by Bret Capranica | Nov 30, 2008 | Twitter
Home from a productive choir rehearsal and enjoyable evening of worship with the Lord’s people. May the day bear eternal fruit. # Sitting down to prepare my heart and mind for the day and week-it may be a short work week, but the amount of work sure looks long. # Desk work this afternoon! More fun than ANY pastor should have! # Headed to the Gym-clear the mind-hurt the body! # Home with the fam-enjoyed dinner and some play time. # The girls just don’t want to go down tonight-Brie just got sick all over the place-dad almost replicayed her mess. Liz just wants to cry. # Up to begin the day-checking the headlines, then to the word and prayer. # May thy holy scriptures govern every part of our lives and regulate the discharge of all our duties so that we may adorn thy doctrine in all # Time for breakfast with the family-then off to the office for a morning of blessed administration. # just finished one phone meeting, now one another. # lunch at the desk: spicy italian footlong on Italian Herb and Cheese. Checking out the blogosphere while chewing. # Waiting for my next phone meeting to call in-they are 5 minutes late so far. # On a long phone appointment-about to finish up, head home to change for tonight’s Thanksgiving Communion service. # In the study doing syntactical/lexical study of Romans 13:11-14-what a treasure chest! # Now to start reading the exegetical commentaries on Romans 13:11-14-really good stuff. # At the gym. # Quick work-out; quick lunch-back to study in Romans 13:11-14-put on the...
by Bret Capranica | Nov 30, 2008 | Biblical Studies
A wealth of free online coursework from Covenant Seminary. Worldwide Classroom
by Bret Capranica | Nov 29, 2008 | Technology
Here’s a free online app for creating presentations. May come in handy. 280 Slides – Create & Share Presentations Online
by Bret Capranica | Nov 28, 2008 | Biblical Studies, Hermeneutics, Technology
I learned the “arc”ing process of biblical study from Thom Schreiner at Southern Seminary. I have adopted a modified form of it in my regular sermon study. This new tool looks interesting. BibleArc.com :: Graphical...
by Bret Capranica | Nov 27, 2008 | Culture
How did we get “Thanksgiving” as a national Holiday? Washington, D.C. October 3, 1863 This is the proclamation which set the precedent for America’s national day of Thanksgiving. During his administration, President Lincoln issued many orders like this. For example, on November 28, 1861, he ordered government departments closed for a local day of thanksgiving. Sarah Josepha Hale, a prominent magazine editor, wrote a letter to Lincoln on 28, 1863, urging him to have the “day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival.” She wrote, “You may have observed that, for some years past, there has been an increasing interest felt in our land to have the Thanksgiving held on the same day, in all the States; it now needs National recognition and authoritive fixation, only, to become permanently, an American custom and institution.” The document below sets apart the last Thursday of November “as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise.” According to an April 1, 1864, letter from John Nicolay, one of President Lincoln’s secretaries, this document was written by Secretary of State William Seward, and the original was in his handwriting. On October 3, 1863, fellow Cabinet member Gideon Welles recorded in his diary that he complimented Seward on his work. A year later the manuscript was sold to benefit Union troops. By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come,...
