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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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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hands up
We had a Church Meeting last night. For non-Baptists, this is the occasion when the gathered church seeks to discern what God wants us to do as a church. I have been in some bad Church Meetings. There are some where they have been dominated by one or two people and the rest of…
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I wish to register a complaint…
Quick postage today. I recently sent an old phone off to one of these companies that offers you a fortune for them. Got an email back confirming it had been received and saying they would only pay 50% of the original quote. I phoned them to be told that the screen had some ‘shading’ on…
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frothing at the mouth
After yesterday’s frothy coffee episode I have gone to the dark side this morning and gone for some instant cappuccino. It is not the same quality but it is wet and relatively safe to make. I could make a comment about counterfeit or pseudo faith (where we go through the motions) but that is not…
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the trials and tribulations of making a cup of coffee
Why?? [scream of anguish] a portafilter, for the unitiated I have just made myself a lovely tasty cup of frothy coffee with my frothy coffee machine. It is one of those where you pretend you are a barista in a coffee shop. You put ground coffee in a portafilter, tamp it down and put it in…
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mind the gap
When you ride on a train, do you ever stop to listen? No, not to the one-sided phone calls, the conversations and (if you are unlucky) the snoring of the person next to you. Have you ever listened to the sound of the train itself? The regular clackety-clack of the train wheels as they…
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