by Peter Barfoot | Feb 17, 2025 | Blog
(By the way…) A parenthesis is a kind of “by the way” in brackets: an additional word, phrase or sentence inserted in a passage that is another thought. The removal of a parenthesis makes no difference to the overall meaning. Most people tend to...
by Peter Barfoot | Feb 17, 2025 | Blog
Living in the memory of a past revival? Or waiting for the overflow from a future one? It’s time to get into the stream of the Spirit of God! “It sez ‘ere in the paper, Blue, most 4-wheel drive, off-road vehicles rarely leave the...
by Peter Barfoot | Feb 17, 2025 | Blog
Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day. In those two brief moments, it appears to be working, but a second later you can see that its movement has stopped. Perpetual motion is an impossibility. Even an atomic clock can’t tick forever. In...
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,...