Jeromy Johnson | May 18, 2011
Share Who am I? Am I a sum of my parts, or more? My name is Jeromy Roger Johnson. Three words. Eighteen letters. Six syllables. When uttered, it is simply a collection of agreed upon sounds that form meaning. To some it has great meaning, recalling past memories, feelings and shared experiences. To others it [...]
Jeromy Johnson | May 4, 2011
Share Here there is no Christian. Non-Christian. American. Muslim. Heretic. Orthodox. Saved. Unsaved. Liberal. Conservative. Mainline. Evangelical. Catholic. Reformed. Baptist. Pentecostal. Episcopal. Presbyterian. Lutheran. Methodist. Buddhist. Hindu. Blacks. Whites. Evil. Good. Biblical. Unbiblical. Terrorists. Hell-bound. First class. Third class. Believer. Unbeliever. Jew. Atheist. Mormon. Shi’ite. Sunni. Wahabi. Oregonian. Adulterer. Faithful. Right-wing. Left wing. Republican. Democrat. [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 13, 2011
Share We all make choices. We all make interpretations. We all are led individually by the Holy Spirit. We all do the best we can with our three-pound brains and our built in, God-given human limitations. We all stake claims on our current understanding of God’s truth as revealed to us by his Holy Spirit [...]
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 | March 26, 2009
Share The problem is not when we think that the bible is inerrant. The problem is when we think our interpretations of the bible are inerrant. When people claim sola scriptura, what they’re really claiming is sola what-I-believe-a. Just some thought fodder . . . literally.
Jeromy Johnson | January 27, 2009
Share No, not in the prison sense, but rather, My Life in One Sentence: I am learning to be a freedom-realizing human, loved immeasurably by our Creator who is teaching me to love myself and others likewise. What is your Life Sentence? (If you have a blog, I invite you to post Your Life Sentence [...]
Jeromy Johnson | December 31, 2008
Share Remember eating animal cookies as a kid? Yesterday my daughter and I went to run some errands and I bought her her very first box of animal cookies. Over the years a lot changes, but not animal cookies: Same box. Same animals. Same amount of broken cookies. As she sat behind me in the [...]
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 | September 15, 2008
Share “You have known only one way of loving—love it, possess it, forget it. When you try to possess love, you rob it of its beauty, and then that same love gives you pain…and whatever you try to control turns ugly.” I have been mulling over these thoughts since I read them in a little [...]
Jeromy Johnson | August 28, 2008
ShareWhat’s missing? Here are excerpts from two of our earliest creeds, the Apostles and the Nicene, in order. Read them and see if you can tell what is missing: “…Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell. [...]
Jeromy Johnson | August 25, 2008
ShareEver dreamed? I mean really dreamed? Dreamed of something so great, so impossible, so over the top, that unless God stooped down and graced it, it would never come to be. Unless God orchestrated the seemingly random notes in your heart into a masterpiece, your dream would fall onto mocking ears, dismissed as foolishness only [...]
Jeromy Johnson | August 13, 2008
ShareJen and I were talking the other day and through our conversation God really spoke healing truth to our hearts. We were recalling the life-stories (without going into the specifics) we have been listening to in our Thrive groups. What we noticed is that when we take the time to hear and experience people’s stories [...]
Jeromy Johnson | June 13, 2008
Share I was looking in my backyard today and noticed all the weeds that have been popping up. I sighed at the thought of going out there and uprooting them. What a pain. Seeing all those weeds got me thinking about Jesus’ words where he taught us not to pull up the “weeds”, but to [...]
Jeromy Johnson | June 13, 2008
Share I was looking in my backyard today and noticed all the weeds that have been popping up. I sighed at the thought of going out there and uprooting them. What a pain. Seeing all those weeds got me thinking about Jesus’ words where he taught us not to pull up the “weeds”, but to [...]
Jeromy Johnson | March 24, 2008
Share Lately, God has been teaching me to trust him and I find that it is a lesson I resist—sometimes with a vengeance. I want to be in control. I want things done in my timing. I do not want to let go, because letting go means, well, letting go and I want to hold [...]
