John Mark McMillan | STORY: The Road The Rocks and The Weeds

OK, let's get weird.
What's your "thousand year dream"?
Don't have one? Well, close your eyes. Think about the beauty of your life like a link on a chain. What are the ripples, echoes, residuals of "you" that you hope could be felt in 1000 years?
Be brave. Post it in the comments.
This moment was recorded live November 23, 2019 at the @Stabal London Studio. You can listen to the live version of "The Road The Rocks and The Weeds" now on all formats : hyperurl.co/k8l8zb
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[@heyjoethomas]

Watching Sarah’s face while John talks about Star Wars is amazing content

[@theresapendant7227]

I was captivated by that as well

[@eyefisher]

This is how the great Cathedrals were made. Generations of people working on them until completion. Those who started on them never saw them completed, but it was all for the glory of God for future generations to worship in.

[@bradenlawles7055]

So THAT's the story behind The Road, The Rocks, And The Weeds! WOW! It was worth the wait.

[@lukestock6115]

So True

[@amayal2520]

The way I parent is due to my thousand year dream! I am literally breaking generational chains that will have an effect for years to come ❤️ Thank you for this.

[@Ryanjoned163]

God is looking down at you and he is calling you his beloved amen

[@lukestock6115]

Yes he is

[@BernicePuleng]

Thousand year dream: Publish the poetry book that I've been toying with for the past four years and let it rip hearts and ripple through generations, leaving a wake of people coming to faith. I'm four pages in on the current draft. Hopefully this is the one. Please keep it in your prayers. Thanks for encouraging us to dream big and be obedient to God and His calling on our lives.

[@brettcook22able]

would love a copy when you finish it! ha

[@BernicePuleng]

@@brettcook22able thank you for reminding me to write. God used this comment at the exact right time, prompting me to write. I still need to write an abundance of poems but I’m inviting Holy Spirit in and learning a lot. We’re getting there. Thanks for the support. 🤘🏾

[@kymberlycourage]

Just here to tell you to keep pushing through. I’m here for a poetry book that will “rip hearts and ripple through generations”. Please never let go of your pen. I am sure you have excellence to bestow onto this earth. So keep pushing through it all!

[@bradenlawles7055]

This sounds really cool! Thanks for sharing!

[@bradenlawles7055]

Also, love the Star Wars influences!!! Eagerly looking forward to the full album!!! As for my thousand-year dream, I'm only in my late teens, but I'm hoping to become a historian. A lot of people my age seem to think of history as boring names and dates, with no application to their lives or modern events. My thousand-year dream is that my research will help people to understand history, enjoy learning about history, and see how God has shaped world events for his purposes.

[@lukestock6115]

I am a young person and I absolutely love History. When I was in school History was my best subject. Sad, so many on the Left want to destroyed our amazing Nation's History today. Kind of reminds me of the book 1984. So many of our founding fathers were Christians and believed in the Bible. None of that is taught in school today. One you of my favorite quotes is "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." God Bless you Braden.

[@Meower123Rainbows]

Love this. Glad to see my generation represented in the dreamers.

[@Meower123Rainbows]

I love this community

[@lukestock6115]

Wow what a great story John. I enjoyed the Star Wars Movies. I like the return of the Jedi as well. I like the part in the song about come down from your high-rise apartment and And Aphrodite would not weep Nor Zeus would suffer for the weak. I which he would tell us how he put Zeus and Aphrodite into the song. John my passion was when I was kid was reading the Bible and it still is today. i really like the song keep up the good work Mr. McMillan, God Bless Luke.

[@bradenlawles7055]

Yeah, I'm also wondering where he got the Greek mythology idea.

[@lukestock6115]

@@bradenlawles7055 Me as well I wonder how he decided to the idea into that song. I know a lot about Greek mythology and he is 100% right about Aphrodite would not weep for those that are weak. He is also right that Zeus would not suffer for the weak. I found that to be really cool he put into the song. Normally I do not like that type of stuff in Christian Music, but I found it to be really cool. Also, I have a friend who is not a Christian yet and I told him about the song and he was impressed by he put that into the song. Thanks for the comment, God Bless my friend Luke.

[@Meower123Rainbows]

@@lukestock6115 He also has a song called "Persephone". I think he often works Greek gods into his songs. Possibly it is a way to look at God through the eyes of the world, in light of other beliefs. I know that he tries to keep an open mind and allow himself to struggle and doubt. Maybe there was a period of his life he was very interested in Greek gods, and now his knowledge of them helps him see the one true God in a new light, and he wants to share it with others.

[@josephjimorris]

@@bradenlawles7055 His album before this one, “Mercury & Lightning,” was about his struggle with doubt and faith. The Greek pantheon was used metaphorically to describe that theme. “Peopled With Dreams” was him coming back to surety and joy in God again. So that’s why “Goodbye, Olympus” and the lines about Zeus and Aphrodite.

[@bradenlawles7055]

@@josephjimorris oh that makes sense. Thank you!

[@clesioalmeida8640]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@jacebohannon9308]

I am obsessed with trees. When I was thirteen, I travelled to Maryland and got to see a stand of tulip poplars that was hundreds of years old. You could say it was the redwoods of the east. My dream is to plant something like that. lots of fruit and nut trees, and grapes. to spend the rest of my life tending to a forest that I will never see fruit. But one day, maybe in a thousand years, somebody will be wondering around and stumble apon Eden.

[@jacebohannon9308]

Ps your music changed my life.

[@lukestock6115]

John music has change a lot of lives. I love the song How He Loves and so many more.

[@flowers9458]

He speaks of Zeus and Aphrodite in comparison to Jesus. Jesus is the only God that suffered for the weak, who wants a relationship, not because he needs it, but because he wants it. He brings Himself down to meet us. The parable of the sower is found in the book of Matthew chapter 13. The words of Jesus are scattered like seeds to produce a harvest. Some of the seeds fall beside the road and they are snatched up by birds (the world quickly swallows up those words before they get a chance to develop), some seeds fall in shallow or rocky soil to which they spring up but since they aren’t in a fertile and deep soil the burn up and die (someone who hears the words and accepts them but soon they abandon those words and choose what the world has to offer over God), some seeds fall among thorns (the Word of God is choked out because the believer is consumed by the problems of the world), and other seed falls in to good soil that takes root and is consistently nourished. I believe what John is saying in this song is that sometimes when we share the good news of the Gospel it doesn’t yield anything. A lot of times people, myself included, only want to share the gospel with people that seem like they would be receptive to it. We are called to be sowers and spread those seeds everywhere and sometimes those seeds go on the road, the rocks, and the weeds. Jesus gave His life to ALL not just for the good soil but for the road the rocks and the weeds. That sacrifice is producing thousands of years later after His crucifixion

[@neivamario]

Man, this is cool. Not all weird things are cool though...but this one is.

[@Chaos3000and3]

I'm really not sure what my "thousand year dream" is. I've struggled with depression in the past, and the virtue of hope is not something I have an abundance of. It's hard for me to see any sort of ripple effect my presence here and now could have in 1,000 years.

[@Ryanjoned163]

Remember today Jesus Christ loves you today unconditionally nobody else loves you has much as Jesus does the cross is the proof amen

[@lukestock6115]

Yes he does

[@Arkiejuice]

@johnmarkmcmillan Return of the Jedi was the first movie I ever saw in a theater. 😂 I thought you were way younger than me!