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)

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • the lost parable

    I bought my wife a coat made entirely of hamster fur. We went to London for the day and she spent seven hours on the London Eye!* That is my variation on today’s joke in my new calendar. I like it! It reminds me of one of my favourite parables. The story of the Lost…

  • this made me smile and then made me think

    With grateful thanks to Asbo Jesus for the insight and challenge

  • it’s a game of two halves at the end of the day

    Sorry, I can’t resist. Football is a funny old game. On Sunday my favourite team, Ipswich Town, were thrashed 7-0 by Chelsea in the FA Cup. It was so bad that if it had been a boxing match it would have been stopped a long way before the final whistle. Last night Ipswich played Arsenal…

  • “I have never been so insulted…”

    “… Maybe you should listen more to what people are saying about you!” Regular readers will be delighted to know that this Christmas I received two joke-related gifts. One is a calendar with a new joke every day, and the other describes itself as “The Ultimate Collection of Jokes and One-liners”. WOOOO HOOOOO! The book is…

  • behind your back

    A couple of days ago I mentioned the cross stitch in my office at church. Today I want to reflect on a painting that hangs in my study at home. This (I think) is a painting of the Romanian town of Timisoara. It is certainly where it was bought for me. It was a gift…