Per Venia

Once again I wonder why God has decided to pour out so many blessings on me!  The blessing of Christ’s advent and then so much more beyond.  We had  a great Christmas surprise last night when we went to my in-laws, my wife’s older sister and family were there, we didn’t think they were going [...]

The Detroit Lions win a game, I finish shopping a week before Christmas, I don’t gain weight, no one gets hurt at Walmart on Black Friday, all would be Christmas miracles!  Unfortunately not one of them happened this year!  But none of those “tongue in cheek” miracles hold a candle to the miracle we’re about [...]

Launchy is a free windows and linux utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.
Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!
via Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher.

But not today! I get an unplanned day off today, almost like starting vacation early.  The only problem is my monkey boy is sick and I have to take him to the doctor.  Looks like an ear infection, he woke up multiple times last night crying. Cheryl normally handles the doctor’s visit chores (I don’t [...]

Well, this evening was one of those “walk the walk” nights!  First I managed to trash our website whilst upgrading the software that runs it.  Then while struggling to get it back to where it was , one of my teeth fell out.  Bet you didn’t know website development was a full contact sport did [...]

To many today , peace seems to be more of an un-attainable concept than anything real.  I love the words of Zechariah as he prophesied concerning his yet unborn son (John the Baptist) and also the messiah.
Luke 1:78  because of the tender mercy of our God,       by which the rising [...]

Isaiah 12:1 that day you will say: “I will praise you, O LORD. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.
I’ve been reading in Isaiah for the Advent Series that I’m preaching on the 4 Sundays before Christmas.  This verse in Isaiah caught my attention, it reminded [...]

Psa 96:2  Sing to the LORD, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day  …
Every day we’re supposed to broadcast the gospel.  Verse 3 expands it further, "
Tell everyone about the amazing things he does."  Not sure I completely lived up to that today.  what about you?