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 | Mar 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
PEOPLE OFTEN ASK, what is the fundamental difference between a liberal and a conservative? When all the vehemence is boiled down, how are their worldviews different? It is a good question, and the answer might surprise you. It is not their belief, or lack of belief,...
by Bill Farley | Feb 28, 2022 | atonement, cross, Uncategorized
HERE IS ONE OFTEN ASKED QUESTION ABOUT THE CROSS. How can the suffering of one man on the cross for six hours atone for the sins of billions of sinners past, present, and future, and what is the most root sin atoned for? Infinity And Beyond The answer rides on a...
by Bill Farley | Feb 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
JUDY AND I JUST RETURNED from cold, snowy Grand Rapids, Michigan. We led a marriage retreat for Peace Church, a growing congregation located in a suburb of Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids is about the size of Spokane and is the second-largest city in Michigan behind...
by Bill Farley | Jan 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
IN SEPTEMBER OF 1996, President Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Passed by large veto-proof majorities in the House and Senate, it defined marriage as between one man and one woman. However, fifteen years later, despite the failure of Congress or the...
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...