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)

  • 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…

  • >the art of time mismanagement (or being a Pastor!)

    >Procrastination: the art of delaying difficult or disagreeable tasks until they become more difficult or disagreeable because the available time has reduced. (See also entries under ‘Leaving it too late’ and ‘Apologising profusely’)* It’s very tempting at this point to quip that I will come back to the blog later and leave it at that.…

  • beep, beep, beep, beep

    As a ‘stocking filler’ at Christmas we gave our son a little gadget to put on his key ring. It’s one of those fobs that beeps when you whistle to tell you where your lost keys are. A useful present, we thought, especially as “where are my keys” had been a regular question. So, ‘whistle’……

  • baaah, baaah, baaaaah, bah bah (dum, dum, dum, dum)*

    Regular blogites who visit this site will know that I have been given a calendar with a joke a day. This was from a member of our church, and I am not sure if it is because they know I like jokes (I know they do) and wanted to bless me, or because they think…

  • transfer windows for Baptist Ministers – is it the way ahead?

    There is an interesting process involved when Baptist Ministers move church. The Regional Ministers, who know the ministers and the churches, meet together monthly to pray and suggest names of ministers to churches that are looking for a new minister, and it is up to the churches and ministers to discern if they have got…

  • lights, cameras, reaction!

    Happy new week! It’s Monday morning and a new week with all sorts of opportunities, events, happenings, experiences, encounters, people and ideas stretch out before us like a freshly revealed beach that has not yet been walked on since the tide went out. How do you respond to that? Did it energise and invigorate you…