by Bill Farley | Jan 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
IN SEPTEMBER OF 1996, President Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Passed by large veto-proof majorities in the House and Senate, it defined marriage as between one man and one woman. However, fifteen years later, despite the failure of Congress or the...
by Bill Farley | Jan 19, 2022 | book review, Uncategorized
I JUST FINISHED J. I. PACKER’S 2013 book Weakness Is The Way, a short, four-chapter introduction to 2 Corinthians. In that letter, because God perfects his strength through weakness, Paul boasts of his weakness, not his strengths. Packer’s book focuses on this...
by Bill Farley | Jan 12, 2022 | marriage, Uncategorized
(Desiring God published a version of this essay on Dec 4, 2021) WHEN I WAS ABOUT TEN, I met my aunt Margaret for the first time. She was in a wheelchair in the middle of the front room, drooling uncontrollably, unaware of my presence, incontinent, and unable to take...