Perception Matters

Perception Matters

God created Time so that from it He could extract a people who would respond to His love by choosing to love Him in return. He knew from the beginning who would respond and who would not, and as events move inexorably toward the fulfillment of Zechariah chapter 12 and...
Are You Building an Ark of Faith?

Are You Building an Ark of Faith?

“By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his household; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.” (Hebrews 11:7) This verse informs us that...
Splashing Happily in the Good Time Pool

Splashing Happily in the Good Time Pool

A Christian church built on ‘feel-good’ preaching alone or on blessed charismatic experiences is like a body without a skeleton. Sound Bible Truth holds these things in place. Or, to change the analogy, experience alone is like a superstructure...
The Down-to-Earth Kingdom of God

The Down-to-Earth Kingdom of God

Many Christians think of the kingdom of God as being something like the Disney castle logo modelled on Schloss Neuschwanstein in Bavaria. But the real kingdom is a spiritual one that one day will descend from a “new heaven” to a “new earth”...
Why Your Weakest Point is Your Strongest

Why Your Weakest Point is Your Strongest

Many years ago, I was rocked to discover that God’s power rested on me when I was at my weakest instead of at my strongest. My God-given faith and refusal to quit had helped me but not enough to get the victory over persistent attacks. Then I read that God had...
How Not to Wreck a Minister

How Not to Wreck a Minister

I do not know how or why it is that while ministering along a line of people God’s power is suddenly present in a mighty way, and one or two or more are healed or baptized in the Holy Spirit. Thereafter that same anointing of power comes upon others along the...

Peter E. Barfoot