Jeromy Johnson | April 14, 2011
ShareI just read this comment on an Emergent Village blog post. Mike could not have said it any better. There seems to be three God’s preached in Christianity: “The god who wants the save the world but can’t. The god who can save the world but won’t. And the God who sent his son to [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 8, 2011
Share I think Chad does a really good job of explaining why: The Universal Good News God’s Judgment and Our Judgment All Why Evangelize? And a tid-bit from his kids: Christmas for Jesus I would add that when people finally believe the truth that they are loved and forgiven, this belief changes their world because [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 6, 2011
Share So a little about where I am approaching this conversation from. My goal is not to convince, change, prove or debate, just converse and share what I believe and how I see things. I am aware that we are coming at things from different angles, and I have peace with that. I respect your [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 2, 2011
Share How can we say God is good? How can we say God is love? How can we say God is just? How can we say God is righteous? How can we say any of that if we believe in a God who 1) created hell, 2) wrote the rules of how to go there [...]
Jeromy Johnson | August 27, 2009
Share Do you have 5-minutes? If so, I encourage you to watch this video. I have not watched something in a long time that personally resonated with me at this deep of a level. I hope it encourages your faith and gives you peace. So give it a peep … you’ll be glad you did. [...]
Jeromy Johnson | August 9, 2009
Share What’s worse? For a child to go un-adopted and grow up in “the system” without a loving home, bouncing from group home to group home, or be adopted by two loving, monogamous parents who provide a stable, caring home, yet both are the same gender/sex? Put it another way. What’s worse? For a child [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 29, 2009
ShareSo I am really intrigued to hear your take/reaction to the below video: [I ask that you not continuing reading until you watch the embedded video] If I were honest, I felt like that video could have been shown to people in Europe during the Crusades as a call to arms. All I heard was [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 2, 2009
SharePlease allow me to humbly share my witness to a deep wound that showed up at the Emerging Church Post-Conference Conversation in Albuquerque. This wound was expressed quietly all weekend long but finally came festering to the surface during the last morning of our time together. It is a wound shared by many of those [...]
Jeromy Johnson | March 9, 2009
Share At least that is what one lady said and probably many more believe. Let me start with some background. In California, the battle over same-sex marriage is still being fought. Last November, Prop 8 was put on the ballet to overturn an earlier court decision to allow same-sex marriages in California. After the state-wide [...]
Jeromy Johnson | February 18, 2009
Share Last night’s episode of LOST made a profound theological statement. Ben and Jack were in a Catholic church with the above Caravaggio painting of Doubting Thomas hanging in the background. While looking at the painting, Ben said “He [Thomas] needed to touch Jesus to be convinced.” “Was he?” Jack asked doubtfully. “We’re all convinced [...]
Jeromy Johnson | February 5, 2009
Share The moment in our history finally came when God decided to step into humanity in a physical, human way. The fancy word for God doing this is incarnation. God, in their truth and love, took on flesh and name Jesus … and shortly after God did, God became a heretic. A heretic (according to [...]
Jeromy Johnson | January 14, 2009
Share At least that is what some theologies would have us believe. It is as if Jesus walked the road to the cross draped in an American Flag, much like Apollo Creed in Rocky 4 entering the ring to James Brown’s, “Living in America”; as if Jesus died with America on the forefront of his [...]
Jeromy Johnson | December 29, 2008
Share “I had to perform my duty according to my vision.” Black Elk, a Lakota medicine man. As I read about the Native American culture and religion the more I find myself blessed by them (I am currently reading, The Sixth Grandfather – Black Elk’s Teachings). It is one thing to only read about history [...]
Jeromy Johnson | December 28, 2008
Share I thought this was one of the most grace- and truth-filled posts I’ve read in a long time. My heart soared as I read this, partly because of my own story of rebirth and partly because of the stories of those who have chosen to call me “friend”. If you have ever struggled or [...]
Jeromy Johnson | December 22, 2008
Share Wow. So I am writing this on the heals of our families’ Advent Conspiracy Celebration night (you can click on the Transform Your Christmas image on the right-sidebar for more info). Our goal for the last month was to skimp and save money in order to help those who do not have water to [...]
Jeromy Johnson | December 3, 2008
Share What if there was only seven people that went to gathered as the church? Would that be enough? Would Jesus still show up? Would Jesus still care? Would grace still appear? Would deep worship take place? Would an awe settle in? Would lives be changed? Would transformation happen? Would healing be present in hearts? [...]
Jeromy Johnson | November 19, 2008
Share This photo sickens me. I imagine my mom, my wife, my daughters having to drink this kind of water in this kind of way. This photo sickens me. Does it sicken you? In light of this photo, this is also what sickens me: Americans spend an average of $450 billion on Christmas. To solve [...]
Jeromy Johnson | November 16, 2008
ShareOnce in a while Alan over at The Assembling of the Church writes what he calls, “Scripture As We Live It”. The crossed out parts are what the writers of scripture wrote and the red parts is how we typically live out our faith today, which really reveals how we believe. This one got my [...]
Jeromy Johnson | November 12, 2008
Share…At least according to a dog. You know the old adage that Dogs are colorblind? Not true. They can see color. They just see color differently than us. Our eyes have three color receptors: red, green, blue (RGB). Dogs only have two (One color receptor peaks at the blue-violet range, the other at the yellow-green [...]
Jeromy Johnson | November 10, 2008
Share I am getting more and more convinced that for us to truly love someone we need to see them as beautiful; to see their beauty, their dignity, their worth, their value. If we do not see beauty in the other I believe we cannot truly love them or even claim that we love them. [...]
