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)

  • Blessings from Bonhoeffer

    I have been following a series of 40 daily readings from the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He was a German Christian pastor who was arrested for opposing Hitler during the Second World War. He died in captivity shortly before the end of the war.   These readings from the last couple of days made me think…

  • sitting on a sofa in the middle of the street

    The churches in Colchester and the surrounding area are in the middle of a fortnight of focused mission activity. For us it began with a community barbecue on our forecourt on Saturday – 500+ burgers given away, live music, face painting for children, a couple of talks, me doing some magic tricks (why did it…

  • churches are female if you are stereotyping

    Tomorrow we have a community barbecue on our church forecourt. We will give away hot dogs and burgers, there will be music, face-painting and even a magician (I wonder who that might be?). One of our members is working flat out to make it all happen (pray for him and the team if you are a…

  • d-e-r dum, d-e-r dum, d-e-r dum, dum dum, dum dum, dum dum dum dum danaaah!

    [a poor written representation of the Jaws soundtrack!] Just when you least expect it, when your guard is down, when you are looking in the other direction… he leaps out and knocks you sideways. No, I am not talking about some sort of predator or assassin. I am talking about God. Perhaps I should explain…

  • the parable of the pray-ers

    A man sat down to pray. He tried to imagine what God was like. He thought of God’s creativity: he considered the vastness of the Universe and the tiniest sub-atomic particles. He thought of God’s love: he considered Easter and what that says about the depth of God’s love, grace and forgiveness. He considered things…

  • new old vision

    Since September last year our church has affirmed a 2020 vision. I have mentioned it on this blog before. On Sunday morning we will start a new series looking at the 2020 vision and to help us I have written a guide to the 2020 vision that is intended to be a foundational document –…

  • return of the dead guy

    A long time ago in a parallel Universe far, far away (known as my brain) I came up with an idea. What if Lazarus had met a publicist after he had been brought back from the dead by Jesus? The following sketch was the result… (I have changed the name of the publicist since the…

  • But we had hoped…

    Regular bloggists among you will know that occasionally something strikes me while I am preparing for a sermon and I will share it here as a kind of sneak preview as God is shaping what I say. Today I want to go back to what I shared last Sunday morning. We were looking at the…

  • a gem of a prayer

    I can’t remember where I heard of this (if it’s you, thank you and let me know so I can credit you!) but I heard of a church that decided to pray together every day. To gather together physically was impractical so they agreed that at 11am each day they would stop and simply pray…

  • making your mind up

    It’s almost Eurovision Song Contest time again: the time of when (cynicism alert) songs from around ‘Europe’ are the subject of tactical voting so that the winner is not always the best song and where Britain enters a song that the rest of ‘Europe’ doesn’t like. It wasn’t always like that. On 3rd April 1976 Britain won…