by Bill Farley | Sep 18, 2019 | church history, Human Nature, Pride, Sin, theology
LIFE IN FOURTH CENTURY ROME WAS DIFFICULT AT BEST. The population was about 1 million. The next largest city was 300,000. Rodney Stark, in his book Cities of God, notes that “Roman cities were small, extremely crowded, filthy beyond imagining, disorderly,...
by Bill Farley | Jan 25, 2018 | 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 | Jan 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
John OwenCHRISTIAN THINKERS FROM previous centuries emphasized different aspects of the Christian life. It is safe, and immeasurably helpful, to go back and occasionally drink from their well.Our church has been preaching through the Beatitudes in Matthew chapter...
by Bill Farley | Aug 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
IN HIS IMPORTANT essay The Pelagian Captivity of the Church R.C. Sproul notes that almost all of our thinking about theology rises or falls on our understanding of human nature. Pelagianism is a term for the belief that people are born basically good and possess the...
by Bill Farley | Jan 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
They Mocked HimMANY CHRISTIANS COMPLAIN that they do not feel God’s personal love. That is usually because they do not understand their sin, and what it deserves. For example, Wisdom, a personification of the Son of God in Proverbs, tells us… “Because I...