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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waiting
I am currently very frustrated. Microsoft has kindly sent me some updates for programs on my computer. That is very thoughtful of them. However the process of updating requires a restart of my computer and it has so far taken the best part of an hour to install the updates and it has been working…
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outside the door
It is scary visiting some people in their offices. Waiting outside you feel nervous, sweaty-palmed and experience what the more uncouth among us call ‘SBT’. (For those of a delicate disposition you can ignore this acronym but if you are curious and can’t work it out, it’s set out at the bottom of the page*.)…
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booking time out
Those of you who can remember June 11 last year will remember that I mentioned I am writing a novel. At that time Ihad written about 9,000 words. Since then I have written about 100 more words. This is not good progress! So I have decided that next week I will take two days’ leave…
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incommunicado
Our phone line is out of action at home. I don’t know why. One minute it was working fine, the next… nothing. So if you are trying to contact us at home, sorry. It also means that our internet access is down. If you send me an email I can read it on my Blackberry…
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will, will, will
A few years ago I had a different existence. I worked in the Mission Department at the Baptist Union of Great Britain. I worked with some brilliant colleagues and thoroughly enjoyed my time there. If I had not been convinced that God had called me to Colchester Baptist Church I would have been delighted to…
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Cântă laudă, cântă laudă *
On Sunday we are nabbing an idea that came from my lovely friends Matt and Juls Hollidge (visit their excellent Kore website!!). They were the worship leaders for the Baptist World Youth Conference in Leipzig, as well as at the youth programme at the Baptist World Congress in Birmingham UK, not Alabama). They had the…
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God’s whisper
A member of our church lent me a book recently. Then, at a Ministers’ meeting, a fellow Baptist Minister shared that he had read this book and found it very helpful. I have often found that when ‘coincidences’ like that happen God is trying to get my attention. So I listened. I continued reading the…
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technology 1 human 0
I got annoyed this morning. I was at the church, setting up my laptop to work with our church projector – ready for a group of Year 1s from a local school to come and find out more about what our church is like. I had set everything up yesterday. It worked fine. Of course…
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ouch
Last night I woke up with a desire to visit another room in our house. (I am trying to be delicate here!). I walked barefoot into that room and on my way back to bed felt a small jab in the sole of my foot, like I had stood on a pin or a sharp…
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thank you Ship of Fools!
I have just had a genuine lol moment that verged on the rotfl. Have a look at http://www.ship-of-fools.com/signs/index.html and see proof that if God moves in mysterious ways (like a divine ninja?), the movement of Christians is bizarre… a sample below! I have often thought that there ought to be a space reserved for ministers in our…
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