by Bill Farley | Nov 11, 2019 | Christian Ministry, church history, Puritans, Uncategorized
PURITANISM WAS A TIME OF DEEP AND PROFOUND Biblical thinking. John Owen (1616-83), a contemporary of Bunyan and Cromwell, is considered by most the greatest Puritan divine. In fact, many consider him England’s greatest theological thinker period. In the opinion of...
by Bill Farley | Oct 22, 2019 | parenting, Uncategorized
MY WIFE AND I often speak at parenting conferences. Sometimes I make the off-hand comment that, in the Bible, the father is the lead parent, and his wife is his helper. I am often surprised at the reaction. “Where did you get such a crazy idea?” Or, “I don’t like it...
by mark | Aug 1, 2019 | Sanctification, theology, Uncategorized
This is part one in a series of posts on the subject of God and what he is really like. Sequential posts will follow. THE IDEA FOR THIS SERIES germinated in my thinking thirty years ago. At the time I was struggling to reconcile the apparent wrath and brutality of God...
by Bill Farley | Jul 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Published June 26, 2019 by Wm. P. Farley at www.reformation21.org THE EXPRESSION “ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY” is an important tool used by progressive social warriors to silence the Christian right. Never mind that it rests on significant religious...
by Bill Farley | Jun 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
HOW GOD CHOSE AN OBSCURE, SEVENTY-FIVE-YEAR OLD, IDOLATOR, WHO COULDN’T HAVE CHILDREN, TO BECOME THE FATHER OF A GREAT NATION ABRAHAM IS CENTRAL TO REDEMPTION HISTORY. Few biblical characters are more important. He was the first Jew. In fact, he is the father of...
by Bill Farley | Mar 15, 2019 | Christian Ministry, serbia, Uncategorized
I JUST COMPLETED TWENTY HOURS OF TEACHING the theology of marriage and parenting to a group of pastors in Serbia. Not Siberia on the frozen tundra, or Syria in the Middle East, but Serbia, a beautiful nation in the Balkans, just south of Hungary, north of Greece, and...