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 the winner is…
So the headline news today is that in a well-hyped ceremony to give awards to people who have done their job well some of the people were announced as the winners of an award and then someone else realised it was a mistake and that some other people should have been given the award. Meanwhile,…
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retainers
You may recall that I have had tooth scaffolding for a while (see https://nukelear.me.uk/2016/08/18/tooth-scaffolding/ for example). The purpose was to straighten out my teeth that had decided that they didn’t like being where God had intended them to be and had moved, little by little, to a place where they were actually causing me pain. A…
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episode 36
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episode 35
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delivering: a verdict
One of the unanticipated side-effects of the expansion of the internet and the seemingly inexorable rise in online shopping is a corresponding rise in the number of delivery companies and vans. (If you want a tip for any spare cash you have hidden under the mattress (no, I am not a financial adviser so take…
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episode 34
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has God become god?
I am musing about a question that has bounced around in my brain for decades. I am not suggesting that I have just come up with THE answer: I have probably just discovered some more questions. I have decided to do some God-thinking here about it. Apologies if you came to this bloggage hoping for something…
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dis
In an early edition of yesterday’s bloggage I made a typo that completely changed the meaning of a phrase. I had edited what I had written from ‘I do not agree…’ to ‘I profoundly disagree…’ I replaced the ‘do not’ with ‘profoundly’ and thought that I had successfully added ‘dis’ to the front of ‘agree’…
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the horns of a dilemma
I confess to being on the horns of a dilemma… I feel that Donald Trump’s Executive Order banning people from entering the USA because of their nationality is abhorrent and racist. I understand the need to protect citizens from those who would want to harm them because of a distorted and perverse ideology but the…
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Prayer for the week
I’m away on a training course this week. At the beginning of the week we were encouraged to write a prayer for ourselves for the week. It’s a very simple prayer. I offer it to you in case you find it helpful on your journey through the week too. Give me the grace to grow,…
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