by Kevin Murray | Aug 26, 2019 | Challenges, Encouragement
Some time ago, the older brother of my good friend was out of fight and approaching death at the hands of terminal cancer. On one of his final visits, after watching his brother suffer much, my friend leaned in to ask him how he was doing. His brother’s faint response...
by Kevin Murray | Aug 13, 2019 | Encouragement, Relationships
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” (Jer 29:11). We insist we were meant to be a world-famous scientist who cures some deadly disease. And yet, somehow, here we...
by Kevin Murray | Jan 22, 2019 | Encouragement, Life Lessons
“Nor should there be obscenity…” (Ephesians 5:4). Look, I’m no prude. I can cuss with the best of them, quite inventively in fact; always could turn a phrase vile and crude going all the way back to my preadolescent days; still keep up a thriving practice in my head;...
by Kevin Murray | Dec 18, 2018 | Encouragement, Life Lessons
This is my version of a Christmas message: I get it. If I lived in a region of melting pot religions like they do in India (Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, and others), where I’m not consistently getting reinforcement for what I believe about my own Christian...
by Kevin Murray | Dec 5, 2018 | Encouragement
To All, Time marches on toward the inevitable return of Jesus. We are yet another year closer to that anticipated day! Throughout this past year, many exciting things have happened at Encourage to Faith Ministries. I am grateful. Nevertheless, to God’s children, here...
by Kevin Murray | Nov 10, 2018 | Encouragement, Prayer
I got up and got out all of my important things one recent, sunshiny dawn—Bible, prayer list, devotional, glasses so I could read any of the aforementioned—preparing to start my day like many others, with God, immersing myself in the water of life (Jn 4:14)....
