Jeromy Johnson | June 28, 2011
ShareSitting on a jury is an interesting experience. It taught me a lot about how important our starting-place presumptions about people are. Let me explain. One of the most important factors of our justice system is that people accused of a crime must be viewed as innocent. Your mindset as a jury is that indeed [...]
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 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 | February 2, 2009
Share One of the things I enjoy about blogging are the discussions that emerge from seemingly simple posts. A case in point is the discussion Derek and David have been having about peace and war and violence—all from a 6-word post. There words, though not lacking spirit or passion, have gone miles beyond simple cookie-cutter [...]
Jeromy Johnson | January 22, 2009
Share I am really curious if they do; maggots eating money, that is. Remember Israel’s wondering in the desert and how God provided food for them? Well God did, but with some justice and anti-greed conditions. Here is the Cliff-note version of Exodus 16: Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will rain down bread [...]
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 | 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 17, 2008
Share Our economy sucks. No, I’m not talking about America’s current financial crisis stupidity. I’m talking about the basis of our entire economic system. In the mind of our economy I am two things as a middle class American: a slave a consumer I find it interesting that we still have an economy dependent on [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 11, 2008
Share So I thought I’d throw it out there. This week American Idol did their second-annual Idol Gives Back show where their goal is to raise money to help global poverty / AIDS / etc. To date, they have raised some $80,000,000 with the UK making a $200,000,000 donation in mosquito netting. This year, they [...]
Jeromy Johnson | March 10, 2008
Share God seems anything but balanced. At least that is what Jesus seemed to think and teach. I hear this often (or along these lines): “I know God is love, but you can’t sway too far to that side—you have to keep him in balance.” Most of us want a God who is balanced. One [...]
Jeromy Johnson | November 11, 2007
Share “So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists will we be; will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?” ~ Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can’t Wait
Jeromy Johnson | November 6, 2007
ShareIt happened again. One of those lines grabbed me, but this time, instead of messing me up, it just drove a blessing straight to my heart. From the song, “Here is Love”, the line: Kissed a Guilty World in Love I could not stop picturing God reaching for the world –guilty with all the hate and [...]
Jeromy Johnson | November 2, 2007
ShareConfession time. My wife, Jennifer, and I watch the Biggest Loser. There is something endearing and inspiring about this “reality” show. 18 people share a common obesity problem and the same goal––to loose weight, and lots of it. There is not one person who comes onto the show feeling good about themselves or the choices [...]
Jeromy Johnson | October 24, 2007
ShareThere are some blogs I hate writing––this is one of them. I hate it because I am personally and terribly convicted by the picture it paints. So here it is… There is a gripping scene from the 90’s Blockbuster, Titanic, that has been used by pastors in churches around the world to illustrate how there [...]
