nukelearfishing

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)

  • magical inspiration

    Yesterday evening at the Magic Club of which I am a member (available for charity shows locally) we had a lecture from Michael Vincent. It was a fascinating, inspiring and extremely enjoyable lecture. It was also quite profound. I’m not going to tell you what he said, that would not be fair to him as…

  • death is a part of life

    Apologies for the relative silence last week – it’s been a very busy period and while I have still tried to be reflective I haven’t had much chance to put fingers to keyboard and share those reflections with you. I also ought to warn you that this bloggage is about death, so if you are…

  • some things I have learnt in 26 years 210 days

    Sally and I have now been married for 26 years 210 days (to the date of writing this bloggage). I am not telling you this to brag, but to set a context for today’s bloggage, which is about a few things I have learnt along the way. In my previous role as a local church…

  • Be like…

    There’s a meme that’s doing the rounds of the Internet at the moment. There’s a stick man called Bill. The text that accompanies the picture of him describes how he does something sensible and encourages people to be like Bill instead of responding with hysteria, following the crowd, doing something that annoys people, etc. For…

  • praying

    This morning I spent some time at a prayer space at South Woodham Evangelical Church and found it very helpful. During the time several different thoughts occurred to me and a couple of them stuck. One is that I personally find it a lot easier to spend time in prayer if I have activities to engage…

  • recycled thought

    Each week one of the Regional Ministers in our team sends out a ‘Thought for the Week’ to the Ministers in our Association. This week was my turn and I have decided to recycle that thought for you too rather than having to create something new for you, dear bloggists. I hope you don’t mind…

  • inadvertent theological reflection (or ‘ooops!’)

    As an Association of Baptist Churches we are engaging in a process of prayerful reflection about the future strategic direction of the Association. To this end we have sent out postcards to all of our churches and asked them to pray about this and, assuming that God will say things in response to the prayers,…

  • face-planting in the highest

    If you are a dog owner you will probably know how dogs like to find the smelliest, muddiest, sludgiest places in which to wallow and roll. And they then come back to you wagging their tails, feeling very proud of themselves. I have a feeling that they think that they are doing something nice for…

  • Fed up with sermons

    Yes, really. I am fed up with sermons. That’s probably not what a Regional Minister ought to have as the title for one of his bloggages. But I am honestly fed up with sermons. Not, I hasten to add, in the usual sense of that phrase! (Put the stones down…) I am fed up with…

  • image that reflects the previous bloggage

    I found this image on Free Images and it seems to sum up so much of what I was trying to say in the preceding bloggage. So I offer it to you for your bles-sing. The image is by C Barden and is of an 11th Century Church. You can find it by searching for ‘hymns’…