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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welcome cards
We have some new welcome cards that have been designed for our church by a wonderfully creative and talented young lady (thank you Sara). When you look at them at first they look like this: When you open up the ‘lcome’ flap it looks like this: I think they are really clever, look bright and…
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20?!
It’s been a season of anniversaries. Silver Wedding last week. Today it is the 20th anniversary of my Ordination as a Baptist Minister (and also my Mum’s ahemth birthday today). When I was ordained 20 years ago I had no sense of where God would lead me. I had no idea that he would provide…
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expending your energy
Today I had an email from our energy supplier to tell me that a new statement was available online. Earlier this year we changed from one of the main suppliers to a smaller one that seeks to use more renewable energy while at the same time actually being cheaper than some of the main ones.…
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tales of the unexpected
It’s sometimes the unexpected things that make the biggest impact on us: the critical comment that came out of the blue; an accident; bad news that shocks us… I think it is partly because we have to react ‘in the moment’. We have not had an opportunity to prepare ourselves, to think about our reaction,…
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substitute
On Saturday evening the FIFA World Cup Quarter Final between Netherlands and Costa Rica looked like it was about to end in a draw after extra time (the score was 0-0). The match was about to be decided by a penalty shoot-out at the Dutch coach, Louis Van Gaal, took the unprecedented step of substituting…
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mix tape
To celebrate our Silver Wedding Anniversary Sally made me a mix tape. Do you remember doing that? If so, you are a lot older than you are admitting! Well because she is a 21st Century woman Sally’s mix tape was not on one of these old fashioned cassette tapes that used to get mangled by…
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priceless
These cufflinks were a wedding anniversary gift to me from my wonderful wife, Sally: 25 years!!! You may be able to see that they are made from the internal workings of vintage watches. The watches no longer tick, but you can see cogs, wheels and other tiny gubbins (a technical term). I think they are…
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name change
This blog now has a new address. It is nukelear.me.uk – although there is still a link from the longer WordPress address if you use that. Pretentious? Moi? I decided to make the change because the longer address seemed like a fair amount of effort to type, was perhaps not so memorable, and because the…
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confessions of a golfist
I have a confession to make. I am a golfist. (No, not a ‘goldfish’, a ‘golfist’). I have been playing for a couple of years now, introduced by one of our church members, and while I am still not very good I do enjoy it. In order to try to minimise the slices, hooks…
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time to think
Time is rather interesting isn’t it? We often complain that we don’t have enough of it, yet we can’t increase it and it we can run out of it. Apparently it is airborne when we are amused. We mark it and if we can stitch in it we can save nine stitches. It will tell. It has…
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