by Bill Farley | Oct 28, 2024 | theology
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...
by Bill Farley | Oct 14, 2024 | love, Uncategorized
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...
by Bill Farley | Oct 4, 2024 | 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...
by Bill Farley | Sep 16, 2024 | parenting, Uncategorized
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.”...
by Bill Farley | Sep 12, 2024 | Culture, Sexual Revolution, social justice
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...