Tag: Salvation

• The Door Between Two Pillars: Sovereignty and Responsibility in Salvation

  

  There is a door, old and narrow, on which two mighty pillars are engraved – one reads “Chosen before the foundation of the world” (Ephesians 1:4), and the other declares “Repent, and believe the gospel” (Mark 1:15). Many, standing before it, despair to walk through. “If God must choose me,” they cry, “what use is…

  Jonathan Hillmer

  July 15, 2025

  On Christianity, On Faith

  Bible, christianity, faith, god, God First, God is Sovereign, God the Father, God the Son, grace, holy-spirit, Jesus, Jesus Christ, love, Responsibility, Salvation, The Son of God

• Groundhog Day, the Gospel, and the Grace of Second Chances

  

  Few films capture the essence of human transformation as vividly as Groundhog Day (1993), starring Bill Murray as Phil Connors, a self-absorbed weatherman trapped in a time loop. Forced to relive February 2nd repeatedly, Phil initially indulges in hedonism, then despairs in his hopeless condition, and ultimately embraces self-improvement and love. This cinematic parable, though…

  Jonathan Hillmer

  February 2, 2025

  History, On Christianity, On Faith

  Bible, christianity, faith, god, grace, holy-spirit, Jesus, Jesus Christ, justification, love, Salvation, sanctification

• Why We Celebrate Christmas

  

   I, as most of you, have many fond childhood memories of Christmas.  As a kid growing up in Minnesota, our family made it a tradition to travel to a tree farm and hunt for that perfect tree and cut it down ourselves and have our home smelling like pine for the next two weeks.  I…

  Jonathan Hillmer

  December 24, 2024

  On Christianity, On Faith

  Bible, Birth, Celebration, Christian, christianity, Christmas, faith, grace, Holy, Jesus, Jesus Christ, love, Salvation, Spirit