by Peter Barfoot | Jul 25, 2025 | Blog
Christians rightly see the outpouring of the Spirit of God on the Day of Pentecost as a marker between the old and the new. God, who had been with His people, now comes and dwells in them. But it’s easy to use the conflict between those Jews who believed...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 25, 2025 | Blog
The years between AD70 to AD 70 were both a beginning and an end. The Jewish leaders of the Apostle Peter’s time had murdered their long-promised Messiah, but his resurrection revived Peter and added urgency to his preaching, in which there was now a sense of...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 25, 2025 | Blog
Have you noticed that whenever a threat of war arises in the Middle East, many Christians begin to talk of The End Time and prepare for the Second Coming of Christ? Jesus did warn that wars would be inevitable, but He also said that they would not indicate The End. In...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 25, 2025 | Blog
The greatest realities — the most real things in life — are not what we see in the media but what God has given us and where He has placed us. These are: 1. A New Kind of Life. Life not as we know it, but as our Lord experienced it. We received that...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 25, 2025 | Blog
The difference between the Greek words Logos and Rhema is that the first is a word which has been spoken at some time, whereas the second is a word which is being spoken in Real Time. Matthew chapter 14 provides us with perhaps the best example of a Rhema, and it is...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 25, 2025 | Blog
God knows you not as you once were but as who you now are. Jesus said to his Father: “As you sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.” (John 17:18) We are in the world but are not of the world. As a “new creation” in Christ we have a...