Things We Worry About but Needn’t

Things We Worry About but Needn’t

The “day of the Lord” shall not come unless there first be a great apostasy, a wholesale falling away from the Faith by those thought to have been Christians. It could come about through the introduction of a cashless society, one in which the...
Your Role in the Kingdom of God

Your Role in the Kingdom of God

How many Christians these days are taught “the manner of the kingdom”: the spiritual and moral precepts that instruct God’s people in His ways? Many are confused and divided, as were the children of Israel, more than three thousand years ago....
Stop Trying and Start Loving

Stop Trying and Start Loving

Chapter 27 of the book of Deuteronomy records that six of the twelve tribes of Israel stood on Mt Ebal and shouted “Amen!” to the curses that would come upon the children of Israel if they broke God’s Law. Chapter 28 records that the other six tribes...
20/20 Vision for Miracles!

20/20 Vision for Miracles!

“Blind unbelief is sure to err,” wrote the poet Cowper. Sceptics say that faith is blind, but it’s unbelief that can’t see a miracle that’s staring it right in the face. “There’s none so blind as them that won’t...
The Best Friend You Never Had

The Best Friend You Never Had

Jesus is the best friend you never had. Jesus, your High Priest, has the heart of a true friend! Here are five reasons why: (1) A true friend must be as real as you are. Not someone who doesn’t know what it is like to be human. Jesus Christ is no angel. He is better...
Why Did Jesus Choose to Minister in Galilee?

Why Did Jesus Choose to Minister in Galilee?

Why did the risen Lord Jesus instruct his disciples to leave Jerusalem and go north to Galilee? As I worshiped in our church, the Spirit of God dropped Matthew 4:13-16 into my heart, which refers to “Galilee of the Gentiles”. It is a quote from Isaiah...

Peter E. Barfoot