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)
-
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…
-
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.
-
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…
-
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…
-
Getting into hot water
Following yesterday’s bloggerel about things I wish I had been taught when I trained I thought I would share some of the things I have learnt from experience as a Minister for over 15 years: The baptism water is too hot when your legs are lobster-red when you come out. The baptism water is too…
-
I wish they’d taught me to…
It is now over 15 years since I was ordained and I have discovered some deficiencies in my ministerial training. I would like to suggest that vicar factories include some or all of the following in their training programmes: “Excuse me” – how to suppress embarrassing body noises when visiting / in the pulpit. This…
-
mundanity
I have realised why I sometimes feel pressure with this blog. I know that a few of you bloggists like to read the bloggerel in the mornings. But as often I am blogging the reflections I have had about life, the Universe and everything, I need to have had time to reflect, to consider, or…
-
more parcel thoughts
A classic from Milton Jones: “I’m very English. I even ordered a book on the internet ‘How to have absolutely nothing to do with your neighbours’. Unfortunately I was out when it was delivered…” – visit miltonjones.com for more comedy genius.
-
the parable of the parcel delivery
How do they do it? Do they have some sort of sixth sense? Or (more sinisterly) do they have cameras monitoring what we are doing? What am I talking about? Delivery people. How do they know when is the most inconvenient time to call? I know it must be in their best interests not to…
-
little things…
Isn’t it amazing how something simple can make a big difference? I have had to admit that I need to use reading glasses when I read with my contact lenses in. This is only for when I am reading from books or newspapers, but the ‘off the peg’ reading glasses I bought from a well-known…
nukelearfishing 