Category Archives: Miscellaneous

How to Walk in the Spirit?

Posted on 04/15/2026 by Paul Pavao

Here’s my thoughts, and some Scriptures, on  how to walk in the Spirit/spirit. Someone asked me about how to walk in the Spirit. I think it is essential to understand that walking in the spirit, small s, leads to walking … Continue reading →

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Does Jesus Believe Divorced and Remarried Couples Are Living in Adultery

Posted on 04/08/2026 by Paul Pavao

This blog post is my joyful, heartfelt, deeply freeing, warm-hearted  goodbye to both a dogma and the people who will contemn me for rejecting it. (To “contemn” is to treat with contempt; to despise. It is what people often mean … Continue reading →

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Bathing in the Scriptures and the Presence of God

Posted on 12/07/2025 by Paul Pavao

Hardly a day goes by that I don’t get important reminders from Scripture. Today: Prov. 25:26 – Like a muddied spring … is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.–I have done that so much in my life. … Continue reading →

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Created for Companionship: The God Who Walks With His People

Posted on 11/23/2025 by Paul Pavao

When the Philistines seized David in Gath, he wrote: You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book? Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this: … Continue reading →

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Only the Unruly Need Be Warned & the Faith Once For All Delivered to the Saints

Posted on 11/05/2025 by Paul Pavao

Only the Unruly Need Be Warned I write a lot of things on good works and the warnings that we must continue in the faith if we expect to receive the reward on the last day. We learned during the … Continue reading →

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I thought the retired pastors were motormouths, but they are actually gushing wells

Posted on 10/23/2025 by Paul Pavao

I go to a Wednesday morning Bible Study with three long-time pastors even older than I am. If you meet someone who just wrote a book, you will have trouble talking about anything other than the new book. In the … Continue reading →

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Responsibility and Authority: What Others Won’t Tell You About Women in Ministry Roles

Posted on 10/21/2025 by Paul Pavao

The point of this post is to argue that the issue of women in ministry roles cannot be reasonably argued nor understood without understanding the connection between responsibility and authority. I apologize for the provocative title, but that is what … Continue reading →

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Prophecy Watchers Conference: The Rapture, the First Resurrection, and the Problem with the Pre-Trib View

Posted on 10/12/2025 by Paul Pavao

I am at a “Prophecy Watchers” conference in Norman, OK. I am going to make a strong effort not to personally insult or slander any of the people at this conference. Both speakers and attendees appear to be among the … Continue reading →

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Don’t Beat Dead Horses; Only the Father Reveals Truth

Posted on 06/15/2025 by Paul Pavao

In Matthew 15, Jewish leaders blasphemed the Holy Spirit by saying Jesus cast out demons by Beelzebub. In Matthew 16, Jesus started speaking in parables, so that only those with revelation from the Father would be able to understand him. … Continue reading →

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My Experiences with Praying in Tongues

Posted on 12/31/2024 by Paul Pavao

Believing in Jesus I was raised Catholic. When I was saved at 21 (in 1982), my introduction to Protestant Christianity was foreign to me, brand new, and exciting. It was also mostly Pentecostal.  My boss, Sgt. Roger Thomas, is the … Continue reading →

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