by Gary Farley | Mar 7, 2003 | Opinion
When one has occasion to participate in the celebration of a well-lived godly life, the value of the Christian walk becomes clearer and is vindicated. Each grieving family had members in the Baptist ministry. Each funeral affirmed lives lived well: love for family,...
by Gary Farley | Feb 27, 2003 | Opinion
The other threat to patience is the tyranny of time. We want to get a thing done and settled, so we can get on to other important matters. Fleeing passivity, we embrace impatience. The rural folk of West Alabama are teaching me to “wait on God.” My initial...
by Gary Farley | Feb 13, 2003 | Opinion
Those short-sighted people prospering from the abuse of our rural places and peoples are not listening. And they have the ears of our governments. Young men and women from the rural South, Baptist young folk, will be much more highly represented in terms of...
by Gary Farley | Feb 5, 2003 | Opinion
Learn to love, Jesus said. For many of us, it begins with a spouse. Ideally, we love and are loved. It expands to family. Hopefully, love is experienced in our churches and small groups like Sunday School classes. Beyond this, it needs to expand into communities,...
by Gary Farley | Dec 17, 2002 | Opinion
In the smaller places, those people with material needs are visible. They are people that we know and see regularly. Demonstrations of love are face to face. Here, we cannot retreat into some gilded ghetto and not deal with basic needs until Christmas comes around...
