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

Thank you Fantastic Sams for sending me a coupon for a $2.00 off any adult haircut. I am sure you are a great place to get a haircut. I see you have two locations in Hickory which are not to far from me. I am sure your stylist are well trained and have experience but I will not be using your coupon. I am bald. Even if I tried to let my hair grow I am sure I will not have enough for you to cut by the time your coupon expires in 3 weeks. I know you offer other services.  I don't know what a eyebrow wax service is but if your sending a coupon for $5.00 off I am sure it is more than I am going to pay to find out. I am not interested in getting what hair I do have colored. I just cannot see that turning out well. I do have a question for you though. From your disclaimer I see that long and thick hair may cost more. Why? I can understand thick hair because that would require more cutting. Long hair on the other hand doesn't unless you are cutting it a little at a time instead of ...

     The last couple days have been very good for me. Parents with teenagers or who have had teenagers will understand where I am coming from too. I got to "hang out" with my daughter yesterday and today she laid on my bed as we played a game together on our phones. We laughed and talked about silly things. It was a good time. It was a great time. One that I wish would happen more often but I know will happen less and less. So when ever the opportunity arises I will take it. No matter how tired I am or how busy I am I want to take time to make sure she knows dad is always available for her.      Where in the world would I get the crazy idea of trying to make sure I am available to her even when I am busy or when I am tired? My parents of course. I remember when Dad was busy for a few afternoons and we had not gotten to see each other a lot he would wait on the school bus with me. We would pass football or baseball. This wasn't just when I...

     My brain hurts. I don't have a headache but my brain hurts. It happens to all of us at times when we have an informational overload. You know the feeling you get when you have tried to soak up to much knowledge from to many areas in a short time. Your brain starts screaming for you to stop so it can finish sorting through all the information and file it in the right areas. That is where I am at. I need to let my brain sort and file for a few days. After all a sponge can only hold so much water.      Here is what caused my sponge, I mean my brain, to fill to capacity. I have been reading the book, " The Beauty of Intolerance" by Josh and Sean McDowell. It is one of those books you read and sermons begin to flow so lots of note taking there. I went to the "Leading Change in the Church" conference this week. It included four breakout sessions, a Q & A period and two sessions with the key note speaker, Thom S. Rainer. Rainer is one of my f...

     Ok, a few years ago I got an email telling how a relative of mine remembered meeting  me over 50 years ago, an age which I still haven't reached yet. They were so impressed with me that they made me their beneficiary to their fortunes. This relative and all of their family were sadly killed in an automobile crash. Their lawyer, who wanted to be my friend, was contacting to me let me know the sad news about my relative and to also inform me of my 5 million dollar inheritance. He said he had searched far and wide for me. I guess my relative lost my contact information sometime during the last 50 years. He was overjoyed that he had found me and wanted me to send him my banking information and social security number so that he could transfer my money to me. All he asked in return was for his expenses to find me and to send the money. So his fee was just over $100,000.00. I guess I was hard to find. I never got my 5 million because I accidently deleted t...

      I love those list of odd or off beat laws that are or were at one time on the law books. Almost every time I see those list I find some I didn't know or haven't heard before. That keeps me digging to find more. I used to subscribe to an email that sent me one every day. It was a great way to start the morning but like all good free things after so long they wanted me to pay for that daily tidbit so I had to unsubscribe. I do miss it though and few days ago I heard a radio DJ talking about funny laws so my desire to find more finally got the best of me. I went funny law hunting and here is some of what I found on dumblaws.com In Alabama you may not have an ice cream cone in your back pocket. I was in Alabama once and I had ice cream but I finished it all so I didn't have to carry it in my back pocket. In Chicago you are not allowed to eat in a place that is on fire. Hmmm, can you get your food to go? In Louisiana spectators at a boxing match m...

     I take my daughter to school most mornings and I pick her up most afternoons. During my morning drive around the parking lot at the school I notice that not everyone follows the traffic route the school has established. For the safety of the students that drive the school puts up a roadblock to prevent traffic from traveling directly to the drop off zone. This prevents two way traffic for the students to cross after parking. Instead of driving directly to the drop off zone you are supposed to travel up the first line of the parking lot and all away around the parking lot so that you come down to the school down the last row of the parking lot. You then head to the drop off zone. This longer path helps keep traffic moving and also puts the passenger side door facing the school so the students can get out without having to cross any traffic. It seems that this long pattern is inconvenient for many people dropping students off. They by pass the road block crea...

       I have never been one who keeps up with the latest trends and I am definitely not a trendsetter. For one reason, most trends are expensive so I usually wait for them to come down in price. I think it is cheaper to hold on to what you have and wait for it to become trendy or cool again. That reminds me, does anyone know when men's blue jean jackets will be cool again? I love mine but my wife and daughter will not let me wear it in public. The only trend that I think I was in on from the beginning was the bacon trend. I was eating bacon by the pound when bacon was the "unhealthy breakfast food" that nobody wanted to admit they liked. I was putting bacon in just about everything I cooked long before bacon become cool. Other than that I have been behind times when it comes to trends. I am serious about the blue jean jacket thing though. As soon as it is cool again let me know.      The big trend for 2016 wasn...