Jeromy Johnson | May 20, 2009
ShareWhat if we, as the church, were invisible? What if we had no church buildings? No signs declaring a church location? No denominations or headquarters? No mega weekend gatherings? No Christian radio presence? No Christian stores? No Christian bumper stickers or other outward personal identifying stuff? What if the Yellow Pages didn’t have a “church” [...]
Jeromy Johnson | March 31, 2009
Share So here is my hypothesis: Jesus was simply a mirror. Jesus simply mirrored people’s judgment back onto themselves. “For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” It was almost as if all these religious leaders and Pharisaical types [...]
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 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 | 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 | August 29, 2008
ShareLast night I snuggled next to my daughter in her bed and read her a book. It was called, Dear Zoo. As I read it, for me, the similarity with our all-to-common perception of God and final judgment was striking. Allow me to share with you this parable disguised as a children’s bedtime story: I [...]
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 11, 2008
ShareIn what way did you see God today? Where did God show up in your life today? What happened today that caused you to think of God? In what way did you witness the Kingdom (dream) of God here on earth? (If you are reading this in the morning, walk with this question through the [...]
Jeromy Johnson | July 10, 2008
Share If heaven was God being fully present with us here on earth, like in the garden, with a restored earth and heavens, would we still desire it? or not? In other words, if eternity was spent with God on earth, and not a distant, other-dimensional, ethereal “heavenly” place somewhere out there beyond the blue, [...]
Jeromy Johnson | June 9, 2008
Share My wife, Jennifer, is 8 ½ months pregnant with our third child. Her due date is July 4th (Independence Day in more than one regard). She is about to burst and is dying to hold our child (which by the way, is another girl). Not too long ago we were lying in bed and [...]
Jeromy Johnson | May 3, 2008
Share Chad got me thinking (dangerous, I know). When Jesus says to love our enemies, who does he mean? Even “enemies” like Bin Laden? Or just our private, personal enemies? If we saw Bin Laden on the street and had the power to take his life, should we? If not, what should the proper response [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 30, 2008
Share Instead of asking God to cultivate something, may I see, hear and be in-tune to what God is already cultivating around me. May I have the courage to trust and join God’s cultivation regardless how unknown, mysterious, distant or “in-the-dark” it may presently seem. May I strive less to do for the sake of [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 23, 2008
Share Have you ever been reading a book and got to a sentence—or thought—that stops you in your tracks? Where you try to continue reading, but the gravitational pull of the sentence keeps bring you back to its words? Then that moment comes when you resist fighting it, dog-ear the page, put the book down [...]
Jeromy Johnson | March 3, 2008
Share What if we, as the church, were invisible? What if we had no church buildings? No signs declaring a church location? No denominations or headquarters? No mega weekend gatherings? No Christian radio presence? No Christian stores? No Christian bumper stickers or other outward personal identifying stuff? What if the Yellow Pages didn’t have a [...]
Jeromy Johnson | February 28, 2008
Share We took a walk as a family yesterday. As we walked, I looked down and saw one small piece of a torn up, hand written letter on the ground. Allow me to share with you what it said: FRONT SIDE OF THE LETTER: every morning ery weekday ed Sat & Sun ery busy! Well [...]
Jeromy Johnson | February 27, 2008
Share Suppose I live in one room of a house my entire life. I never leave this room and this room has only one window looking outside. To me, this window-view of the outside world—the trees, the hills, the sky—is the only view. To me, this is what the outside world looks like: what I [...]
Jeromy Johnson | February 1, 2008
Share There is a fictional story Jesus told which cuts deep into our heart by exposing his heart. He loved using the medium of story in order to reveal what his kingdom is really like and how much it differs from our ways of thinking. He begins by saying, “The Kingdom of God is like… [...]
Jeromy Johnson | January 12, 2008
Share The thing that I love about Jesus is that everywhere he went, he seemed to praise and bless those that the surrounding religious establishment (in his case, the different sects of Judaism) seemed to curse and damn; those they considered heathens; those they deemed outside of God’s grace and will; those that they relegated [...]
Jeromy Johnson | January 5, 2008
Share Silvia is a young women from Kenya Africa. In 1995 her husband died, leaving her alone with her three children. For the longest time she didn’t know why he died. Three months passed before she found out through the hospital that he died of AIDS. She fainted immediately, broke down and lost it. AIDS [...]
Jeromy Johnson | October 8, 2007
ShareI had a very disturbing dream last night. Not frightening, disturbing. Disturbing in the sense that the personal ramifications of the dream could be great. I dreamt I went through each of the Gospels of Jesus and saw a common theme regarding good deeds and spiritual faith. The shift this created was paradigmatic. I then [...]
