Finally! I can’t tell you how excited and relieved I am to announce that we have the details planned for our wedding!
The Short Version:
We will be married Tuesday, March 27, at 3:00 PM (PST) in Las Vegas.
The Long Version:

We will be going to Indianapolis the weekend of March 24 for my cousin’s wedding. The following [...]

Today´s reading:OT: Leviticus 9:7-24, Leviticus 10NT: Mark 4:26-41, Mark 5:1-20Ps: Psalm 38Pr: Proverbs 10:6-7
Gospel Thread – Psalms/Proverbs:
37 Consider the blameless, observe the upright; there is a future for the man of peace.38 But all sinners will be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off.39 The salvation of the righteous comes from the [...]

Today´s reading:OT: Leviticus 7:28-38, Leviticus 8, Leviticus 9:1-6NT: Mark 3:31-35, Mark 4:1-25Ps: Psalm 37:12-29Pr: Proverbs 10:5
Gospel Thread – OT:
Today’s reading finishes up instructions on the levitical sacrifices and offerings, and also the anointing of the tabernacle implements and the priests, all previously discussed.
Gospel Thread – NT:
11 He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of [...]

Today´s reading:OT: Leviticus 6, Leviticus 7:1-27NT: Mark 3:7-30Ps: Psalm 37:1-11Pr: Proverbs 10:3-4
Gospel Thread – OT:
Today’s reading continues the explanation of the levitical sacrifices and offerings, previously discussed.
Gospel Thread – NT:
Whenever the evil spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”
Mark 3:11 (NIV)
Even the demons knew the [...]

I ran across some interesting news from the hometown:
First, Shelbyville’s largest employer, Knauf Fiberglass, suffered a fire in the oldest part of its manufacturing plant. Smoke from the fire caused my old elementary school, Coulston, to close for the day, and efforts to stop the blaze nearly drained the city’s water supply and caused several [...]

An update on the miscarriage of justice in the Julie Amero case, about which I previously wrote:
PC World’s Steve Bass reports on responses he received from both a juror in the trial, and also from the detective in the case against Julie Amero. Both responses only further prove the gross injustice in Amero’s arrest, trial, [...]

Today´s reading:OT: Leviticus 4-5NT: Mark 2:13-28, Mark 3:1-6Ps: Psalm 36Pr: Proverbs 10:1-2
Gospel Thread – OT:
If a member of the community sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD’s commands, he is guilty.
Leviticus 4:27 (NIV)
Ignorance is not a legitimate defense; sin is sin. God gave man His Law not to give new [...]

Today´s reading:OT: Leviticus 1-3NT: Mark Mark 1:29-45, Mark 2:1-12Ps: Psalm 35:17-28Pr: Proverbs 9:13-18
Gospel Thread – OT:
SCRIPTURE
Leviticus 1:2 (NIV)
When someone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering is to be of fine flour. He is to pour oil on it, put incense on it
Leviticus 2:1 (NIV)
If someone’s offering is a fellowship offering, and he [...]

When I woke up this morning, Stephanie alerted me to reports of a Peanut Butter recall – one that particularly impacted Missouri/Saint Louis. The recall was issued due to a suspected link between the peanut butter and a widespread salmonella outbreak, and includes Peter Pan and GreatValu peanut butter packaged by ConAgra, with lot numbers [...]

Today´s reading:OT: Exodus 39-40NT: Mark 1:1-28Ps: Psalm 35:1-16Pr: Proverbs 9:11-12
Gospel Thread – OT:
9 “Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it and all its furnishings, and it will be holy. 10 Then anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it will be [...]

I have never been one to care much for Valentine’s Day; mostly, because I have almost always been single in mid-February (with the exception of one, solitary year). However, this year – and every year hereafter – I have great reason to celebrate what has always been merely a “Hallmark holiday” in the past.
With the [...]

Today´s reading:OT: Exodus 37-38NT: Matthew 28Ps: Psalm 34:11-22Pr: Proverbs 9:9-10
Gospel Thread – OT:
They made the lampstand of pure gold and hammered it out, base and shaft; its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms were of one piece with it.
Exodus 37:17 (NIV)
This comparison might be a stretch, but perhaps the lampstand is symbolic of Christ. The lampstand [...]

Today´s reading:OT: Exodus 35:10-35, Exodus 36NT: Matthew 27:32-66Ps: Psalm 34:1-10Pr: Proverbs 9:7-8
Gospel Thread – OT:
and everyone who was willing and whose heart moved him came and brought an offering to the LORD for the work on the Tent of Meeting, for all its service, and for the sacred garments.
Exodus 35:21 (NIV)
God has always asked only [...]

Today´s reading:OT: Exodus 34, Exodus 35:1-9NT: Matthew 27:15-31Ps: Psalm 33:12-22Pr: Proverbs 9:1-6
Gospel Thread – OT:
The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock.
Exodus 34:19 (NIV)
God claims His right to the firstborn offspring of every womb. I do not think it coincidental that [...]

Today´s reading:OT: Exodus 32-33NT: Matthew 26:69-75, Matthew 27:1-14Ps: Psalm 33:1-11Pr: Proverbs 8:33-36
Gospel Thread – OT:
And the LORD said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have [...]

As far as tech nightmares go, this one might be worse than Y2K.
The US Congress changed the rules for Daylight Saving Time, starting in 2007. This year, rather than spring forward the first Sunday of April and fall back the last Sunday in October, DST will begin on the second Sunday of March, and end [...]

The other day I read this article on PC World about Julie Amero, a substitute teacher convicted for exposing students to pornographic material on the computer of the teacher for whom she was substituting. In summary:
The story is short: On October, 19, 2004, Amero was a substitute teacher for a seventh-grade language class at Kelly [...]

Today´s reading:OT: Exodus 30:11-38, Exodus 31NT: Matthew 26:47-68Ps: Psalm 32Pr: Proverbs 8:27-32
Gospel Thread – OT:
You shall consecrate them so they will be most holy, and whatever touches them will be holy.
Exodus 30:29 (NIV)
This consecration – both of the tabernacle implements as well as the priests – was accomplished by anointing with the sacred anointing oil. [...]

Today´s reading:OT: Exodus 29, Exodus 30:1-10NT: Matthew 26:14-46Ps: Psalm 31:19-24Pr: Proverbs 8:14-26
Gospel Thread – OT:
For the generations to come this burnt offering is to be made regularly at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD. There I will meet you and speak to you;
Exodus 29:42 (NIV)
The shedding of the blood of the [...]

Today´s reading:OT: Exodus 28NT: Matthew 25:31-46, Matthew 26:1-13Ps: Psalm 31:9-18Pr: Proverbs 8:12-13
Gospel Thread – OT:
Tell all the skilled men to whom I have given wisdom in such matters that they are to make garments for Aaron, for his consecration, so he may serve me as priest.
Exodus 28:3 (NIV)
The garments of the High Priest foreshadow and [...]

Today´s reading:OT: Exodus 26-27NT: Matthew 25:1-30Ps: Psalm 31:1-8Pr: Proverbs 8:1-11
Gospel Thread – OT:
Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
Exodus 26:33 (NIV)
Some people see symbolism in the description of the tabernacle; although, while such symbolism [...]

Today´s reading:OT: Exodus 23:14-33, Exodus 24-25NT: Matthew 24:29-51Ps: Psalm 30Pr: Proverbs 7:24-27
Gospel Thread – OT:
Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt.
Exodus 23:15 (NIV)
Leaven (yeast) [...]

Today´s reading:OT: Exodus 21:22-36, Exodus 22, Exodus 23:1-13NT: Matthew 24:1-28Ps: Psalm 29Pr: Proverbs 7:6-23
Gospel Thread – OT:
If the bull gores a male or female slave, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of the slave, and the bull must be stoned.
Exodus 21:32 (NIV)
Thirty pieces of silver is the price to redeem [...]

Final Score: Colts 29, Bears 17

Peyton Manning, MVP

Kelvin Hayden seals the deal with an interception returned for a touchdown:

Dungy gets the Gatorade bath:

This game was one wild ride…
And somehow I have to try to go to sleep tonight, so I can get up and go to work tomorrow…

Today´s reading:OT: Exodus 19:16-25, Exodus 20, Exodus 21:1-21NT: Matthew 23:13-39Ps: Psalm 28Pr: Proverbs 7:1-5
Gospel Thread – OT:
And God spoke all these words:
Exodus 20:1 (NIV)
Today we begin God’s presentation of the Law to Israel. What is the significance of the Law, its importance to us, and its correlation to the gospel? First, the Law exposes sin [...]