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

     In 1990, I graduated from East Burke High School. Four years later my wife graduated from South Caldwell High School and now 22 two years later my daughter will soon be walking into South Caldwell as a freshman. I am not taking it very well. In fact, that may be a huge understatement. My stomach is in more knots than a fish has scales. (I guess that is a lot. I don't know how many scales a fish has but it sounded like a lot.) There is several factors that has contributed to these knots. One, my baby girl is going to High School. She is digging deeper and deeper into her teenage years and is shows. Those loving moments I used to treasure is now followed with, "Daddy, I need $$$$." The constant request for me to watch a movie in her room with her has been replaced with the constant request for friends to come over. The always smiling, giggly, sweet girl has been replaced with a moody, ever changing monster. With all that said she is still a wonderful young lady an...

     I am a big football fan. I can't get enough. I played it, I watch it, I play Fantasy Football, I talk about it and I even read about it. I have to admit I was looking forward to coming home after church last Sunday and watching the first preseason game of the year. I knew the starters may be done playing by the time I got home to watch and the guys playing I may never have heard of and may never see again but I didn't care. It was football. I was shocked when I turned it on and found out the game had been cancelled. Football never gets canceled. It doesn't matter how hot, how cold, how much rain or how much snow is on the field the NFL plays. I couldn't imagine what happened that would cause the game to be cancelled. I caught something scrolling at the bottom of the TV screen about the field. I figured for a game to be cancelled because of the field it must have caught on fire or a meteorite landed in the middle of it or something. Then as I watch...

     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...