A Country Music Devotional: God Is Great, Beer Is Good, People Are Crazy

Institute for Faith & Culture ^ | 1/30/24 | IAIN M. DUGUID

[Recovering_Democrat]

Billy Currington’s song [People Are Crazy] recounts a chance encounter in a bar between the narrator and an older man. The conversation that day ranged widely, covering politics, women, personal brokenness and the difficulty of transformative change, along with the reality of God’s grace in the midst of life’s messiness. When the two finally separated at 2 a.m., the older man’s conclusion was, “God is great, beer is good and people are crazy”. The narrator thought no more about the meeting until he read in the paper that a rich man had donated his entire fortune to a virtual stranger: the picture in the paper was the old man and the stranger who inherited the fortune was himself, much to the chagrin of the rich man’s family.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Rev. Dr. Iain Duguid (PhD, Cambridge) is professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary. He's the author of many books, including The Whole Armor of God. He also serves as pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Glenside, Pennsylvania.

[TexasGator]

“A Country Music Devotional”

Nope. Just a good old CW song.

[SamAdams76]

The kids were mad as hell!

[BipolarBob]

[AndyJackson]

God is great, beer is good

[Carriage Hill]

Oh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

[antidemoncrat]

They all have two nice liters don’t they?

[NurdlyPeon]

I’d rather go with the bar scene from “Team America World Police”. “There’s three kinds of people in this world Chuck: your D___s, your P_____s, and your A______s”.

[AndyJackson]

When you walk into a Bierstube in Babaria they great you with Grüß Gott [the offical translation of which is God bless you]. Very religious. I think a loser translation along these lines is “oh my god.”

[GBA]

Thanks for posting this! First time I’ve heard it.

I’ve been listing to and attempting “You’re Not My God” by Keith Urban, but this one is a bit lighter and more fun.