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)

  • motivation, inspiration, perspiration

    I have been reading a bit recently (and doing some personal reflection) on different strengths and weaknesses, different preferred learning styles and different ways of looking at life’s problems and blessings. We are all different. If that comment shocked you, welcome back to the real world from wherever you have been cocooned for the rest…

  • becoming a golfist

    Today I played 9 holes of golf with a very patient friend from our church. I really enjoyed myself and, with his help (thanks John) I improved to the point where I hit par on one hole  and bogies* on several others. As I sliced the ball out of bounds, into a pond, across a…

  • Barney the dinosaur was right

    I was taking an assembly at a local secondary school this morning and talking about the African concept of ubuntu. Before the name was adopted by computer geeks it was a traditional word that is difficult to translate into English. But I think the essence of is that we are completed in community. We need other…

  • Shhhh…. I can’t tell you

    I have just signed my life away. It is no secret that the Olynpic Torch relay will be coming through Colchester. The date is in the public domain (6th July). But LOCOG (London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games) has been keeping the route to itself. It was planning not to release the precise route…

  • bloggage update about my health – if you are not interested I won’t mind at all if you don’t read it!

    I am a migrainist. I have suffered from chronic migraines since 2002 (ie constant) until the installation of a wonderful device called an Occipital Nerve Stimulator. Since it was plumbed in in 2010 I have become more and more headache-free. BSOF* However, it is battery-powered. And the battery has almost expired. No matter what you…

  • hay polo jeeps

    Today I shall be mostly visiting a hospital for a check up on my cyber brain. Bloggerel is unlikely to be dispensed…

  • mind your language

    I’ve just had an interesting ‘moment’ caused by an inadequately phrased headline on the BBC website. The headline was: “Star Church settles over hacking.” This set all sorts of questions running in my head… What sort of church is a “Star Church”? Does it have something to do with Star Wars or Star Trek, so…

  • Being lent on

    Is it acceptable to give up giving things up for Lent? As today is the first day of Lent I have seen and heard of many people who are giving up Facebook, chocolate, crisps, TV, and even grumpiness for Lent. Sometimes I have been told these acts of virtuousness by people who have then asked…

  • pointing power

    I have been well and truly stitched up. Following an innocent conversation last year about good and bad PowerPoint presentations we have seen, one of the participants offered me up as a sacrificial lamb to run a seminar/workshop at this year’s Ministers’ Conference (where I am currently) on PowerPoint skills. I find that daunting. Already…

  • space the final frontier?

    Today I am going to join with fellow Baptist Ministers from the East of England at our annual conference. It is an occasion I really look forward to each year. It looks like there is a good line-up of sessions and there are some high-quality speakers (orators not the fixed to the wall amplification type).…