by Peter Barfoot | Aug 7, 2026 | Blog, Christianity, Discipleship, Faith, Fellowship, Hearing God's voice, Spiritual growth, Teaching
Those who are fearful or insecure about their relationship with God often quote from the Old Testament. (Those who believe that life is basically trash like to quote from Ecclesiastes, the OT book written by the pessimistic and disillusioned-with-life King Solomon,...
by Peter Barfoot | Aug 7, 2026 | Blog, Christianity, Kingdom of God, Spiritual growth, Teaching
I like newspapers (having edited one myself), and the front page of most of them has a title that relates to Time. “The Daily Mail” for example. Others bear the words “Courier” or “Herald” because they proclaim the latest news on...
by Peter Barfoot | Aug 7, 2026 | Blog, Christianity, Hearing God's voice, Personal prophecy, Spiritual growth, Teaching
Jesus had a choice whether to die or not die. God knew that he would make the right choice, but that did not stop Jesus from agonizing over it. It’s the same with us: we know what we must do when faced with the agony that comes with hard choices. At such times,...
by Peter Barfoot | Aug 6, 2026 | Blog, Christianity, Discipleship, Spiritual growth, Teaching
Bible texts are often quoted in isolation by people trying to score points – a practice known as proof-texting. But a text without a context is like a boat on a beach: it might look good but its seaworthiness can only be tested in the water. The principle of text...
by Peter Barfoot | Aug 6, 2026 | Blog, Christianity, Spiritual growth, Teaching
The fact that I was born in 1940 makes me a pre-baby-boomer, which maybe is why I have trouble with tech stuff. Before television 16mm films were a big thing. I had a Bell & Howell projector and used it to screen films featuring crusades by evangelists Oral...
by Peter Barfoot | Aug 6, 2026 | Blog, Christianity, Faith, Spiritual growth, Teaching
The robe Jesus wore was seamless, and so was too valuable for the Roman soldiers at the cross to divide, so they gambled for it. A seam in the garment would have enabled the soldiers to tear it in two along the seam. In military terms, a “seam” is a...