‘Aboriginal elder Joe Brown, 63, a leader of Kurnangki, one of three communities bordering the town centre, said children as young as 12 were into drugs and alcohol. “We should have a total grog ban,” he said. Mr Brown, whose 25-year-old son committed suicide last year, said he did not want the army brought in …
Aboriginal Elder Joe Brown calling for total grog ban at Kurnangki Read More »
58.2 % of indigenous women (aged 18+) do not drink alcohol. Thank God these women had never consumed alcohol (or at least not within a week of the survey). ‘In 2004–05, Indigenous people aged 18 years and over were more likely than non-Indigenous people to abstain from drinking alcohol.’ The Health and Welfare of Australia’s …
‘… as I was working in banquet management, I felt the hunger to speak for the Lord. I was a new Christian, and wherever I spoke things would happen. People would ask if I had ever considered that God had gifted me in the role of evangelism. It was natural to me, whether I was …
Ravi Zacharias rejected hotel industry to preach the Gospel Read More »
See also: Bible says be sober again and again. ‘Sober living has always been part of Christian morality. The Scripture warns of the dangers of alcohol and other intoxicants. It teaches that the power of alcohol wars against the will and power of God (Isa. 5:11, 12; 1 Cor. 6:10; Eph. 5:18). The use of …
Laestadian Lutherans for sober living, not drinking alcohol Read More »
See also: Bible says be sober again and again. In 1881, A.B. Simpson started what is now the Christian & Missionary Alliance. A.B. Simpson vs the fiery influence of alcohol ‘The work of alcohol is to set on fire the passions of men, and it is perhaps the best figure that can be selected, of …
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Evangeline Booth’s Indictment: Who should know better the effects of liquor than this brilliant woman, from her experience in the redemptive work of the Salvation Army? Says she: Drink has drained more blood, Hung more crepe, Sold more homes, Plunged more people into bankruptcy, Armed more villians, Slain more children, Snapped more wedding rings, Defiled …
Exploiters and Drinkers: Evangeline Booth “Drink has drained more blood…” Read More »
See: 1 Timothy 5:23 why non-alcoholic wine for Timothy’s stomach Tertullian (c. 160-220 AD) strikingly compared the strong penalty of the Levitical priests to ministers in the Church. ‘For abstinence from wine withal has honourable badges of its own… So true is it, that such as shall have ministered in the Church, being not sober, …
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John of Lycopolis (c. 395 AD) ‘if there is any sharp wine I excommunicate it, but I drink the good.’ (‘The Lusiac History’, Ch. 35, John of Lycopolis)
Methodius of Olympus (311 AD) ‘…he who has devoted and offered himself to the Lord shall not take of the fruits of the plant of evil, because of its natural tendency to produce intoxication and distraction of mind. For we perceive from the Scriptures two kinds of vines which were separate from each other, and …
Methodius of Olympus (311 AD) Christian against tasting alcohol Read More »
Tertullian (c. 160-220 AD) Tertullian strikingly compared the strong penalty of the Levitical priests to ministers in the Church. ‘For abstinence from wine withal has honourable badges of its own… So true is it, that such as shall have ministered in the Church, being not sober, shall “die”’. (Tertullian, Fasts, Ch. 9, ‘From Fasts Absolute Tertullian …