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Chesed Shel Emet; Easter and Sabbatarianism; New Life from Bitterness

Posted on March 27, 2016 by jamesbradfordpate

I have three items for my write-up on church this morning.  Since today is Easter Sunday, the sermon was about Jesus’ resurrection.  The pastor focused on the story in Luke 24. A.  The pastor referred to the Jewish concept of … Continue reading →

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Transubstantiation and Sabbatarianism in “The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan”

Posted on December 19, 2015 by jamesbradfordpate

I am still reading “The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan.”  This is a Christian work that dates anywhere from the fifth century C.E. to the ninth century C.E.  It was written originally in Arabic and was translated into … Continue reading →

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More Reflections on Sabbatarianism

Posted on June 10, 2011 by jamesbradfordpate

I talked in my last post about what I thought about Christians who were not Sabbatarians, back when I was a Sabbatarian (an observer of Saturday as the Sabbath).  What I said yesterday is that many of us Sabbatarians saw … Continue reading →

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Humility; Miracles; New Heart; Ancient Libraries; Early Christian Sabbatarianism; Textus Receptus; Women Priests

Posted on April 25, 2010 by jamesbradfordpate

1.  Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People, page 111: I believe now hardly anything that I believed twenty years ago—except the multiplication table; and I begin to doubt even that when I read about Einstein.  In another … Continue reading →

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Doubting Sabbatarianism on This Sabbath

Posted on August 9, 2008 by jamesbradfordpate

I grew up in a Sabbatarian church, which observed the Sabbath on Saturday, the seventh day of the week. As far as I’m concerned, that’s a practice that I’ll keep on doing for the rest of my life. It’s good … Continue reading →

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Three Days and Three Nights

Posted on March 31, 2016 by jamesbradfordpate

“For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40). I was talking with a man on … Continue reading →

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The Seventh-Day Adventist Candidate

Posted on October 28, 2015 by jamesbradfordpate

I’ve been wanting to blog about Presidential candidate Ben Carson being a Seventh-Day Adventist.  Now that it is in the news quite a bit, I figure that now is a good time to write this post.  Here are some ramblings. … Continue reading →

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R.A. Torrey on the Sabbath and the Holy Spirit

Posted on September 29, 2015 by jamesbradfordpate

I finished Fred Sanders’ How God Used R.A. Torrey, and I will be writing my review of it tomorrow.  (Moody Publishers sent me a review copy in exchange for an honest review, just to get that out into the open.)  … Continue reading →

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The Law As a Mirror

Posted on February 15, 2013 by jamesbradfordpate

My church for its Bible Study is going through Romans: The Letter That Changed the World, with Mart De Haan and Jimmy DeYoung.  I got to attend last night, but I won’t be able to attend next week because I’ll … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Dickens!

Posted on February 7, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

Today is Charles Dickens’ birthday!  The only Dickens book that I have ever read is A Christmas Carol (see my write-ups on that here and here).  I watched movies for David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Tale of Two Cities, and Oliver … Continue reading →

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