The andrew paul cannon Blog

Tag: Christoa

Please consider supporting this ministry:

Shop More or Donate
  • Daily Devotional: Exodus 19:18-25

    Daily Devotional: Exodus 19:18-25

    There are many things we see here in Exodus that translate to the apocalyptic imagery we find in books like Daniel and Revelation. For instance, God “comes down” in the storm or in the clouds. He is coming to His people. He responds in thunder. There are earthquakes. Trumpets resound at His coming. All of…

  • Daily Devotional: Exodus 19:9-17

    Daily Devotional: Exodus 19:9-17

    God doesn’t hide what He does. He instructed Moses to bring the people so that there would be witnesses. While no one can see the essence of God, the people would see a manifestation of God in a cloud. God so organized the encounter so that the people would trust in Moses as their leader…

  • Daily Devotional: Exodus 19:1-8

    Daily Devotional: Exodus 19:1-8

    God now covenants with the nation of Israel, after saving them out of Egypt and bringing the people to Himself (Exodus 19:4). Like we saw with Abraham, the call to obedience follows the gift of salvation. In Abraham’s case, salvation was the gift of righteousness—credited to him on the basis of his faith. In Israel’s…

  • Pastoral Contentment and the Success Syndrome

    Pastoral Contentment and the Success Syndrome

    I have been in full-time ministry for 13 years. Before I started my ministry career (for lack of a better term), I had one instructor notice my goal-oriented zeal and offer a book from his personal library. That book still sits on my shelf in my office, stamped with his seal on the title page.…

  • Daily Devotional: Exodus 18:17-27

    Jethro implores Moses to delegate some responsibility because Moses’s way of doing things is not sustainable. He will wear out, or burn out, himself and the people of Israel. Moses listens to Jethro’s advice. There are many good applications to make from this part of the text, even knowing that it is narrative and descriptive.…

  • Daily Devotional: Exodus 18:1-16

    Daily Devotional: Exodus 18:1-16

    After their flight from Egypt, while Israel is at the Mount of God, Jethro brings Moses’s wife and children to the encampment. Jethro, a Midianite priest, heard about what Yahweh had done to Egypt. As if there was a doubt in his mind about Yahweh, he exclaims “Now I know that Yahweh is greater than…

  • God is Building Something

    God is Building Something

    In Ephesians 1, Paul writes about the unconditional love of God in Christ. He makes immediate application to himself, saying that he thanks God for the saints because God has unconditionally chosen and adopted them. Because God loves and accepts His people unconditionally, we also love and accept one another unconditionally. The truth is simple,…

  • Equality at the Cross

    Equality at the Cross

    In the Old Testament, we saw that God created men and women as equals in order to fill the earth and rule over it (Genesis 1:26-28). After humankind sinned and God promised never again to destroy or curse the earth on account of humanity (Genesis 8:21-22), God chose a nation and gave a Law. The…

  • Daily Devotional: Exodus 17:8-16

    Daily Devotional: Exodus 17:8-16

    Here, we see an interesting story as the Israelites are in or near Raphidim. The Amalekites come out of Southern Canaan to fight Israel. Israel prevails, and God promises to utterly blot out Amalek from under heaven. During the battle, it is written that as long as Moses held his hand up, presumably holding the…

  • Daily Devotional- Ephesians 6:10-24

    Daily Devotional- Ephesians 6:10-24

    Paul closes his letter by encouraging the saints to wear the full armor of God. Summed up, we seek truth, righteousness, peace, faithfulness, salvation, and to know God’s word. In fact, God’s word is the sword of the Spirit—the thing the Spirit uses to cut through our own hearts and the hearts of others. We…