Paradigm Shifts: Are You Having Them?

Paradigm Shifts: Are You Having Them?

I read a book on creative solutions, which included some interesting things about paradigm shifts. These shifts are major and at times revolutionary changes in the way we think. They determine our attitudes and actions. While reading the book a joke came to mind about...
Bad News for Suicide Bombers

Bad News for Suicide Bombers

The last thing that goes through a bug’s mind when it hits the windscreen of a vehicle is the rest of its body. The first thing a suicide bomber discovers after blowing himself up in the name of his death god is how wrong he was.  The when and where that...
The Difference Between Teaching and Preaching

The Difference Between Teaching and Preaching

Paul the apostle knew that “the end of the age” — “the end of days” — the close of the Jewish era — were “upon” those who lived in his lifetime (1 Corinthians 10:11). In the same century, James the apostle wrote,...
No Crucifix or Cross Could Convey

No Crucifix or Cross Could Convey

God gave His Son to die for our sins on the Cross, and then raised him from death to be our heavenly High Priest. The symbol of the Christian Faith is not a crucifix, on which hangs a dead Jesus, but an empty cross — the symbol of his finished work. Neither is...
The Petulant Games People Play

The Petulant Games People Play

“I am the LORD, I change not.” (Malachi 3:6) God is consistent, which is why He adds, “That’s why you sons of Jacob are not consumed.” God renamed Jacob (“Trickster”) “Israel” (“A Prince of God”.)...
Altar Calls and Alter Calls

Altar Calls and Alter Calls

If you are not seeing people saved, might you be preaching overmuch on faith and not enough on judgement? “What? How can we preach overmuch on faith?” As for judgement, “We are not called to preach condemnation to God’s...

Peter E. Barfoot