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Hop on over to Wade Burleson’s blog to see his Reasons Why Tea Totalers Should Be Excluded from Southern Baptist Leadership and Missions Ministry. Here are the main points, but make sure you read his explanation of each:

1. Drinking tea leads a person to addiction to caffeine.
2. Tea and coffee are destructive to the Christian’s body, which is the temple of God.
3. Though the Bible does not expressly forbid the drinking of tea, there is an overwhelming preponderence of Biblical evidence that tea drinking is a sin.
4. Though some have the gall to say Jesus drank tea on the cross, it was clearly not the same kind of tea or substance that tea drinkers consume today.
5. The argument that drinking tea is not illegal in the United States, and therefore, lawful for the Christian, is an argument straight from hell.
6. Some cultures drink tea as a normal part of daily life, but that is no excuse for Christians to drink it, since we are to be ‘a cut above’ the world.
7. When a Christian purchases tea he is supporting an entire industry that has made a fortune by leading people to the mind altering, destructive, and nearly impossible to break addiction to caffeine.
8. It has been scandalously reported that some young, Southern Baptist pastors are actually having Bible studies in the local Starbucks in an effort to lead people to Christ.
9. A great concern for the loosening of the standard of total abstinence from tea drinking is the belief that those Southern Baptist moderates and liberals who drink tea will eventually cause the Southern Baptist Convention to turn back from a firm belief in the inerrancy of the Bible.
10. Drinking caffeinated tea for recreational purposes physiologically acts as a ‘mind altering drug.”

A friend of mine is from Pennsylvania and is living with her husband in College Station for a few months. Her younger sister came to visit a few weeks ago, and it was her first trip to Texas.

We all went to an Astros game toward the end of her week here. During the game, everyone started singing “Deep in the Heart of Texas.” My friend’s sister commented that “Texans sure are proud of their state. I don’t know of any other states with a song about their state.”

Oh how right she was. Here is a little ditty from Bud Light showing just how proud some Texans are. It’s hilarious. It’s sad that beer commercials are the funniest of the bunch. They don’t get me to buy their product, but they’re good for a laugh.

Thanks to Michael for finally finding the clip.