by Kevin Murray | Jan 14, 2020 | Challenges, Encouragement, Life Lessons
“Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails” (Prov 19:21). A rude driver cut me off and it cost me the green light. Fuming mad was I. Five hours later I spotted a neighbor whom I knew only casually. He was about to...
by Kevin Murray | Nov 21, 2019 | Challenges, Life Lessons
“Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate” (Mark 10:9); “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds” (Psalm (147:3). When I was twenty-one I found the girl of my dreams—the one I wanted to be married to for the rest of my life. When I was...
by Kevin Murray | Oct 1, 2019 | Encouragement, Life Lessons
“And amazement seized them all, and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying…” (Lk 5:26a) [To be continued]. Outward life—with all its shapes and varieties of people and places and creatures and circumstances—has always interested me. It is a fine blessing...
by Kevin Murray | Sep 15, 2019 | Life Lessons
“Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways” (Ps 119:37). Do you suppose there will be television in Heaven? Doesn’t seem like it. Could watching TV for hours on end be a silent protest against God? I ask because I do this more than...
by Kevin Murray | Aug 19, 2019 | Life Lessons
The times I’ve talked with a dog owner and happened to ask about their dog, “Is that a boy or a girl?” I’ve never heard the reply, “Well, they haven’t decided yet.” Other things I’ve never heard from dog owners about their dogs are, “He’s a Libra” or “I think he’s...
by Kevin Murray | Apr 23, 2019 | Life Lessons
My heavens, I aspire to a high brand of humility. However, every time I embellish my childhood athletic accomplishments—Captain of the defense, Suniland Sharks, age 12, thank you very much—into something more, I’m afraid I feed a lifelong pattern that is hard to...
