andrew paul cannon

Category: John

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  • Your Religion Can’t Get You to Heaven

    Your Religion Can’t Get You to Heaven

    What if I told you that your religion, even if you are sincere, can never get you to Heaven? All human religion seems to be very much the same. If you can, imagine looking at your religion from the outside. There are people claiming to know the way to heaven and give strict rules to…

  • My Church is Better Than Yours

    My Church is Better Than Yours

    On Sunday at ASBC, I started John 3. I’ve been preaching through John’s gospel since October, and I’m still only to Chapter 3. That’s funny, but working through it slowly really does produce more fruit. Here at the beginning, John has made human depravity very clear to his audience. Jesus would not entrust Himself to…

  • Preparing the Way

    Preparing the Way

    John 1:6-8 There was a man sent from God. This man was not Jesus. John, the gospel writer, suddenly stops talking about Jesus in order to introduce another character in his narrative—John. He is not introducing himself. This is a different John, John the baptizer. John the baptizer is a man sent from God. He…

  • Let Me Introduce You to This Jesus

    Let Me Introduce You to This Jesus

    John 1:1-2 Have you ever wondered what came first? I mean, something had to come first, right? Many stories have been told about the origins of all that exists in what we perceive as a very material, raw, and observable universe. Perhaps it was a chance universe with chance physical laws amid many other chance…

  • Dismount the High Horses

    Dismount the High Horses

    John 1:14-18 John has introduced the Word, who was with God and was God in the beginning. I believe this is the word through whom God spoke creation into being. I believe it is the Voice of God that was walking in the Garden in Genesis 3. I believe it is the Word the prophets…

  • Follow the Money; John 2:13-22

    Follow the Money; John 2:13-22

    Jesus was not opposed to violence. He was opposed to injustice. It is unjust for any church or clergyman to interest themselves in making money because they will end up using people instead of ministering to them. Like the pyramids were built on the backs of slaves, so Saint Peter’s Basilica was built on the…

  • Jesus, The Supplier of our Faith; Devo, John 2:1-12

    Jesus, The Supplier of our Faith; Devo, John 2:1-12

    The turning of water to wine at Cana is a popular story. Many people take many details from the text to expound on them, but I think it is important to keep ourselves from saying what the text does not say. After all, we want to speak God’s explicit words and not our own. There…

  • Jesus Sees Us; Devo, John 1:43-51

    Jesus Sees Us; Devo, John 1:43-51

    Philip and Nathaniel follow Jesus. I don’t know why Nathaniel was under the fig tree, but Jesus’s divine knowledge of the occasion was enough to persuade Nathaniel that He was indeed the Son of God. Jesus promised Nathaniel he would see much greater things, including angels ascending and descending upon the Son of Man—Jesus’s favorite…

  • What do You Seek? Devo, John 1:35-42

    What do You Seek? Devo, John 1:35-42

    John the Baptizer introduces two of his disciples to Jesus—Andrew and Simon Peter. We don’t often think about these two having first been disciples of John the Baptizer. After John introduced them to Jesus and upon hearing Jesus teach, the two men started following Jesus. Jesus asked them a question we should all consider, “What…

  • Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Daily Devo, John 1:29-34

    Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Daily Devo, John 1:29-34

    When I read this passage at face-value, it seems as though John the Baptizer does not know his cousin is the messiah until the Holy Spirit descends in this moment. This was not a premeditated rouse to capture followers for a new religion or cult. Jesus didn’t tell John. John was prepared to testify to…