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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sweet…
Is it just me, or is ‘Twinkle Twinkle little star’ putting in a lot of appearances in children’s nativity plays? I think it’s because it’s a rhyme that little children know and it probably also provides a good number of additional parts for children (as twinkling stars) – you can only have so many sheep…
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glow in the dark (day 15)
Facebook friends of mine may already have seen this picture. It’s of our new Christmas lights. We wanted to be festive and decorate the front of our house while at the same time not wanting to go overboard, not wanting to fill the garden with flashing Santas*, light-up reindeer, snowmen, and so on. We wanted…
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o come o come Immanuel
(This bloggage was sent around the EBA Ministers as a ‘Thought for the week’ last week.) This is the time of year when we sing the Advent carol ‘O come, O come Immanuel’. The words are lovely, helping us capture a sense of the mind-set of those who were waiting, and waiting, and waiting, for…
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Apparently thirteen is supposed to be unlucky because there were thirteen people at the Last Supper – Jesus’ last meal before his arrest, trial and execution (people tend to forget the resurrection bit). But did you know that beneath the fresco of the Last Supper painted by Leonardo da Vinci there used to be a…
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Twelve
Twelve days of Christmas Twelve months in a year Twelve hours in a morning (or afternoon) Twelve is the highest single-syllable number (go on, count them all and try it!) Twelve is magnesium in the periodic table Twelve tribes of Israel Twelve disciples of Jesus Twelve used to be a substitute in football (the proper…
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Immanueleven
One of the names we use for Jesus, especially at the time of Advent, is ‘Immanuel’. It is a Hebrew word that means ‘God with us’. There are two parts to the name: ‘Immanu’ from which we get ‘immanent’ and ‘El’ which is ‘God’. Let me illustrate. A number of years ago we went as…
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the TEN-sion mounts…*
It is 3000AD and there is an opportunity to end the war that had seemed like it had lasted forever. A commando was needed to go into the dangerous and hostile enemy-occupied territory. The Commander-in-Chief needed to send someone they could trust, someone brave, someone who was willing to risk everything for the sake of the…
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the sound of silence
Did I get the tickets? If you speak German, today’s number will give you the answer. (I did get through after 70 minutes but the tickets I was offered were far more expensive than I could justify paying.) So what do we do with unfulfilled dreams, hopes, ambitions and even unanswered prayers? We could get angry…
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w-eight-ing
As I type this bloggage I am also in a ‘Virtual Waiting Room’, waiting to see if I am able to buy some tickets to see a singer in concert. The idea (a good one if it works) is that those in the Virtual Waiting Room are assigned a place in a virtual queue and…
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a nutherpome
(With apologies to John 1:1) In the beginning was the Word but we refused to listen. In the beginning was the Word but we were illiterate. In the beginning was the Word but we misspelt him. In the beginning was the Word but we didn’t speak his language. In the beginning was the Word but…
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