by Peter Barfoot | Nov 18, 2025 | Blog
Seasons influence us more than we realize. In autumn we plant seeds without thinking of how they relate to other things hoped for. Not to plant would be not to hope. “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 18, 2025 | Blog
Do unexpected panic attacks leave you anxious and fearful? Although such attacks have no basis in logic or reason they threaten your peace of mind — even your sanity. These attacks come from behind without warning and leave you in a state of dismay and confusion....
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 18, 2025 | Blog
When it comes to life and death, a kind of “push-pull” factor works in the lives of Christians. Our desire to be with the Lord “pulls” us toward eternity. We do not fear death, because God removed its “sting” (our sins) when we came...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 18, 2025 | Blog
We get ahead by not looking back. Exodus 6:6-8 KJV; 1 Corinthians 10:1-11 GOD’S THREE “I WILLS” speak of three phases in the story of the people of Israel: 1. “I WILL BRING YOU OUT FROM UNDER” — Redemption 2. “I WILL TAKE YOU TO MYSELF FOR A PEOPLE” —...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 18, 2025 | Blog
Some time ago, a memory came to mind of droving cattle to a railhead in Central Queensland. I was aged fifteen at the time. The farmer I worked for told me to saddle up and help drive a herd of cattle miles into the town of Biloela. No drama occurred along the way,...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 18, 2025 | Blog
Having edited a newspaper in which I gave every political party a fair go, decades later I thought it would be a good thing to publish a Christian magazine in which evangelists and pastors could have equal space. One Christian leader said to me: “You...