Category Archives: Church

The Argument from (Dis-)Similarity

Posted on 06/10/2014 by Paul Pavao

Originally posted on Finite Reflections of Infinity:
Will the real Church please stand up?  Go to a phone directory of any moderately sized settlement and see if the listings for “churches” don’t rapidly get bewildering.  Indeed, such an exercise is often…

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Climate Change, Antarctic Ice Sheets, Honesty, and News

Posted on 06/04/2014 by Paul Pavao

I get very frustrated with climate change news stories. Don’t get me wrong, I believe climate change is real, and I think we are causing it. Nonetheless, the reason people reject news of climate change so vehemently is because the … Continue reading →

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The Church: Inside and Outside

Posted on 05/31/2014 by Paul Pavao

The Church is a complicated subject for me. I’m glad for this opportunity to look at what the church is from all angles. What follows is a very long comment I posted in answer to a very short question. A … Continue reading →

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The Church, part one

Posted on 05/27/2014 by Paul Pavao

I’m not near as good at describing the Church as the Chinese that came from Watchman Nee’s Little Flock movement. I’m a pretty good storyteller, but I can’t spin the tale of the church like Gene Edwards can. I can, … Continue reading →

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Christian History in a Nutshell

Posted on 03/20/2014 by Paul Pavao

Ready? Let’s go! The apostles formed churches. Those churches formed churches. These churches had no leadership higher than the local city or town. Nonetheless, they were taught to carefully preserve the apostles’ teaching. Over time, as the churches grew, some … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Things

Posted on 02/15/2014 by Paul Pavao

I get an email every day from Austin-Sparks.net. Today I was convicted of forgetting some of the importance of spiritual things. There are many things to which the name of the Lord is being affixed which are being constructed, and … Continue reading →

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The Cost of Church Life

Posted on 01/04/2014 by Paul Pavao

I found this tract as I was clearing out old files because of an office move. I know the author, so I got permission to publish it with all references to his church removed. Church life is what it is. … Continue reading →

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Clement of Rome

Posted on 12/21/2013 by Paul Pavao

This post is part of a series of explanations of my Second Century Timeline of Christian history. Not every point well get its own post, but I am at least going to do a post on Clement of Rome and … Continue reading →

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Christian History Timeline: First Century

Posted on 12/05/2013 by Paul Pavao

Thanks to those who pitched in and pointed out things I missed or didn’t realize the importance of. I’m just one guy. I miss all sorts of things. I keep track, however, when corrected, so my picture of history keeps … Continue reading →

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Super-abbreviated Christian History Timeline

Posted on 12/03/2013 by Paul Pavao

Don’t miss yesterday’s post. It has much more information. Here’s a very general timeline of Christian history as I see it: AD 33-70: Apostles/apostolic era AD 70-325: Pre-Nicene Era. Persecuted The church, with exceptions unavoidable in a world of humans, … Continue reading →

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