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)
-
moving thoughts
Yesterday the EBA got the keys to the house in which we will be living next month. I joined a couple of people from the EBA to look around so we could work out what needs to be done. A couple of things struck me (not falling masonry – the house is sound!). One was…
-
prying not praying
(This is the ‘thought for the week’ that I shared yesterday with Ministers of the Eastern Baptist Association and I share it with you in the hope that it may bless you this summer. While it refers to Ministers I think it applies to us all!) It’s the start of the holiday season. It’s the…
-
label makers
Do you remember a few years ago how young people wearing hoodies were being vilified by politicians and the media? Some brilliant people at Frontier Youth Trust did some research that found that adults overestimate the level of antisocial behaviour by young people and teenage pregnancy and decided to make a statement about it. They made a…
-
super script
On Sunday morning I was preaching (not unusual for me) and asked the question: “Why is it that noses run and feet smell?” It is a characteristic of language that words can have more than one meaning and in the case above it creates a punderful play on words when you juxtapose two such incidences.…
-
expect the unexpected and other silly things we say
I was listening to the radio recently and the interviewer was asking his expert interviewee about the financial crisis in Greece. He asked the expert what surprises lay in store as the process unfolded. To be fair the expert was not fazed by such a daft question and pointed out that by their nature surprises…
-
getting ready
We’re in the process of getting ready to move house. And we’re being reminded of just how much there is to do, how much needs arranging, what needs redirecting, what needs to be disconnected and reconnected, what we won’t need in the new house and need to sell / get rid off (snooker table anyone?)……
-
mostly armless
When I was a teenager I had a computer game called ‘Elite’. It was a space-based game in which you flew your space ship around a Universe with thousands of planets – trading, bounty-hunting, asteroid-mining, pirating and other space-related activity. It was astonishing just how much the programmers crammed into 48k of memory. Yes, young…
-
wait for it
Are you any good at waiting? Are a patient person, or do you get frustrated when your plans are delayed? Do you see a red light (or even an amber one) as an opportunity to stop, admire the view, and do some thinking or do you see it as an imposition and an irritation –…
-
tweeting
Many years ago a chick in a nest noticed something. At the end of every day it got dark. But every morning, after the chick had started tweeting that it was hungry (through its beak not the microblogging site) the sky grew lighter and eventually the day arrived. The chick was fascinated by this. Every…
nukelearfishing 