nukelearfishing

Category: free sample of Jesus

  • mission made simple

    Churches seem to have the innate ability to make things complicated, don’t we. Putting aside all of the complexities of Church Meetings, Leadership Meetings, ordinations, inductions, church accounts and finances, child protection policies, insurance, choice of music in services, sitting in our favourite seats, charity law, constitutions, and so much more that goes into running a…

  • More puppetry

    A further Elmo related thought… People relate to Elmo the puppet as a real being because of the puppeteer behind  (or beneath) him. There’s an illustration of grace and service here – someone who is willing to work in the background to support someone else. The puppeteer gets no public credit or acknowledgement but is…

  • fingertips

    Don’t ask me why, I can’t explain, but this morning I remembered a football match I was playing in about 17 years ago. It was while I was a professional footballer.* I used to play in goal for one of our church football teams (usually the 3rd 11), and this was often a very busy…

  • Time out

    Dear bloggists.  This week I am taking some time off work and time off blogging. If you experience any withdrawal symptoms please feel free to search the archives for previous bloggages, and if you are looking for Easter related bloggerel you can find some here and the following entries from a couple of years ago.…

  • A blameless shrug

    Yesterday I gave a shameless plug for the Magic Show I am performing with my friend Richard. I was playing around with the phrase ‘shameless plug’, kneading the words like poetic putty, and came up with the almost spooneristic ‘blameless shrug’. And, as it often does, that set me thinking and reflecting. One of Bart…

  • a weekend full of blessings

    What a weekend I have just had. On Saturday I had the joy and privilege of inducting a Minister, on Sunday morning I preached at one of our churches and in the evening I joined in with a gathering of lots of Christians from Baptist churches in Southend. An Induction is a bit like a…

  • And relax

    I’m going to be enjoying a few days of leave now so no more bloggages this week (stop cheering!). I hope and pray that you will find refreshing activities or rest this week too. You’re worth it. Be blessed, be a blessing

  • Traffic

    So I am doing a lot of driving in my new role. And I quite enjoy it. Except for the things that interrupt my journey like roadworks, diversions, traffic jams and lorries. I do understand that roads need repairing or improvement; that sometimes you need to go around an incident; that people don’t break down…

  • a handy bloggage

    Hands are amazing aren’t they? We take them for granted don’t we? Think for a moment how much you have used your hands already today – even just to log on to whatever device you are using to read this bloggage – and then marvel at them. When you think about what we can do…

  • messiah moments

    I hope you had a good Christmas. How do you feel now? Stuffed to the gunwales? Surrounded by the debris of the day (we’ll clear it up later)? Satisfied? Sad? Lonely? From time to time I like to have ‘Messiah Moments’. No, not delusions of grandeur (and how deluded must you be to think you…