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)

  • Ambiguity

    For some peculiar reason, last night I started speculating about how different song titles could be ambiguous: I still haven’t found what I’m looking for could be about a man’s search for his car keys, or about a phone call from a lengthy shopping trip to explain why they will be late home. Whatever you…

  • counting on you

    I am a bit obsessed with the counter on my blog that tells me how many people have visited. Just by clicking on the link that brought you here, you have brought me joy – even if you get nothing out of it! From my end of the blog I can also analyse the stats…

  • tellyvisgone

    Today a nice man from Sky is supposed to be coming to fix our tellybox. This should mean that we are once more able to access far more channels than we will ever watch. For the past week we have been ‘slumming it’ with Freeview, which still has lots of channels that are caught effortlessly…

  • paradoxically speaking

    It seems that the internet (and social media in general) is full of ‘profound’ statements that people ‘like’, ‘share’, ‘retweet’ and ‘post’ to friends and followers. Some examples from yesterday, posted on Facebook since my last bloggage, are: Sometimes God calms the storm… sometimes he lets the storm rage and calms his child. The problem…

  • getting fruity

    This morning I have been looking at the subjects for the next part of our morning preaching series. We are working our way through Luke’s Gospel – we may be some time! This passage particularly struck me (it’s Jesus speaking…) “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. Each…

  • redecorating

    A stand up comic was talking about decorating his house (I can’t remember which one – comic, not house). He said that as a practical joke he was considering splashing some blood red paint on the wall and writing something sinister alongside, before wallpapering over it. The idea was that this would spook the next…

  • cross purposes

    This lunchtime we had a Good Friday walk of witness through Colchester Town Centre, led by the Salvation Army band. As is usual we finished that the war memorial outside Castle Park gates. The event was even reported live on BBC Essex radio. This year our reflections were led by the Bishop of Chelmsford, Rt…

  • the mother of all oxymorons

    I’m back. I have been away at our church holiday at Sizewell Hall on the Suffolk coast, just next door to Sizewell Nuclear Power Station. I felt quite at home! We were all quite tired when we got home so decided to order takeaway pizza for tea. I think everyone else in the church must…

  • whether forecast

    This is a whether forecast. I don’t know whether I will be posting as regularly over the next few days. I may well be preoccupied with a few other things so the bloggerel may be in short supply (stop cheering). However, I will leave you with a pre-Easter thought and the threat of possible random…

  • ouch

    “God won’t let you suffer beyond what you can endure.” Has anyone ever said that to you? I have said it in sermons occasionally, but I am wondering about it. It’s not the most sensitive thing for someone to hear who is experiencing extremely difficult circumstances. To the person who feels that they are at…