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)

  • Sunday morning’s postponed joke

    I usually begin my sermons with a joke. If nothing else it means people might be awake at the start of the sermon! This Sunday morning I had a joke ready but felt as we were going through the service that I should not start with a joke. So I didn’t. This is the postponed joke.…

  • blessed by a bunny

    This morning I was taking two Primary School assemblies with my trusty side-kick. We were asked to talk about compassion so Stew the Rabbit (left) and I told a version of the Good Samaritan where Stew responded graciously and compassionately when he came across Bonnie the Bunny (who had bullied him by calling him names, pushing…

  • another sermon another joke

    This was the opening joke from last Sunday morning’s sermon: An official from DEFRA, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs turned up at a farm. The DEFRA official met the farmer and said, “I need to inspect your farm.” “Okay,” said the farmer, “but don’t go in that field over there,” as he…

  • the parable of the pesky fly

    I am being distracted. There is a pesky little fly that is wafting around in my study and it’s rather attracted to the screen in front of me. I would be very grateful if it would leave my study and go somewhere else because it is irritating me. But the pesky little fly seems unable…

  • un-god

    “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” Have you come across that before? Or how about: “If you tell God that you don’t want to do something that’s what he will want you to do.” If the latter is true: I don’t want to drive an Aston Martin car, I don’t…

  • the unwinner is…

    So the Academy has made its awards. Oscars have been given to the winners. The nominees who were not chosen have put on their best ‘I’m so pleased for the winner, it was an honour just to be nominated’ smiles. The speeches have been speeched, the thank-yous have been thanked, the tears have been shed.…

  • well said

    Sometimes someone has said it better than you can. This comes from UCB’s Word for Today on 11 September 2013: Romans 12:2 “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing…

  • in finite resources

    We are constantly reminded that this planet’s resources are finite. There is only a limited amount of oil and gas in the ground. There is only so much ore to be mined. There are only so many things that can be made. Even the Sun will run out eventually (although not for a loooong time!).…

  • wmphlgthulp

    That’s what it sounds like when you are speaking and put your foot in it. It happened to me this morning at the conference I am attending. I am one of the people who are trying to make the tech stuff do what we want and one of the speakers, who was running PowerPoint (or…

  • you shouldn’t walk alone

    Today I head off for three days with a large number of Baptist Ministers. You might think I must have done something very bad to have to suffer that. But you’d be wrong. Not necessarily about me being bad (see recent bloggage about pastors and pedestals), but about it being a punishment. It’s the Eastern…