by Peter Barfoot | Sep 3, 2025 | Blog
Lawlessness is rampant in the urban — and increasingly suburban –areas of Western society. The police are doing their best but must be dismayed when convicted criminals are given a slap as a reprimand and released back into the community. In 1991 as I flew...
by Peter Barfoot | Sep 1, 2025 | Blog
First impressions matter. As an old saying puts it: “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” A first impression is intuitive; a second impression is not because the first has stamped an image on the mind. A second impression is a...
by Peter Barfoot | Sep 1, 2025 | Blog
The apostles Paul and Silas were the first to preach the message of Christ in Europe. We’re all familiar with what happened when they arrived in Philippi. Soon after, Paul cast a spirit out of a fortune teller. The result was he and Silas were hauled up before a...
by Peter Barfoot | Sep 1, 2025 | Blog
God is a Spirit who has revealed himself in Creation (Romans 1:20). Jesus said, “A spirit has neither flesh nor bones…” So, to become visible to His creation, God formed Man from the dust of the earth, and made him in His own image and likeness. He breathed life into...
by Peter Barfoot | Sep 1, 2025 | Blog
We tend to think that “a good confession” is a Christian concept, but that’s not so. The confession of a mother whose child had died of sunstroke and who had ridden her donkey to the prophet Elisha, was as good as any confession recorded elsewhere in...
by Peter Barfoot | Sep 1, 2025 | Blog
There’s no doubt that in terms of natural disasters some summers have been among Australia’s worst in recorded history, and people around the globe have had to dig themselves out of their homes in sub-zero temperatures after heavy snowstorms. What on earth is...