Every one of us has at some time in the past or is now currently wrestling with a devotion to idols. At least, that’s what the Bible teaches:
Scripture permits us to broaden the definition of idolatry so that it includes anything on which we set our affections and indulge as an excessive [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Alcohol’
September 23, 2008
Mere Christianity; C.S. Lewis on alcohol and the Christian
From chapter 12
Temperance is, unfortunately, one of those words that has changed its meaning. It now usually means teetotalism. But in the days when the second Cardinal virtue was christened ‘Temperance,’ it meant nothing of the sort. Temperance referred not specially to drink, but to all pleasures; and it meant not abstaining, but going the [...]
