by Peter Barfoot | Jan 14, 2026 | Blog
In this fast moving world we need to know those verses from the Bible that can bring us to a standstill. Verses such as: “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” (Psalm 46:10) “Stand...
by Peter Barfoot | Jan 14, 2026 | Blog
The first demon Jesus encountered said: “Ha! What have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth?” The Lord might well have answered, “Nothing whatever!” As Paul writes, “What fellowship has light with darkness?” (2 Corinthians 6:14) Do you believe that unclean and holy...
by Peter Barfoot | Jan 14, 2026 | Blog
Is the tiny nation of Israel the cause of the world’s ills? Of course not! But its existence is why religious murderers are leading unrest around the globe and blaming everything on the Jews. Jeremiah 16:16 gives us the reason why. The prophet is denouncing his...
by Peter Barfoot | Jan 14, 2026 | Blog
I’d like to share with you what happened to me in church one morning. I was there early and decided to sit down in my favourite spot (each of us has one) and follow up a lead that I had begun at home earlier. I had been marking those verses in the Gospel of John...
by Peter Barfoot | Jan 14, 2026 | Blog
Let’s go higher! Let’s move up through metaphors! Mixed metaphors are a problem to the tidy Western mind, which has “a place for everything and everything in its place”. But in the Middle East metaphors are mixed often. The apostle Paul ‘swaps horses...
by Peter Barfoot | Jan 14, 2026 | Blog
A “rhema” is a Bible verse that leaps off the page into your heart, and when it does, the truth that it conveys is to the reader what a bonanza of gold is to a miner. The “rhema” the reader receives uncovers a ‘golden’ truth and feels much like the miner...