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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Sermon illustrations by Dave Walker
CartoonChurch.com » Cartoon » Sermon illustrations. Wonderful cartoon that offers us some new ways of bringing the Bible to life
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Back to School again :)
It’s the first day of a new school term for the sproglets in our house. Mr Tall had to pump up the tyres on his bike, having only just thought to check. He couldn’t find the pump. Cue Dad getting out the electric pump for car tyres. Little Miss Splosh only just thought to ask…
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inspired by toads
This evening I will be making Toad in the Hole for our tea. That is not a particularly ambitious meal, I admit, but I will be making it from scratch, not just getting a pre-made one out of the freezer and reheating it. Even so, I realise that this is perhaps not the sort of earth-shattering…
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Here in my car…
As I was driving to church yesterday I glanced in my rear-view mirror (I do that occasionally to see what mayhem I have caused) and noticed that the man behind me was busy eating a doughnut as he drove along. His insurance claim form would have been interesting if he had crashed. This morning I…
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communion prayer
Loving God, we give you thanks for all your gifts. In love you gave us Jesus your Son to rescue us from sin and death. To the darkness Jesus came as your light. With signs of faith and words of hope he touched untouchables with love and washed the guilty clean. This is his story.…
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kneeling
I have hurt my knee. I slipped down a step and it feels like I strained the ligaments behind the knee. I am not telling you this for sympathy, but because it is the sort of injury that I can forget for a while until I move my leg in a direction that makes me wince. It…
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lost thoughts
Don’t you hate it when you have a good idea or profound thought as you are dropping off to sleep and can’t remember it the next day when you wake up? I have a pad of paper and a pen next to my bed for just such an eventuality. It also helps me to write…
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Upson Downs Baptist Church
Last night I was invited by a friend in the church to attend a football match. Free of charge. With free parking. In an executive box. It was a prize that he had won for himself and nine friends. It was a Colchester United match. We were excited and animated as we entered the box…
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noticing
After an interval caused by a wedding in Northern Ireland, a weekend and a Bank Holiday, what passes for normal service is resumed today as the bloggerel recommences. The wedding was lovely. I shared the service with Stuart, the Minister of the Bride’s home church where the wedding took place, and Ben, the Minister at…
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best joke
The best joke at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival: “I needed a password eight characters long so I picked ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarves’.” (Nick Helm). Runner-up was Tim Vine: “Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.”
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