nukelearfishing

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)

  • i don’t get it

    A couple of weeks ago I began a sermon with a joke that died. Here’s the joke (told here on April 5th 2011): Two guys are bungee-jumping one day. The first guy says to the second, “You know, we could make a lot of money running our own bungee-jumping service in Mexico. They’ve never heard…

  • you cannot be serious!

    Yesterday morning I was preaching at our church from what, at first glance, looked like a pretty mundane part of the Bible: Luke 6:12-19. Not a lot happens. It might even be considered boring. Yet (and at this point I can almost hear members of our congregation saying this over their lunches) there was still…

  • unjustly accused

    I had a worrying moment yesterday when a message appeared at the bottom of my screen informing me that I did not have a legal version of Windows 7. That was alarming at first, given that I had paid for this a long time ago, that it had been validated and accepted as genuine by…

  • coincidentally God is at work

    Yesterday I had a wonderfully strange experience. I had not planned to visit the hospital, but had been told that one of our members had been admitted, so I went over to see how she was (doing ok). As I stood at the nurses’ station, trying to find the lady I had come to visit,…

  • blogs should be full of meaning and not hurt

    In Victorian Britain, so we are told, children were to be ‘seen and not heard’. They were to maintain a discrete distance from their parents and only make their presence felt when it was requested. Until now I have always taken that at face value. But I have just realised that it is a very…

  • Don’t feel obliged to answer

    The responses to yesterday’s minibloggage made me smile this morning. There weren’t any. I wonder whether that’s because nobody has ever been asked a good question or whether you al assumed it was a rhetorical question. The idea of rhetorical questions is fascinating, isn’t it? We use them as a device for engaging others into…

  • Quick thinking

    Just a quick question for you today, due to unforeseen circumstances: What’s the best question you have ever been asked? Be blessed, be a blessing.

  • irony, ironically.

    Irony is wonderful. I love it. The problem is that it does not work too well in written text, which is probably the cause of a lot of misunderstandings. As I cleared out the spam comments on this blog I noticed one that seemed ironic in the extreme. It was a spam comment that was…

  • euphemistically speaking

    We have interesting euphemisms for innocuous occurrences. “bun in the oven” – pregnant “economical with the truth” – liar “indisposed” – on the loo (we all do it) “pre-loved” – second hand (yes, honestly, it’s a phrase that’s coming into usage) “built for comfort, not speed” – overweight “need to recharge my batteries” – tired…

  • you have been warned (including you, olly murs)

    This is a warning to all who live in the Colchester area. The loud scream you hear today is nothing to worry about. The youngest member of our family is a big fan of Olly Murs and left me the task of trying to get her some tickets for his tour next year. I have…