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 | April 2, 2009
SharePlease allow me to humbly share my witness to a deep wound that showed up at the Emerging Church Post-Conference Conversation in Albuquerque. This wound was expressed quietly all weekend long but finally came festering to the surface during the last morning of our time together. It is a wound shared by many of those [...]
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 | 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 | November 10, 2008
Share I am getting more and more convinced that for us to truly love someone we need to see them as beautiful; to see their beauty, their dignity, their worth, their value. If we do not see beauty in the other I believe we cannot truly love them or even claim that we love them. [...]
Jeromy Johnson | July 8, 2008
Share When giving is down in churches, what is the first and typical response? It’s to preach a few sermons about giving (at least that has been my experience in working in churches. Your experience may be different). Because that’s the problem, isn’t it. The people don’t know they are supposed to give. They haven’t [...]
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 | June 24, 2008
Share A few weekends ago we drove to the Bay Area for my wife’s family reunion. My brother-in-law, Dave, pastors a church in San Jose and so on Sunday we thought it would be a great chance to hear him speak and see his church. Well, as it would turn out, Dave was taking a [...]
Jeromy Johnson | June 19, 2008
Share Last night was special. What would cause three grown men to spend a year-and-a-half of their lives writing and rewriting books, complete with the deadlines and late nights and early mornings spent glaring at a computer? to leave their wives, kids, and friends for a month-and-a-half while traveling to 32 cities crammed in an [...]
Jeromy Johnson | May 19, 2008
Share It was clear from the beginning that this should be my role. God blessed Abraham to be a blessing to others, not to simply enjoy his blessing. Jesus said, come follow me. Jesus was clearly all about his Daddy’s mission. His life and death modeled a missional life that did what the Father did, [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 14, 2008
Share For me, the living Jesus is far more untidy and undomesticated than the historical one because today he messes with MY stuff, not theirs. But he is also more beautiful because he also leads ME to love and restoration. [Note: Forgive the false-separation of the living Jesus from the historical Jesus—they are the same [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 11, 2008
Share Ever heard the term “slippery slope“? I am sure you have. I know I have been hearing it more and more over the past year. Here’s the irony when talking about slopes: The slope we are on is never slippery—it’s all the other slopes that are the slippery ones. But even at the bottom [...]
Jeromy Johnson | March 12, 2008
Share May I seek less to be understood by the other than to understand the other.
