The Early Battles May Not Be the Biggest

The Early Battles May Not Be the Biggest

The anointed David’s early years were spent running from King Saul while trying to stay alive. Keeping his spirit sweet was also a big challenge. His top three generals were nephews who were loyal to a fault and could outfight anyone. The first twenty...
Message Received and Understood

Message Received and Understood

Early one morning, while “putting my case” to the Lord about His apparent lack of interest in a matter, the inner voice of the Holy Spirit brought to my mind the heroes listed in Hebrews, chapter 11, who, “having obtained a good report through faith,...
The Carpenter Who Made Well

The Carpenter Who Made Well

“The sun arises and goes down and hastens to the place where it arose. The wind goes toward the south and turns about to the north; it whirls about continually and returns again to its circuits. All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. They...
We Don’t Produce Faith – It’s God Given!

We Don’t Produce Faith – It’s God Given!

The electricity that provides us with light and power is generated by power stations. Not to use it would be unthinkable. Not to use the faith of God has provided would be even more so. Like washing clothes in a wood-heated copper, as did our great grandparents. Or...
A Fast Act of Faith or a Steady Attitude?

A Fast Act of Faith or a Steady Attitude?

The faith of some people in the New Testament is seen in the extremes to which they went to receive a miracle from Jesus: the Canaanite woman who jousted verbally with him for her daughter’s deliverance; the four men who broke through a roof and lowered their...
The Truth that Makes Demons Tremble

The Truth that Makes Demons Tremble

We wouldn’t dream of bathing a baby in dirty water, so why do so many bathe their beliefs in “the traditions of men” formulated centuries after the time of Christ by bishops at a council presided over by an ungodly Roman emperor? (Did you know that Constantine erected...

Peter E. Barfoot