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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Africa United is coming
I have the privilege of knowing one of the Producers of this film. That may mean I am biased, but I am really looking forward to seeing this film. It seems to be getting brilliant receptions when it is shown. If you have not seen a trailer for it yet, there’s one here: http://www.africaunitedmovie.com/ Be…
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>Carpentry – the family business
>Yesterday I had the privilege of taking a funeral for a man who had been a carpenter all his life. Aside from this being Jesus’ family business, there’s something about carpentry that I find fascinating – probably because I struggle to do it. There are one or two pieces of wooden furniture in our house…
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>upgrades
>Have you ever had this experience – your computer has received a message saying that it needs to update a program while you are out of the room and by the time you come back it has installed the update and is in the process of rebooting itself, never mind what else you had running at…
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>dabbling in dark arts
>I have been dabbling in the dark arts this week. No, not those dark arts. I have been trying to understand the vagaries and mysteries of email. I have been setting up the email system on our new computer at church and thought I had won, until I had a phone call from the office this…
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>for best results…
>This Sunday we are starting two new series in our services. In the mornings we are joining with lots of churches across the country looking at the Ten Commandments: Just10 and in our evenings we will be exploring the wonderful wisdom found in Ecclesiastes. I have just finished the sermon for Sunday morning, which is looking…
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>go go gadget rev
>I love gadgets. I admit it. It is something I have to keep a tight rein on (I don’t own an iPod or iPhone or iPad, much as I might covet them). I love the ingenuity and creativity of the innovators who come up with new ways of doing things I didn’t know I needed…
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>dearly beloved…
>When I was training to be a Minister I dreaded the idea of taking funerals. I could not imagine myself doing so. It all seemed so morbid and dark. But in my first church I had the privilege of serving alongside a brilliant Minister, David Richardson. He taught me so much about being a Minister,…
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deus ex machina
We have acquired a new laptop at church. It was well overdue as the previous one was only one step more advanced than clockwork and although it had served us well, was no longer able to keep up with us. It will be used on much less strenuous duties, like being put out to pasture!…
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looking back and looking forward
The church at which I am one of the ministers is 321 years old. Okay, by the standards of some parish churches that is not so old, by when you consider that Baptist churches are only just 400 years old, it’s pretty good. To mark our church being 300 years old in 1989 one of…
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funny feeling or feeling funny?
How do you do? Thanks for dropping by. I have been re-reading a wonderful book: The Naked Jape by Jimmy Carr and Lucy Greeves. (link to buy the book) It’s all about the origins of jokes and humour and different aspects of jokes and joking. I love it, not just because of the analysis but…
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