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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loopholes?
What do you do when there are no rules? What happens when new and as yet envisaged circumstances arise for which no rules have been written? To an extent that seems to be what is happening with social media and how it is being used in our society. we are having to work out the…
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who are you going to call?
In the last couple of days I have had 2 experiences of things needing fixing. I bought a new car radio for Sally’s car as a birthday present. I was fairly confident of my ability to fit the new radio and managed to get it seated properly and connected properly with only a small quantity…
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om nom nom nom nom
There are many things that populate the surface of my desk. There are post-it notes with telephone messages, pieces of paper with ideas and spider-grams and scrawlings. There are letters awaiting reply. There are various bits of stationery and equipment. And there are many books. First and foremost is my bible: without which I would…
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fence sitting is uncomfortable
I’ve been working on Sunday evening’s sermon, which will be on the second-half of Acts chapter 5. This is the occasion when the apostles were hauled in front of the religious authorities and so infuriated them with their teaching about Jesus that a majority of people there want to put them to death. However a…
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benefit
There has been a lot of talk recently about Benefits and the ‘reforms’ that are coming into place. Thousands of people are being adversely affected and most of them are vulnerable. The current challenge to Iain Duncan-Smith to live on £53 per week (the new low) is at least amusing, and in reality sobering. If…
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Son rise
After what some of you may consider to have been a surfeit of pomes (sic) last week, when I was in a reflective mood, this week I am returning to the more ‘normal’ style of bloggage. Except that I’m going to cheat slightly and post a reflection based on something I said in Sunday evening’s…
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B lieve it or not!
Before most people were awake Beside themselves with grief Baffled about how they would move the stone Bewildered about Friday Bemused about the empty tomb Bowled over by the angels* Blurred vision through the tears Blissful in recognition Blessed by the impossible Breathless with excitement *Some later less reliable manuscripts include these words: ‘Behind you’…
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still in secret?
He told me, “No one can enter the Kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit…” He explained Scripture like no-one I have ever heard before. He understood God. He understood me. I thought he was The One. But he can’t be. Look at what they have done to him. He…
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family planning
I wasn’t planning an adoption I already have enough children One has just been torn from my grasp and ripped from my heart Typical of him, though, to be thinking of me Right at the end In the midst of it all I wasn’t planning an adoption but I have just been adopted.
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