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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ecumania?
Yesterday I was very ecumenical. In the morning we participated in a pulpit swap with the other churches in the town centre. Rather than moving pulpits to different churches we felt it would be easier to move the ministers (!) so I went to our local Salvation Army Citadel and one of their Majors came…
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nocturnal blogging
It’s the middle of the night and my body has decided to wake up. It has also decided that while it is very tired it won’t go back to sleep. It’s almost as if it has a mind of its own – that I am simply a passenger. Except that once my body has come…
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than queue for waiting
Apparently we Brits are quite polite. At least that is a reputation we have internationally. Allegedly we naturally form queues when waiting for something when people from other countries and cultures will start some form of rugby ruck or maul and pile in. It seems that we have a reputation for being patient people. I…
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the blog is biggerer
if you can be bothered and are interested, the bloggerel and bloggages have now been joined by some of my pomes – just follow the links if you dare
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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