Tag: Heaven

• Legacy of Faith: Remembering Pastor Voddie Baucham Jr.

  

  There are lives that thunder. There are others that ring like a tuning fork, steady and clear, so that all the instruments in the room find their pitch. Pastor Voddie’s life was the latter. He did not court applause. He tuned hearts to the note of God’s Word until the noise of our age sounded thin by…

  Jonathan Hillmer

  September 26, 2025

  On Christianity, On Faith, On Family

  Bible, christianity, Church, Expository Preaching, faith, Father, god, Gospel of Jesus Christ, grace, Heaven, holy-spirit, Husband, Impact, Influence, Jesus, Jesus Christ, love, Minister, Pastor, Preacher, Voddie, Voddie Baucham Jr.

• The Essence of Abiding: Living in Union with Christ

  

  “Abide in me, and I in you.” With these few words in John 15 the Lord gathers up the whole Christian life into one image. He does not invite us to admire him from a distance, nor to copy him as one copies a sketch. He joins his life to ours as a vine joins…

  Jonathan Hillmer

  September 19, 2025

  On Christianity, On Faith, Uncategorized

  Abide, Bible, Christ, christianity, faith, god, grace, Heaven, holy-spirit, Jesus, Jesus Christ, John Chapter 15, love, Union

• Predestination and the Elect: A Scriptural Reflection

  

  There is, within the soul of man, a persistent yearning to untangle the mysteries of salvation, justice, and the divine will. Few doctrines arouse more awe or resistance than that of predestination. Yet, if one is to approach the Scriptures with honest inquiry and not with the prideful assumption that God’s ways must resemble our…

  Jonathan Hillmer

  August 3, 2025

  On Christianity, On Faith

  Bible, christianity, faith, Father, god, God’s Mercy, grace, Heaven, holy-spirit, Jesus, Jesus Christ, love, Mercy, Predestination, Redemption, Reprobate, Sacrifice, Saved, The Elect, The Love of God