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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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
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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…
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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…
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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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