Monthly Archives: January 2018

Church Write-Up: Rationalizing; How Foreign?; a Different Justice; Jacob; God Fighting Battles; Planned Job

Posted on January 8, 2018 by jamesbradfordpate

For church last Sunday, I attended the Missouri Synod Lutheran church, its Sunday school class on patristic interpretation of the Gospel of John, and the “Pen church.” Here are some items: A.  The pastor at the Missouri Synod Lutheran church … Continue reading →

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Book Write-Up: Reformation Commentary on Scripture (Hebrews, James)

Posted on January 6, 2018 by jamesbradfordpate

Ronald K. Rittgers, ed.  Reformation Commentary on Scripture: Hebrews, James.  IVP Academic, 2017.  See here to purchase the book. The Reformation Commentary on Scripture: Hebrews, James presents the thoughts of Western Christian thinkers during the fifteenth-seventeenth centuries on the epistles … Continue reading →

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Book Review: John Barclay, Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews

Posted on January 5, 2018 by jamesbradfordpate

Reading Acts Barclay, John M. G. Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2016. 454 pp. Pb; $48.   Link to Eerdmans This collection of essays published between 1992 and 2011 was originally published by Mohr Siebeck. Chapter 1 … Continue reading →

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Church Write-Up: New Years Eve 2017

Posted on January 4, 2018 by jamesbradfordpate

I am feeling under the weather today, so my Church Write-Up will be brief.  I went to an evangelical church that I will now call the “Mall church,” since it is located at a mall.  I also went to what … Continue reading →

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