by Peter Barfoot | Oct 31, 2025 | Blog
Christians do not expect their pastors to confront and denounce national leaders for their wrongs because the role of a shepherd is essentially to care and protect. Standing up and speaking without fear or favour, is the province of prophets. Some Bible-based...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 28, 2025 | Blog
There’s a joke about a man who asks his friend if he knows that people think of him as not only ignorant but also apathetic. His friend replies, “I wouldn’t know and couldn’t care less.” Ignorance is not good but apathy is worse. In time an ignorant man may learn, but...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 28, 2025 | Blog
I had just ended my early morning prayers when the Lord dropped some words of scripture into my spirit. It was one of those “out of the blue” moments. I found the words in Isaiah chapter 60, verse 8. “Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as doves...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 28, 2025 | Blog
The treasuring and careful keeping of God’s commandments carried with it the promise that the days of the people of Israel and their offspring would be “multiplied…as the days of heaven upon the earth”. These commandments are written on the...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 28, 2025 | Blog
I was a bit cool on Global Warming, but since they renamed it Climate Change, I’ve become sceptical, which makes some people a bit hot under the collar. I have no such reservations about the Greenhouse Effect, because I’d heard about the Glasshouse...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 28, 2025 | Blog
Almighty God revealed Himself to Israel through many names that identified His attributes, and together they disclosed His nature and character, mostly in how he related to them through acts if protection and provision. God permitted Israel to...