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)

  • the Baptist who refused to get wet

    Yesterday I was challenged to tip a bucket of icy water over my head and give some money to charity. If I am honest I am surprised that it took people that long to nominate me. The person who challenged me also included a sensitive ‘this is optional’ clause and I sensitively opted out. That…

  • lasting first impressions

    So, on the last wet (very wet) Bank Holiday I decided to revisit some of my old magic tricks. It’s always worth rehearsing the tricks and the performance of them. As I started I recalled a trick that I had bought a while ago when I was given some vouchers for one of the online…

  • Eeekmail

    So today I resume my duties and also end my cyber fast. I have 400+ emails waiting for me. That’s a lot of e-correspondence to deal with. When correspondence was only delivered by post men, post women or pigeons there would not have been 400 letters waiting for me after 2 weeks away. I’d never…

  • inspirational

    As I said in Friday’s bloggage I am reading a lot about Leonard Cheshire at the moment. It’s inspirational stuff, and I am only about a quarter of the way through his life in his biography. I am also inspired by the people I know who work consistently and unnoticed behind the scenes to make…

  • it starts with desire

    None of us is perfect. Nobody, no matter how great they are or what they have achieved, is the finished article. I am being inspired at the moment by reading about Group Captain Lord Cheshire of Woodhall, VC, OM, DSO, DFC. By any measure he was an astonishing man as all of his titles and…

  • con sequences

    Over the past couple of months in our morning services we have been looking at the Lord’s Prayer. That’s the one that we used to say in school assemblies at Primary School (it was a church school) and where we knew the rhythm better than the words; the one that we say at weddings and funerals…

  • freaking out a parent

    I had a slightly freaky moment yesterday. I was in the town centre (where our church is located) and walking along, minding my own business, when I heard a small voice enthusiastically say, “Hello!” I looked down and there was a girl, probably about 7 years old, grinning and waving at me… Immediately her horrified…

  • passing the baton, sharing the blessing

    Yesterday I wrote a tongue-in-cheek irony-laden bloggage about us being better than God at delegating. Today I want to offer the antidote to that: when God’s Spirit inspires people to say, “Yes” when a task is delegated they spread blessing far and wide. Let me give you an example: This morning I have been blessed…

  • startling news about God – we are better than him

    Ahem* [Loud Fanfare] Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to announce the amazing, astounding, awesome list of things that we humans are better at than God. Yes, you did read that right. This is the amazing, astounding, awesome list of things that we humans are better at than God. Remembering. God says that if we…

  • nick’s names

    When I was very little I was a massive fan of the Magic Roundabout. I was particularly interested in Dougal, the dog. When the Magic Roundabout was on TV (in the slot just before the evening news I think) apparently I used to crawl around and around like Dougal – always on the move. I…