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)

  • the middle ages

    Today I have passed a significant milestone in life. It’s my birthday. I am 45. That’s okay. I can cope with that. But what is disturbing is that for most surveys and occasions in which I have to declare my age I have now transitioned from the comforting 35-44 age bracket to the slightly scary 45-54…

  • Counting our blessings again

    Once again this year Christian Aid are releasing Count Your Blessings for Lent. Baptist Christians don’t tend to make as much of Lent as other churches, but I thoroughly recommend you take part in this if you can*. The idea is that each day during Lent we are encouraged to consider our position of privilege in…

  • selfishly stuck?

    I have had a few days’ break this week, hence the absence of bloggages. As a family we went to spend some time with Sally’s family in North Bucks (I am not allowed to say that it’s Milton Keynes). On the way back home, travelling down the M1 motorway, the traffic warning system told us…

  • P A R T Y! Why? Because I gotta!*

    According to WordPress, this is my 500th blog post. 500 bloggages?! That seems incredible to me. Of course, to those who have read them, it seems incredible that there are only 500 interminable entries… I have been reflecting on this fact for a while, anticipating what brilliant bloggerel I should post on here to mark the…

  • questions, questions, questions

    This morning I had an interesting experience that reminded me of something which happened in church when I was a teenager. (Yes I can remember that far back!) I was giving a talk to some primary school aged children and left it with an open question. The idea was that by doing this it would…

  • words wonderful words

    Words are wonderful: rearranging sounds, letters and syllables enables us to communicate with one another. Thoughtful use of the arrangements enables us to communicate clearly with one another. Yesterday on a friends Facebook status I noticed this: “It’s -10C here in Stuttgart and I just passed a teenage boy walking down the street eating an…

  • bizzy

    Today’s bloggage is curtailed due to an excess of work and a shortage of available time. Now that the interpregnum* is over (my colleague, Lynsey, is back from maternity leave) there should theoretically be a higher MPE rating (Ministers Per Event) within the church. However it seems that the work has expanded to fill the…

  • edited highlights

    I recorded the Super Bowl last night. I had a cunning plan. The thinking was that I would be able to watch it and fast forward through all of the ad breaks and delays: bringing the length of the game back down to one hour. Of course the problem was that then I needed to…

  • the ring of truth!?

    God’s timing is incredible (you’d expect it to be really) but it’s wonderful when he uses us as part of his split second timing. This has happened twice in my experience in the last couple of days: phone calls have been made at exactly the right time. On one occasion the person had just been…

  • teef

    I had an epiphany today as I was cleaning my teeth. For some reason I recalled a question our class was asked when I was 8 or 9. How would you answer this? If you could only brush your teeth once, is it better to brush them last thing at night or first thing in…