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  • Gospel of John Devotional Commentary

    Gospel of John Devotional Commentary

    An expository devotional commentary on John’s Gospel by Andrew P Cannon.

  • 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…

  • Life, Our Most Treasured Possession

    Life, Our Most Treasured Possession

    Reflecting on John 1:3-5 John doesn’t claim any certain method. He doesn’t give us a timeline of origins. He simply claims that all things came into being through Him, the Word, and apart from Him nothing that exists came into being. Consider, again, the Genesis 1 account. In the beginning God created the heavens and…

  • Thanksgiving Pt. 1

    Thanksgiving Pt. 1

       14      We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone.            15      See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another and for all people (1…

  • On Evaluating a Sermon

    On Evaluating a Sermon

    I know. It sounds really unspiritual to say we would ever evaluate someone’s sermon. If we are to follow Jesus, we need to know if what we hear from people is, in fact, from Him. It is not bad to think well about what we hear from the pulpit. There is good preaching. There is…

  • Church Revitalization is not a Bad Word

    Church Revitalization is not a Bad Word

    Whether in church or personal life, we all need seasons of revitalization. Our temptation, though, is to pretend nothing is wrong and conduct business as usual because, if things change, we may look like we failed in our endeavors. I have a reminder for you: The results were never ours to boast about in life…

  • Personal Revival in Psalm 119: Thinking About What It Means to Feel Alive Again

    Personal Revival in Psalm 119: Thinking About What It Means to Feel Alive Again

    The worship of our lives is seeking after God’s ways rather than our own. We learn that God’s ways are better because our ways typically cause great hardship and tribulation. God forgives us for living by our own ways and bringing such destruction on ourselves and his earth. He shows his lovingkindness to thousands of…

  • Developing True and Good Relationships: Wisdom from Proverbs 27

    Developing True and Good Relationships: Wisdom from Proverbs 27

    Today, I begin a new series about different types of relationships as they are described in the Bible. Truthfully, the entire Bible is about relationships. I have chosen to look at Proverbs 27 to see what wisdom Solomon has for us concerning the relationships we have. Everyone we know was at one time a stranger…

  • Seeing the Kingdom of Heaven

    Seeing the Kingdom of Heaven

    Have you ever seen God? Some of you will answer by telling me how you see God working or how you see God in nature or people. Those things are not God Himself. I will venture to guess that you have never seen God. Yet, we believe He is. A vast majority of people on…

  • It’s Been A While, But I’m Finally in a Healthy Frame of Mind

    It’s Been A While, But I’m Finally in a Healthy Frame of Mind

    Hurt is hard. I realized in the last month that it has been more than a year since I have done any serious writing. I had given up on ministry and started my own business because, frankly, I was done being hurt. At the beginning of 2023, a friend of mine (a couple, actually) told…