Good News in the Morning with Jeremiah Johnson

Jesus First: The Cross, Grace, and True Discipleship

Jeremiah Johnson greets listeners, explains how to tune in, and invites them to join his growing church. He emphasizes that ministry’s purpose is discipleship and centers all teaching on the finished work of Jesus on the cross.The episode covers servant leadership, mutual honor within the church, and how grace—not willpower—brings lasting freedom from addiction and destructive habits. Jeremiah shares his personal journey from rebellion to genuine love for God and encourages listeners to follow God’s way for true joy and transformation.

Rest, Surrender, and the Power of God's Love

Jeremiah Johnson greets listeners with encouragement and a reminder of God’s love, calling believers to trust, surrender, and live in the rest given through Jesus. He contrasts fear-driven control with mature, freeing love, explains free will and earthly stewardship, and highlights how trusting God transforms relationships and parenting.Practical and pastoral, the episode invites listeners to choose faith over control, walk in love, and partner with God to grow in freedom and spiritual maturity.

Stop Striving: Rest in the Righteousness Jesus Gave You

Pastor Jeremiah Johnson explains that when you receive Jesus you already have rightness with God by faith, not by effort or outward religion. He calls believers to rest in the finished work of the cross, embrace inner transformation, and allow that righteousness to produce genuine love and fruit in daily life.The episode contrasts legalism with grace, urges the church to live from the heart rather than perform for appearance, and invites listeners to walk in the freedom and newness of life that comes from trusting Jesus.

God Loves You — Live the Kingdom Life Today

Pastor Jeremiah Johnson shares good news: God loves you, your sins are forgiven through Jesus, and you can be born again.He encourages walking in the kingdom of God by studying Scripture, cultivating gratitude, prioritizing relationships over screens, and living counterculturally with love and service.Practical faith brings peace amid trials, stronger families, and a deeper, lasting joy that outlasts this world.

Love, Outreach, and the Success of the Cross

Good morning. God bless you. This is Jeremiah Johnson with Good News in the Morning, and just want to say hello to you. Hope you're having a fantastic morning. I know some of you guys listen at 8 a.m. as you drive into work, and now they've got us on a new time slot. We're at 10.30 a.m. I guess that's still considered the morning, and so you can listen to either one of those time slots on WJMM 99.1, or you can listen through our app, Jeremiah Johnson Ministry, on the Apple Store, on the Google Store. You can listen anytime for free. All three of those are options to you. And thank you for spending time with us. We are grateful. I've heard so much positive feedback in the community and just gotten a lot of just encouragement, and I'm thankful for that. And then many of you guys have shown up at our church, which is cool too, man. People are listening on List to the Radio or listening online and just decided to join our fellowship. And we're grateful for that too. We love a good family. If you don't have a church family and you would like to have a church family, we are in Georgetown, Kentucky, 3185 Newtown Pike, Georgetown, Kentucky. We have a Sunday morning service at 1030 a.m. And you are welcome to come out and join us. We have a lot of fun. We do church very differently, I would say, maybe than what folks are used to, but it is wonderful. And we love to be together and just enjoy the presence of the Lord and allow God to move any way that he sees fit. And then we share messages. In harmony with the type of messages that I share on the radio program, Christ-centered messages, good news messages based upon the success of the cross. But we also take a deeper dive into discipleship because you can only go so far in 14 minutes. And so we do take a deeper dive. And so, yeah, we would love to have you if you want to come out. We also do all types of outreach. We feed the homeless. We partner with The Gathering Place in Georgetown, Kentucky. I'm on their board of directors, and we are housing women and children, and we are feeding the homeless, and we're doing it right there in Scott County. And then we also, we have an RV that we use, and we can travel and feed people as well and love on people and pray for people. So maybe you're already a part of a church, but you want to be a part of an outreach where people get out into the streets and have a chance to share their faith and love on people, we would love to connect with you in that way as well. And so I'm on social media. My page is Jeremiah Johnson Ministries. And then my personal page is Jeremiah Johnson, but I spell it J-E-R-I-M-I-A-H Johnson. And many of you have contacted me on there as well. So yeah, reach out, man. Let's be a part of the community. And I just love working together with other churches and fellowships. And we also have a youth camp that we do in Northern Ohio. It's been just wildly successful taking these principles and loving on young people. And we also get into the public schools and do ministry. I love doing that. Get an opportunity to share Jesus in the public schools or our Comic-Con club where we take superheroes and just the comic book culture and we use it to share Jesus with the young people. It's awesome. And then we also, we do a beach conference every year. It's in Jekyll Island, right off the coast of Georgia. And we've been doing the beach conference for seven or eight years. That's an awesome time as well. And so we do all kinds of fun stuff, man. And if you check out our website, it's jjm.life.com. That's Jeremiah Johnson Ministries, jjm.life, and then you can connect with us like that, too. And we just love loving on people. And ministry is now fun to me. It wasn't always fun. I did not always enjoy it, but now I do. And it has everything to do with the motivations of the heart. And once you really learn that the cross was a success and that you're right with God by faith in Jesus and that you are loved by God, And then you begin to release that love and give that love back to God. And one of the primary ways that you love God is by loving people. And you start to really function in that in a practical sense in your marriage, in your home, with your children. You know, all real ministry starts at home. And then in your community, you know, just in the world that you live in, you know, you have to realize everything is ministry. I love going to the gym, and I'm always ministering in the gym and loving on people and praying for them and stuff like that, or the grocery store, or just ministry opportunities everywhere. And a lot of it just happens just through caring about people, right? People want to be cared about. You know, we live in a very cold and selfish world and, you know, culturally people are scared and they're selfish and they're mad and they're offended. God love them. And, you know, it's kind of rough, you know, but it's like you don't have to be that way. You don't have to live like that. You know, one of the greatest ways that we preach and teach is the way we treat people. I can a lot of times I can get more done through a simple action of love. Than I can through necessarily maybe sharing a scripture or something like that. And man, the scripture is awesome, man. The word of God is powerful, does not return void, but the fruit is what really testifies to the root and what also sows the seed. You know, a simple action of love and care, you know, in the grocery store or the Dollar General or just anywhere, man. I mean, just release the love of God, shine the light. And it's a joy and it's contagious. you know, as we start to love people and care for people. And then people notice that there's something different about us. We are supposed to be different. We're not to blend in. We are to be uncommon. We are different. We're special. It's the way we treat people. We should be treating people really well. That is what really testifies of the kingdom. So treating everybody well, not just your friends and the people you agree with, but even your enemies. And you say, oh man, how can I do that? Oh, you can. The Lord will help you and he'll show you that it is the better way. It will protect your own heart from offense and it will change people. It will change your enemies as you begin to learn how to love them. You don't love them because of them, you know, in the sense that they deserve it or they earn it. You love them because of God, because of the way that God loves you and the way God treats you. And it changes the world that we live in when we slowly become free. From needing, it's Lord helped me to convey this. It's awesome. It's just beautiful when we begin to do it and it'll, it'll heal your marriage. You know, you, you don't wait for someone else to do the right thing before you start doing the right thing. So many times people in their relationships, they're in this, such this severe place of debt emotionally in that, well, they did this to me and they did that to me and they owe me this and they owe me that. And I understand that. I understand those dynamics, definitely been there. And that hurt and that pain, what you have to realize is, you know, they don't really, no one owes you anything, right? In fact, you got to take all that hurt and that, and I know that's a hard thing to hear if you've been tremendously hurt, but take all that hurt and that pain and put it on the cross, put it on Jesus. He picked up the tab for that sin, right? And then let that forgiveness flow that you have received, that you did not earn and you did not deserve, and then forgive those around you and stop letting your actions be what causes people to be in debt to you. You want your marriage and your relationships not to function in debt. I'll do this for you if you do this for me. Well, you didn't do this for me, so I'm not going to do this for you. No, there's a higher way to live. And I know that if you're in that, you can hear what I'm saying and be like, That's crazy, man. What is he even talking about? No, it's the Jesus way, man. You treat people well because Jesus treats you well. You don't need them to treat you well in order for you to treat them well. And this doesn't mean that you're a doormat. You will change people this way. And you will enjoy a higher quality of life. It's amazing. You're living your life as unto the Lord. You're honoring the Lord in your marriage, in your relationship with your children. And you're living your life as unto the Lord. The greatest faith and trust in the Lord is to do things His way. And when you walk in love, you're allowing God to be your protector. And you're allowing God to be your vindicator. And your life in many ways can become simple and easy. You know, it's like, well, what are we going to do in this situation? Well, we're going to do the right thing. Well, what are we going to say? Well, we're going to tell the truth. What are we going to, well, we're going to bless them. Well, but they said this, no, we're going to speak well of them. And the list goes on and on. And then you rise above the weak and beggarly elements of this life and you're not caught up in fleshliness and carnality and slander and gossip and evil. And because God has been good to you and because he has made you good through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the fact that you're now right with God, he wants goodness to flow out of your life. And it doesn't flow out of your life because people deserve it. It flows out of your life because God did it for you. And if we're honest with ourselves, we didn't deserve the goodness of God. We didn't deserve rescue. We didn't earn it. You know, when I look at my own life, I look at my life and I'm just like completely amazed that God chose me to preach. And that God saved me. Like, you know, if I was to just look at the sum total of my flesh and my, you know, confusion and all my selfishness and mistakes, it's like, geez, man, I would have totally picked anybody really, but me. But yet he picked me and he was good to me. And now his goodness has overcome me in all my darkness. And now that goodness flows out of me and the light now shines where darkness once was king. And it's the most unusual thing. And he's always doing stuff like this. He loves to do this stuff. I think about the guy who wrote the song Amazing Grace. And I just think it's such a beautiful song. I love singing that song. We sing it many times at our outreaches and when we're out in public, because pretty much everybody knows that song. And it's just beautiful. But I mean, the guy that wrote that song was a slave trader, like he was scum of the earth, but the Lord saved him, set him free from all of that. And then he wrote that song, Amazing Grace, because it is an amazing grace, you know, and God wants you to experience his goodness. And he wants his goodness to flow out of you in the form of love and care and treating people well. And you once again, experience his goodness again, because the cool thing about love is like you develop in it, right? You get stronger in it. You get better in it. The more that you stop... Living in fear and selfishness, and you start living in love and caring for people and taking care of people and fulfilling the law of Christ, which is bearing one another's burdens. And you help people and you love people and you're there for people. And you stop thinking that you're better than somebody else or stop thinking that you're worse than somebody else. That's one of the things I love about our church is we don't do that. We all treat each other well. We honor each other. That doesn't mean we don't have mistakes and blah, blah, blah, because we're human. We do. But I've come out of fellowships where everybody treated the pastor well, but they didn't treat each other well. And the Bible says we're to honor each other. We're to serve each other in love. And when that happens, we become a family. We become a place of unity. We put on love. And it's just like a garment, and it knits us together, and we care for each other. We take care of each other, man. That's what we want. That's what God wants us to display. He said, they will know that you're my disciples by your love for each other. Our churches should be filled with love. Our homes should be filled with love. Our marriages should be filled with love. So Jeremiah, my home's not filled with love. My church's not filled with love. My marriage's not filled with love. What should I do? Well, let God love you. And then you make the decision to start letting love flow out of you. It always starts with you. It doesn't start with somebody else because you have no control over anybody else. You only have the ability to yield to God yourself. It's a wonderful life.

God Is On Your Side: Finding Hope in Life's Battles

Pastor Jeremiah Johnson reminds listeners that God loves and stands with them amid life’s battles, explaining that Jesus has already won the war and God’s mission is to rescue and teach us the kingdom way of living.Using personal testimony about hardship and recovery, he encourages obedience, trusting God through adversity, and allowing challenges to develop strength, freedom, and deeper faith.

God Loves You — Even When You Fail

Jeremiah Johnson encourages listeners that God’s love remains despite our failures, explaining that Jesus paid for our sins and that God corrects us out of love, not anger.He urges a life of repentance and growth—seeking God’s wisdom, walking in love, and allowing grace to transform behavior from the inside out.

You Are Valuable: Finding Worth in God's Love

Jeremiah Johnson reminds listeners that true value comes from God's unconditional love, not from comparing ourselves to others or seeking approval. He explains that receiving Christ and allowing God's love into our hearts restores our sense of worth and frees us from competition and people-pleasing.As your heart is transformed, that restored worth enables you to love others genuinely, live authentically before God, and bring healing and value to the people around you.

The Cross Was a Success — Claim Your New Identity in Christ

Jeremiah Johnson delivers a morning message reminding listeners that Jesus paid for sin, offering new identity in Christ and eternal hope. He highlights God’s promises of healing, provision, protection, and a redeemed future, and urges belief to receive these gifts.Johnson also calls believers to abide in Christ through Scripture, prayer, community, and obedience, explaining that true joy comes from relationship with God and making Him first in life.

Surrender and Strength: Finding God's Grace in Your Weakness

Pastor Jeremiah Johnson encourages listeners to surrender control to God, emphasizing that with God’s help we can overcome challenges that are too strong for us alone. He explains how humility invites grace, and how surrender produces peace, perseverance, and confident hope.The episode offers practical guidance for handling difficult people, choosing healthy ministry by its fruit, and relying on scripture and the Spirit for direction—reminding listeners that God’s strength is made perfect in our weakness.