by Bill Farley | May 23, 2022 | Civil Government, Culture, evangelism
THE BIBLE NEVER USES THE TERM “SOCIALISM,” but the concept is present and implicitly condemned. Another name for socialism is statism. Statism occurs when the State takes over functions that God has assigned to the individual, family, or church. Social...
by Bill Farley | Apr 18, 2022 | Culture, Uncategorized
DAVID BROOKS, well known liberal writer for the New York Times, in an article for The Atlantic on the nuclear family, cited this interesting quote. A study of women’s magazines by the sociologists Francesca Cancian and Steven L. Gordon found that from 1900 to 1979,... by Bill Farley | Apr 11, 2022 | Culture
WE RIGHTFULLY FEAR EARTHQUAKES. They are sudden, usually unexpected, and depending upon their severity, life-changing. Earthquakes occur when pent-up energy along a fault line is released. A fault line is a place where two slowly moving tectonic plates meet. The...
by Bill Farley | Mar 10, 2022 | Culture, theology
GOD’S PEOPLE EXPERIENCE HIS JUDGMENTS for sin in a variety of ways. But one of the most common is that God gives us up to the evil we desire. He surrenders sinful individuals or nations to their idols. The idol comes, however, with great pain, sorrow, and...
by Bill Farley | Apr 26, 2021 | 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...
by Bill Farley | Feb 8, 2021 | Culture, Masculinity
EVERYONE KNOWS THE STORY of the 1912 sinking of the R. M. S. Titanic. The great ship hit and iceberg and began to break up. However, there weren’t enough lifeboats to save the 1,317 passengers, so a triage question arose. Who should be saved? Many wealthy and...
