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)

  • don’t try this at home

    This photo was taken a long time ago – in the days when I had hair (I know you can’t see it in the photo) and my waist was a lot slimmer (yes it was THAT long ago!). You can tell how long ago it was because I had a Gordon the Gopher puppet (in…

  • the inner Menace

    When you are a child all sorts of things are possible. Your imagination is unencumbered by the laws of time and space. You can do things that adults can’t – like running around the garden for hours without feeling out of breath, or spinning around until you are dizzy and then flopping onto the floor…

  • plugging away

    We had a wonderful day at our church yesterday (Sunday). In the morning service we baptised Simon, who has only recently become a follower of Jesus, and he told us his moving testimony about his life and becoming a believer. We also had Sylvia, who was baptised in 1959 but didn’t have the opportunity to…

  • Smelly Church

    Churches across the UK and across the world have been blessed by exploring the missional concept of ‘Messy Church’. If you don’t know what I am talking about have a look at the website here. We have run versions of Messy Church in our previous church and in our current one. But, inspired by the…

  • pickin n mixin

    When I was very young (pre-teenage) we lived almost directly across the road from an independent grocer’s shop – the sort typified in ‘Open All Hours’ on BBC TV. (The shopkeeper was much nicer than Arkwright). One of the thrills was being sent across the road (looking both ways and watching and listening as I…

  • 34th anniversary

    It was a momentous day. I was not aware of just how momentous it was. Indeed I am still growing in my appreciation of that. 25th May 1980. Torquay. It was a Sunday morning and I was about to get wet. Very wet. I was baptised by immersion as a follower of Jesus on that…

  • what does a free sample of Jesus look like?

    Regular bloggists among you will know that I often refer to Christians (and churches) as ‘free samples of Jesus’. It was pointed out to me today that I have never really said exactly what I mean by that, so this bloggage is an attempt to rectify that… In essence what I mean is that as…

  • Tears

    One of the privileges of being a minister is to rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. We can all do that of course. In doing so we help incarnate Jesus for others. Yesterday I was with some friends who are weeping. We prayed together and one of us started singing.…

  • panning for gold

    A long time ago in a theme park far far away (relatively speaking: it fits best with the Star Wars-esque intro) our children took part in an activity to pan for gold. Little ‘gold’ nuggets were mixed in with sand and gravel and (for a fee) children could dig up some sand and put it…

  • re-branded?

    There’s an interesting article on the BBC News website about brands that have crossed over to become household names for the item we use: think ‘hoover’, ‘jacuzzi’, even ‘escalator’, ‘google’ and ‘yo yo’! The suggestion is that while the transition of a brand name to becoming a generic name suggests success it actually can sound the…