Derek Charles Johnson

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does…

I’m excited to set up a new series that will be ongoing over the course of this year.  Much like the “Prayers Of The Bible” blogs from 2019, I wanted to initiate early on something we could come back to…

Finishing out the 2020 Vision series this week and I want to land on an area that is certainly a part of our everyday lives:  the workplace and the marketplace and the mission fields we are called to therein.  I’ve…

As we move through this month (is there any month that feels longer than January?), we are looking at the year stretching out before us.  I mentioned it before in this series’ opening blog (Moving Into A New…

But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living.…

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 2 Corinthians 5:17 

I chose to start out 2020 with a blog series that is in many ways vision-minded and…

I was reading a devotional a few weeks back and thinking ahead to 2020.  By November and December, I like to get to a place where I have some thoughts developed about what the next 12 months will bring.  Often…

First things first:  Merry Christmas!  Since starting this blog in 2017, the dates have never lined up for the blog post to actually land on Christmas.  So this blog is extra special just for that reason.  It is Christmas…

(Originally posted 12-27-17) 

Ever have one of those songs that so perfectly sums up the Gospel that it leaves you a mess every time you hear it?  I’ve got one that I play every year at Christmastime:  Bebo Norman’s “Born…

(Originally posted 12-13-18) 

I have a dilemma every year around Christmas.  My dilemma is this:  my wife is a not much of a gift person.  I mean, she likes getting gifts and won’t turn up her nose at any…

A couple of months ago, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck made headlines when he announced he would be retiring from professional football.  The news came as a shock to the sports community as the 29 year-old Luck stepped down, seemingly…

At the beginning of the year and as a part of the month of Throwback Blogs in October, I published a blog entitled I Will Not Be Shaken.  It was really a response to much of what I’ve noticed…