by Peter Barfoot | Feb 17, 2025 | Blog
Rev Mark H Creech, an American, believes that the pilgrim fathers who founded the USA did so with God’s covenant with Israel in mind. The record of that covenant is found in Deuteronomy 8:7-20. Puritan Samuel Fisher, in his Testimony of Truth (1679) saw Israel...
by Peter Barfoot | Feb 17, 2025 | Blog
When I was a young preacher my father advised me to reduce every prepared sermon to its basics. In doing that, I found that I needed to examine not only individual texts but also larger contexts. That’s how it is in the search for more satisfying sermons. ...
by Peter Barfoot | Feb 17, 2025 | Blog
GOD’S ADVANCE AGENT: Will Joseph’s Story Be Yours? Like Joseph, God’s Advance Agent will be: 1. MISUNDERSTOOD by those who have no vision (Joseph’s family didn’t understand his dreams, and yours probably won’t,...
by Peter Barfoot | Feb 17, 2025 | Blog
Psalm 68 tells us that God is “a father of the fatherless, a judge and protector of the widows.” The psalm also says that He places lonely people in families, gives the desolate a home to live in, and leads prisoners out into prosperity. It was bible...
by Peter Barfoot | Feb 17, 2025 | Blog
“Blind unbelief is sure to err,” wrote the poet Cowper. Sceptics say that faith is blind, but it’s unbelief that can’t see a miracle that’s staring it right in the face. “There’s none so blind as them that won’t...
by Peter Barfoot | Feb 17, 2025 | Blog
“And there we saw the giants…and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.” (Numbers 13:33) Inferior means “low in quality, value, rank or importance.” Two questions: 1. What do you think of...