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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Testing times
I will be at the Baptist Assembly in Blackpool this weekend – sans laptop. I hope that this post via email will work, in which case I will post from Blackpool via Blackberry Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone from Virgin Media
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“my, how you’ve changed…”
We have to renew our driving licence photos. I did not realise that this was what happens but after 20 years they want a new picture of Sally* and myself for our driving licences. I guess this is because they imagine that people change after 20 years. It can’t simply be a sneaky way of…
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… and relax
I is having a day off today. They usually happen on Saturdays for me, but there’s a bonus one this week for having to work all the way through a Bank Holiday last week (Good Friday). The problem is that I can’t turn my brain off completely from thinking about church things: Who will run…
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tweeting
We had to sleep with the windows open a couple of nights ago. It was too hot. The open windows let in the cooler air. Job done. Unfortunately they also let in the sound of the dawn chorus. In the garden, just below our bedroom window, is a large bush / small tree that houses…
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at the foot of the cross
Who is there at the foot of the cross? Simon of Cyrene? A visitor to Jerusalem. He was not a follower of Jesus but somehow got caught up in the events and carried the cross for Jesus. Women who were distraught about the execution of the one who had shown them dignity and honour. Who…
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underprepared, overprepared, ministering free…
Very quick lunchtime blog today as I am almost overwhelmed by stuff I have to get done. Yesterday I was at an inspirational conference about how churches respond to the Big Society agenda. It was delivered by Steve Chalke and gave us lots to think about. At the end of the day there was a panel…
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man cold alert
I have a cold. It is a man cold. It is only surpassed in seriousness by man-flu! In order to help me keep on going manfully through the man cold I have been taking various remedies that claim to stop the symptoms while my immune system goes about its business of ejecting the man cold…
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in case you wanted a laugh today
I didn’t feel a joke was appropriate with today’s blog, so if you want one, this is an extra one with some frivolity…. If I (a bald man) get hit on the head can I still get a hairline fracture? I knew I was going bald when it was taking me longer and longer to…
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praying in anguish
I have always been fascinated by Jesus ‘sweating blood’ 39 Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him. 40 On reaching the place, he said to them, “Pray that you will not fall into temptation.” 41 He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed, 42 “Father, if you are willing, take this…
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choose your battles wisely
I used to be a litigation lawyer. I say this by way of a statement of fact, not as a confession. One of the things that the solicitor who was the head of the litigation department taught me was to discern which cases to settle and which to fight. This meant that when I went…
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