Sludge and rubber ducks

Just mopping up still after returning from church today to the splosh splosh sound of water pouring from dining room light after my 3 year old had been creating pond in sink for rubber ducks before church without anyone else knowing! Eternal consequences nil though – so a welcome change from day to day church matters really! Brightened up the day in fact now I think about it!

Also, this same daughter, with a gift for creative and inspiring vocabulary if you’ll remember, came up with another great one at Legoland on Friday: on passing one of the snack stands – “Mummy can I have some sludge please?”

Great things I remember from sermon today: “And what persecutors forget is that when they try to squash Christians it doesn’t make them go, it makes them grow. The Romans tried it, the Nazi’s tried it, and the Chinese government has tried it but instead of wilting and giving up, Christians with the right attitude to persecution grow.”

And: “The beginning of persecution is that words and terms begin to be redefined. 20 years ago I was an orthodox Bible believing Christian, and Peter Tatchell was a gay rights activist. In that time neither of us have changed our views I don’t think but today I would be labelled an evangelical fundamentalist, a danger to both church and state, and he is now termed a human rights campaigner.” Persecution is coming to us and we need to choose if we will be silenced or not.”

~ by girlpreacha on July 12, 2009.