My Tribute

Today is the anniversary of the death of Rich Mullins.

• He grew up in the friends society
• He attended Cincinnati Bible College (a few blocks from G.B.S)
• He and his close friend, Mitch McViker, lived on a Navajo Reservation in Tse Bonito, New Mexico, from his graduation until his death, teaching the children music.
• All income from his tours and albums went to his church on the reservation.
• He also was a major supporter of Compassion International.
• He primarily played the piano, but in all his songs, when you here instruments like the Hammered Dulcimer, Lap Dulcimer, and Irish Tin Whistle, these were played by him as well.
• He was killed in a traffic accident on the way to a benefit concert in Wichita, KS on September 19. 1997.
  
  Here are some of his better known favorites, (My favorites, anyway)
  • Awesome God
  • If I Stand
  • How Can I Keep Myself From Singing
  • Step By Step
  • Sometimes By Step
  • All The Way My Savior Leads Me
  • Hold Me Jesus
  • Creed
  • My Deliverer
  • That Where I Am, There You May Also Be

  If I Stand

  There's more that rises in the morning
  Than the sun
  And more that shines in the night
  Than just the moon
  It's more than just this fire here
  That keeps me warm
  In a shelter that is larger
  Than this room
  
  And there's a loyalty that's deeper
  Than mere sentiments
  And a music higher than the songs
  That I can sing
  The stuff of Earth competes
  For the allegiance
  I owe only to the Giver
  Of all good things
  
  So if I stand let me stand on the promise
  That you will pull me through
  And if I can't, let me fall on the grace
  That first brought me to You
  And if I sing let me sing for the joy
  That has born in me these songs
  And if I weep let it be as a man
  Who is longing for his home
  
  There's more that dances on the prairies
  Than the wind
  More that pulses in the ocean
  Than the tide
  There's a love that is fiercer
  Than the love between friends
  More gentle than a mother's
  When her baby's at her side
  
  And there's a loyalty that's deeper
  Than mere sentiments
  And a music higher than the songs
  That I can sing
  The stuff of Earth competes
  For the allegence
  I owe only to the Giver
  Of all good things
  
  So if I stand let me stand on the promise
  That you will pull me through
  And if I can't let me fall on the grace
  That first brought me to You
  And if I sing let me sing for the joy
  That has born in me these songs
  And if I weep let it be as a man
  Who is longing for his home
  
  And if I stand let me stand on the promise
  That you will pull me through
  And if I can't let me fall on the grace
  That first brought me to You
  And if I sing let me sing for the joy
  That has born in me these songs
  And if I weep let it be as a man
  Who is longing for his home
  
  And if I weep let it be as a man
  Who is longing for his home
  

Hold Me Jesus

Well, sometimes my life just don't make sense at all
When the mountains look so big
And my faith just seems so small

So hold me Jesus, 'cause I'm shaking like a leaf
You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace

And I wake up in the night and feel the dark
It's so hot inside my soul
I swear there must be blisters on my heart

So hold me Jesus, 'cause I'm shaking like a leaf
You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace

Surrender don't come natural to me
I'd rather fight You for something I don't really want
Than to take what You give that I need
And I've beat my head against so many walls
Now I'm falling down, I'm falling on my knees

And this Salvation Army band is playing this hymn
And Your grace rings out so deep
It makes my resistance seem so thin

I'm singing hold me Jesus, 'cause I'm shaking like a leaf
You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace

You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace
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Quote Of The Day:
Creed
I believe in God the Father
Almighty Maker of Heaven and Maker of Earth
And in Jesus Christ His only begotten Son, our Lord
He was conceived by the Holy Spirit
Born of the virgin Mary
Suffered under Pontius Pilate
He was crucified and dead and buried

And I believe what I believe is what makes me what I am
I did not make it, no it is making me
It is the very truth of God and not the invention of any man

I believe that He who suffered was crucified, buried, and dead
He descended into hell and on the third day, rose again
He ascended into Heaven where He sits at God's mighty right hand
I believe that He's returning
To judge the quick and the dead of the sons of men

And I believe what I believe is what makes me what I am
I did not make it, no it is making me
It is the very truth of God and not the invention of any man

I believe it, I believe it
I believe it
I believe it, I believe it

I believe in God the Father
Almighty Maker of Heaven and Maker of Earth
And in Jesus Christ His only begotten Son, our Lord
I believe in the Holy Spirit
One Holy Church
The communion of Saints
The forgiveness of sin
I believe in the resurrection
I believe in a life that never ends

And I believe what I believe is what makes me what I am
I did not make it, no it is making me
I did not make it, no it is making me
I said I did not make it, no it is making me
It is the very truth of God and not the invention of any man

I believe it, I believe it.
-Rich Mullins