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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>about what doctors have lots of*
> the fruit of the Supermarket is apples, bananas, pears, lemons, melons… Today I am preparing a sermon for Sunday morning. It’s part of a series we are on at present looking at the Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). Sunday morning’s theme is ‘patience’. I am aware that this is at present one of…
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eclectricity
We had an interesting experience at our church last night. In one room we had a meeting of Christian Bikers, in another we had a meeting for the team leading our interior renovations, in another there was a training session for youth and children’s leaders and in the hall lots of people were playing carpet…
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should have gone to [a certain brand of opticians whose name I will not use as I am not being paid for advertising on this blog, but now you are thinking of them so I have failed in trying not to mention them]
I have just come back from an eye test. I can remember the days when you just had to look at some letters on the wall and the optician would shine a torch in your eyes to have a quick look. Today’s experience was a high-tech equivalent of a medieval torture! I had air puffed…
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Disciple: baffled, but willing to be led
Hello again bloggists. I have returned to the blogcave and am ready to release more random thoughts into the wild. not actually chairs at the conference venue – these look more comfortable! I have been at the Eastern Baptist Association Ministers’ Conference. It was a real blessing. We were fed well physically (cooked breakfasts are…
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prioritising priorities
I can remember a lecture at the Vicar Factory where I trained (the awesome Spurgeon’s College if you are interested). That statement may surprise you for two reasons: one is that I can remember a lecture, the second is that I actually am trained. Anyhoo… the lecture was in my final year when we were…
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palindromes
Another sign that I am getting older. I was sure I was 45 until a friend wished me a happy palindromic birthday. Took me a while to work out that 2011 – 1967 = 44. D’oh! Campus motto: Bottoms up Mac Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo, Jane, Reed, Dena,…
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getting older
Yesterday I was leading a devotional thought for the folk who come to our lunch club for the elderly. I was going to begin with a few jokes about getting older: The most effective way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once. Bob Hope: “She said she was approaching forty – I…
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intro-speck-tion
My eye is irritated at the moment. I usually wear contact lenses and it feels like there is a tiny bit of grit or something else under the lens. The contact lens-wearers out there will be empathising with me right now. Those of you who don’t wear them can’t really understand. It was quite funny, therefore,…
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out of our depth?
“Don’t go out of your depth!” I can still vividly remember that repeated injunction from my parents when we went to the swimming pool or the beach. The rule was that I was always supposed to be able to put my feet down on the bottom of the pool or the sea bed and still be…
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you drink your coffee, I sip my tea…*
I like coffee. That statement will not be a surprise to anyone who knows me. I don’t like tea. That is a lesser-known fact about me. My wife, Sally, likes tea. She does not like coffee. I think that this means we are ideally-suited in our beverage consumption as it means we can each choose…
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