by Bret Capranica | Dec 23, 2006 | Personal
There are a few CAPRANICA readers who are in the Amarillo area. If you are and are free from 3:00 p.m. to whenever (Saturday – Dec 23), drop by the Homewood Suites in the lobby area for an informal get together. Kelly and I are bringing some BBQ and would love to see any of you in the area. We are hoping to see a number of people from the church I used to serve as well as more family and friends. Drop by. If you can’t make it today, give us a call at the Hotel and we’ll see if we can get together. We’ll be in Amarillo until...
by Bret Capranica | Dec 20, 2006 | Personal, Uncategorized
Kelly and I are heading off to the great nation of Texas – in just a few hours. We expect to spend Christmas with my parents and sisters in Amarillo, Texas, my hometown. If our hotel has internet, I’ll check in and maybe post some pics and catch up on some material I’ve wanted to keep up with. Enjoy your...
by Bret Capranica | Dec 17, 2006 | Culture
TIME.com: Person of the Year: You — Dec. 25, 2006 — Page 1 I am “Person of the Year.” In fact, you are too. How fun. Obviously the people at TIME forgot to give much time to this topic, with all of the other really important things they do for the world. Were sales down and so they felt a last minute urge to glorify their customers? Do we have a low self-image? It’s really hard to believe that because I have a blog, a My Space and use You Tube, I made the cover of TIME. Somehow, this feels...
by Bret Capranica | Dec 16, 2006 | Interviews
I believe this is the final installment of the Warnock Grudem interview. It is a good one with a leading evangelical scholar. Even in some places where I would not agree with one or the other, I have much appreciated the candid conversation. Adrian’s Blog: INTERVIEW – Wayne Grudem, Part Nine – Apostles, Theological Blind Spots & Models of Church...
by Bret Capranica | Dec 16, 2006 | Culture, Personal
Biblical Foundations » A Puritan Christmas Adreas Kostenberger put together an intriguing article describing the 16th and 17th Century Puritans and their attempts to snuff out Christmas. I enjoy much of what I read from the English Puritans and have gleaned great spiritual benefit from them in my personal life over the past twenty years. But, should we go to the same extreme as they when it comes to Christmas? My wife has done an excellent job of decorating our house for the holiday season. From Thanksgiving through next week, we will have had just over 100 people in our home for holiday celebrations. For Christmas day, we will travel to Texas to see family and friends and perhaps even have a white Christmas. Kelly has a collection of Christmas CDs that she plays often in our home during this time of year. In my car is Handel’s Messiah which I have enjoyed listening to over and over. Today our choir will have a special outreach performance of our Christmas concert at a local senior mobile home park and Sunday we will have four services (two normal morning services and two Christmas concerts) connected with the Christmas season. All of these will be geared toward strengthening the hearts of the saints in their commitment to Christ and exposing the lost to the Gospel of Jesus. In this sense, I love Christmas. But there is another sense that makes me almost sick (literally) when I think about Christmas. It fuels pride. How so? This should be obvious. Pride is fueled at Christmas time as it exposes the rank materialism that...
