02/08/2026
Thank you for sharing this book at some point, !
Confessions of a Christian Alcoholic came to me at a season when something isn’t just pulling me closer to God, but pressing me to understand obedience in a deeper, more costly way.
doesn’t write as someone who has it figured out. He writes as someone who has been wrecked, exposed, and rebuilt. Toward the end of the book, becomes the focus, and it’s handled with clarity and conviction: salvation is a free gift, but always costs something. Grace is not opposed to effort—it’s opposed to earning. The cost is obedience.
This book makes a compelling case for the kind of person the world desperately needs: “someone daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burned in the fire of love, and real enough to make others see how phony we are.”
And that’s exactly who this story is for.
For the alcoholics.
The addicts.
The disordered drinkers.
The fakes, the frauds, the floundering, the philanderers, the imposters.
The all-around messy… and sanctified.
One of the most convicting themes is this: if we kill off sin but don’t replace it with what is good and right, we’re left empty. It’s not enough to run away from something. We have to run toward Someone. Jesus Himself warns about this in Matthew 12, describing an unclean spirit that leaves a person, only to return with even more when it “finds the house empty” (Matt. 12:44).
alone isn’t transformation. Behavior change without heart change leaves a vacuum. This book points relentlessly toward filling that space with Christ: daily, imperfectly, obediently.
If you’ve ever felt disqualified, exposed, or tired of pretending, this book doesn’t let you hide. But it also doesn’t leave you hopeless. It calls you forward. Toward truth. Toward obedience. Toward .
Highly recommend.
