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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the sequel
I had an interesting and helpful conversation with someone this morning following yesterday’s bloggage. They helped me realise that I needed to expand a bit more on what I had written, so consider this the sequel. I finished yesterday by saying that Jesus offers us life in all its fullness as the Creator’s intended answer…
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Life, liberty and…
During my first sabbatical leave, over 9 years ago, I tried to work out what might be a common belief amongst people. I distilled something along the lines of ‘I should be happy.’ It may be expressed in many different ways but I still reckon that is not a long way from the truth. Mych…
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(un)familiar routines
On Saturday afternoon I will be doing a quick (15 mins) Magic Show at Stanway Spring Fayre.* I have been working on a couple of routines for the show, which will be for all ages (so no sawing people in half, chopping off hands, or putting skewers through my thumb). One is a routine that…
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I never knew there was so much in it
There is a publication that tells us the times of TV programmes that had the title of this bloggage as its advertising strap-line. I regularly find myself saying something similar about the Bible. Yes, statistics tell us that there are 66 books, containing over 770,000 words (depending on translation) divided into just over 31,000 verses (to help…
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service
A nice man has just come to read our electricity and gas meters. He made a joke about not outstaying his welcome as he left. Yesterday I had a courtesy phone call from the company with whom we have some of the family mobile phone contracts. And the lady with whom I was speaking was…
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flash crash
Thunder: God’s way of telling you that you should have brought the washing in a bit earlier. Lightning: God’s way of warning you that he’s about to send you a message that you should have brought the washing in a bit earlier. Thunderbolts and lightning: God’s way of telling you to get ready to start…
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witnessing
This morning I gladly witnessed some signatures for some friends in our church. It’s something I do on a regular basis. I was chatting with my friends as I signed to verify their signatures and recalled that I have verified peoples’ identity for their passport applications, countersigned visa and residency applications, signed wedding certificates, witnessed wills,…
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tumbling
Isn’t it amazing what skills you pick up? I feel like I am now a fully qualified tumble dryer repair man following my exploits at the weekend. The door catch on our tumble dryer had broken and as it was out of the warranty period for a free repair we had ordered all the components…
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If I could turn back time…
This morning on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show (yes, I am a Radio 2 listener now) they were attempting to give away some tickets to a concert tonight. People had texted in the day before and they called one person back to offer them the tickets on the basis that they would be prepared to…
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