{"id":2529,"date":"2023-01-13T04:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:46","slug":"not-a-bottle-of-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2529","title":{"rendered":"NOT A BOTTLE OF PORT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Living in a culture which obsesses over comfort and happiness, I don&#8217;t know that we could ever be reminded of this enough:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">C. S. Lewis once wrote, &#8220;I didn\u2019t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don\u2019t recommend Christianity.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul said in 2 Timothy 1:11:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;And of this Gospel I was appointed<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Herald<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Apostle and<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And THAT is why I am suffering as I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lord does not promise a life of comfort for believers.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quite the opposite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living in a culture which obsesses over comfort and happiness, I don&#8217;t know that we could ever be reminded of this enough: C. S. Lewis once wrote, &#8220;I didn\u2019t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2530,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions\/2530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}