What is ABV? I might be a little weird, but I like to read beer labels.  It’s amazing how much information can be found on the side of a bottle of beer.  I love to read how brewers like to describe their beer.  Some like to be serious, some like to be humorous, and some read like your drinking a [...]

by Jacob Cates I love my wife. I do! She’s fiercely loyal, stubborn in all the good ways, has a deep, abiding love for the Lord, can attract all sorts of controversy with an innocuous Facebook post. I’m not kidding. We had a date night, as all you men should have with your wives, and she said on her Facebook [...]

Are you a drunkard?  I wouldn’t be quick to say no.  In fact, I hope one day I will earn the title of drunkard. The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ (Luke 7:34 ESV) Everywhere you look in the book [...]

I’m sitting at the MVD waiting for my number to be called bored out of my mind. So I thought I would pose the question that has been rattling in my mind the past few days. Did Jesus ever get a buzz? I think we would all agree that Jesus drank. It’s hard to be accused as a drunkered if [...]

As I’ve stated on this blog before, it isn’t a sin for a person to drink beer.  But it doesn’t take very much time in the bible to figure out that getting intoxicated is a sin.  The abuse and overuse of alcohol does constitute as a disconnection between us and Jesus.  So this poses the question, “How many beers can [...]

Ross Middleton is the author for Collide Leadership. He is married to, in his own words, his “smokin hot wife” Amy and has two little boys, ages 2 1/2 and a 1/2. They live in Tallahassee, FL and are campus ministers at THE Florida State University with Every Nation Campus Ministries. I was at a bachelor party about a year [...]