nukelearfishing

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)

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Be my valentine?

    St Valentine’s Day could be a celebration of love, a reminder to express appreciation for others and a moment to be blessed and be a blessing. I fear it is becoming an opportunity for the exploitation of couples by commercial pressures, an excuse to sell more cards, flowers and chocolates and an occasion that exacerbates…

  • Our God is a great big God…

    Incredibly busy day today, so not much time to blog. A quick thought and a quick joke… How big is your vision of God: can it get any bigger? thinking of expansion… (sorry!) If not, it’s too small. If it can, ask him to expand it. Don’t settle for less! This is a story about…

  • the times, they are a changin’

    I have a visit to the Dentist this morning. This is to repair a filling that has fallen out. The filling was under guarantee. I find that incredible – that a filling is guaranteed for a year. I would like to think it should last longer than a year, but it is mainly the thought…

  • lead us not into temptation

    Don’t you just love computers? I imagine that by virtue of the fact that you are reading this you are at least computer competent, if not proficient. Perhaps you see your computer as a useful piece of equipment to help you in you life / work, or maybe you are a technophile and are fascinated…

  • Have you heard the one about the Baptist Minister who kept telling jokes?

    Jokes are an interesting phenomenon. Why do people tell each other jokes? What makes us make up stories and ask questions that are entirely fictional, or are absurd, with the risk that the people who are listening may not find them funny or may even be offended? There seems to be a drive within us…