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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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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thanks
Last night we had a wonderful Carols by Candlelight service. There are so many people to thank that it’s almost impossible to do so without risking leaving someone important out. So instead I am going to say a big ‘thank you’ to everyone involved – whether you were part of the congregation or choir, a…
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the bloggage where I get a bit political…
Warning. This bloggage may start off a bit warm and fluffy but it has teeth! Tomorrow I will be performing some of my tricks for a party for people who are being blessed by the local Christians Against Poverty team. They are great people, and so are the CAP team! CAP works “to lift people…
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a short thought
When Paul wrote to a church of Christians* in Rome, encouraging them to ‘rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep’ he was revealing a wonderfully profound truth: we’re in this together – for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health… Be blessed, be a…
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Frustration
This Advent at our church we are looking at different ‘tions’. We have looked at Advent preparation and anticipation so far, and this Sunday we’ll be looking at Advent frustration. In order to help prepare for this I posted a Facebook status inviting friends to comment on the things they find most frustrating about modern…
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post it
Yesterday I had three pieces of correspondence relating to the first church in which I ministered (they are still recovering 12 years after I left!). The first was a letter from the General Register Office, who are the people who oversee the registration of births, deaths and marriages. The letter was sent to the church…
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