Category: misc

Did John Mayer write the Message or was it the other way around?

Prodigal John has a fun post over on his blog, Stuff Christians Like about Christians smuggling John Mayer into our camp. I think the original title of the post compared Mayer to Christian artist Chris Tomlin.

I think in some ways, John Mayer has snuck inside the Christian circle like a ninja. Or maybe we smuggled him in, I’m not sure. The point is, he’s here, and Christians have embraced him in a surprising way.

I’m personally a fan of John Mayer’s music. Haven’t seen him live (other than on TV) but I hear his concerts are great as well.

Along with his post, Prodigal John offers up this quiz for all. The list below is 15 quotes either from The Message Bible or John Mayer. See if you can tell which is which.

1. Then they get in all their shopping sprees. At day’s end I’m ready for sound sleep,

2. Belief is a beautiful armor, but makes for the heaviest sword

3. Now we see everything that’s going wrong, with the world and those who lead it

4. I dare to believe that the luckless will get lucky someday.

5. She takes you in with your crying eyes, then all at once you have to say goodbye

6. You should have seen that sunrise with your own eyes, it brought me back to life

7. I’m tired of all this—so tired. My bed has been floating … on the flood of my tears.

8. Take all your wasted honor, every little past frustration, take all of your so called problems, better put them in quotations.

9. She says the bible is all that she reads and prefers that I not use profanity

10. And I will walk outside on my own into the light, the kind of clarity that only comes to me on Sunday’s shine, Sunday’s shine

11. I’ve thrown myself headlong into your arms— I’m celebrating your rescue.

12. He comes up empty. A string of zeros.

13. Someday I’ll fly, someday I’ll soar

14. Nightly he strolls in our garden, delighting in the flowers, until dawn breathes its light and night slips away

15. You tell me where to go and though I might leave to find it, I’ll never let your head hit the bed without my hand behind it

See the answers.

Related ::
Stuff Christians Like :: “Mayer” Christianity
Stuff Christians Like :: Answers to the John Mayer Quiz
John Mayer
YouTube :: Waiting on the World to Change
Chris Tomlin
Wikipedia :: The Message Bible
SSL :: Christian is a poor adjective

  

Twittering in the Old Testament

Thanks to @chadcrawford and @just_pete.

Appears both the prophet Isaiah and the Psalmist both Twittered way back in the day:

Psalm 102 (MSG)

I’m wasting away to nothing,
I’m burning up with fever.
I’m a ghost of my former self,
half-consumed already by terminal illness.
My jaws ache from gritting my teeth;
I’m nothing but skin and bones.
I’m like a buzzard in the desert,
a crow perched on the rubble.
Insomniac, I twitter away,
mournful as a sparrow in the gutter.

Isaiah 38 (NASB)

Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter;
I moan like a dove;
My eyes look wistfully to the heights;
O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.

Related ::
twitter
biblegateway.com

Say you want a revolution?

Might be a bit of a stretch for me as far as the simple life goes. But as Michael said – love seeing hungry people get fed… especially off the back of “corporate america.” 😉

Related ::
HT :: Michael>
Simply Living Simply pt 1
Simply Living Simply pt 2
re: Simply Living Simply