andrew paul cannon

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  • The Bible Series, Episode 2 Interaction

    The Bible Series, Episode 2 Interaction

    In May, we started watching the Bible Series again. This time with our church family at Grace. I wanted to share a few reflections on each episode. Episode 2 This episode portrays a familiar story for many people: the story of Moses and the beginning of the Israelites’ exodus out of Egypt, the land of…

  • The Bible Series, Episode 1 Interaction

    The Bible Series, Episode 1 Interaction

    Last week, we started watching the Bible Series again. This time with our church family at Grace. I wanted to share a few reflections on each episode. In episode 1, there were a few claims that were made that caused me to reflect back on the Scriptures, as we should always do. In fact, that…

  • The Pilgrim’s Relevancy Book XI: self promotion

    The Pilgrim’s Relevancy Book XI: self promotion

    “What’s going on?” Christian asked as they approached. They stopped fighting long enough to answer the question. News pointed at Film, “This guy actually believes that his farces are more influential than the facts!” ________________ Book I    Book XII ________________             “That’s not what I’m saying,” Film erupted, “I am saying that your reports…

  • The Coyote: competition actually limits success

    The Coyote: competition actually limits success

    I remember the silence. Only the breeze could be heard whistling over the hill and through the trees and the sun barely gazed over the horizon. It was that part of the morning when everything looked like a silhouette against a dim purple backdrop. I sat against a tree, hidden from the world looking down…

  • The Summit: the truth about American individualism

    The Summit: the truth about American individualism

    The sight was beautiful and as a man in a thick jacket pulled on his harness and looked toward the summit of the mountain. “Click,” he made sure his harness was secure and walked toward the base, picks in hand. He looked up again, for it would be the last time so that he might…

  • Confessions

    “I am now an old man locked in chains. I will never forget the day when the tribals rose up and took this world. A woman led them and, because of my own pride, was able to overtake my people. They killed us all, even put a bullet in my brain, but as I described…

  • Be We Free? (the first chapter)

    Human Desire for Freedom: Can Freedom Be Had?   Man is begat in bondage and there is nothing he can do to escape it. His desire for freedom outweighs his desire for life, yet he is trapped in life. He is a slave to governments and to perception and to morality and to circumstance and…

  • The Grave Digger

                His name was Joseph, Joseph Rah. He was tried and convicted of double homicide. No one thought that he was capable of murder, but the jury found him guilty. There I stood, close to midnight, digging his grave. I remember, in the dead of the night, hearing something other than…

  • Response to Thinking Atheist: The Story of Salvation

    I recently saw this picture from Thinking Atheist on a friends wall. My first instinct was to comment on the picture that he had posted, but he has a poor history of actually thinking about things. So, as I figured my comment would make little difference, I decided (perhaps in my own ignorance) to post…

  • Behind the Myth: Gilgamesh Flood

    Gilgamesh Flood << Click here to download my notes on the Gilgamesh Flood