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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stone-faced
I was just innocently browsing my news feed on Facebook (other social media sites are available, apparently) and was struck by something someone had posted: they said that they were no longer welcome in a particular church. Now, I do not know the person in question. I do not know any of the context. So…
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the parable of the router
Yesterday I got home after visiting a church and was surprised to see that our Broadband connection had stopped working. I phoned our service provider and they checked the line and couldn’t see any problem. They decided that they needed to send an engineer out and I was a bit alarmed at being told that…
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blessed
Yesterday I celebrated the anniversary of my exit from my mother’s womb and I was blessed. I was blessed by the gifts and cards from friends and family. I was blessed by the many birthday greetings. I was blessed by spending some of the day discerning God’s will for someone. I was blessed by the arrival…
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eh?
As I was driving home after spending an inspirational morning with one of our Chaplains I was listening to some music and realised for the first time that I had misheard some of the lyrics, and had kept that misheard interpretation in my mind for many years. Coincidentally I also saw a post on Facebook…
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s l o w m o t i o n . . .
I had an interesting experience yesterday. I was preaching at a church where I had previously done a magic show for their leaders and their partners. Yesterday one of them told me that he had taken a video of some of the show, and in particular had a slow motion video of a ‘knife throwing’…
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dusty to dustier
We’re having some building work done at our house at the moment – converting the garage into a study. The builders are doing a good job and it looks like this might be the last bloggage written in my upstairs temporary study as we anticipate being able to move everything downstairs into the new study…
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have you ever had the feeling that you are being followed?
This Sunday I have been asked to preach on Acts 8:9-13: Simon the Sorceror. I was assured that the passage was not chosen specifically because of my skills in prestidigitation but just happened to be the passage for the day in a series on the book of Acts. It’s an interesting episode for so many…
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in anticipation of St Valentine
This morning there was a discussion on the radio that reminded me that William Shakespeare invented over 1700 new words and phrases that are now in common usage in the English Language. Wow! When you consider that the average vocabulary is perhaps 35,000 words (wow again), that’s quite a significant proportion of words that have…
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the devil is in the detail
Have you ever come across that phrase: the devil is in the detail? I think it means that when you examine something closely, when you come to plan something in detail, there will often be a hidden, unexpected snag or difficulty to overcome. I think it’s probably true that when you think of a big…
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the parable of the sower 2 – the sequel
Jesus told a parable about a farmer who scattered seeds and what happened when it fell on different sorts of soil (you can read it here). I have written a sequel. I hope he doesn’t mind. A farmer went to sow some seeds in his field. He remembered that last year when he had scattered the seeds…
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