I was told again today by Oliver that I was "demanded" to present myself again on Wednesday Prayer meeting to share the Korea experience. Anyway, the sharing has already been posted here.Now, I have to call the person in charge to tell them I'm not going to be present on Wednesday night, not the easiest thing to do. Since "no" is not an acceptable answer, normally. However, might get an exception this time as they must have think that I'm hopeless by now! Hehehe!
The problem now is, why do I have to clear the mess that others brought up? I NEVER promised to share it during Wednesday PM in the first place. Then somehow, a second promise were made to others again, but not made by myself. Someone did it on my behalf without my consent but everyone is asking me to be responsible in this matter. I was like, "What? It's not my problem!!". The world is so unfair!
Call me selfish, inconsiderate, irresponsible or whatever but I just don't feel like sharing it during Wed PM. Call me a pessimist but I think sharing it on Wed wouldn't help anyone at all. Enough said.
By the way, tonight (Sunday) sermon by Rev Loi was OK, regarding lukewarm Christians. However, the explanations regarding the lukewarm water that has Calcium Bicarbonate and unsafe for drinking, that I have serious doubts. I'm not a scientist or chemical expert, but I think to claim that lukewarm water is undrinkable due to the substance it has is invalid.
Water naturally contains a range of trace substances at levels which are suitable for drinking – indeed many of these substances are actually essential for health. Calcium and magnesium are naturally occurring minerals is found, for example, in limestone and chalk rock. Both, but particularly calcium, contribute to the natural hardness of water. They are essential elements for health.More about water qualityWhat's lukewarm temperature? Basically, it's just slightly above room temperature, not too hot, not too cold. So I would say about 30 degrees. Isn't most the water we drank are lukewarm? We don't normally drink hot or cold water unless you are making special drinks like Milo or Ice milk tea. So by saying lukewarm water contains calcium bicarbonate and unsafe, we might as well not be drinking any "normal" water. Maybe someone with knowledge on this can correct me? Or it could be I heard wrong during the sermon.
Let's look at some of the benefits of drinking different temperatures of water:
Hot water: When toxin in the body goes up, the body concentrates them in the liver lymph system, intestines and skin to speed up their excretion. But the problem is toxins can make our metabolism slow. That is where the hot water does its work. By flooding the GI tract with heat, it stimulate peristalsis-muscle contractions that encourages the movement of toxins from the liver and lymph system into the digestive tract, therefore speeding their elimination from the body. Hot water also makes your pores open, which can allow stored toxins in the skin tissue to evaporate into the air.
Lukewarm water: When you drink lukewarm water you will feel full quickly. As soon as the water enters the stomach, the organ registers fullness more quickly than with hot or cold water. This makes the stomach expand rapidly, stimulating the brain's nerve to turn off hunger pangs. Room temperature water is also more rapidly absorbed by the stomach lining, so it doesn't stall the digestive process the way hot or cold liquids can.
Cold water: When you drink cold water your metabolism becomes 3% faster within 10 minutes of finishing a glass of cold water, and it stays elevated for 30minutes more says an expert. The reason here is that your body has to work harder to heat the cold water before it can be absorbed and used by the cells.
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let me guess - she preached from the "you are neither hot nor cold" passage in revelations?
Yeah, that's the only place in the bible mentioning so directly about lukewarm.
More about water in Turkey can be found at http://www.allaboutturkey.com/spa.htm
(Extracted from Commentaries: The message to Laodicea - Biblegateway.com)
The site where Laodicea once stood includes an elaborate fountain and a water tower supplied by an aqueduct from hot springs at the site of modern Denizli, four miles south. Not surprisingly, many have suggested a possible local reference here, "a play on words, contrasting what may have been the tepid water of the aqueduct at Laodicea with the possibly fresher and colder water at Colossae and with the very hot water of the cascades at Hierapolis" (Finegan 1981:182). Yet readers in any of the Asian cities, no matter how close or how far away their water supply, would have understood the metaphor. Either cold or hot water is good for something, but lukewarm water is not. The point of the rebuke is not lack of zeal or enthusiasm. If it were, "lukewarm" would at least have been better than "cold"! The point is rather the utter worthlessness of what the congregation has done and is doing . The metaphor is a more blunt and colorful way of saying what was said to the angel at Sardis: "I have not found your deeds complete [that is, acceptable] in the sight of my God" (3:2)
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