Apr 14, 2026 | Blog
In 1991, on a return flight from London Heathrow via LA to Australia, the Spirit of God said to my heart: “You have seen the world at its best.” I was born in 1940 and have seen the wool boom and later the mining boom in Australia. Both followed the gold...
by Peter Barfoot | Apr 14, 2026 | Blog
One night in a province in Central Luzon, in the Philippines, I asked our driver a quiet question as to the possibility of members of the Communist New People’s Army being present in our open air meeting. The NPA was very active at the time. My question was:...
by Peter Barfoot | Apr 14, 2026 | Blog
Some New Testament scholars claim that the last twelve verses of Mark’s Gospel were added at a later date. Others accept verses 9–4 but reject verses 15-20, which, they say, are not in the “earliest” or “most reliable” manuscripts. (But the reliable Textus...
by Peter Barfoot | Apr 14, 2026 | Blog
If we quote only the first part of Romans 8:28 — “All things work together for good” — we are taking a Zen-like mystical approach to problems in life. (“Everything happens for a reason.”) If we add “to those who love...