nukelearfishing

Category: free sample of Jesus

  • targeted adverts

    Advertisers pay money to put their adverts in the places where they thing the right people will see them. Daytime TV is full of ads from injury lawyers because they reckon that those who have had an accident at work will be lying on the sofa recuperating. The internet is getting smarter too. Ads on…

  • chaplains are not charlies

    I have just read a great article in The Times (on Saturday 1 October) about army chaplains. (I’d like to be able to point you to it online, but The Times is subscription only.) It is based around an interview with the Chaplain General (top chaplain), Rev Jonathan Woodhouse, who happens to be the first…

  • open minds

    It’s later in the day than I had planned to post this, but I hope you won’t mind. Actually this bloggerel is all about minding. Or at least the opening of minds. Prompted by a friend’s request (see yesterday) I looked in my Bible on Sunday to suggest some passages for him to read. One…

  • mundanity

    I have realised why I sometimes feel pressure with this blog. I know that a few of you bloggists like to read the bloggerel in the mornings. But as often I am blogging the reflections I have had about life, the Universe and everything, I need to have had time to reflect, to consider, or…

  • running commentary

    I have been reflecting on Eric Liddell. His story is best known from the film Chariots of Fire which I am sure we will see a lot of in the lead up to London 2012. He was a strong believer in Jesus and believed that competing in the Olympics on a Sunday was dishonouring to God.…

  • the fruit of the burger

    Yesterday was brilliant. We had a lovely service in which we baptised two people with very different testimonies, as I mentioned last week. It was very moving to hear how Dan had turned up at an outreach event we were hosting for Hope in Colchester (Hope 08), drawn by the music. He sat and listened…

  • footprints

    I was thinking earlier this morning [sound of readers fainting in surprise] and for some reason the phrase ‘leave nothing behind except your footprints’ came to my mind. Psychologists may have fun with analysing that but I want to lead you along my train of thought that came from that starting point. The phrase is…

  • implicated

    On November 30 I linked to a Youtube clip from the Vicar of Dibley, where the Vicar tells a joke about an inflatable boy. If you don’t know it I would advise you to go to that blog post and watch the video before coming back here and carrying on as I am about to…

  • frothing at the mouth

    After yesterday’s frothy coffee episode I have gone to the dark side this morning and gone for some instant cappuccino. It is not the same quality but it is wet and relatively safe to make. I could make a comment about counterfeit or pseudo faith (where we go through the motions) but that is not…

  • feeding the 4000

    I have mentioned before how I write this blog primarily for selfish reasons: it helps me stop and reflect on my life in the presence of God and ask myself questions about how I am doing as a free sample of Jesus. But it is also providing me with interesting experiences as I bump into…