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 | June 27, 2011
Share [Luke 9:51-56] Now it came to pass, when the time had come for Him to be received up, that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem, 52 and sent messengers before His face. And as they went, they entered a village of the Samaritans, to prepare for Him. 53 But they did [...]
Jeromy Johnson | May 25, 2011
Share To be honest, I find it very hard to stomach and read articles like this one about Lyn Benedetto taking a knife to her children’s throats. Ask my wife, as a father, I just can’t handle them. But in light to some mainstream Christian theologies, she should actually be viewed as a very loving [...]
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 | May 3, 2011
Share Yesterday, I read a headline with Osama Bin Laden’s face on it and large, thick white letters exclaiming, “Rot in Hell!” Yesterday, while hoping onto Fox News Channel and catching an interview with Rudy Giuliani and Sean Hannity, Rudy mentioned that Osama is burning in hell and was met with nods and a slight [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 15, 2011
Share Why are Jesus and our traditional notion of Hell so intertwined? Why is it that if we lose Hell, Jesus becomes terribly pointless and ceases to matter? I mean after all, without Hell, what is the point of Jesus coming? What is the point of his life and teachings? What is the point of [...]
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 | March 4, 2009
Share The Law came down to Moses and was written on stone. From there The Law became verbal, being passed down to generations. Then The Law was wrote down in the Hebrew Scriptures as each passing generation expanded on it and how it was applied. The Law, in essence, became, well, the law. All things, [...]
Jeromy Johnson | February 18, 2009
Share Last night’s episode of LOST made a profound theological statement. Ben and Jack were in a Catholic church with the above Caravaggio painting of Doubting Thomas hanging in the background. While looking at the painting, Ben said “He [Thomas] needed to touch Jesus to be convinced.” “Was he?” Jack asked doubtfully. “We’re all convinced [...]
Jeromy Johnson | February 5, 2009
Share “This world sucks and I can’t wait to leave it.” This is what I remember being taught at church as a kid. The other day a song came flooding through my mind from childhood. Here are the lyrics: This world is not my home I’m just a passing through My treasures are laid up [...]
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 | January 9, 2009
Share I wonder how many blogs, if they were sold in Christian book stores, would receive one of these little labels at checkout? I am convinced mine would. When you go to the above link, be sure to scroll all the way down to see the list of books and authors they felt a need [...]
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 | October 17, 2008
Share Jen and I are watching the original stage production of Cinderella which aired on broadcast television back in 1957 to a record audience. It stars Julie Andrews as Cinderella and is drastically different then Disney’s cartoon interpretation. But all that aside, there was a line the prince sang to Cinderella on the balcony that [...]
Jeromy Johnson | September 5, 2008
Share“For God so loved the world some of the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes [the way I do] in him shall not perish burn forever in Hell but have eternal life live forever in Heaven. For God did not send his Son into the world to earth to [...]
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 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 | June 16, 2008
Share Every sinful human action has an opposite and equal wrathful God reaction. … And we claim the modern era (or Modernity) has had no influence on our theology.. (Thanks Linda!)
Jeromy Johnson | June 16, 2008
Share Every sinful human action has an opposite and equal wrathful God reaction. … And we claim the modern era (or Modernity) has had no influence on our theology.. (Thanks Linda!)
Jeromy Johnson | May 23, 2008
Share On our way home the other night, I was having a great conversation with my son about God. I told him that there was nothing he could ever do that would cause God to love him any less fully than he does now. To help convey the point, I told him that even if [...]
