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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seamless links?
If you didn’t know better you would think that this blog is planned. (It’s not – at least not by me). This morning I want to draw together some of the threads of the past few days. Early this morning (see ‘unwelcome epiphanies‘) I woke up with a thought running around in my head that…
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and the winner is…
This morning on the radio they were talking about the Ig Nobel Prizes which are awarded for achievements that first of all make people laugh and then make them think. The awards ceremony is tonight. Previous winners include a lady who invented a brassiere that quickly converts to face masks (for use in the event of…
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unwelcome epiphanies
Last night I had an unwelcome epiphany. I woke up at about 4am with my brain processing all of the sermon preparation I had been doing yesterday. I am exploring 1 Corinthians 2 in our evening service and have been struggling to find an overarching narrative that makes sense of the passage. I had delved…
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Acronymity
An email correspondence with a couple of friends yesterday (thanks Steve and Graeme) got me thinking about acronyms. One of the bizarrest I came across a while ago was an acronym that young people in a Baptist Church had come up with for the Deacons (servant leaders) of their church: Very Old Men In Thought!…
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a his story lesson
Two lions from Colchester Zoo were walking down Colchester High Street. One turned to the other and said, “There aren’t many people around today, are there?” [It’s a good joke, but you could add the punchline: The other one said, “You can talk!!!”] Yesterday afternoon Christians from across Colchester gathered together in the town centre.…
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“incoming!”
We have been told by NASA that sometime today a satellite the size of a bus will be giving in to gravity and plummet towards the earth. Most of it will be burnt up in the atmosphere but some bits will get through and could land anywhere. I have had a couple of thoughts about…
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Elmer Fudd – who’s looking for him?
I have been looking at the various stats generated by this blog. They are interesting, but not especially revealing. However, there is one curious statistic. Over the last few days I have had at least 10 people arrive on my blog because they searched on a search engine for ‘Elmer Fudd’! He is not the…
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incommunicado
Just a quick note to say that my phone line is dead at present so I can’t get online easily. I will hopefully be blogging later today about Elmer Fudd! Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
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peace be with you
Yesterday evening I was at a great session looking at how we read and understand the Bible and one ‘throwaway’ comment from the speaker was that the roots of ‘exchanging the peace’ at communion in church is to make sure we are right with one another before we share bread and wine together. This comes…
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clouded thinking
I am attempting to update the blog a bit and make it easier for you to find your way around. I have realised that because of my laziness (entirely!) I have had over 160 blog entries that had not been categorized. I am attempting to rectify the situation so that the category cloud is more…
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