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Be watching for Bill’s upcoming book, Seven Dimensions of Spiritual Masculinity, How God Changes Biological Masculinity into Spiritual Masculinity and Why It Matters.
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Have You Embraced Obscurity?
A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK I BOUGHT A LITTLE BOOK TITLED, Embracing Obscurity. The subtitle sums it up. Becoming Nothing In Light of God's Everything. The book is well written. To be consistent with his premise the author's name is "Anonymous." Feeling in need of this...
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This blog is about the gospel and how it influences every aspect of Christian life. Many Christians here the word, “gospel,” and think, that’s for beginners. I want to move on to the deeper truths. But this kind of thinking is a problem. Properly understood the gospel is the deepest truth in scripture. If you knew nothing about the Bible but the gospel, but knew it really well, you would have all the knowledge necessary for a life of godliness.
The gospel reconciles Old Testament and New. It is the center of the Bible. The Old Testament demonstrates the need for it . The Old Testament predicts it. Then the four gospels record the life and death of Jesus, the Messiah, which is the gospel. Last, the epistles look back on the gospels interpreting and applying them.
The gospel is also about ultimate issues. A display of the glory of God is God’s purpose for creation and redemption. The cross of Christ, the center of the gospel, is the greatest display of God’s glory in human history. It also displays the bankruptcy of man. In sum, the cross glorifies God and humbles humanity, and this is how it should be.
The gospel informs how married couples should relate, how they should raise their children, how they should relate to other Christians, why they should evangelize, and how they should conduct themselves in the market place. It’s all there for those who have eyes to see.
The gospel is the heart and soul of the Christian worldview. It explains how we got here, why life is often problematic, and the glorious hope that God has set before all true Believers.
These subjects and others, this blog will explore. Occasionally we will address culture and politics, but the main subject will be the gospel and its application.
If you have questions or concerns my email bfarley48@gmail.com
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Good News For Uncertain Times
THE HOLOCAUST WAS A HORRIBLE EVENT. It's been over seventy-five years since it ended and it is still the reigning example of ultimate evil. In 1939 there were nine million Jews in Europe. In 1945 after the Holocaust only three million remained. If the Nazis had their...
Coventry and False Guilt Towards People
ONE NIGHT DURING WWII's BATTLE OF BRITAIN, Winston Churchill received top secret info that the Germans were going to bomb the city of Coventry England. He knew this because British intelligence had broken the German wireless code. This put Churchill in a predicament....
Are You Passive To Spiritual Warfare?
AFTER WWII THE U.S. AIR FORCE hired a tribe of pigmy Philippinos, called Negritos, to guard Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. After several years the base commander fired the Negritos replacing them with G.I.s. The Negritos felt insulted. They knew they could...
How Would God Handle A Rebellious Child?
WE WERE IN A MCDONALDS PLAY AREA for lunch after church. Next to me was a young mother with two sons, about age four and six. The four year-old was in trouble. "Sit on this chair," his mother said. "Your punishment is time-out for ten minutes." She put out her hand to...
The Great American Divide (And What It Means For the Future).
DURING THE CIVIL WAR, Abraham Lincoln, attempting to describe the American division over chattel slavery, quoted Jesus. No “house divided against itself will stand" (Matthew 12:25). Of course, the “house” Jesus had in mind was not civil government. Jesus had just cast...
Would Your Non-Christian Friends Be Happy In Heaven?
ONE OF THE MOST COMMON OBJECTIONS to the Christian faith is the exclusivity of Christ. Christianity teaches that only those with saving faith go to heaven. One Sunday I mentioned this subject in a sermon. Afterwards, a visitor approached me. “I don’t like the idea...