Some Beginning Articles on the Church

Posted on 06/04/2015 by Paul Pavao

For some reason, I ended up on the subject of church life on my new site. It took a while to pull all three of these posts together, even though one was once previously written on this blog. That article, Evangelism and Missions is now updated.

I also wrote:

What Is a Church? and Preaching, Teaching, Evangelism, and Pastors.

For those of you that end up wanting to comment back to me, you can email me from the new site, or you can comment here. If you right click on the links, they will open up in a new window or tab so that you leave this page, with its comment form, open.

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God, Money, and Mammon

Posted on 05/30/2015 by Paul Pavao

I spent an inordinate amount of time writing today’s article. I’m not sure why it took so long, but I am very happy with the finished product. I hope you are, too, and I hope you are inspired by it to overthrow the power of Mammon in Christian lives.

The article is here: God, Money, and Mammon

I also updated my page that was previously called “Evolution and Fundamentalism.” I have no idea why I thought it was ready to go on my web site. It is now twice as long, though still short, and much easier to understand. I have also changed the title.

Evolution and Slander

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Several New Articles/Posts

Posted on 05/22/2015 by Paul Pavao

I have been updating paulfpavao.com as well as trying to write some blogs. That is why it has been so long since my last article or set of articles.

Here’s what’s new:

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Through the Bible: Isaiah 1:4-9

Posted on 05/05/2015 by Paul Pavao

My commentary on Isaiah 1:4-9 primarily deals with God’s redemptive punishments.

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Correction to Through the Bible Links

Posted on 04/30/2015 by Paul Pavao

Sorry, everyone, for the mistake on the last post. I didn’t put in the links at all. Here’s how it should have read:

I completed my first new Through the Bible post, on Isaiah 1:1-3.

You can read the old through the Bible posts starting here.

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Through the Bible … But Slower

Posted on 04/28/2015 by Paul Pavao

I completed my first new Through the Bible post, on Isaiah 1:1-3.

You can read the old through the Bible posts starting here.

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More Articles at Paul F Pavao.com

Posted on 04/24/2015 by Paul Pavao

Until I figure out how best to notify my readers of new articles/posts at PaulFPavao.com, I will continue to notify all of you here.

The new posts are always found at the What’s New page on my new site. The two most recent are on the Septuagint and the Apocrypha, more accurately called the Deuterocanon.

I do have some ideas for a new notification system at the new site, but I want to make the best choice so I am still thinking it over. When I am done, I will have only two sites that I am maintaining and looking over, PaulFPavao.com and my five-year-old site, Christian-history.org. Some, or possible all, of the “doctrine” section af the latter site will be moved to the new site.

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Accepting Jesus & the Kingdom Gospel

Posted on 04/16/2015 by Paul Pavao

I am really enjoying this new way of blogging. I have loaded up two new articles, one on accepting Jesus as personal Savior and one on the Gospel of the Kingdom. The latter is a rerun from a few months ago on this blog. Both can be found here: http://www.paulfpavao.com/paul-pavao-blog.html.

My next project, by the way, is to return to going through the Scriptures, but it will not be in a year this time.

I am still working on making it possible to subscribe to that site/blog by email. Subscribing in a Blog Reader is easy with the buttons on the home page. I will add those buttons to the “What’s New” page soon.

Until then, and for a while afterwards, I will be notifying everyone here.

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Ancient-Faith Blog moved to PaulFPavao.com

Posted on 04/13/2015 by Paul Pavao

I made a new web site at http://www.paulfpavao.com to replace my blog. I got frustrated with writing blog posts that just slipped away into the past so that I couldn’t even find them. So all my new “blog posts” will now be categorized in the “articles” section, and the most recent will be linked on the “what’s new” page. I get the blog effect, but also get web site categorization. The “what’s new” page even has .xml attached to it so it can be followed like any blog.

You can follow the new articles there using the RSS feed box on the home page. It comes with instructions.

The first two articles can be found here: http://www.paulfpavao.com/paul-pavao-blog.html

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The Incredible Salvation of God

Posted on 03/25/2015 by Paul Pavao

I think this story will encourage all of you. It’s true.

Almost 30 years ago I ran an auto insurance agency in Germany for a company called Fortune. One day a clearly bewildered lady came in with a friend to ask if I was a fortune teller.

What a great opportunity, huh?

I missed it. I simply told her that she had us mistaken. We sold Fortune auto insurance.

They left.

As has happened many times in my life (but not always) I was stricken by my cowardice in not jumping on that opportunity to tell her about the One who controls all our fortunes. I was so convicted I fell on my knees in the store and prayed fervently for her.

That night I went to a Bible study. This was 28 years ago, I think, so the details are fuzzy. I’m pretty sure it was a Bible study I rarely attended.

Anyway, after I was there a few minutes, in came the lady who had asked about fortune-telling, with her friend, led by one of the members of the Bible study. He explained that he had ran across them that day, explained the Gospel to them, and led them to Jesus.

Should have been me, but God love triumphs even our failures.

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