nukelearfishing – the random and occasionally humorous musings of a Baptist Minister who is trying to be a free sample of Jesus and discover God in the ordinary.
(These musings don’t necessarily represent the views of the church I serve)
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paper, paper everywhere
One of the things I promised myself is that during my sabbatical leave I would sort out my desk. There are piles of papers that need filing, binning or shredding. There are bits and pieces that need to go back in their proper places. Somewhere there are books still to be read. There are loads…
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Please be patient with me
Hi folks Over the next week or so the bloggages will be rather intermittent because I’ll be travelling around the country. I hope to blog in from time to time, but can’t make any promises. Sorry. Will be back soon. Be blessed, be a blessing
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relax
Hellooo! I am back from my retreat last week. It was a lovely relaxing, refreshing time in many ways – spiritually and physically. I thoroughly recommend it. A couple of highlights: The retreat was specifically for Ministers / Clergy. At the start we were told that there was a strict ‘no shop talk’ rule. That…
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faith is a joke*
Stop right there! Please don’t start lobbing rocks (literal or metaphorical) just yet. Please read on and then decide whether what I have written has any merit. The title of this bloggage is a bit mischievous. It is open to misunderstanding, yes. But it was designed to get your attention, and it did, didn’t it? It’s…
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blog-style answering machine message
Hello, dear bloggist. I am retreating at the moment: in a land far, far away where there’s a poor phone signal and probably no broadband. So the blogging is taking a sabbatical this week. Please feel free to inspect the extensive archive of bloggerel, or even sample some of my pomes. For any who struggle…
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run away, run away!
This will probably be the last bloggage… for a week. (I can hear a strange noise all of a sudden. It sounds like cheering) This weekend I am heading down to Devon for a week’s retreat* at the Society of Mary and Martha. It’s a retreat designed for Ministers and is called a ‘12,000 mile…
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so ronery
I miss regular, meaningful human contact. That is one of the down-sides of locking myself away in my study to read, pray and reflect for 3 months. It is one of the reasons why I am really enjoying going off to visit other churches to talk with them about how God has used and blessed…
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unwelcome guests
We have recently had a lodger with us. They have not been paying anything for the privilege, and indeed made a bit of a mess. So we had to evict them. That was easier said than done. The lodger was a mouse. Most of the time the only evidence of his/her stay with us was…
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a new catchphrase
I have a new catchphrase. No, not ‘Nice to see you, to see you… nice’ or ‘Just like that’. It sits alongside a phrase I tend to use a lot, which I coined back in 2010. Regular bloggites will already know what it is: We are called to be ‘free samples of Jesus’. If we…
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