Wrestling with Consolation and Desolation

I am having a difficult time reconciling the concept of desolation as a tool in God’s hands and the promise of Jesus that we will never thirst. On the one hand, experience and the word of people who testify in words and in love that they are disciples of Jesus Christ speak of desolation as a valuable, and perhaps necessary, experience. On the other hand, the testimony of this same Jesus.

Read more


RegEnumKeyEx and RegDeleteKeyEx, Or: Why reading all the documentation for a function is a good idea

RegEnumKeyEx seems simple enough. Open the parent key, call RegEnumKeyEx specifying dwIndex=0, then increment dwIndex and call RegEnumKeyEx until you get ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS. There are, however, two caveats in the documentation that are easy to overlook.

Read more