by Peter Barfoot | Jul 22, 2025 | Blog
A few nights ago, in the early hours of the morning, I was awakened from my sleep by three loud knocks on a glass window — urgent knocks! I sat upright in bed and listened for a moment but heard nothing, but I got out of bed quickly and hurried to the front...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 22, 2025 | Blog
Leaders with vision are not people ahead of their time, just people who are ahead of others in time. There’s too much emphasis on popularity politics, and the time has come for our political leaders to quit being driven by the past and be drawn forward by...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 22, 2025 | Blog
In the prophet Ezekiel’s startling vision of The Valley of Dry Bones, scattered human bones reassemble at the prophet’s God inspired command, and with restored flesh and skin are then revived to stand up as a great army. This striking vision shows us how God has for...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 22, 2025 | Blog
“MIRACLE SURVIVOR!” exclaims a newspaper headline, when a person is extricated from rubble days after a destructive earthquake; and “miracle” it is, of a kind. Having found no other word descriptive enough to convey the unexpected outcome, a newspaper...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 22, 2025 | Blog
Many Christians think of The Acts of the Apostles as the primary source of information on spiritual gifts. Not so. The focus of the New Testament book of Acts is the distribution of The Gift, as distinct from the variety of spiritual gifts distributed...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 22, 2025 | Blog
Some people insist that the “other” tongues of Acts 2 and the “new” tongues of Mark 16 and 1 Corinthians 14 are known languages that when spoken in a church need to be translated. This denies the supernatural element of the gift of tongues....