by Peter Barfoot | Jul 28, 2026 | Blog, Christian Worldview, Christianity, Faith, Spiritual growth, Teaching
Fault Lines are opening increasingly around the globe. Subductions are taking place on the ocean floor. Frictions grind at the shifting of tectonic plates. Tsunamis arise from undersea upheavals. Earthquakes abound. All of these are increasing in scale and frequency....
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 21, 2026 | Blog, Christian Worldview, Faith, Hearing God's voice, Spiritual growth, Teaching
Life is a series of uplifts and downdraughts. We spiral upwards in times of success and downwards in times of failure. We rise to mountain peaks of elation and descend into depths of depression. We soar, and we swoop. To avoid these extremes, we need to know that God...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 21, 2026 | Blog, Christian Worldview, Faith, Kingdom of God, Spiritual growth, Teaching
Daniel the prophet was visited by Gabriel the archangel, who informed him that he had come from Persia (Iran), where the prince of that kingdom had resisted him for 21 days — the period of a partial fast by Daniel. He added that Michael [the archangel],...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 21, 2026 | Blog, Christian Worldview, Faith, Spiritual growth, Teaching
Most of us love the company of others, but there are times when in important matters we need to take a stand; and it’s then that we need to be strong in our own right. Jude, writer of the second-last book in the Bible, had intended to write at length on “the common...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 21, 2026 | Blog, Christian Worldview, Faith, Kingdom of God, Teaching
My mother said these words whenever she heard of a terrible crime or injustice done to someone. The Lord Jesus, speaking to his disciples of the persecution they were soon to face, said: “But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.” (Matthew 10:30)...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 21, 2026 | Blog, Christian Worldview, Faith, Kingdom of God, Spiritual growth, Teaching
Why wait for the future to come when you can live in the spirit of it now? The words of Jesus in Matthew 11:12 – “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of God suffers violence, and the violent take it by force” are clarified in Luke 16:16 – “The...