I keep going back to that first three and a half minutes...... not to watch it, but to hear it. Especially when I'm struggling letting go of my sin, my guilt, and my selfishness. God is so good.
Best introduction to a Christian song I have ever heard! A COMPLETLY EVANLOGICAL SHARING OF HOW OUR RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IS DESIGNED. Excuse me while I wipe the tears from my eyes.
Rich always knew how to keep it real. He didn't have all the answers (and he'd be the first to admit that) but his faith was firmly rooted in Christ Jesus. And he followed Him all of his days.☝️
That's because he understood who Jesus is. It took me 10 years to finally understand who Jesus really is and how to live out my life. Rich Mullins was and still is a huge influencer on my life.
I was stuck spiritually in my mind for years and years. I hated myself for not having achieved more but i was still proud. I was proud angry and hateful. I thought that because i had been through abuse and homelessness and never gave up that i was better than everyone. It wasn't until i confessed my sin in front of another Christian that my life changed. Instantly my pride, something that was destroying my life since birth completely disappeared. God delivered me from my sin and i feel like a completely new man. We're all lost and broken. I never belived that. "No one could be depressed like me or anxious like me. No one could be so hateful towards themselves and others." And that's not true. Everything any human has felt emotionally is the same as everyone else. I came to Tennessee with nothing, living in transitional housing. I now have a car and a place, and friends i call brothers. I didnt achieve or deserve any of this its only by the grace of God. I couldn't change myself only God could.Thats my experience. All my mental Illness, my depression, my anxiety, my self hate instantly disappeared and i dont deserve anything i have nor to go to heaven. Everything i have is through the grace of God. Unimaginable grace generosity and infinite love ✝️♥️Listen carefully i beg you. You have to start looking for God. Those who seek will find and I'm living proof. I sought out God while living in the Chicago area and now I'm in Tennessee with a brand new life. It was hard. It was a very hard year of searching before I found God. If you seek you will find i promise you that. God not only can give you what you need God WILL give you what you need
Jared, what a glorious testimony ! I also live in Tennessee. My 29-year-old son was so much like Rich Mullins he died from alcoholism. Now my 31-year-old son is struggling with drugs and alcohol. I would ask you to pray for him his name is Jake. I have been praying for him for over 15 years and I still believe God can work a miracle in his life just like he did in yours. Right now he is in the hospital and I have to sit boundaries. He’s not allowed to live in my home again. I don’t know how to do this he may end up being homeless. Thank you for sharing your testimony.
"God ain't got no taste". That comment hits home to me. I'm somebody the world would look down upon. I've got nothing in this world that people would admire. But praise God for not having any taste and loving me, and rescuing me from this corrupted and dying world. Praise the Lord, amen.
Yes, God loves you dearly! And I pray He will bring people in your life too that will recognize the value and worth He gave you and that will see your preciousness!
Gabriel, thank you for this rendition. I love the heart of Rich Mullins and it is touching to see how humble of a man he was. This song always brings me into communion with God.
My minister in Rome Ga. knew Rich and he told me that Rich told his manager just to pay him what the average blue collar worker made and donate the rest, that's being humble...
What a humble man. This song brings back the days when I was on fire, you all know that on fire awesome feeling. One day we will all have that feeling again if we keep close to Jesus.
Amazing and insightful introduction to the song! It’s heartbreaking that Rich Mullin’s record label didn’t like him “talking so much” at his concerts! Thank God Rich Mullins didn’t listen to them❤️
If Christian radio wants to spread the gospel through music, they need to wake up, and start looking deeper than they do and play songs that spread the gospel. I hate to be that old guy, but the songs back then were really God centered lyrics and we just don't have enough of that these day's. There are some but you have to search for them.
I contact K-Love to see if they would play any Rich Mullins music. They told me that they only play music by living musicians/groups. I don't hear Rich's music anywhere but on-line and the CD's that I have bought. Now that's a crying shame.
To Lil ev: I found a program that puts radical repentance first! There is less emphasis on simply increasing beliefs. No science or psychology needed. Simple faith and repentance. I see now see the Brennan Manning rag a muffin gospel is not for me.
It's because the world has gotten more complicated then it needs to be. God is only Love not hate. GOD BLESS ANY OF HIS CHILDREN WHO ARE STILL LISTENING TO THIS.
I can't sing this without crying either. I'm still trying to follow after all these many years. But He knows, apparently I'm just clumsy and probably a little drunk. But down deep I keep a focus that brings me back on path., Right now I feel like a kayak in high seas at night trying towards the harbour lights. So I listen to Rich.
7 years ago just yesterday and I see that the destruction of the lord is at hand, history is written by the victors.. and has nothing at all to do with truth.,. But I refuse to be decieved.... I am, just like he is, and therefore I am not
I love how down to earth he is and he's not afraid to tell things like they are. It just shocks me that someone this smart would have not been wearing their seatbelt in their early 40's and died as a result.
Since I don't know the names of the others in the Ragamuffin band, could someone please tell me where they are today as of Nov 2019? My husband reintroduced me to the songs of Rich Mullins, and I'm so grateful. Certainly a man missed today, instead of "A Man Gone before his time..." as everything is in God's time. Still miss you, Rich. Thank you for the songs you left us.
PSA 78:64-70 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. *Then the Lord God Jehovah awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty [wild] man that shouteth by reason of wine.* And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: but chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever. He chose David also his servant...
IRONY KEITH GREEN 28+ RICH MULLINS 41 BOTH BORN 21 OCTOBER 1955 & 1953, BOTH TAKEN TOO YOUNG ..... BOTH SANG + PIANO 🎹 PLAYERS, YET KIM CLEMENT 30 SEPTEMBER 1956 AGE 60 TOO YOUNG ALSO.!.
