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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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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time stands still
Today’s is probably the last bloggage of the week as I am heading overseas (well, Northern Ireland) to take part in a wedding service for one of our members and her fiance. It is possible that I will find the time to do some mobile blogging, but please don’t take this as a threat or…
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good humour
Two goldfish are in a tank. One says to the other, “Do you know how to drive this thing?” Two budgies are sitting on a perch. One says to the other, “Can you smell fish?” I love these two jokes – not because they are rib-ticklingly funny (although they make me smile) but because they…
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regraced
If we can be disgraced (and I know I can), yesterday I was regraced. And being God, he regraced me abundantly, with baskets-full left over afterwards. I pray that this will be your experience too. Just when I think I have experienced all there is to experience of God’s grace he outdoes himself once again…
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open-mouthed amazement
When we visit my sister I always have to take some magic tricks to show my niece Bethany. (She’s 18, by the way!). I love doing this because she is such an appreciative audience and keen participant. Imagine the scene from our last visit, earlier this month. I give a playing card to Bethany,who signs…
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funny: you should say that
The levity levels on this blog have dropped to worryingly low levels this week. Yesterday I even had the temerity to suggest that you go and find your own joke! Sorry. It won’t happen again. By way of apology, here is a quick thought and jokes to illustrate: God created laughter. We should use that…
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now is the time to worship
I can still remember the moment when I first heard the song, “Come, now is the time to worship.” I was in my first church, in Horsham, and some of the young people in the church were leading the service. They had heard the song and got hold of a CD, which they played at…
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