by Peter Barfoot | Nov 13, 2025 | Blog
With all due respect to my friends in the USA, I just cain’t…er, can’t…share your love for singing the blues. It must be hard to lose your girl to your best friend and your dog as well on the day your horse dies. But with Jesus as my joy and...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 13, 2025 | Blog
“Only the lonely…” sang Roy Orbison. “Only” suggested extreme loneliness. Solitary is not the same; a solitary person can live alone quite happily. “Fear not, only believe,” said Jesus to the devastated Jairus, whose only...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 12, 2025 | Blog
What’s a Wagga Wagga? What comes to mind when you hear the names Wooloomooloo and Goondawindi? Yes, these are indiginous names, but what do they mean? If you are speaking them without knowing what they mean, you are speaking in an unknown tongue! Sure, that...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 11, 2025 | Blog
I will never forget the site where the Bataan Death March ended, on the island of Luzon in the Republic of the Philippines. The late John Cedergren, a fine American missionary and former US paratrooper, drove me there in the late 1980s. A week later, two Americans who...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 7, 2025 | Blog
While flying home from London via LA after ministering in the early 90s, the Lord spoke to my heart, saying, “You have seen the world at its best.” Since then, there have been many great medical discoveries and technical advances, but life is now more...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 7, 2025 | Blog
I am concerned about the state of Australia. In the past, it was the importance of the national interest that took precedence, but it is now the comfort of the individual. The “selfie” signifies self-preoccupation. So too do voting patterns that reveal...