Category Archives: Gospel

Repentance and Forgiveness

Posted on 07/07/2014 by Paul Pavao

I spent a lot of time on this comment response, so I’m making it a post. You’ll have to figure out the comment I’m responding to. It concerns my post “He Who Fears God and Labors at Righteousness”. ************************* I … Continue reading →

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He Who Fears God and Labors at Righteousness

Posted on 07/05/2014 by Paul Pavao

Do you ever wake up in the night with scary revelations from God? I do. Not real often, but it has happened several times over the last three decades. At the start, I hated it. I would wake up with … Continue reading →

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The Gospel: Comment Response

Posted on 05/26/2014 by Paul Pavao

Let’s take a break from Teachings That Must Not Be Lost to respond to a comment. It isn’t really a break. I’m trying to put TTMNBL posts up every two days, and this is going up on an inbetween day. … Continue reading →

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Teachings That Must Not Be Lost: The Gospel

Posted on 05/25/2014 by Paul Pavao

Dare we consider that the reason we have so much else wrong is because we have the Gospel wrong? For this post I am indebted to a friend, Matthew Bryan, who is writing a book on the subject. We’ll be … Continue reading →

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Repentance Revisited

Posted on 04/20/2014 by Paul Pavao

I was reading Wisdom today, and I ran across a really neat passage on repentance. (I’ll tell you below what the book of Wisdom is, why I read it, and why you should, too.) But you have mercy on all … Continue reading →

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A Glimpse of the Gospel

Posted on 04/15/2014 by Paul Pavao

Dare we consider that the reason we have so much else wrong is because we have the Gospel wrong? For this post I am indebted to a friend, Matthew Bryan, who is writing a book on the subject. We’ll be … Continue reading →

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Witnesses of the Resurrection

Posted on 03/12/2014 by Paul Pavao

We terribly underestimate the importance of the primary job of the twelve apostles. In fact, most of us don’t even know what it was. It is written in the book of the Psalms, “… Let another take position.” Therefore, from … Continue reading →

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The Sinner’s Prayer & the Gospel

Posted on 02/12/2014 by Paul Pavao

The “Sinner’s Prayer” has come up a lot for me lately. On Sunday, I was in a “Life Group,” which the other, more long-term members do not hesitate to call Sunday school. We’re going through a book on prayer, and … Continue reading →

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Are You Selling a Car or a Key?

Posted on 12/26/2013 by Paul Pavao

Yesterday a friend and I were reading through Acts together. I got to expounding on Peter’s sermon in Acts 2, and I came up with an illustration I want to tell you about. I was about to write “… that … Continue reading →

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Living the Christian Life: Revelation and the Release of the Spirit

Posted on 11/23/2013 by Paul Pavao

This post was inspired by an email I received. There’s no personal information in my response, but paragraphs that start with something like “If you’re going to fight for any teaching …” refer to points in the email I received. … Continue reading →

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