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)

  • eclectic ecclesiastical extolation*

    I’m a bit eclectic when it comes to my preferences for ecclesiastical music. I like a lot of the modern songs and hymns. I like choral music (Handel’s Messiah anyone – in full, not just the Hallelujah Chorus). I like some older hymns. I like simple chants. I like harmonies. I like singing along to…

  • monochrome faith

    Imagine for a moment that you have never seen a television. Imagine that the first one you see is a black and white TV (yes, young people, they used to exist). How amazing would that be: moving pictures and sound from a small box! Now imagine that, having only experienced a black and white TV,…

  • confession is good for the soul

    Among the presents I received for Christmas was this: You might be wondering why someone would give a 48 year-old man a Beano Annual (although if you know me you probably won’t be at all surprised). It was from my sister. And it was a gift in response to something I did many years ago,…

  • short thought

    Yesterday’s bloggage was something of a hairy extinct pachyderm*, wasn’t it? So today I want to give you a very short thought by way of a pome what I writ 16 years ago. I have a little problem with something Jesus said. It’s not that I think he’s wrong, more like a bit misled. You…

  • why do people go to church services?

    I’m not entirely sure why, but I have been wondering why people go to church services. That’s not intended to be a negative question – it’s not ‘why on earth do people go to church?’ – it’s a genuine enquiry. I have not done any empirical research into this. What follows is the usual random bloggerel that…

  • more repeats than a Brussels sprout

    Because of laziness, lack of inspiration, tiredness, forgetfulness, the material is so good it’s worth sharing again* I am redirecting you to some New Year bloggages I have previously written (just click on the links)… one another one another another one another another another one yet another another another one I hope that they might…

  • corny joke

    I hope that you had a good Christmas. I hope that you found what you were hoping for – not just in a stocking, pillow case or under a tree, but in the friendships, family relationships and your relationship with God. A man went on a camping trip with his wife. He had been left…

  • Happy Christmas

    I hope that today will be wonder full for you. My family and I wish you a Happy Christmas and I wish you a bloggage-filled New Year. I’m now taking a break from writing bloggerel until 2016 (having done one a day during the first 25 days of December), so I will see you next year*!…

  • midnight communion

    In my first church we used to have a Midnight Communion (starting at 11.30pm) on Christmas Eve. It was a wonderful service, lit by candles, where the joy and anticipation of Christmas was appropriately refocused through bread and wine into a reminder that the narrative of Jesus did not end when the Wise Men left…

  • 23

    Today is Christmas Eve Eve: the night before the night before Christmas. Husbands who are more organised than most will use today to buy their wives a Christmas present, rather than relying on the last minute rush tomorrow. Children are looking forward to Christmas, but can’t ramp up the excitement to Christmas Eve levels because…