A friend introduced me to Rich Mullins in 1991. We were both in our 20s and far from home, two Midwestern girls who met as missionary English teachers in Japan. I collected all of Rich’s CDs and played them constantly. His music taught me to embrace feeling like an outsider, and the loneliness and isolation that was part of being a foreigner far from home, to revel even in the feeling of not belonging, of otherness. As Christians, we are all foreigners in a country which is not our home. We are simply passing through on our way to our final and better destination where we are truly meant to be. To be lonely, misunderstood and often heartbroken over the brokenness of this world is to be in imitation of Christ. Even when we are surrounded by loved ones, it is each person’s destiny to walk this road alone with Christ as our only constant companion. Rich didn’t shy away from the contradictions of the Christian life-faith and doubt, community and times of profound aloneness. Everything from God is a gift, even the suffering, because it is during the darkest times that we see Him the most clearly. When Rich was killed, I was back Stateside, wondering what my next steps would be. Rich was taken from us just 3 weeks after Princess Diana was also killed in a car crash. The coverage of her death was so overwhelming, I didn’t even find out that Rich had left us until sometime later. That was a very bad dark year, for me personally and also for the whole world, to have lost 2 such vital lives so young. The loss of Rich and his fellow troubadour prophet Keith Green to violent premature deaths brings home that the ways of God are mysterious…and incomprehensible. We have to accept that one day we will understand why. About 3 years after Rich’s death, I saw Mitch McVicker in concert. Mitch was in the car with Rich that day and when I saw him, he was still recovering from his injuries. I’m not sure the trauma of losing Rich Is some thing that any of us are meant to get over, but I hold onto the hope that I will meet our brother one day in the presence of Jesus and the joy will be complete.
Knowing him from a roots moment, this comment was probably one that provided a perspective that few understood, but more so, your struggles or thoughts of. He was one of sharing the journey, without righteousness. His was a true understanding if scripture without righteousness, rather humility. I came back to this sound today for peace of "real" sharing of a peace in Jesus, a moment shared 50 years ago with Rich and his message. The truest of prophets in that day and beyond, without profit, judgement, flags blazing....just scripture without tooling for benefits. Wish you peace.
My grandfather, who was a medical missionary to Thailand from the 1950s until the mid-1970s, was a frequent guest speaker at Christian colleges and camps after his return to the US. On one occasion in the late 1970s, he spoke to students at Cincinnati Bible College and Seminary (later renamed Cincinnati Christian University), and Rich Mullins, then a student there, had a conversation with him afterward, beginning a friendship that would last the rest of Rich's life. While I never had the opportunity to meet Rich personally, my grandfather and other family members who did meet him all spoke highly of him and I have always been a fan of his music. We were all deeply saddened at the news of his death. My grandfather passed away a few years ago, and I am confident that their friendship has been renewed and grown in Heaven.
Not the most famous of Rich Mullins songs but definitely in my top 3. Rich not only painted a picture with his lyrics but also provoked emotions with his playing. Truly an artist. Was lucky to see him in my teens. Wish I would have soaked it up more.
Rich you to have a page in the CCM magazine a wealth of godly content and wise information, Rich left us to soon., As did Keith Green, Dana Key from DeGarmo & Key, and recently Mylon LeFevre formerly of 💔 Broken Heart
Don't forget about earrth. The Bible commands for Christians to prepare heaven on Earth. I'm no longer a believer but I always found this disturbing. I mean the notion that earth Is a lost cause and heaven is forever
@@jackeggleson4102 no proof. Started actually listening to science and skeptics. I don’t mean one day I blindly started following the opposition but what I mean is I actually considered what both sides had to say about Jesus That and if ur trying to be like Jesus u will never be yourself
@@newblakestone I quite agree that if you try to be like Jesus you won't be yourself; that's why I love the idea that Rich Mullins generally got across in some of his sermons before and after songs, which was, to paraphrase, that we don't have to change who we are for God to love us; we just need to believe that he loves us for who we are, because if the only way for him to love us was for us to try to be like Jesus, we'd never succeed, so the true way to be saved has nothing to do with trying to be perfect, but rather by loving God and having faith that he loves us.
Thank you God for Rich's gift and thankful Rich shared it with us. I am listening here in America in January 2021 with a huge lump in my throat. Tears of praise for Jesus and tears of sadness for America. Come Lord Jesus, please come back.
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Bonus round: singing "here in America" - filming in Ireland. Not gonna try to explain. Just loving it, as is! Thanks for the music, Rich. See ya when I get home.
I picked up on that, too. It was likely an inside joke or something. See that look on his face in the shot with the Statue of Liberty? It's like he was appreciating the irony of the rest bring filmed in Ireland.
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Honestly, I grew up hearing his songs in the car all the time, and they have become anthems of my life. I deeply wish I could have gone to one of his performances just to shake his hand and say how much his songs have helped me to go through life. Hope I get to see him when the day finally comes.
The first time I had ever heard the voice of Rich Mullins, was on the radio; the DJ kept stating, "the late" Rich Mullins"! I love his songs so much, I went out & bought his tapes! To introduce him to my husband, I bought his CD's after we got married! We live them!
I thank my Lord Jesus, because having just found the music by third day, I found Richards music. praise God for song writers, who can put into words what I (and many others) only whished I could .so thank you song writers.
Saints and children we have gathered here to hear the sacred story And I'm glad to bring it to you with my best rhyming and rhythm 'Cause I know the thirsty listen and down to the waters come And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America And if you listen to my songs I hope you hear the water falling I hope you feel the oceans crashing on the coast of north New England I wish I could be there just to see them, two summers past I was And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America And if I were a painter I do not know which I'd paint The calling of the ancient stars or assembling of the saints And there's so much beauty around us for just two eyes to see But everywhere I go I'm looking And once I went to Appalachia for my father he was born there And I saw the mountains waking with the innocence of children And my soul is still there with them wrapped in the songs they brought And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America And I've seen by the highways on a million exit ramps Those two-legged memorials to the laws of happenstance Waiting for four-wheeled messiahs to take them home again But I am home anywhere if You are where I am And if you listen to my songs I hope you hear the water falling I hope you feel the oceans crashing on the coast of north New England I wish I could be there just to see them, two summers past I was And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America
This is definitely one of what I call my happy songs! It just makes you feel happy to sing it and know what you’re singing about is real! Just the best! Love Rich so much! Truly he was called by God!❤️🙏
One of my favorite songs by Rich. I enjoy that most of the video, somewhat ironically, was shot in Ireland, another beautiful spot with some thin places.
A girl friend of mine turned me unto Rich. She even treated me to a concert of his. I was glued ever since. I just Love folk music, especially the Dulcimer, with which he played, and so well. That was shortly after 'Never Picture Perfect' came out. I followed Rich to the end of his days. It was so heart-breaking that he died right after Princess Diana died. What a bad month! --But Rich's music ~changed my life, and for the good. Pointed me in the right direction, which I so desperately needed at that time. I thank God for creating Rich Mullins. Where would we all be, if he had never been born?
Oh, he struggled and struggled for many years, even as a believer. It wasn’t until Beaker introduced him to the teachings of Brennan Manning and the Ragamuffin Gospel that he started to break free of a lot of the things that vexed him.
I never knew you or heard of you before Rich until this video. I see from the comments that you've passed. May God Bless and Hold You....She/He doesn't let too many Irish musicians get away...I know that much. But what I set out to write was a simple thank you as an American of Irish descent who loves Jesus in America....see you when we get home Rich. Peace.
Rich was killed in an automobile accident. He was a passenger in a friend's Jeep on the way to a gig I believe. Rich's unexpected passing was a shock to all who knew or admired him
Rich's music still impacts lives.... Love his music more than ever! Lyrics always amazing and descriptive of nature,life ,God....Amazing gifted talented brother!
Rich Mullins, YOU ARE MISSED on planet 🌏 earth! Hopefully you get a glance and glimmer of these comments.Im sure you've met my husband Keith already. I somehow fancy the thought of you heading up the praise & worship in Heaven.See you on the other side.
Never understood the "once I went to Appalachia, from a Father he was born there" until seeing the Ragamuffin movie. He's talking about Brennan Manning, and then the kids at the Navajo reservation. Greatly increased my appreciation of the song.
Michael Jay they're two different things, in a couple separate lines. "Father God" was Brennan Manning's thing. Rich taught music theory to Navajo kids. Two different things together in a verse. Ohio isn't Appalachia.
Umbrian2003 The lyrics are "I went over to Appalachia, for my father he was born there." He is referring to the town called Appalachia in Virginia. His father was born there. Hence why he mentions the mountains in that verse. He was 21 when he wrote that song. WAY before he had ever heard of Brennan Manning and went to the reservation.
Read "An Arrow Pointing to Heaven." It's pretty clear he's talking about his dad, an Indiana farmer who was born in KY (not virginia) Family heritage and roots were very important to Rich Mullins.
Rich Mullins...an ever pulsating fresh phenomenon of God's manifold grace and wonder! Excellence mixed with brokenness- through the lens of The Gospel! What a life!!
John 3.16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
"Those two-legged memorials to the laws of happenstance Waiting for four-wheeled messiahs to take them home again" Considering how he died, that line almost seems prophetic.
I thought it was his song Elijah that was creepy. "When I die, I'm going to go out like Elijah,.......with my chariot on fire........." That's exactly what happened!
If there is something I hate, it's when people romanticize his death, and compare it to Elijah's. Elijah was spared from death and was taken up. Rich was thrown out of out of control Jeep that flipped over. Rich landed in the road unable to move out of the way, and was run over by a tractor trailer. The only was he was able to be identified was by dental records. Now tell me again he went out like Elijah.
You ought to check out Andrew Peterson (specifically his songs The Reckoning, Many Roads, etc.)...lots of people consider him to be the heir to Rich Mullins, in a way. Andrew has a hammered dulcimer piece on every one of his albums as a tribute, so there's some truth to it. He wrote a song called Three Days Before Autumn about Rich's death that's really beautiful..
I wouldnt consider myself one either, but after not listening to christian music for 5 years and being almost a militant atheist due to circumstances that convinced me there couldnt be a purpose or god. I was feeling down and depressed again and for 5 years I've laughed at the thought of god, but I kept waking up with christian songs popping in my head for several days, and I thought I would just humor myself and I listened and couldnt stop breaking down and having waves of emotion coming over me, it felt healing to me.
Yeah, me too. I bet he's up there spiritual warfaring and busting down demons all over the place. I am from Wichita KS where he is from. He used to have coffee with my little sister in the late eighties. My sister would record and mail cassettes of his music to me. I was and still do, live in Texas. In the late nineties, he came and played at Carpenters Way church. Man, I was too shy to go back stage and let him know about him and my sisters friendship. Sure wish I would have. That was the year God called him home. Liturgy Legacy and a Ragamuffin Band is my favorite!
Алекс, потерять брата Рича было очень грустно. Однако я восхваляю «Святого Царя Израиля» за то, что он позволил мне слышать Святого Духа в музыке Брата Рича, как тогда, так и сейчас.
I think Rich Mullins would probably still be alive today if he and Mitch McVicker were wearing their seatbelts when that semi truck hit them on September 19, 1997. I still can’t wait to meet him in Heaven.
Yeah, I'd like to go to Ireland too. I know your not supposed to boast about tomorrow and iv e recently leared a lesson in that but I think it is at least feasible for me. I guess I don't need to put my plans ahead of God's or God himself who died for me. Rich is such a great reminder of Christ's love. I have nearly all of his songs from his albums on a playlist on my channel if your interested. In Love Jeff
Paul passed away in 1966. Another truly gifted person. Billy Shears took his place. There was a video of George Harrison's wife acknowledging Faul as Billy way back in the day on YT. Hi level peeps did not want a mass hysteria. After 1966 Beatles changed in appearance and did not perform again until some time in 1967. It was not the same and not the best. The Abbey Road album cover was sort of a burial. Interesting, i did some research.. God bless you and your family.
Honestly one of the most influential Christians of my lifetime we miss you Rich. We know you're dancing and singing your lungs out in heaven.
It's not only his ministry, but his life that many popular evangelists need to learn from. For Rich Mullins, it was all about Jesus.
I'm back
@@Sjetton85I'm waiting on the Lord
@@catherinepage6064 that's awesome
God Please Allow Others This same kind of love for you ..The Raga muffin Love for Jesus .Amen
A friend introduced me to Rich Mullins in 1991. We were both in our 20s and far from home, two Midwestern girls who met as missionary English teachers in Japan. I collected all of Rich’s CDs and played them constantly. His music taught me to embrace feeling like an outsider, and the loneliness and isolation that was part of being a foreigner far from home, to revel even in the feeling of not belonging, of otherness. As Christians, we are all foreigners in a country which is not our home. We are simply passing through on our way to our final and better destination where we are truly meant to be. To be lonely, misunderstood and often heartbroken over the brokenness of this world is to be in imitation of Christ. Even when we are surrounded by loved ones, it is each person’s destiny to walk this road alone with Christ as our only constant companion. Rich didn’t shy away from the contradictions of the Christian life-faith and doubt, community and times of profound aloneness. Everything from God is a gift, even the suffering, because it is during the darkest times that we see Him the most clearly. When Rich was killed, I was back Stateside, wondering what my next steps would be. Rich was taken from us just 3 weeks after Princess Diana was also killed in a car crash. The coverage of her death was so overwhelming, I didn’t even find out that Rich had left us until sometime later. That was a very bad dark year, for me personally and also for the whole world, to have lost 2 such vital lives so young. The loss of Rich and his fellow troubadour prophet Keith Green to violent premature deaths brings home that the ways of God are mysterious…and incomprehensible. We have to accept that one day we will understand why. About 3 years after Rich’s death, I saw Mitch McVicker in concert. Mitch was in the car with Rich that day and when I saw him, he was still recovering from his injuries. I’m not sure the trauma of losing Rich Is some thing that any of us are meant to get over, but I hold onto the hope that I will meet our brother one day in the presence of Jesus and the joy will be complete.
Knowing him from a roots moment, this comment was probably one that provided a perspective that few understood, but more so, your struggles or thoughts of. He was one of sharing the journey, without righteousness. His was a true understanding if scripture without righteousness, rather humility. I came back to this sound today for peace of "real" sharing of a peace in Jesus, a moment shared 50 years ago with Rich and his message. The truest of prophets in that day and beyond, without profit, judgement, flags blazing....just scripture without tooling for benefits. Wish you peace.
My grandfather, who was a medical missionary to Thailand from the 1950s until the mid-1970s, was a frequent guest speaker at Christian colleges and camps after his return to the US. On one occasion in the late 1970s, he spoke to students at Cincinnati Bible College and Seminary (later renamed Cincinnati Christian University), and Rich Mullins, then a student there, had a conversation with him afterward, beginning a friendship that would last the rest of Rich's life. While I never had the opportunity to meet Rich personally, my grandfather and other family members who did meet him all spoke highly of him and I have always been a fan of his music. We were all deeply saddened at the news of his death. My grandfather passed away a few years ago, and I am confident that their friendship has been renewed and grown in Heaven.
Amen Sister
Not the most famous of Rich Mullins songs but definitely in my top 3. Rich not only painted a picture with his lyrics but also provoked emotions with his playing. Truly an artist. Was lucky to see him in my teens. Wish I would have soaked it up more.
Rich you to have a page in the CCM magazine a wealth of godly content and wise information, Rich left us to soon., As did Keith Green, Dana Key from DeGarmo & Key, and recently Mylon LeFevre formerly of 💔 Broken Heart
Hearing Rich sing makes me ache for heaven.
Don't forget about earrth. The Bible commands for Christians to prepare heaven on Earth. I'm no longer a believer but I always found this disturbing. I mean the notion that earth Is a lost cause and heaven is forever
@@newblakestone why'd you stop being a believer, might I ask? Not judging or hostile, just curious since you clearly have knowledge of the Bible
@@jackeggleson4102 no proof. Started actually listening to science and skeptics. I don’t mean one day I blindly started following the opposition but what I mean is I actually considered what both sides had to say about Jesus
That and if ur trying to be like Jesus u will never be yourself
@@newblakestone I quite agree that if you try to be like Jesus you won't be yourself; that's why I love the idea that Rich Mullins generally got across in some of his sermons before and after songs, which was, to paraphrase, that we don't have to change who we are for God to love us; we just need to believe that he loves us for who we are, because if the only way for him to love us was for us to try to be like Jesus, we'd never succeed, so the true way to be saved has nothing to do with trying to be perfect, but rather by loving God and having faith that he loves us.
Me, too. I saw the movie Unsung Hero and it’s caused by to reflect upon all these artists and songs of my youth
God takes the good ones too soon. I have no doubt Keith Green, Mark Heard and Rich Mullins are singing with the angels.
Alexander Strohschein let's sing with Rich !
New favorite lyric:
I’m home anywhere… if you are where I am.
For sure. Beautiful and true 2:21
Thank you God for Rich's gift and thankful Rich shared it with us. I am listening here in America in January 2021 with a huge lump in my throat. Tears of praise for Jesus and tears of sadness for America. Come Lord Jesus, please come back.
Come quickly lord Jesus
Yes, I miss him too.
His music is a breath of fresh air. A contemporary Christian music genius.
Thank you Jesus for giving us Rich Mullins to encourage us!
One of the best Christian storytellers ever.
And one not even put “Christian” in there.
The Best of Christian Music. Rich Mullins is the Greatest!
Oh, if only more Americans loved the Holy King of Israel! Miss ya Rich.
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I'm an athiest, and I still love this song.
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All the songs Rich Mullins did were fantastic, of course, but this particular one was one of them that always had a special place in my heart. ❤️
I can't wait to meet rich in heaven
Piano sequence at 2:28 gives me chills each time I hear it.
Rich was an amazing pianist
Oh man, I miss the 90's, back when both Christian and secular music were much better!
It’s just harder to find the good stuff amongst the bad than it was.
I'm so glad I didn't miss out knowing his music. 30yrs later and here I am♥️
Bonus round: singing "here in America" - filming in Ireland. Not gonna try to explain. Just loving it, as is! Thanks for the music, Rich. See ya when I get home.
I picked up on that, too. It was likely an inside joke or something. See that look on his face in the shot with the Statue of Liberty? It's like he was appreciating the irony of the rest bring filmed in Ireland.
I just miss the guy.
We all do.
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Honestly, I grew up hearing his songs in the car all the time, and they have become anthems of my life. I deeply wish I could have gone to one of his performances just to shake his hand and say how much his songs have helped me to go through life. Hope I get to see him when the day finally comes.
i love you because i know you know!
me too!
I miss him too.
One of my favorite songs 👍👍🎹🎹🎵🎵🎼🎼
Praise the Lord! Jesus hasn't forgotten His America.
I'm so glad that my Dad made me grow up to this. Good Choice!! Very powerful
@Kelley @Kristy @Katy 💖💖💖🙏🙏🙏😁😊😍
The first time I had ever heard the voice of Rich Mullins, was on the radio; the DJ kept stating, "the late" Rich Mullins"! I love his songs so much, I went out & bought his tapes! To introduce him to my husband, I bought his CD's after we got married! We live them!
I thank my Lord Jesus, because having just found the music by third day, I found Richards music. praise God for song writers, who can put into words what I (and many others) only whished I could .so thank you song writers.
Love this song.........thanks for worshiping God with music.
So much beauty around us, and just 2 eyes to see -- and everywhere I go, I'm looking . . .
Theres no song that can give me the sense of home as much as this one. Just a beauty.
Saints and children we have gathered here to hear the sacred story
And I'm glad to bring it to you with my best rhyming and rhythm
'Cause I know the thirsty listen and down to the waters come
And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America
And if you listen to my songs I hope you hear the water falling
I hope you feel the oceans crashing on the coast of north New England
I wish I could be there just to see them, two summers past I was
And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America
And if I were a painter I do not know which I'd paint
The calling of the ancient stars or assembling of the saints
And there's so much beauty around us for just two eyes to see
But everywhere I go I'm looking
And once I went to Appalachia for my father he was born there
And I saw the mountains waking with the innocence of children
And my soul is still there with them wrapped in the songs they brought
And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America
And I've seen by the highways on a million exit ramps
Those two-legged memorials to the laws of happenstance
Waiting for four-wheeled messiahs to take them home again
But I am home anywhere if You are where I am
And if you listen to my songs I hope you hear the water falling
I hope you feel the oceans crashing on the coast of north New England
I wish I could be there just to see them, two summers past I was
And the Holy King of Israel loves me here in America
Thanks Waluigi
So much beauty around us - just two eyes to see - and everywhere I go, I'm looking -
This is definitely one of what I call my happy songs! It just makes you feel happy to sing it and know what you’re singing about is real! Just the best! Love Rich so much! Truly he was called by God!❤️🙏
One of my favorite songs by Rich. I enjoy that most of the video, somewhat ironically, was shot in Ireland, another beautiful spot with some thin places.
Sometimes it is hard to listen to Rich's music...
Rich's music puts a new song in my heart! I've been listening to his music & it's Re-birthed my love of music!
A girl friend of mine turned me unto Rich. She even treated me to a concert of his. I was glued ever since. I just Love folk music, especially the Dulcimer, with which he played, and so well. That was shortly after 'Never Picture Perfect' came out. I followed Rich to the end of his days. It was so heart-breaking that he died right after Princess Diana died. What a bad month! --But Rich's music ~changed my life, and for the good. Pointed me in the right direction, which I so desperately needed at that time. I thank God for creating Rich Mullins. Where would we all be, if he had never been born?
Amen! I have been transformed by Christ through this man. I only hope God uses all of us... so that we can be lights.
so have I. just crazy how God has used his struggles and so he could bless so many of us
And Mother Theresa, too. That WAS a horrible month.
@@tori2dles Oh wow, I didn't know she also passed that month. Well you know what they say, bad things happen in threes. 🙁
RIP Rich! This song made me cry! Love it! What a message! We miss you here in America! ♡🙏🏼♡
Thank you 😊❤️
Rich Mullins makes me homesick for heaven!
Happy 4th America 🇺🇸 to God be the glory
He is so talented and so humble not care. Yes, his confidence is in Jesus.
I never met the man...I wish I could feel as good and obedient as I think this man was. ☝️
Oh, he struggled and struggled for many years, even as a believer. It wasn’t until Beaker introduced him to the teachings of Brennan Manning and the Ragamuffin Gospel that he started to break free of a lot of the things that vexed him.
AHH...LOVE YOU RICH!!! RIP BROTHER
I love these songs! I heard this video was filmed in Ireland, funny!
Rich! We love you.
God bless our brother Rich Mullins!
Miss Rich and love this song
Rich legacy lives on. Holy King of Israel rules always. Thankful for this man.
Wonderful song from a man full of wonder.
Love this song! I have lots of Irish in me, of course, love Rich Mullins! Thank you God!
2:52 that smile....praise Jesus
I never knew you or heard of you before Rich until this video. I see from the comments that you've passed. May God Bless and Hold You....She/He doesn't let too many Irish musicians get away...I know that much. But what I set out to write was a simple thank you as an American of Irish descent who loves Jesus in America....see you when we get home Rich. Peace.
Rich was killed in an automobile accident. He was a passenger in a friend's Jeep on the way to a gig I believe. Rich's unexpected passing was a shock to all who knew or admired him
I love Rich! Love everything he wrote and sung... he is very deeply missed. I know I will see him again!
I love this song. Rich was so good.
I loved all his songs. I hope he was still here composing more uplifting songs
The most beautiful part for me that just gives me chills is from 0:10 to 0:17
I miss rich so much. and I miss his music.
It is nice to take a moment to appreciate such talent. I smile to think our connection is in the God we both love and serve. See you someday, Rich.
Rich's music still impacts lives.... Love his music more than ever! Lyrics always amazing and descriptive of nature,life ,God....Amazing gifted talented brother!
Rich Mullins, YOU ARE MISSED on planet 🌏 earth! Hopefully you get a glance and glimmer of these comments.Im sure you've met my husband Keith already. I somehow fancy the thought of you heading up the praise & worship in Heaven.See you on the other side.
Never understood the "once I went to Appalachia, from a Father he was born there" until seeing the Ragamuffin movie. He's talking about Brennan Manning, and then the kids at the Navajo reservation.
Greatly increased my appreciation of the song.
No -- he's talking about his biological father. John Mullins. The Navajo live in the West -- Appalachia is in the East.
Michael Jay they're two different things, in a couple separate lines.
"Father God" was Brennan Manning's thing. Rich taught music theory to Navajo kids.
Two different things together in a verse.
Ohio isn't Appalachia.
Umbrian2003 The lyrics are "I went over to Appalachia, for my father he was born there." He is referring to the town called Appalachia in Virginia. His father was born there. Hence why he mentions the mountains in that verse. He was 21 when he wrote that song. WAY before he had ever heard of Brennan Manning and went to the reservation.
Read "An Arrow Pointing to Heaven."
It's pretty clear he's talking about his dad, an Indiana farmer who was born in KY (not virginia) Family heritage and roots were very important to Rich Mullins.
His father was from Kentucky.
It's funny, I really didn't like this song when it first came out, and I got really really tired of hearing it on the radio.
Now I love it.
beautiful song❤ Miss Rich！
Bow down before the King of Glory. Thanks, Rich for reminding me. Miss ya. Shalom, everyone. Shalom.
Amazing song by an amazing artist. We miss you Rich.
Rich Mullins...an ever pulsating fresh phenomenon of God's manifold grace and wonder!
Excellence mixed with brokenness- through the lens of The Gospel!
What a life!!
I miss Rich love this song
I love this song ! ❤
Amen and Amen 💜
A BEAUTIFUL song and VERY well written & directed video!! :)
i love his songs
Beautiful☺
Listening on the 4th of July, 2022. Still as good 30 years later.
I wonder if he's still singing these songs in heaven.....God bless you Rich Mullins!
I too am a raggamuffin
He is missed greatly . My favorite inspirational singer/songwriter ...
I hope the US can go back to this standard. There's no better way.
Yay for Beaker
What's funnier is that it reminds me of Romania. But I just got back, so everything reminds me of Romania :-)
Oh how we need this days in America
John 3.16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
RiP Mr.Mullins. he was like a Christian John Denver..both story tellers and great song writers
Yes! I had that exact thought last night!
"Those two-legged memorials to the laws of happenstance
Waiting for four-wheeled messiahs to take them home again"
Considering how he died, that line almost seems prophetic.
I thought it was his song Elijah that was creepy. "When I die, I'm going to go out like Elijah,.......with my chariot on fire........." That's exactly what happened!
If there is something I hate, it's when people romanticize his death, and compare it to Elijah's. Elijah was spared from death and was taken up. Rich was thrown out of out of control Jeep that flipped over. Rich landed in the road unable to move out of the way, and was run over by a tractor trailer. The only was he was able to be identified was by dental records.
Now tell me again he went out like Elijah.
Ok, he went out with more courage than Elijah.
But I thought it was a semi
@@littlegreenproductions7577 Google "tractor trailer".
You ought to check out Andrew Peterson (specifically his songs The Reckoning, Many Roads, etc.)...lots of people consider him to be the heir to Rich Mullins, in a way. Andrew has a hammered dulcimer piece on every one of his albums as a tribute, so there's some truth to it. He wrote a song called Three Days Before Autumn about Rich's death that's really beautiful..
Rich and Beaker great duo always here and forever. Rich wasnt the same after their split.
I always wondered why they stopped making music together, they created extraordinary work.
@@kaycreates they were together quite a few years before Beaker married and started a family. God bless your family.
I'm no longer a Christian and I often wonder if rich would have been an atheist by now. Either way I miss him and he seemed like a really loving guy
I wouldnt consider myself one either, but after not listening to christian music for 5 years and being almost a militant atheist due to circumstances that convinced me there couldnt be a purpose or god. I was feeling down and depressed again and for 5 years I've laughed at the thought of god, but I kept waking up with christian songs popping in my head for several days, and I thought I would just humor myself and I listened and couldnt stop breaking down and having waves of emotion coming over me, it felt healing to me.
@@jms4406 I find it’s a good way to recover from religion but just bc a song is comforting, doesn’t mean it’s about factual truth
mmmm...Id highly recommend "I can only imagine" by Mercy Me and so much more. The 00's was probablly CCM's best decade...90's forever though.
Wow.....
Yeah, me too. I bet he's up there spiritual warfaring and busting down demons all over the place. I am from Wichita KS where he is from. He used to have coffee with my little sister in the late eighties. My sister would record and mail cassettes of his music to me. I was and still do, live in Texas. In the late nineties, he came and played at Carpenters Way church. Man, I was too shy to go back stage and let him know about him and my sisters friendship. Sure wish I would have. That was the year God called him home. Liturgy Legacy and a Ragamuffin Band is my favorite!
Помню передачу на радио "Континент" 100,9 FM в память о его внезапной смерти в автокатастрофе... Я плакал как ребёнок...
Alex, losing Brother Rich was very sad. Even so, I praise “The Holy King of Israel” for letting me hear Holy Spirit then and now.
Алекс, потерять брата Рича было очень грустно. Однако я восхваляю «Святого Царя Израиля» за то, что он позволил мне слышать Святого Духа в музыке Брата Рича, как тогда, так и сейчас.
This song is in the short movie " As In The Days of Noah" Answers In Genesis Ark Encounter
Me too... :'(
I think Rich Mullins would probably still be alive today if he and Mitch McVicker were wearing their seatbelts when that semi truck hit them on September 19, 1997. I still can’t wait to meet him in Heaven.
exelent...
Yeah, I'd like to go to Ireland too. I know your not supposed to boast about tomorrow and iv e recently leared a lesson in that but I think it is at least feasible for me. I guess I don't need to put my plans ahead of God's or God himself who died for me. Rich is such a great reminder of Christ's love. I have nearly all of his songs from his albums on a playlist on my channel if your interested. In Love Jeff
Sounds like a Paul Simon song. 😀♥️😍🙃😀
GRACE
Paul McCartney would have loved Rich. Miss his music.
Paul passed away in 1966. Another truly gifted person. Billy Shears took his place. There was a video of George Harrison's wife acknowledging Faul as Billy way back in the day on YT. Hi level peeps did not want a mass hysteria. After 1966 Beatles changed in appearance and did not perform again until some time in 1967. It was not the same and not the best. The Abbey Road album cover was sort of a burial. Interesting, i did some research.. God bless you and your family.
i never met him but i miss his music and him too... he is my 2nd cousin once removed... i really miss him dearly... now i dislike 16 wheelers...
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