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)
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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).…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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