Jeromy Johnson | July 1, 2011
Share “If I would have known you were going to be gay, I would have aborted you.” This is what a mother told her son after she learned that he was gay. NPR did a story on gay immigrants shedding light on their story of living in the United States. In this particular segment the [...]
Jeromy Johnson | May 25, 2011
Share To be honest, I find it very hard to stomach and read articles like this one about Lyn Benedetto taking a knife to her children’s throats. Ask my wife, as a father, I just can’t handle them. But in light to some mainstream Christian theologies, she should actually be viewed as a very loving [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 20, 2011
Share So my two oldest children are in a quandary. Our daughter is five and she went to a church where they told her (in her words) that bad people go “down there” to hell (pointing down to the center of the earth) and that good people go “up there” to heaven (pointing to the [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 18, 2011
Share First, Read the Tragic Version of this Story Here. What is the Kingdom of God like, you ask? A woman lived in rural central California. She was known for her kindness, generosity and love, but she was also fair and just. Her five children were normal kids, but the four youngest were known around [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 11, 2011
Share What is the Kingdom of God like, you ask? A woman lived in rural central California. She was known for her kindness, generosity and love, but she was also fair and just. Her five children were normal kids, but the four youngest were known around town for their rebellious streaks. As a single mom, [...]
Jeromy Johnson | December 6, 2008
Share About 5 minutes into this video a woman recalls how her 2-year-5-month old died simply from drinking unclean water. Not because of drugs. Not because she played in the street. But because of water. WATER. That’s it! Water. This is mostly due to where she happened to be born. But that is not what [...]
Jeromy Johnson | December 6, 2008
Share Back in July a good friend of mine, Jon Holmes, joined a team of cyclists who peddled from Sacramento to Washington DC. Their goal was to raise money for Children’s Cancer awareness and research, as well as visit and bless kids all over the country (literally) who are afflicted with this horrible disease. They [...]
Jeromy Johnson | June 29, 2008
Share No matter what you name your baby, it becomes their name. It becomes normal and a huge part of their identity, no matter how bizarre. Step back into your own personal time-and-space-continuum and recall some weird names of people you knew growing up. I knew a guy who was the star running back on [...]
Jeromy Johnson | June 27, 2008
Share[Note: it may be helpful to read this out loud or in a whisper as it is more stream-of-thought] So here it is God, Friday evening and my spirit seems deeply burdened. I’m not sure why. The blog name, A Carnival in My Head, comes to mind as a close descriptor of what I am [...]
Jeromy Johnson | May 20, 2008
Share As we begin to dream of what a church built around smaller groups that focus on discipleship looks like, the topic of children’s ministry inevitably comes to the surface. What do the kids do in such a church and how do they get their consistent spiritual food? Within this context, what does “Children’s Ministry” [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 3, 2008
Share Great video that will bless you…please DO NOT watch …a video link highlighting an organization called Sparrow’s Club (a great friend of mine, Matt Sampson, is interviewed). The best line, “The kids will do heroic things when they are given heroic things to do.” I would say the same is true with the church. [...]
