by Bill Farley | Sep 18, 2019 | church history, Human Nature, Pride, Sin, theology
LIFE IN FOURTH CENTURY ROME WAS DIFFICULT AT BEST. The population was about 1 million. The next largest city was 300,000. Rodney Stark, in his book Cities of God, notes that “Roman cities were small, extremely crowded, filthy beyond imagining, disorderly,...
by Bill Farley | Aug 5, 2019 | parenting
MANY IN IN OUR CULTURE TODAY consider spanking a form of child abuse. But, is spanking, or the failure to spank, child abuse? That is the question that should concern us. This objection is made because child abuse is accelerating in Western culture. Children are...
by Bill Farley | Aug 1, 2019 | Christian Ministry, Gospel, marriage
A REVIVAL OF GOSPEL CENTRALITY usually brings with it a revival of biblical marriage. That is because the gospel, when properly understood, elevates marriage. It shapes and molds it into the divine image that God intended from creation. In fact, in one sense, marriage...
by Bill Farley | Jul 29, 2019 | Gospel, prayer
ONE SUNDAY MORNING ONE OF OUR ELDERS led the congregation in intercession. He opened something like this, “Father, you are utterly holy. Your presence can bear no sin. Even the mountains and hills, corrupted by human, sin will flee from you on the day of final...
by Bill Farley | Jul 23, 2019 | Gospel, marriage
EPHESIANS FIVE LAYS OUT THE PATTERN for biblical marriage. Husbands, “Love your wives as Christ loved his church and gave himself up for her.” This is a tall order. Who is sufficient? But Paul gives wives an equally difficult command? “Wives, submit...