Jeromy Johnson | April 17, 2011
Share I have had a few people ask what A Mending Shift means and its origins. Good question…… To shift simply means to move, to change. Sometimes, a shifting takes place for its own end; in other words, to change simply for change’s sake. Other times, a shifting takes place for another end; to change [...]
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 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 | 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 | April 5, 2011
ShareI am periodically going to write free-form posts. No pre-planned direction. No filtering. Just my thoughts as they come to the page. These are not decrees. They will not be worked out. They will not be without error. They Simply Will Be. To be honest, it will be more for me than anyone else. I [...]
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 10, 2009
ShareOf all the questions I wrestle with, I don’t wrestle with this one nearly enough: How can I better love those around me? In light of this question, all others seem rather trite.
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 27, 2009
ShareNot too long ago I shared a tender moment with my 9-month daughter that transcended earth. I was holding her in my arms while sitting at our breakfast bar. At nine-months she is just beginning to crawl. As I held and looked at her, God’s love began to spread through me. As a father holding [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 10, 2009
Share [See embedded video] If there is one message we I need to be reminded of, it is this one. May you I believe it; truly, truly believe it. Thank you, Brennan. [ht - Jonathan]
Jeromy Johnson | April 8, 2009
ShareI want to thank Kathy for a conversation a group of us had over cocktails in Albuquerque. This is what came to my mind as we were discussing “upper-deck people” and “lower-deck people” in relation to the church. In some churches (please re-read the word some), there seems to be two sets of people: the [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 6, 2009
Share She dipped her head in shame, pulling away to hide her scar. On her left cheek lived a four-inch scar caused by a knife wielded in power. Even in the arms of the one who loves her, her shame guided her response to love. He tenderly turned her face back towards him for a [...]
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 | March 18, 2009
Share At first blush, the scene seems all too familiar. An outdoor fire crackling in the corner. A circle of six men laughing about everything under the moon. A table with pizza, rum, wine, Guinness, and a margarita. Lit cigars wafting into the air and soaking the clothes. But that is at first blush. A [...]
Jeromy Johnson | March 11, 2009
Share Love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny. – Diane Ackerman A Natural History of Love
Jeromy Johnson | February 23, 2009
Share Three years ago a friend of mine lost his voice and became mute, but yesterday morning his Papa unmuted him and is giving him his voice back. That sentence may not make any sense to you, but to my friend and me it rings of Papa’s unrelenting grace and restoration. Yesterday morning was a [...]
Jeromy Johnson | January 30, 2009
Share All I can say is: WOW! I find that when I’m in the spiritual world, I hear what my wife means when she speaks, even if she doesn’t actually say it. When I’m in the soulish world, I only hear how what she said affects me. My soulish ears hear from a perspective of [...]
Jeromy Johnson | January 29, 2009
Share Dear world, I love and forgive you. Now please live accordingly. Through Jesus, God
Jeromy Johnson | January 28, 2009
Share I forgot all about this little story until our kids watched it the other day (RSS viewers, you’ll need to visit the site to view the above video). Dr. Suess pinpointed the major problem that plagues most of us…an unwillingness to learn or budge. Or better said, our self-induced stubbornness and lack of love. [...]
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 [...]
