by Peter Barfoot | Jun 30, 2026 | Christianity, Teaching
A new dynamic takes place when the power of the Spirit of God falls unexpectedly on a waiting group of believers. The Pentecost event (Acts 2:1-18) was one such dynamic. The spiritual experience of back-country Galileans witnessed by startled visiting Jews from...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 28, 2025 | Blog, Christianity, Teaching
Some church leaders may not be as spiritual as we might like, but then neither was Jehu, who brought down Queen Jezebel — had her thrown down, actually. Elijah’s judgements on the prophets of Baal paved the way for that great victory, but after that, when...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 21, 2025 | Biblical prophecy, Blog, Christianity, Teaching
The Apostle Peter’s words “this is that” linked the phenomena of Pentecost to a prophecy by Joel that God would pour out His Spirit upon “all flesh” — everyone, everywhere. However, Joel had spoken of this happening “afterward”; that is, after God had intervened...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 21, 2025 | Blog, Christianity, Teaching
How did a holistic benediction become a basis for separating a human being into three parts: the spirit from the soul, and the soul from the body? (I Thessalonians 5:23) The Apostle Paul was a Jew, and the Hebrew people never taught that a human being was composed of...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 17, 2025 | Fellowship, Teaching
Psalm 42 always draws a response from me, as it does from all who love the Psalms of David. Maybe because David so often found himself separated, first as a shepherd and later while hiding from Saul, from the joyful things taking place in the Temple in Jerusalem...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 15, 2025 | Clark Taylor, Faith, Teaching
by Clark Taylor Open your Bible to the Book of Romans 4 and Hebrews 11. We are going to examine both of these passages under two headings: 1) What Faith is; and 2) How Faith operates in...