When God’s Kingdom Comes, His Will is Done!

When God’s Kingdom Comes, His Will is Done!

A thought on the now and coming kingdom: Jesus taught us to pray “Your kingdom come, your will be done…” The kingdom comes when God’s will is done, so whenever and wherever we do the will of God His kingdom comes. Of Jesus it is written,...
The Three Offices of Jesus Christ

The Three Offices of Jesus Christ

During his ministry on earth, Jesus Christ was a prophet. From the time God accepted his sacrifice on our behalf he has been a priest. Hebrews 7:25 tells us that because he is a priest “he is able to save to the uttermost [however long in time we need saving]...
Interacting with the God Who Responds and Rewards

Interacting with the God Who Responds and Rewards

“But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.” (Numbers 14:21) Only the One True God can swear by His own life! The “evil report” brought back by ten of the twelve prices would prevent their unbelieving...
Fluid Fellowship

Fluid Fellowship

A church fellowship ought to be more fluid than solid — more like the river than the rocks that are in it. Yet most meetings have an Order of Service — habitual if not written down — that hinders the fluid movement of the Spirit of God. (Oh for a...
Seven Steps to Doing the Works that Jesus Did

Seven Steps to Doing the Works that Jesus Did

1. Know that God is a spirit (John 4:24). “He is not far from every one of us” said the apostle Paul, quoting a poet, “for in Him we live and move and have our being.” (Acts 17:27, 28) Paul was speaking at the time to idolatrous Greeks who thought that Zeus was the...
Memo to the Old Self from the New Self

Memo to the Old Self from the New Self

Memo to old self: You are dead and buried (the first through the Cross and the second through water baptism). The new self is alive, and is raised and seated with Christ in heavenly places. The “I” (NT Greek, “ego”) which was “crucified...

Peter E. Barfoot