Category Archives: Gospel

A Gift from God

Posted on 03/15/2010 by Paul Pavao

What is hard today, when all you see is denying yourself, will eventually yield the peaceable fruits of righteousness–and righteousness looks a lot like love, friendship, mercy, and joy. Continue reading →

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The Calvary Road: Real and Lasting Revival

Posted on 02/24/2010 by Paul Pavao

The impossible Christian life is the only one that can be lived because it is the only one God gives grace for. Continue reading →

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Confidence in the Flesh and Knowing Christ

Posted on 02/09/2010 by Paul Pavao

This morning in Bible study a few of us were looking at Galatians 2. Obviously, as we go further in Galatians, we need a good working definition of justification, and we went after that. The Greek word justify is just … Continue reading →

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The Righteousness of God vs. Our Righteousness

Posted on 02/06/2010 by Paul Pavao

Sometimes I don’t get around to blogging because everything I write is so long and takes an hour to write. I wrote the following on a young friend’s blog, and I thought I should make it my own blog post. … Continue reading →

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The Atonement: What You Must Know

Posted on 01/09/2010 by Paul Pavao

I just wrote a long post on works. It’s long because I took the time to try to answer some concerns that honest, God-fearing modern Christians have about the things I say about works (which I got from the Scriptures … Continue reading →

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Finding the Truth: Do We Have Assurance or Must We Merit Salvation?

Posted on 01/09/2010 by Paul Pavao

I am saying that the same effort to walk in the light and walk by the Spirit that allows you to experience continual forgiveness and the the righteousness of Christ will also produce practical, visible righteousness in your life. Continue reading →

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What Is the Gospel?

Posted on 01/04/2010 by Paul Pavao

I reproduced this post at Christian-history.org. Today, April 3, 2014, I am revising it because its language was way too strong. Rather than revise both pages, I am only revising it at the web site, and I am changing this … Continue reading →

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Early Christianity: Do I Have Any Advice?

Posted on 12/28/2009 by Paul Pavao

Someone wrote me telling me that they’re reading the early Christian writings, including David Bercot’s Writings. Then he asked me if I have any advice. For those that want to live the life that the apostles and early Christians lived, … Continue reading →

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Evangelism and the Church

Posted on 11/10/2009 by Paul Pavao

This blog started as a comment on one of my other posts, but it kept growing. This post is self-explanatory without seeing the comment I’m responding to, but if you’d like to, it’s on my September 20 post. The Great … Continue reading →

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Salvation Is Not a Plan, It’s a Man

Posted on 11/09/2009 by Paul Pavao

Except the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus make a man sick of his opinions, he may hold them to doomsday for me; for no opinion, I repeat is Christianity, and … Continue reading →

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