by Bill Farley | Mar 28, 2019 | evangelism, Gospel
I INVITED A FRIEND OUT TO COFFEE. He is older and doesn’t have long to live. Because I care deeply for him I looked for an opportunity to share the gospel. We visited for about 45 minutes about things we had in common. Finally, I screwed up my courage. “Do...
by Bill Farley | Mar 25, 2019 | Culture, Humility, Pride, Sanctification
CULTURAL ASSUMPTIONS ARE LIKE a set of glasses through which we view life. Those who have never taken the glasses off think what they see is what all people, in all places, at all times have seen. Only those who remove them can critique our present...
by Bill Farley | Mar 15, 2019 | Christian Ministry, serbia, Uncategorized
I JUST COMPLETED TWENTY HOURS OF TEACHING the theology of marriage and parenting to a group of pastors in Serbia. Not Siberia on the frozen tundra, or Syria in the Middle East, but Serbia, a beautiful nation in the Balkans, just south of Hungary, north of Greece, and...
by Bill Farley | Mar 15, 2019 | Christian Sanctification, scripture, The Word of God
LEGALISM OCCURS WHEN we add rules to the Bible that aren’t clearly there. For example, some Christians in eastern Europe will refuse church membership to a person that smokes. Tragically, tolerance of legalism usually leads to the opposite sin, tolerance of sins...
by Bill Farley | Mar 12, 2019 | book review, Christian Sanctification, Uncategorized
I JUST FINISHED JACK DEERE’S NEW BOOK, Even In Our Darkness. It is his personal memoir. It is gripping. It is raw, and I couldn’t put it down. It is about Christian maturity. It is a story about where the Holy Spirit is taking every believer, and it...