by Peter Barfoot | Oct 16, 2026 | Blog, Discipleship, Family, Salvation, Spiritual growth, Teaching
It’s one thing for the child of a believer to acknowledge the God of his or her parents; another thing to come to the knowledge of that God through His proven faithfulness in their own experience. “And Jacob awoke out of his sleep, and said, ‘Surely the LORD is...
by Peter Barfoot | Sep 8, 2026 | Blog, Christian testimony, Christianity, Faith Healing, Prayer, Salvation, Teaching
This morning, while waiting for Lorraine in a local shopping centre, I had the opportunity to pray for a lady with a hip problem who had walked stiffly and sat near me on a padded, circular seat. Her pain had been apparent in her stilted walk, so after a moment or...
by Peter Barfoot | Sep 8, 2026 | Biblical prophecy, Blog, Christian Worldview, Christianity, Faith, Holy Spirit, Kingdom of God, Salvation, Spiritual growth, Teaching
“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (Psalm 11:3) If Christianity as we know it is crumbling at the edges, we should inspect it to see whether it is still as soundly fixed to the truth on which it was founded, which is that God is...
by Peter Barfoot | Sep 8, 2026 | Blog, Christian Worldview, Christianity, Faith, Fellowship, Salvation, Spiritual growth
Not long after the Apostle Paul’s Roman citizenship enabled him to escape being scourged by soldiers, a Jewish religious leader ordered him to be smacked in the mouth for declaring that his conscience was clean. Not partially, but completely. It’s one...
by Peter Barfoot | Sep 8, 2026 | Blog, Christian Worldview, Faith, Fellowship, Salvation, Spiritual growth, Teaching
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 verbal reprimand and released back into the community. In 1991 as I flew...
by Peter Barfoot | Sep 2, 2026 | Blog, Christian Worldview, Christianity, Salvation, Teaching
To discriminate is to observe things, distinguish between them by observing their differences and deciding that some are better than others. Discrimination has come to be seen as a negative word, but not by fathers who discriminate against young men who appear to have...