andrew paul cannon

Tag: Kingdom of heaven

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  • The Sovereignty of God, Trump, and the IRGC

    The Sovereignty of God, Trump, and the IRGC

    The way we as Christians think through the wars of this world is interesting to me. There are a great many things to be said about the moral justification (or not) of actions taken by world leaders against other world leaders and nations. There are many things to be said about how some people conduct…

  • Armageddon: The Iranian Conflict and End Times

    Armageddon: The Iranian Conflict and End Times

    Well. I finally saw the word used in association with events currently at play in the Middle East. In her post, Coston claimed that, in the last battle, the nations wouldn’t necessarily fight against Israel but against Christ. I have to say, I have never actually seen such a narrative in the text of Scripture.…

  • God’s Law, Just Society, and Our Dishonest Gain: Reflecting on the Plea of Psalm 119

    God’s Law, Just Society, and Our Dishonest Gain: Reflecting on the Plea of Psalm 119

    In psalm 119 so far, the psalmist As the psalmist reflects on the Law of God, he continues, Incline my heart to Your testimonies And not to dishonest gain (Psalm 119:36).  Since the psalmist sees the Law of God as opposite dishonest gain, we get to ask another question of God’s Law–Does God’s Law actually…

  • 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…

  • Jesus as Prophet and The Personal Salvation Debate Among Jews in the First Century

    Jesus as Prophet and The Personal Salvation Debate Among Jews in the First Century

    In these notes, I first show the point of John 3:1-2 by offering a biblical apologetic for Jesus as having the authority of a prophet to reveal new revelation. Then, I explore the theological environment of First Century Judea in order to provide historical context for Jesus’s conversation with Nicodemus. It is no surprise that…

  • 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…

  • Unspiritual Spiritual Gifts- Exodus 31:1-11

    Unspiritual Spiritual Gifts- Exodus 31:1-11

    After God instructed Israel to craft all of the specialty, custom items for the tent of meeting, He reveals that He has gifted certain individuals by His Spirit for the purpose of crafting these pieces artistically. God takes the credit for gifting His people for craftsmanship according to His own plans for the production of…

  • 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,…

  • The Eucharist According to Matthew

    The Eucharist According to Matthew

    It is the eve of Christ’s betrayal into the hands of Israel’s chief priests and elders. From the beginning of His public preaching ministry, Jesus has been teaching that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. At the end of Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus declares that the kingdom is here. Since Matthew is the most Jewish…