Category Archives: Church

Free Chapters of My Book: The Council of Nicea

Posted on 03/22/2011 by Paul Pavao

I posted earlier today, too, with more content :-D. If you read my blog, you probably know that I’ve been working on a book about the Council of Nicea. My writing part is done. All I’m doing now is formatting. … Continue reading →

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Can You Be Controlled?

Posted on 03/22/2011 by Paul Pavao

I wrote someone recently and told them that the best argument for some of the things I teach is Rose Creek Village. (Not that RCV does what I teach; I teach what RCV does.) I described “great power, great joy, … Continue reading →

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Do You Believe in the Church

Posted on 02/02/2011 by Paul Pavao

Five hundred years ago Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and John Calvin led Europe in rejecting the Roman Catholic Church and its pope as the mouth of God. The problem is, the result has been that Protestants reject any church as being the mouth of God. Continue reading →

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Why I’m Not Catholic: Gandhi and the Truth

Posted on 01/10/2011 by Paul Pavao

Of course, you’ll have to triumph by dying. That’s how Christians do it, you know. Continue reading →

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Real Spiritual Battles

Posted on 01/01/2011 by Paul Pavao

I’m not going to get up a post every day in 2011, nor even one each day in January. It was fun pulling that off in December, but sometimes these posts take me a couple hours! Anyway, there was more … Continue reading →

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Too Lazy to Reason, Part II

Posted on 12/28/2010 by Paul Pavao

So, if you get your tradition from a good source, a source that bears good fruit, then you’re okay. You don’t have to do all that research. You can let them do it for you, and you can trust them. Continue reading →

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On Dealing with Insecurities, Part 2

Posted on 12/23/2010 by Paul Pavao

So many men are just that way. They growl their way past their insecurities, unable to love lest they look bad while loving. Continue reading →

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Polycarp, Anicetus, Popes, Tradition, the Passover, and Easter

Posted on 12/15/2010 by Paul Pavao

From great to small, Christians were known for their bravery. Not just men, but women and children scorned the punishment of Roman persecutors, passing judgment on their judges by their joy in facing death, and knowing that every drop of blood they shed was seed. “The more often you mow us down, the more of us there are,” they would boast. Continue reading →

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Scriptural Terminology: Why It Matters

Posted on 12/10/2010 by Paul Pavao

I mentioned yesterday—I hope it was yesterday; I’m a few days ahead and I’m scheduling these to come up one day at a time—that the blood of Jesus is said in Scripture to be sprinkled, not to be a "mighty … Continue reading →

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I Am of Paul

Posted on 12/07/2010 by Paul Pavao

Today’s post is a sister post to yesterday’s. 1 Corinthians 1:10: Now I beseech you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but … Continue reading →

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