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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>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.…
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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’……
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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…
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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…
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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…
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referee!
I have been asked to write a reference for someone in our church. I am delighted to do so and am glad to be able to commend them. But there is an obligation on me to be honest, accurate and fair. It is a legal obligation and I could be sued if I was…
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implicated
On November 30 I linked to a Youtube clip from the Vicar of Dibley, where the Vicar tells a joke about an inflatable boy. If you don’t know it I would advise you to go to that blog post and watch the video before coming back here and carrying on as I am about to…
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if only I could be in two places at once
Last night I was torn. Ipswich Town (my favourite team) were playing in the second leg of the League Cup Semi Final against Arsenal, and went into the match with a slender 1-0 lead. The possibility of them reaching a final at Wembley was dangling temptingly in front of me. And the match was being…
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coffee time
I had an interesting experience on Sunday morning. The churches in central Colchester did a ‘pulpit swap’ as part of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. For the uninitiated that does not mean that we swap our pulpits, lecterns and daises but that Ministers go to different churches. I was at a church…
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what do I do?
I have just come back from taking an assembly at a nearby Primary School for key Stage 1 pupils. They wanted to know what a Minister does. That seemed like a subject I could manage so I agreed. However, trying to explain some of what I do to non-church-going children in reception and years 1…
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