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)

  • 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…

  • Two little ducks

    That’s how Bingo callers in the UK announce that number 22 has been chosen. The reason is that if you squint and look through your fingers the number 2 resembles a duck swimming in the water. I don’t see it, really: to me it looks more like a swan! But tradition has it that they are two…

  • secrecy

    I have some exciting, wonder-full news That I’m bursting to tell someone. But I am sworn to secrecy and It’s eating me up inside. It’s incredible news – like receiving a letter saying I’m being awarded an OBE or a Knighthood –  Yet better than that, so much bigger than that, And I can’t tell…

  • taking over the festival

    “He’s taken over the true meaning of the festival, hasn’t he? Suddenly the bearded one from ‘Up North’ is threatening to become the iconic figure for the season, replacing our religious imagery and themes that have echoed through millennia.” “Everywhere you go people are talking about him. They talk about the gifts he gives people.…

  • health and safety gone mad

    Dear Sir You currently are licensed as the owner of  the hotel known as “The King’s Head”. It has come to our attention that you are no longer compliant with the terms of your business licence regarding the provision of adequate parking, that you have failed to apply for a ‘change of business use’ permit for your…

  • no way!

    According to the stats for this blog there are almost 1300 of you who are registered as followers of my bloggages. REALLY?? no way! And adding together the number of visits to the site that hosted this blog before I landed in WordPressland, there have been almost 100,000 visits since I started inflicting my bloggerel on an…

  • advent haiku* poem

    one Word has fulfilled hopes and fears of all the years: Anticipation   Be blessed, be a blessing *Traditional Haiku poems have 17 syllables in groups of 5, 7, 5