by Bret Capranica | Jan 28, 2008 | Time/Life Management
Can you live an overly intentional life? I don’t know, but I already sort of do what this article suggests. I may just try it more emphatically. Key: be sure to explain the system to your wife! Clutter: Avoid Over-Wearing Clothes with a Left-to-Right...
by Bret Capranica | Jan 28, 2008 | Miscellaneous
Be sure to see the T4G 2006 videos being produced by Ligonier Ministries. Ligonier Ministries | Broadcast Archive
by Bret Capranica | Jan 28, 2008 | Christian Living, Evangelism, General Theology
I was unfamiliar with the article “A Common Word Between Us.” John Piper’s video challenge is worth the listen even if you are as ignorant as I am about attempts between Muslim’s and Christians to come together. A Common Word Between Us? :: Desiring God...
by Bret Capranica | Jan 27, 2008 | Music
God’s Sovereign grace is not cheap – but the CDs at Sovereign Grace ministries will be cheap in February. Be sure to take advantage of this. SGM possesses some excellent modern day congregational worship writers and producers. I regularly benefit from this ministry. Sovereign Grace CDs and Books for Ridiculous Prices and Free Shipping | Worship...
by Bret Capranica | Jan 26, 2008 | Adoption, Personal
Yesterday I became a father. The road to fatherhood for THE CAPRANICA was a tad different than what many experience. Our daughter was born at 3:25 a.m. January 15, 2007. A year and ten days later, I finally became her father. Unfortunately, I did not go to the hospital when she was born. Actually, no one told me that she had been born. I didn’t find out for seventeen days after her birth that she had arrived. I never had the privilege to see her through the glass window where they take the newborns for ecstatic fathers and family to smile and stare. We took no pictures of mom, dad and infant in the delivery room after her birth. No family was present when she entered this world, and within hours, the woman who gave birth to her would even walk away. She was sick and needed ten days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to detox from the methamphetamines and marijuana that were found in her blood as well as to be taken off of the ventilator and oxygen necessary to sustain her life. Even after little Brie was allowed in our home, the authorities would not allow me to be considered her father. In fact fatherhood for me and Brie would require months of paper work, court hearings, conversations with multiple social workers, lawyers and other state mandated and sanctioned organizations. Prior to Brie’s birth, my wife and I were required to attend over thirty hours of classes, just so one day we could actually be allowed to officially be called her parents. Multiple social workers had...
