by Bill Farley | Sep 18, 2023 | prayer, Uncategorized
I WAS ASKED TO LEAD THE PASTORAL PRAYER at the Path of Life fundraising banquet last night. I led us in a prayer of contrition for the sins of our nation. Although most joining me in prayer had not committed the sins we confessed, we confessed them in the first person...
by Bill Farley | Aug 4, 2023 | Humility
ONE OF MY FAVORITE TEXTS in Paul’s letters is in Colossians 2:6-7. “Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.” Paul...
by Bill Farley | Jul 10, 2023 | Humility
JUNE IS NOW PRIDE MONTH, celebrating the alphabet mafia’s hegemony over Western Culture. Ironically, they boast about the very sin most apt to be the cause their eternal misery—pride. Pride is their sin. They have named June appropriately, but they think pride...
by Bill Farley | Dec 8, 2022 | Humility, Uncategorized
MOST THEOLOGIANS THROUGHOUT HISTORY have considered humility the queen of virtues. Why is that when the Bible seems to put the emphasis on love? For example, love is eternal. It is greater than faith and hope (1 Cor 13:13). Paul tells us that if we don’t have...
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,...