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)

  • light content

    I am feeling levitatious (in need of levity) and my funny bone is feeling ticklish. So today I offer you a joke. I have told it before, but it’s a good one, especially if you can put yourself into the story… A young girl was writing an essay for school and asked her father for help,…

  • from invitation to invoice

    When I read this I had to check that it was not April 1st: a five year old has been billed for failing to turn up to a party! Yes, really! If you don’t believe me, click on this link to the BBC website. Now I can understand that the host may have been disappointed that…

  • Traffic

    So I am doing a lot of driving in my new role. And I quite enjoy it. Except for the things that interrupt my journey like roadworks, diversions, traffic jams and lorries. I do understand that roads need repairing or improvement; that sometimes you need to go around an incident; that people don’t break down…

  • Coffee and blogging

    Just a bloggette today, in between meeting different people. I’m sitting in a coffee shop which has full length windows onto the street on two sides so anyone can look in. How different would we be as churches if we had the same sort of windows? And what if people could also hear us? If…

  • recycled bloggage

    Dear bloggists, apologies to any of you who are Ministers within the Eastern Baptist Association as you will have received this from me in an email last week but I am recycling it for bloggists who are either Ministers in the Association but haven’t read it or aren’t and won’t have received it… and maybe it…

  • communication

    A piece of advice we were given before we got married was ‘always kiss each other goodnight’. As well as being romantic, it also ensures that there are no lasting grievances between you that are unresolved at the end of the day. Good advice I think – it’s worked for us for 25 years. A…

  • a handy bloggage

    Hands are amazing aren’t they? We take them for granted don’t we? Think for a moment how much you have used your hands already today – even just to log on to whatever device you are using to read this bloggage – and then marvel at them. When you think about what we can do…

  • what’s God like?

    After the brutal attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hedbo yesterday I have an observation which is pertinent (I think) whatever faith (or non faith) you have: If your God can’t laugh at himself and you feel the need to defend him (violently), perhaps he’s too small and you’re too big. Be blessed, be a blessing

  • on loan

    This is a book stand which my Dad made for me a number of years ago. I wanted a table top stand for my Bible so I could have it open in front of me while I was working. It fulfils that purpose brilliantly. In my previous role as a Minister in a local church…

  • why we find it difficult at Thames Station

    You must have heard the misunderstood Lord’s Prayer which includes asking ‘Lead us not into Thames Station’… It’s a childish joke that masks a deeper truth (other than that there isn’t a ‘Thames’ station): we don’t like admitting that we all struggle with temptation. Temptation has many different disguises that we prefer. Temptation towards gluttony and…