Tag: andrew paul cannon

  • Preston Smith Invocation: why is it foolish to say there is no God?

                I stepped into the room, eager to take care of the city’s business. When I saw the name of the man giving the invocation on the agenda, I was quite surprised. The man was a known activist for the cause of atheism, and I wondered what business he had praying at a town meeting.…

  • Dear Collector Pt. 3: What about those Heavenly rewards?

    So, in the last two explorations, we discovered that God may or may not have material blessing for us on this earth according to His will and for His honor and glory. Our responsibility, then is to steward what God does choose to give us for God’s glory and honor. Undoubtedly, each one of God’s…

  • Fusion: the teenagers

    I wish there was a way I could describe you. With a beauty so immense you’ve got me entrenched in such a deep fascination I would do anything for you And I long to once again be enveloped in this deep, double edged infatuation You are the shooting star upon which much of my hope…

  • If Adam Had Perfect Reason, How Could He Choose Against God?

    My thoughts, as of late, revolve around this question. We, as a western culture, place so much value on human reason and in the rational facilities of the educated. In Genesis 3, we read a story of a man who knew God and learned all things from God. Before the Fall and the curse of…

  • Fusion: Year One (Shorty Short Story)

    “Mr. Purdue, Mr. Purdue, are you alright. I need you to wake up, sir!” A young man shook an older man gently, but frantically, as he feared for his life. “Sir!” his voice more elevated, “The pilot is dead and no one else knows how to fly a space ship! Sir!” Purdue pained himself to…

  • Fusion: a shorty short story for you

    Journal Entry 248 [Lunar 1, 400] It’s been 400 years since we entered the Promised Land. Today is the anniversary. We missed the apocalypse. This story has been handed down through the generations. They told us the story of our exodus from the earth and of how God saved us before we knew what was…

  • Excerpt from “Sophie Monroe”

    Excerpt from “Sophie Monroe”

    Oh what anyone who was thirsty, truly thirsty, would give for want of drop of water. For to be a slave to a parched lip seems the most devastating of subjectivities. How then, oh how much more so is the devastation of greater and more phenomenal subjectivities? The sun rises in the morning and rests…

  • Dear Collector Pt. 2

    Considering this idea that God may actually have material blessings for us, a warning must be issued and a question asked. The warning: our lives belong to God and not to our things. The question: what does Christ mean when He tells the rich young man that he must sell all his possessions and give…