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)

  • building temples

    The passages in the Bible that I have been look at recently are about the Temple that King Solomon built. Well, let’s be honest, he didn’t build it himself. He gave the order and a team of skilled craftsmen and labourers set to work to build it. There’s no record of him even laying a…

  • pithy saying

    Inspired by one of the testimonies from three amazing ladies who were baptised at our church on Sunday: Don’t leave what God wants you to do on your ‘to do list’… it may end up on your bucket list! Be blessed, be a blessing

  • the effect of irritation

    I’d had enough. I couldn’t cope with it any more. I snapped. And with vouchers saved judiciously over several years I bought a new set of phone handsets for our home landline. The reason was that I was fed up with the regular bombardment of unsolicited phone calls — recorded and live – trying to get…

  • the even older joke I almost included in this week’s sermon

    A little girl was drawing. Her dad came up and tried to work out what it was she was drawing, but he couldn’t find anything familiar in the series of swirls, shapes and squiggles. “What are you doing?” he asked. “I’m drawing a picture, daddy” was the factually accurate response. “What are you drawing a…

  • the old joke I almost used on Sunday morning…*

    A Minister decided he needed a day off (no, that’s not the joke). He woke up one morning, looked out on a beautiful day, and decided to play a round of golf (some of you are already at the punchline now). The only problem was that it was a Sunday. He phoned his Church Secretary and…

  • forms, details and arrangements

    There’s a lot to sort out when you are moving job. All sorts of forms need filling, lots of details need dealing with, arrangements need arranging and so on. It is probably not the case but it feels more complicated when the ‘jobs’ are church-related. In addition to the forms, details and arrangements, there is…

  • The sacrificial penguin

    Stew the rabbit and I were performing a card trick for some young people at our church on Friday evening. I was rather vexed when, after getting a volunteer to sign their chosen playing card, I got some green marker pen on Stew. It showed up rather obviously on his white face. I couldn’t just…

  • pulling our lego(TM)?

    Some of the children in one of our Sunday morning groups were invited to write a letter to the church. They have been exploring some of the letters written to the churches in the New Testament and were given the opportunity to write to our church. Some of them will be read out on Sunday…

  • sync or swim during migration

    My life is in the balance. Before you start sending me bouquets of flowers and get well cards, let me explain. I am in the process of migrating my life across from one group of technological tools to another in preparation for me starting a new role next month. This will involve a change of tech.…

  • singin the bloooz

    “Well, I didn’t wake up this morning.” That is the shortest Blues song in the world. Perhaps it was written by a teenager on a Saturday… I felt a bit like a Blues song this morning: “I woke up this morning, and sat up in my bed. I yawned and I stretched and rotated my…