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)

  • change is inevitable except from a vending machine

    I can understand why a lot of people in this country are getting exercised about what is happening to their pensions. It must be exasperating if you have been putting money away over a period of years with the expectation that you will get a certain return on them at the end of your working…

  • comm you Nick 8ing

    Isn’t modern communication amazing? I have been trying to get a magic club off the ground in Colchester but have found that communicating the existence of a fledgling club like that is difficult. I don’t have the resources to take out a full-page advert in our local paper or broadcast radio adverts. I have posted…

  • demon chicken

    I think my car may be possessed by a demon chicken. Out of nowhere an image has suddenly appeared on the panel that shows the time, temperature and radio station (when the radio is on). It started as a small, discreet blob and has evolved into a chicken… What do you think? I don’t remember…

  • grace?

    I realise that the way the media works is to give us soundbites and edited highlights in order to whet our appetite and get us interested in and raise publicity for their article, so I am trying to read this article (http://www.christiantoday.com/article/mark.driscoll.takes.aim.at.the.cowards.in.the.british.church/29159.htm) in the light of that. But… honestly? Really? Why? I suggest you read…

  • being there

    One of the immense privileges of being a pastor is that you are able to be a part of people’s lives at difficult moments. When I was training in the vicar factory I thought that this would be an aspect of the role that I would find really awkward and challenging. I wondered how I…

  • bonus bloggerel

    I thought I had mastered the art of preparing bloggerel and setting a time for WordPress to post it in the future. Until yesterday afternoon, when I wrote the grumpy bloggage and hit ‘publish’ rather than setting a date. So consider that today’s entry, but for anyone who has seen this and come specially today,…

  • grump alert!

    At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, I was a bit peeved this week to get some unsolicited mail from a Christian publishing/resources company. From Facebook correspondence with friends it seems that I’m not the only Baptist minister to do so. I could tell that this was unsolicited and not from a…

  • the little angel

    Following on from yesterday’s bloggage I thought I would share a story with you. It’s the story I told in our Bright Sparks parent and toddler group and is based loosely on fact. The little angel always looked forward to Christmas because it meant she came out of the box and got to hang on…

  • It came upon the blog so clear…

    So that’s it for another year, then. Christmas has been packed away in boxes and confined to cupboards, the garage or the loft… only to be considered in December as we wonder whether we will be able to untangle the lights, why they don’t work when they did when we put them away, and where…

  • ten ways to bless someone in 2012

    Here is another list for you… Ten ways to bless other people this year: Pray for them. Consistently. Invite them around for a meal. Surprise them with a gift you have made for them. Send them an email or text message (or letter!) out of the blue, reminding them of some of their good qualities.…