by Bill Farley | May 30, 2020 | theology
God’s Passion For His Glory Wm. P. Farley (This essay originally appeared in Discipleship Journal in 2002 and won an EPA prize) I TRIED TO CONSTRUCT A JIGSAW PUZZLE of a stone bridge arched over a lazy summer stream, but I had little success. Hundreds of pieces...
by Bill Farley | May 18, 2020 | Culture
THE BIBLE MAKES ONE FACT EXQUISITELY CLEAR; God’s sovereignty is exhaustive. For example, even though the average female has 100,000 hairs on her head, Jesus reminds us that each one is numbered (Matthew 10:30). Neither does a sparrow fall from the bush without God’s...
by Bill Farley | May 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Alexander Tyler Fraser (1748-1813 observed, “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the...
by Bill Farley | Apr 25, 2020 | Christian Ministry, Leadership, Sanctification
THE BIBLICAL GOAL OF CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP is the glory of God radiating from a local church. The question is, how best to accomplish this? What tools do we have at our disposal? The 9Marks (expository preaching, evangelism, church membership, and church...
by Bill Farley | Apr 21, 2020 | The Word of God, theology
FOR MANY CHRISTIANS TODAY, the five books of the Pentateuch are fly-over country—especially Leviticus. Written at least 3,000 years ago, it feels foreign to the modern mind. Pages of detailed regulations about blood sacrifice, dietary laws, swift and violent...