by Peter Barfoot | Feb 27, 2026 | Blog
I’m impressed with the Apostle Peter’s description of Jesus of Nazareth as one who “went about doing good” – or, as another translation puts it, “passed through as a benefactor” – “healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.” (Acts 10:38)...
by Peter Barfoot | Feb 27, 2026 | Blog
There is power in a personal prophecy! Sometimes God speaks to us to assure us that He is aware of our personal and private concerns. Joshua knew that he was an old man, but when God told him that he was an old man he knew for sure that he was! (Joshua 13:1) A...
by Peter Barfoot | Feb 24, 2026 | Blog
Demons are spirits, so to cause injury they have to come dressed in people. Jesus said: “Offences will come but woe unto those through whom they come.” Demons damage people through other people. They offend through willful, and at times witless, human...
by Peter Barfoot | Feb 24, 2026 | Blog
I’ll never forget those evening meetings at Christian Outreach Centre, West End Brisbane, in the late 1970s. A frequently heard comment was “Church was never like this!” Certainly, never as most had known it. In the 1980s, the evening...
by Peter Barfoot | Feb 24, 2026 | Blog
Our reactions to problems in life are often greater than the problems themselves. Newton’s Third Law of Motion states: “For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.” We need to respond to problems positively instead of reacting to them...
by Peter Barfoot | Feb 24, 2026 | Blog
Not everyone has an encounter this dramatic; a surrender on the spot. But then few of us are called to suffer as much as did Saul (who changed his Jewish name to Paul after God called him to be an apostle to the Gentiles). Yet a sudden and unexpected “Damascus...