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    Only narcissists would create a display with the intent of being offensive to a distinct group of people and then gaslight them into believing that they are over-reacting when said group reveals that they are indeed offended. I find it even more egregious when members of the group attacked come against their own in the…

    Jonathan Hillmer

    August 7, 2024
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  • Justification vs. Sanctification

    I have been a Christian for over 25 years and am just now starting to discover what that means. There was a time not too long ago that I believed that if I did the best I could, if I did the ‘right’ things, if I provided for my family, if I told my family…

    Jonathan Hillmer

    May 21, 2023
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    justification, sanctification
  • Sitting at the Foot of the Cross

    It’s not so much that we are sitting, as much as it is WHERE we are sitting. Sitting is good. Sitting is necessary (particularly at the mall when you wife is shopping). Sitting is restful. One can contemplate and observe when one sits. One might see some things that others who are not sitting may…

    Jonathan Hillmer

    January 28, 2023
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  • Reflection on and Redemption from Roe v. Wade

    On this day in history, Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Roe v. Wade — claiming that the restrictive state regulation of abortion (in Texas) was unconstitutional. 50 years. 50 years of horror and darkness and death in America. More than 63 million abortions are estimated to have taken place…

    Jonathan Hillmer

    January 22, 2023
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  • On Education

    As a high school art teacher, I always encouraged my students to think “outside the box,” to find new ways of doing things, to explore new options, to experiment. That is the essence of learning: to try, fail, and to try again, sometimes to fail again, but ultimately to succeed. Never did I attempt to…

    Jonathan Hillmer

    December 13, 2022
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  • Being Bold in Submission

    “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your…

    Jonathan Hillmer

    October 22, 2022
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  • My Testimony

    April 2nd, 1996, I accepted Christ into my life. The picture below was taken (without my knowledge) as I contemplated the glory of God the very next morning on the edge of a river flowing through the rainforest of Australia, wondering what it all meant. I was completing my student-teaching in Sydney and God found…

    Jonathan Hillmer

    October 21, 2022
    On Christianity, On Faith
    Bible, christianity, faith, grace, holy-spirit, Jesus, Jesus Christ, love
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