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)

  • waiting

    I have an A Level in French. Just. I scraped an ‘E’ grade. If I am honest I don’t think my heart was in it, and I didn’t really put the effort in that I needed. It was a combined A Level – Language and Literature – and while I really enjoyed the literature aspect…

  • so long and thanks for all the fishing

    Today’s is my last bloggage! …while I am working for the wonderful people at Colchester Baptist Church*. To use one of Jesus’ analogies for following him, we have been fishing for people together (see this bloggage to understand the nukelearfishing bit a bit more) but after today I will be in a different boat. PTWOING! (That’s the…

  • Grandma’s lamp

    I have a desk lamp that belonged to one of my Grandmas. I have had it for a while and when I came to Colchester I thought it would be useful at the church. I put it on my desk in the ministers’ office at the church when I was setting up there, and it…

  • lump in throat time

    Last weekend was my last as Minister at Colchester Baptist Church. I want to thank everyone at the church for a wonderful send off. I had a lump in my throat the whole weekend, tears in my eyes occasionally and they’ve come back even as I write this bloggage. We had a party on the Saturday night…

  • a rubbish bloggage

    This morning I visited the emporium of a well-known retailer of stationery products (they were also stationary due to the effects of inertia, friction and gravity). I am not endorsing them over any other retailers, but their name is a type of paper-fastening device. (The fact that it was a stationery retailer is incidental to…

  • pacing

    How do you feel when you are driving along a single carriageway road and someone in front of you is driving way below the speed limit and slower than is necessary in the prevailing weather conditions? It is one of the things I find irritating when I am driving (but am praying for patience to…

  • severing the ties

    Earlier this week Stew the Rabbit and I took some assemblies in a local primary school. It was our last visit. Stew had decided that he wanted to perform a magic trick and had come across a trick where it looks like you have cut someone’s tie in half and then restore it. So he…

  • blessed by a song

    I heard this song recently and I was inspired by it. It could be the theme tune for this blog! Bring heaven to earth, Lord, Bring peace where there’s fear; Bring life where there’s death, Lord, Bring joy in these tears. Bring love where there’s lust, Lord, Bring hope where there’s pain; Bring rest where there’s…

  • fancy seeing you here

    Yesterday I was at church for our lunch club and absent-mindedly left my briefcase at the church when I drove home. I almost got home when I realised what I had done. So I turned around and headed back to the church where those who were clearing up had found it and were about to…

  • Grandma’s cupcakes

    I was interviewed at a church event last Sunday and was asked (amongst other things) what my favourite cake is. I had been given notice that I would be asked this question so I had had a chance to think about my answer. I thought about all of the wonderful cakes that my wife bakes.…