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, Discipleship, Kingdom of God, Spiritual growth, Teaching
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.” ~ Psalm 23:6. The reality that God loves us unconditionally is often described in the Bible by one word: “MERCY”. This word is found 366 times in the...
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...
by Peter Barfoot | Jul 21, 2026 | Blog, Christianity, Discipleship, Spiritual growth
Come with me on a short excursion in the book of Acts, from the first half of Acts 17 to the apostle Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians. Paul’s ministry in Acts is the ‘seedbed’ of the letters he later wrote to churches he founded in Asia...