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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… and relax
Next week there may be a few days’ break from the blog (or there may be more entries than usual) as I am attending a conference for Baptist Ministers in Larger churches. For some readers you may be envisaging churches with a minimum of 1000 members. Well the bar is a little lower. Lower Lower…
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You will not believe chocolate eclair what has happened Triceratops
I was looking on a well-known internet search engine yesterday to see what happened when I entered this blog name. I was stunned to discover that if I search for ‘nukelear fishing’ as opposed to ‘nuclear fishing’ this blog is referred to on other websites. It is mentioned on a gamers’ website – I mentioned…
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cross purposes
(as opposed to angry dolphins which would be cross porpoises!) I had a wonderful experience on Monday evening this week. We had an open invitation to men in the church to join together at a local hostelry for an evening – food and friendship are a great combination. Good food, good conversation, good evening. A…
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soggy joy
Soooo. On Sunday morning at our church we had a service of Believer’s Baptism. Three young people declared their allegiance to Jesus in words and actions. It is always a joy to baptise someone, but it is especially special when one of them is your son. Thomas being baptised, and yes he IS that much…
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what the dickens?
Another ‘ian’ today. Tomorrow I plan to reflect more on yesterday’s awesomeness. Being a Christian is like being Dickensian. Someone or something that is reminiscent of Charles Dickens’ Victorian novels or the characters portrayed within them is described as being Dickensian. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness…
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getting cold feet for a great reason
There are times when God absolutely blesses your socks off. This weekend is going to be one of those. On Sunday I have the joy and privilege of baptising three people from our church. They are all young yet have very different testimonies about what Jesus has done in their lives. There are many joys I…
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my national media career progress update
Another little bonus bloggerel for today. A couple of days ago the Inter Milan manager, Rafael Benitez, had a go at the current manager of Liverpool in a press conference. In the middle of his rant he said that “some people cannot see a priest in a mountain of sugar.” I was listening to BBC…
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Citius, Altius, Fortius
Groucho Marx once said, “I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.” That is almost profound! This ‘ian’ is where being a Christian is like being Olympians. I am not like an Olympian because I am going to be running, jumping, throwing or doing anything else in the London 2012 Olympics…
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if music be the food of love…
Another ‘ian’ for you today from the talk I did on ‘What is a Christian?’. Donald MacDonald from the Isle of Skye was admitted to Essex University, and was now living in his first year of residence there. His clan was very excited that one of their own had made it into the upper class…
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we are martian in the light of God
I recently was asked to do a talk on ‘What is a Christian?’ I decided that, among other things, a Christian is like a martian. [pause for effect] [pause longer for the penny to drop] For those who have not quite got the message, it’s not because people think we are weird, have green skin…
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