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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just what I wanted
It’s been a bit quiet here recently hasn’t it? I had some time off between Christmas and New Year and decided to take a break from blogging too. I hope you are not too disappointed… but despite popular demand I am back! So how was Christmas? Were there enough socks, aftershave and handkerchiefs to last until…
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For anyone who’s interested, here is a review of my blog in 2014
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many…
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messiah moments
I hope you had a good Christmas. How do you feel now? Stuffed to the gunwales? Surrounded by the debris of the day (we’ll clear it up later)? Satisfied? Sad? Lonely? From time to time I like to have ‘Messiah Moments’. No, not delusions of grandeur (and how deluded must you be to think you…
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of smoking, stinking, shaking and spiders
We had a bit of a mishap yesterday. (By way of an aside, doesn’t mishap look like it is spelt wrongly? It looks like mi-shap not mis-hap. But I digress. Come to think of it, digress looks more like dig-ress than di-gress…) Anyhoo, back to the mishap (still looks like it’s spelt incorrectly). A saucepan…
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Candles by Carollight
I was listening to one of my favourite Christmas CDs in the car today: Annie Lennox’s Christmas Cornucopia. She has a beautiful voice and the arrangements of the carols and songs are lovely. I find it very uplifting and inspiring. (In the middle of the collection of songs is a French carol, sung in French.…
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sisters are doing it for ourselves
Two contrasting moments this week have led me to a reflection. The first is the appointment of the first female Bishop in the Church of England. My initial reaction? Woohoo! Then sadness that it is a newsworthy moment at all. Then disappointment that there is still a male majority in terms of ministers in the…
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you’re a joke
Jokes are funny. I know that we don’t all find all of them to be ‘funny haha’ but they are ‘funny peculiar’. What I find funny (peculiar) is the vast range and variety of different jokes. Some work best when observed or read on the page or screen; others work best when spoken or performed. Some…
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recycling
I think we mostly agree that recycling is a good thing. It saves resources and reduces wastage. We may find it a hassle when we have to sort out our cardboard and paper from our plastics from our tins from our bottles from our garden waste from our food waste from our non-recyclables but on…
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take a tablet
Christians sometimes pay more attention to the Ten Commandments than the Sermon on the Mount. On the basis that we pay most attention to what is written on tablets of stone Jesus has sent another stone tablet… Be blessed, be a blessing
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