For years now, I have left my loaded gun in a safe. It’s been locked away, kept safely out of sight, but always at the ready. Lately, I’ve been searching the scriptures (after all, I am a christian), and I don’t find any passages that would lead me to believe that I need to keep […]
Read More My Loaded Gun (relax, it’s a metaphor)Wednesday marks 28 years of living without drugs and alcohol in my life. They have been good years. This Spring will be my 27th year of life with Christ –something even better. I like to look back, remembering pretty vividly what the occasions of change looked like. Both were at my own bedside, in my […]
Read More New YearsI heard Dr. Norman Geisler reference this article today, and I thought it was a pretty intelligent counter point to the current young evangelical embrace of drinking. I would love to hear your comments, you probably already know what I think. -Jim As evangelicals we maintain that the Bible is for us the only infallible […]
Read More Wine-Drinking in New Testament Times: By Robert H. SteinBritney Spears, Matthew Perry, Amy Winehouse, George W. Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Mel Gibson, Colin Farrell, Johnny Cash,… the list goes on and on and on. These are just a handful of the names of celebrities who battle(d) drug and/or alcohol addiction. They are people who have achieved a high level of notoriety in our society, […]
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