About the Author

Growing up, I was the only one in my family to attend church regularly. I enjoyed it and started preaching in my mid-teens. After high school I became a Baptist lay minister and spent decades teaching the scriptures to thousands of people. My first sermon was given in a little church in Northern California. I have no recollection of what the exact salvation-themed sermon words were, but when I was finished all my friends congratulated me on the sermon. One girl asked me about the fly that kept landing on my nose. She said she would have been very distracted if that happened to her. It turns out the fly was a big drop of sweat that formed, would drop off and then form again. Oh, the things we remember!