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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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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the path to sainthood
A woman had a dream. In her dream she went up to heaven and saw behind the scenes. She was taken to the control room and saw all manner of amazing things. She saw how every prayer was treated with honour and respect. She saw a computer that counted the number of hairs on every…
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episode 33
(moss icily)
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When my sister and I were both at primary school we had to have our name sewn into all of our clothes. My mum ordered some embroidered name tapes and patiently sewed them into all of our clothes. In order to reduce the cost of the order for so many name tapes mum had the…
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unseeing
Do you sometimes wish you could ‘unsee’ things? Do you wish that you could delete what you have seen in the same way that you can delete the viewing history in a browser? As a boy I remember stumbling (!) across a small stash of items in the bottom of my parents’ wardrobe that were…
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the blog I almost wrote
I was about to blog about an issue I have with using up a particular resource when performing one of my favourite magic tricks when I realised that if I did I might well be revealing a bit more about that illusion than I would want to. That could have several unwanted results: For people…
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episode 32
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