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Book Write-Up: Searching for Jesus, by Robert J. Hutchinson

Posted on December 26, 2015 by jamesbradfordpate

Robert J. Hutchinson.  Searching for Jesus: New Discoveries in the Quest for Jesus of Nazareth—-And How They Confirm the Gospel Accounts.  Nashville: Nelson Books, 2015.  See here to purchase the book. Every Christmas and Easter season, sensationalist documentaries come out … Continue reading →

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Book Write-Up: C.S. Lewis, by Alister McGrath

Posted on May 25, 2015 by jamesbradfordpate

Alister McGrath.  Eccentric Genius.  Reluctant Prophet.  C.S. Lewis: A Life.  Carol Steam, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, 2013.  See here to buy the book. C.S. Lewis was a teacher at Oxford and Cambridge, a scholar of English literature, a Christian apologist, … Continue reading →

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To Be Truly Yourself

Posted on May 15, 2013 by jamesbradfordpate

I finished M. Scott Peck’s People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil.  Something that Peck said on page 264 stood out to me.  On that page, Peck argues that evil people are dull (“Once you’ve seen one … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Experiences: Discipline and Quiet

Posted on March 12, 2013 by jamesbradfordpate

On page 286 of Circle of Life: Traditional Teachings of Native American Elders, James David Audlin talks about attitudes to avoid when one wants to receive a vision: “If we decide in our own minds, ‘I am never going to … Continue reading →

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Forgiving Each Day in Prayer

Posted on February 15, 2013 by jamesbradfordpate

When I was doing my daily quiet time recently in the Book of Numbers, studying Numbers 28, I checked my notes on that chapter that I took a few years ago.  Numbers 28-29 is about the sacrifices that are offered … Continue reading →

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Lazarus and Osiris?

Posted on January 18, 2013 by jamesbradfordpate

For my write-up today on Lee Harmon’s John’s Gospel: The Way It Happened, I’ll comment on Lee’s comparison of Jesus’ resurrection of Lazarus in John 11 with the ancient Egyptian story of Osiris.  In John 11, Lazarus has two sisters … Continue reading →

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Linville’s Carnival and Babinski on C.S. Lewis and Josh McDowell

Posted on January 2, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

Jim Linville’s Biblical Studies Carnival is now up!  And, while I was looking at Dr. Jim’s site, I noticed that ex-fundementalist Edward Babinski is on his blogroll, and I decided to visit Babinski’s blog.  Babinski has an excellent post contrasting … Continue reading →

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