by Peter Barfoot | Jan 28, 2026 | Blog
Remember The Fear Factor, a TV show in which wary contestants had to overcome their fear of snakes, spiders, heights and other phobias the show’s producers could come up with? I’d like to see a Christian counterpart, which could maybe be called The Faith...
by Peter Barfoot | Jan 28, 2026 | Blog
Many years ago, on a hot summer’s day, my family and I traced the source of our local creek. I drove up a valley and into the tall timber of a state forest and parked the car. On foot we traced the dwindling stream up a mountain range. Our search ended at a...
by Peter Barfoot | Jan 28, 2026 | Blog
Insight into God’s foresight enables us to see everything in hindsight. In other words, nothing can happen to us in life that God does not permit, indeed, did not permit from before time began. This is not fatalism! Pontius Pilate said to Jesus,...
by Peter Barfoot | Jan 28, 2026 | Blog
Jewish folk find it difficult to reconcile New Testament texts with people and events recorded in the Tanakh (which we call the Old Testament). This is especially the case with Isaiah 7:14 and its prophetic fulfillment — as distinct from its historical...
by Peter Barfoot | Jan 28, 2026 | Blog
“So then after the Lord had spoken to them, he was received up into heaven and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word with signs following.” (Mark 16:19-20) Authority...
by Peter Barfoot | Jan 28, 2026 | Blog
Absorb these three phrases in 1 John 4:17, each consisting of three words: “As he is / so are we / in this world.” The first and second phrases would be easier to grasp if John had applied them to the state of the believer in heaven — but “in...