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

     Sometimes you just need to get away. Get away from the stress and worries of the world. So you take a vacation. You know nothing fixes your worries about not having time to do all you need to do or the worry about paying for everything you need to pay for like taking a week off from doing anything but spending money. It is great! Seriously though, we do need vacations or staycations or just time away from everything. Just like our cell phones our batteries need recharging every so often. This is what vacation does for us. My family needed some battery charging.      So we took a vacation. We left on Friday afternoon and headed to Oak Island, NC, home of nothing. Just the way we like it. We began our vacation with our Friday evening Oak Island tradition with a meal at the Oak Island Restaurant for the Friday Flounder Special. Then we spent the next two days baking on the beach. Something different happened this year, I didn't get sunburned. U...

     Do you get offended? I do. I am offended that bacon doesn't come standard on all cheeseburgers. I am offended at the shampoo commercials that say you have to have to have good looking hair to feel good about yourself. I am offended when people pull for Duke or UNC. I get offended when people say, "No offence, but..." If you don't want to offend me don't say it. I get offended when people try to get me to agree with their reasoning for not going to church. I get offended at Mondays. I get offended when telemarketers call. I get offended when people assume I want to grow my hair back. I only keep what I got because my wife wants me to keep it. I get offended by all politicians no matter the party. I get offended by the weather when it gets over 75 degrees. I get offended by car commercials that want to rub it in my face that I can't afford them. I get offended when restaurants burn the outside of my rare steak. How do you do that?      I get o...

     I have watched the news over the past few months some. I have read a lot of the titles of posts on social media. I have actually read or watch only a few posts. I have heard the debates and interviews of the "experts" on the events that have taken place. I have heard some of the comments and messages that preachers have put out there. And the commentary everyone else has provided on it. I have read what my social media friends have had to say. A lot of them made me wonder when they became an "expert" on such things. Most of them made me wonder if they even researched what they were saying or posting because it was so obvious that it was made up. Anyway, we are all entitled to our opinion and for now we have the right to express it, no matter how profound or dumb it may be. The trouble with most of these opinions about the shootings, terrorist attacks, protest, elections, and animal troubles is that all we are doing is beating a dead horse. We know ther...

     Last night my wife and I witnessed somebody's most embarrassing moment. We were walking into Sweet Frogs to turn in Abby's band money. She will be marching in the South Caldwell Band next year and they are going to Chicago to march in the McDonalds Thanksgiving Parade. To help pay for this trip the band is having a spaghetti dinner on June 25th. The tickets are $10.00 each. They also have Domino's Pizza cards for $10.00. They are good for buy one get one in Caldwell and Catawba Counties. Message me if you interested. Ok, enough of this shameless plug but seriously message me.      As we were walking from our car one of those jacked up pickup trucks passed us with two guys in it. After they passed us they slowed down to a stop in the middle of the parking lot but I didn't pay attention to why until I heard one of them hollering. I turned to see that he was trying to get the attention of this young lady sitting on a bench. She loo...

     So in the mail last week I got, and you probably did too, a credit card application. This one said I was one of the select few to get this offer and I knew it had to be true because the application was addressed to Ashley Crouse or current resident. It said I could get up to a $5000 credit limit (that would buy a lot of bacon) and enjoy financial freedom with this card. I could even design my card to make it more personal. That was just the good stuff on the envelope and I knew that there had to more good stuff awaiting inside. Most of the time I do like everyone else and rip those offers into hundreds of pieces before tossing it to the trash. For some reason I decided to look into this offer. Not that I had any plans of accepting it but I was curious what kind of credit card would be offered to anybody who happened to have a mailbox. So I read the information that came with the application and was very impressed. All I had to do...

     Today things are pretty normal at my house for a Thursday during the Spring. Abby is at dance class, Lisa is mowing and I am hacking away on the laptop trying to tie up some loose ends from this week's work load. Before everybody jumps up and begins yelling about my wife mowing let me give you a quick explanation. My wife is the text book example of OCD when it comes to taking care of the house. Not only does it have to be done right but it has to be done her way. This goes for moping, bed making, dusting, vacuuming, and even yard mowing. She likes to mow and she likes the yard mowed in a certain way. I have tried to mow it her way but it isn't up to her standards even if it looks the same way it would have if she mowed it. So as I tell couples who are about to get married, not every battle is worth fighting. So while she is outside mowing I will put my apron on and have supper ready for her when she finishes. She will clean th...

     From time to time as I scroll through my Face Book feeds I will click on the "People you may know" post that Face Book is kind enough to send me. I don't know how I am supposed to know a retired plumber from Mississippi or high school student from Utah or a hair dresser from anywhere but Face Book seems to think I do because they put them in the post. Every once and a while I will read a name that seems to stir some memories. As I ponder on the name I think I may have went to school with them. So I click on their profile. I look at the profile picture and think to myself, "I couldn't have went to school with them, they look much older than me." Sometimes I will scroll through their profile, check their "About" section and maybe look at a few pictures. That is when I usually get a big surprise, I did go to school with them. I will take a quick glance in the mirror and wonder how come I don't look as old as them.    This happens not just on...