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)

  • The bloggage where the title is longer than the bloggerel contained within it

    I feel the need for levity and brevity Tee hee

  • a frame of thrones

    It is Neolithic Britain. The tribe was proud of the new king because he had overseen the building of Stonehenge. They decided to build him a special house. They put up wooden pillars and then wove together the strong marsh grass into panels which formed the walls and roof. The king was very proud of…

  • of camels and needles

    You’d almost think I have some sort of plan for this blog (only ‘almost’). Yesterday I wrote bloggerel about grace, based on Jesus saying to a rich young man, “You lack one thing…” I wrote that I would come back to the passage itself and today that’s my intention. You can find the passage in…

  • So close…

    A wealthy young insurance broker came to Jesus and asked him how he could secure his eternal future. He had lived a good life and, to the best of his knowledge, he had not broken the Ten Commandments in any major way. Surely that was enough. Jesus’ response is filled with pathos as says, “You…

  • storming the weather

    Let’s face it, we Brits are obsessed with the weather. It’s one of the default subjects of conversation, it often makes headline news and we are avid amateur meteorologists with our own ways of predicting what the weather will be. One of the ancient legends is about St Swithin’s Day: ‘St. Swithin’s day if thou…

  • Forgiveness

    Following yesterday’s bloggage about ‘sorry’ I want to offer some reflections this morning about forgiveness: the other side of the coin. Yesterday I suggested that Elton John was wrong when he sang that “Sorry is the hardest word” because I think it can be harder to forgive than to ask for forgiveness. Often I am…

  • Was Elton John wrong?

    After a couple of days’ respite, the incessant flow of bloggerel resumes. Sorry about that. I am sorry if you missed me during my days off. Or I am sorry if you are disappointed that I have started again. Either way, I am sorry. Elton John sang in 1976, “Sorry seems to be the hardest…

  • worm provision

    One of my favourite verses in the whole Bible is Jonah 4:7 which includes the immortal words “… God provided a worm…” That is just awesome. It is the provision part of that phrase, coupled with the bizarre nature of what was provided that brings a smile to my face every time. And when you…

  • Cars, lions and old hymns*

    Yesterday I had my car serviced and it had its annual MOT test. I always put my car in for those tests with a sense of nervousness and apprehension. Will there be something that has gone wrong that will cause the car to fail? Will it be expensive?** It is the fear of the unexpected…

  • Bearing up

    Don’t try to analyse what’s going on in my head – that’s dangerous territory – but this morning I was reminiscing about the teddy bear I had as a child. His name was ‘Teddy’ (I was as original then as I am now). He was given to me when I was born and I had…