Hey everybody, this is Heidi St. John. Welcome to the busy mom podcast today is Monday, July 16th. This is episode number

635. Moment of silence. Holy moly. All right. I feel better now. I am in my brand new studio at the

firmly planted homeschool resource center. If you have not checked us out online yet, I hope you will

do it. You guys are going to be super excited to see what God is doing here. And in the meantime,

I'm going to shoot a dose of encouragement your way. I'm going to be answering a couple of

questions today. One of them comes from Tony in Kansas City. We're going to talk a little bit about

kind of a theology of music and worship in the church. And the next one comes from a friend named

Amy. And she wants to know what God says about alcohol. So if these are questions that you've

wondered about, stick around. God has an answer for you. And I think you're going to be encouraged.

All right. So I'm excited because I love mailbox Monday. I love the questions that you guys

send to me. Keep them coming. If you've got a question that you would like addressed over the

podcast, shoot me an email podcast at the busy mom.com. Most of you have known me now for quite a while.

And you know that I don't really like to shy away from anything because we're all dealing with

things. Well, that's not true. There are some things that you guys have sent me that I said,

no, I'm not talking about that. So in the interest of full disclosure, there have been a couple

of things that have been sent to me that I have chosen not to talk about on the podcast. But for

the most part, I think it's really important for us just to talk about life and the things that we

deal with in our everyday lives. And so this particular question came to me and it was a gal who's

asking Amy asking about alcohol. And you know what? Here's the thing. So I want you guys to

understand because I'm going to address this topic. But this is before I address it. I want to

say that this is an area of personal freedom. All right. And I'm going to try to make a biblical case

for it. But this is not something that people should be fighting about. It's not something that should,

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