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...
by Bill Farley | Dec 22, 2021 | History, Uncategorized
EVERYONE LOVES AN UNDERDOG, one who triumphs in the face of overwhelming odds. That is one reason the story of David and Goliath is so popular. It is also the reason the Battle of Thermopylae is often retold. In 480 BC Xerxes I, king of Persia and husband of...
by Bill Farley | Dec 9, 2021 | Masculinity, Uncategorized
(This is an excerpt from a manuscript that I am currently working on) SINCE THE LATE SIXTIES, an avalanche of lies about the nature of masculinity and femininity have inundated Western culture—stupendous lies, lies that no other culture in history would have...
by Bill Farley | Nov 22, 2021 | Masculinity
I AM WRITING A BOOK ON MASCULINITY. One of the reasons is the conviction that we need to celebrate and encourage masculinity. We are doing the exact opposite, and that is a problem. The point of this essay is that masculinity is a gift from God. Family, church, and...
