by Peter Barfoot | Jul 24, 2026 | Blog, Christianity, Discipleship, Spiritual growth, Teaching
There are times when our dreams are all we have: life as we wish it could be rather than what it is. My own example of Living the Dream was during brief pauses in retail sales in a furniture and floor coverings store in Melbourne’s CBD. Earlier in my teenage...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 24, 2026 | Blog, Christian Worldview, Kingdom of God, Spiritual growth, Teaching
“I looked over Jordan, and what did I see, comin’ for to carry me home? A band of angels, comin’ after me, comin’ for to carry me home.” (From the spiritual song, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.”) The desire to escape from the...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 21, 2026 | Blog, Christian Worldview, Faith, Hearing God's voice, Spiritual growth, Teaching
Life is a series of uplifts and downdraughts. We spiral upwards in times of success and downwards in times of failure. We rise to mountain peaks of elation and descend into depths of depression. We soar, and we swoop. To avoid these extremes, we need to know that God...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 21, 2026 | Blog, Christian Worldview, Faith, Kingdom of God, Spiritual growth, Teaching
Daniel the prophet was visited by Gabriel the archangel, who informed him that he had come from Persia (Iran), where the prince of that kingdom had resisted him for 21 days — the period of a partial fast by Daniel. He added that Michael [the archangel],...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 21, 2026 | Blog, Christian Worldview, Faith, Spiritual growth, Teaching
Most of us love the company of others, but there are times when in important matters we need to take a stand; and it’s then that we need to be strong in our own right. Jude, writer of the second-last book in the Bible, had intended to write at length on “the common...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 21, 2026 | Blog, Christian Worldview, Faith, Kingdom of God, Teaching
My mother said these words whenever she heard of a terrible crime or injustice done to someone. The Lord Jesus, speaking to his disciples of the persecution they were soon to face, said: “But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.” (Matthew 10:30)...