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Something Passionate
Replied Nov. 21, 2008
Spirituality vs Religion
Replied Jan. 6, 2008
"I give you back my voice from the womb; my first cry it was a joyful noise!" by: U2 2009 Song-Magnificent
Profile Information
- Introduction
- What's your Story? What's your Legacy?
- Name
- Richie "Rich" Merritt
- Age and Gender
- 48 yr old Male
- City
- Emmaus, PA
- State:
- Wide Spread Panic
- Country:
- In ruins
- Where are you from?
- Born in Easton Pennsylvania now in Emmaus, Pa.
- My VOXTROPOLIS blog
- http://oldbarbarian.voxtropolis.com/
- My Website:
- http://www.lvlegacy.org
- My other Website
- http://www.lehighvalleyproject.blogspot.com/
- Mac or PC
- Mac - new found lover of!
- Religious Preferences:
- Jesus - Follower of
- Your astrological sign
- Slow Down - Moose ahead! - Capricorn
- Political Tendencies:
- Jesus - Kingdom of Heaven on Earth
- What is your "cover" (occupation)?
- To be Richie in Light of Jesus
- What is your vocation (passion)?
- Loving God & Loving People!
- What are you working on now (mission)?
- Church Planter in Allentown, Pennsylvania (Lehigh Valley)
- If you could live anywhere in the world, what city would be your "Gotham"?
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- What leader from a feature film most reminds you of you?
- The Irish guy in Braveheart - I'm a bit looney; and I like a good fight! :-) He was also a very faithful servant leader.
I also like how the Spirit of the Living God talks to him in the regular. (LoL!)
- What leader from a feature film would you be most likely to follow?
- Aragon from the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Brave, Smart, Passionate, Strong, Wise, and Driven!
- Favorite Movies
- Rocky 1,2,3,4,6 (5 stunk); Lord of the Rings; Gladiator; Henry V; Braveheart; The Passion; Last of the Mohicans; and many, many more!
- If you pressed play on your iPod, what song would come up?
- Every Marley; U2; AudioSlave; Legacy Worship Band; Unsed/Joe Heilman; Blue October; Jeremy Camp; The Ramones; Supertones; The Clash; Elvis Presley; Wilson Pickett; Johnny Cash; Social "D"; Matt Kearney; RHCP; and too many more too put here.
- Favorite Music:
- No favorite. I Love everything but Country for the most part. Lean most toward alternative; reggae; some Hip-Hop; Love Flamenco; Carlos Santana.
- Favorite Artists
- Joe Heilman & Unsed; Santana; Johnny Cash; Bob, Ziggy, Damien Marley; Steven Marley (No.., I'm not a stoner-but I used to be! :-)); Flamenco Artists; ColdPlay; Counting Crows; and many more!
- What book(s) are you reading right now?
- Good to Great - Social Sectors; UnChurched; Planting Churches Cross Culturally; UnChristian; Tale of Three Kings
- Favorite Authors
- Erwin McManus; Dallas Willard; Rick Rusaw; G. K. Chesterton; Rob Bell; Lucado; John Eldridge; Shakespeare; Tom Clancy; Eugene Peterson; Paul was pretty cool too!
- Favorite Books
- The Barbarian Way; Externally Focused Church; Orthodoxy (Chesterton); The Hobbit and follow on Tolkien; Shakespeare Sonnets & Plays; What's So Amazing About Grace; oh..., and the Bible.... :-)
- Favorite TV Shows:
- Philadelphia Eagles Football anytime anywhere!
- My Strengths Finder (Gallup) Top 5:
- Includer, Developer, Woo, Achiever, Belief
- What's your MBTI?
- ESFJ - Guardian/Provider; DISC - Promoter
- What are your Super Powers (according to you and those who know you)?
- The power to Love!
- What is your given Superhero Name?
- Captain Philly Cheese Steak!!, aka., "CPCS"
- More About Me:
- I am totally sold on Build A Village! I am passionate about the Orphans in this world! Want to burn out in rather than fade away in doing nothing for them!
Now what about you?
- Relationship Status:
- Married
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GOD HAS A SENSE OF HUMOR....
Posted on November 1, 2007 at 9:55pm —
High Ropes Course!
Posted on October 15, 2007 at 7:45am —
16 Ideas - tag on Alex's Blog
Posted on July 24, 2007 at 2:48pm — 1 Comment
Events
Thoughts from the IMN
The Human Event – Michigan
Join us at Kensington Community Church (Troy, Michigan) on October 13-14 for a 2-day conversation on the future of the church in the post-Christian and Trans-human 21st century west.
Neil Cole (Organic Church) Alex McManus (M Network)
and You.
Who is the Human Event for? Forward thinking, missional activists, thinkers, and leaders. If you think that may be [...]
Holiness and Risk
A few hours after touching down back in Scotland from The International Mentoring Network’s Immersion experience in Orlando, I found myself in a conversation about a Methodist Church initiative called Holiness and Risk.
Is it okay if I tell you a little about this? It’s a really intriguing kind of thing that can emerge [...]
Tomorrow and How to Get There – The Futuristic
Tomorrow. Face it with either fear or anticipation, it doesn’t matter which, it is coming regardless of our grasp of it. Fortunes have been made marketing knowledge about tomorrow whether that tomorrow is 24 hours away or 100 years distant.
Fortune tellers make the promise that that can allay our fears with their prognostication [...]
Communities of Knowing
In his book, The Message in the Bottle, Walker Percy tells the fictional story of a train that hurried through the countryside. The commuters on board saw the passing scenery as little more than a two-dimensional background rolling past their windows.
One day, though, the train breaks down and the commuters have to disembark by a [...]
Into the Beautiful Unknown (Cross-Posted)
Since Alex is publishing this blog post with the IMN newsletter, I thought it ought to have a link from the IMN as well. Enjoy. -Your friendly neighborhood editor-of-doom.
Sometimes I’m asked, What does “M” stand for? I usually answer, “Exactly.” The question is understandable. I use M a lot.
My website is theimn. My social network [...]
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what pic on the top left?
I live in staten Island NY, about two hours from Allentown.
If you want you can E-Mail me and we can set up some time to chat. Salvation25@aol.com
Glad to hear from you, bro. Glad to hear that God is using you to impact the "less fortunate," even though that term can be questionable at times :-) I'm looking forward to Ben's conference. I think it's going to be great. God's willing, I'll see you there. How are things going on your end?
thanks again for the info you posted...i'm anxious to find some time to read it!
ps...TOTALLY DIG THE KAYNE WEST!!!!
Would love to have that strengths talk w/ you!
Great touching base w/ you!
dale
awesome dude. thanks for the invite. will definitely be in touch if we ever make our way down there.
hopefully see you in feb, but i'm sure we'll meet again soon.
blessings, see you soon!
Great meeting you last night and thanks for making the trek do DC and organizing the gathering. It was a blast. See you soon - are you going to Humana?
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