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Revisiting Wine and Gladness

Posted by Bob Hayton on

March 28th, 2012

It’s been six years since I posted my thoughts on wine, in one of my most read posts. In “Wine to Gladden the Heart of Man”: Thoughts on God’s Good Gift of Wine I traced out the connection that I believe the Old Testament makes between wine and joy, and…

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The Real Meaning of 1 Thessalonians 5:22

Posted by Bob Hayton on

May 5th, 2010

Anyone with roots in conservative evangelicalism, and particularly fundamentalism, will have heard 1 Thess. 5:22 used as justification for all sorts of personal standards. Going to see a movie, drinking from a dark bottle, using playing cards, wearing facial hair (for men) or wearing pants (for women) — all of…

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Charles Spurgeon and Wine

Posted by fundyreformed on

January 24th, 2008

Charles Spurgeon was by far the most influential Christian preacher of the last 200 years. And today, Christians of all sorts pay attention to what he thought and said on any given topic. Given the nearly unparalleled length of his written works (almost every sermon recorded for us), and given…

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"Wine to Gladden the Heart of Man": Thoughts on God’s Good Gift of Wine

Posted by fundyreformed on

March 20th, 2006

There is an interesting discussion on alcohol going on over at Bob Bixby’s blog, Pensees. It has been mentioned over on Sharper Iron, as well. I have been meaning to post for some time on this topic, and now seemed like the appropriate time. Some of my research for this…

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