The Bible-Believing, Bacon-Eating, Blog-Writing, Bald-Preacher

     I think everybody has a friend that they have very little in common with. I know I have one. They like Country Music and I definitely do not. I like going to new restaurants and trying new foods especially if they are spicy. They like to go to the same restaurants to get the same food and it is never spicy. I like sports. I like to watch sports, play sports, talk sports and everything else sports. They could care less about sports. They like the beach and I am more of a mountain man. They like hanging by the pool and shopping. I would rather have a burning stick stuck in my eye than do either of those activities. I enjoy watching movies. They only watch movies on Lifetime (You know the man hating channel.) and Christmas movies. They love Christmas and decorating for Christmas. They even listen to Christmas music all year long. I suffer through Christmas. (See earlier blog.) I think making the bed is optional and a few dirty dishes i...

     I have to admit I have been torn these past few days. I have been a New York Mets fan since my childhood. I used to love Darryl Strawberry, Keith Hernandez and Doc Gooden but my favorite player was Gary Carter. So I am trilled that they are in the National League Championship Series. On the other hand, one of my favorite movie series is Back To The Future. If you have seen any television lately you know that today is the day our hero Marty McFly traveled to from 1985. People for years people have wondered if the things they saw in the movie would be around when 2015 arrived. Well, for the most part those things have not got here. We don't have the flying cars or hoover boards as good as Marty's was. We do have a chance to see one of the "predictions" come true though and that is the Cubs winning the World Series.      They are battling my Mets in the National League Championship Series but are one game aw...

     This morning as I was looking over the church calendar I couldn't help to notice that Christmas was sneaking up on us like a lioness sneaks up on her prey just before she pounces on it. It will not be long until we will be like the small weak wildebeest with no way to get out of the Christmas lioness' razor sharp teeth. In a few weeks we will be driving down the road and notice that the inflatable army made up of inflatable trees, Santas, boxes, polar bears, cartoon characters and snowmen will have arrived. We will not be able to go into any store to buy anything without seeing the signs for Christmas sales. After all every wife wants tires from her husband for Christmas. Every radio station will assume all their listeners will want to hear Christmas tunes so it will take over their playlists. Frosty, Rudolph, Santa, the Elf on the Shelf and Charlie Brown will make their appearances on TV. Every other commercial will be a toy commercial and all of the ...

     One of the biggest trends right now is playing fantasy sports especially fantasy football. This is where you "draft" players to form an imaginary team and you play against other imaginary teams that your friends have drafted. You get points based off of the performance of the players you drafted. The better they do the more points you get and hopefully your team will have more points than your friend's team so that you can take home the victory. I have been playing fantasy sports for many years. I have played fantasy football, basketball, baseball, NASCAR, golf and even though I don't know anything about hockey several years ago I did play hockey on Yahoo Fantasy Sports. I didn't know any of the players, what position they played or if they were any good or not so I drafted random players based on their rank numbers. I drafted the 6th rank player because that has always been my church softball number. I drafted the 22nd ranked playe...

     This past week I was on vacation at the beach. One of the things I enjoy doing while on vacation is fishing. I am far from a pro so that is why I spend a lot of time fishing and very little time catching. But each year I give it a try. So this year I made my yearly journey to the Walmart at Southport. I am standing in one of their many fishing supplies aisles when an associate turns to me and asks if he could help me. I said, "Sure, I am looking for some hooks." He then inquired what kind of hooks. I gave him a very honest answer, "Cheap ones." He smiled and asked what kind of fish I was wanting to catch. I thought for a moment and again gave him a honest answer, "Live ones." To which he chuckled and begin sharing about the types of hooks. He pointed to one and said it was for flat fish. He pointed to some others and told me they were for fish with bigger teeth. He pointed to some more and told me they were for fish that were in deep water. I...

I just got back from visiting the hospital and on my way I swung through Popeye's from some chicken. I was traveling down the road smelling the chicken in seat beside me, texting my daughter and enjoying the beautiful day the Lord has made. Yes, I know, I shouldn't have gotten the chicken to go but I wanted to get back to the office to get started on some things. Oh, yea, I do not usually text my daughter during school but she was in need of some serious Daddy time. Besides, I was letting Siri doing they typing. I just hold the button down and wait for the phone to beep and then I tell it what to type. Now, my phone was definitely made by a person with Northern decent but that is another blog for another day. Back to today.      I was enjoying the cool breeze blowing in the truck when a FedEx truck pulled closely in front of me. When I say close I mean close enough to scare the stinkbug that was sitting on his back bumper. He got so scared he flew all the way back t...

I had an idea 23 Easters ago for an awesome Easter Basket for the love of my life. I sat down and made a list of items I needed for my totally awesome Easter Basket and I went shopping. Soon I realized my super totally awesome Easter Basket and my not so super not so awesome back account were not on the same page. I was frustrated but not giving up. I made some changes and purchased everything I needed. I had looked for the perfect Easter Basket. The one I had envisioned earlier was huge with lots of room for gifts inside. The one I purchased was deep which was important, but not very big around so it would quickly look full which was helpful. I bought several bags of Easter Basket Grass. I personally hate the stuff but it is a good filler and makes it easier to hide things. So I stuffed the basket full of the grass. I had purchased measured all of the stuff animals that I saw to make sure they would fit in my basket and take up most of the basket. So I had a bunny with a big bottom. I...