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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rewriting Murphy
Have you heard of Murphy’s Laws? There are many variations, which are summarised as ‘If anything can go wrong it will’. Other versions relate to specific events such as ‘falling bread always lands butter side down’. We may have a chuckle at them, and also feel an empathy with it when things go wrong for…
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enter the matrix
I am not sure when I first came across the matrix that is supposed to help you prioritise I have always found it helpful, but there are a couple of problems: Who decides whether something is urgent or important? What I consider important, for example, may be considered unimportant by others. What happens to the…
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living together
Picking up from last Friday’s bloggage, this passage from the Bible was in my email inbox today (I subscribe to ‘Red Letter Days’ from my friends at Kore – they have an iphone or android app which daily sends you some words of Jesus): If a fellow believer hurts you, go and tell them –…
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Mull of inspire
(Please excuse the corny title, I couldn’t resist.) A long time ago in a church far, far away I received a letter in the post. It was a rather critical letter. My friend and colleague in the church, David, had been sent a copy of the letter and as soon as he got his he…
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ready salted
My Bible reading today was from Matthew 5:13-20, part of the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus was talking to the crowd about being salt and light – making a difference for him in our communities. Sometimes I am tempted to think that this difference has to be a big thing. Then I read this today: When…
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many…
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new year’s honours
I have decided to trump the Queen and issue my own New Year’s Honours List, but issue them a day before hers are published. Rather than identify particular people and risk missing some out or embarrassing others I have decided to offer honours in generic groups in the hope that you will be able to…
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Foodbanks…
For those who read my bloggage about the Foodbank debate in parliament you may be interested in what the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Revd Dr Rowan Williams had to say about this. I have tried to go back to the source of the reporting rather than any of the politically aligned national press coverage – http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge/Cambridge-University-college-Master-Rowan-Williams-criticises-Iain-Duncan-Smiths-disturbing-remarks-about-foodbanks-20131224060424.htm…
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feeling low?
So… we’re in the ‘lull’ between the hectic joy of Christmas and the late night revelry of New Year. One lot of celebrating is over, and the next has not yet begun. I was in my bank this morning and they are starting to take down their Christmas decorations (doesn’t it look bare and plain…
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A year with the Lears (2013 version)
Dear friends It’s time for one of those lovely Christmas letters* from the Lears, where we bore you silly with our news and gloat about our successes. So, if you are kind enough to continue to read this we hope it might at least make you smile, and can guarantee it will make the cracker…
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