by Peter Barfoot | Dec 2, 2025 | Blog
Jesus “went about doing good, healing all that were oppressed…” But our Lord and his disciples did not ride on donkeys — they walked. The road from Jericho to Jerusalem rises 3,700 feet or 1127.76 metres, so it was more a climb than a...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 27, 2025 | Blog
Suffering for Christ can impart meaning to unjust criticism and persecution. Those who have no point of reference (e.g. racism) for their suffering can only wonder why it is happening to them. This adds hurt to wounds inflicted by physical aggression and unjust...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 27, 2025 | Blog
The reason why corruption at the top is tolerated by the general public in Western society and seeps down may be due to the increasingly porous morality of society generally. By this I mean that if society itself corrupts, why would voters condemn their political...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 27, 2025 | Blog
If you’ve never made heaps of money you probably wish you had, thinking that you’d be happier. But happiness doesn’t necessarily follow financial gain. Or for that matter the extras that come with it. Would you like a second wife, or a third, or a fourth? A...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 27, 2025 | Blog
If Philippi evokes images of the beaten Paul and Silas suffering in stocks, Thessalonica as a city in uproar, and the pervasive idolatry of Athens – what does Berea bring to mind? Not a lot. What we do know is that the town’s Jewish leaders “were more noble than those...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 27, 2025 | Blog
The apostle Paul encourages every believer to “covet earnestly the best gifts” (1 Corinthians 12:31). However, the distribution of spiritual gifts is the prerogative of the Holy Spirit and is “according to His will” (1 Corinthians 12:11). Firstly, a quick word study....