by Kevin Murray | Apr 9, 2019 | Life Lessons
Such bad luck. We have this amazing planet where myriad creatures evolved for no particularly good reason out of nearly nothing. Until, unfortunately, we selfish human beings were the resultant beneficiaries of these blinded forces, all but ensuring the destruction of...
by Kevin Murray | Mar 12, 2019 | Challenges, Life Lessons
“He took on his own shoulders the sin of the many, he took up the cause of all the black sheep” (Is 53:12; Msg). You may not know this, but I am at a lowish point, and it has lasted many a day. I appreciate your patience during my storm. I’m sure you’ve suffered them...
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 | Oct 15, 2018 | Life Lessons
As I approached another “it-can’t-already-be-my-birthday” birthday, my son asked me if I felt old. A simple yes or no wouldn’t do. Here is what I said: In certain circumstances, if I were to be standing, say, fourth in a line of a thousand people at some particular...
by Kevin Murray | Sep 18, 2018 | Life Lessons
I had a dream when I was a boy that I found a million dollars under a big rock while walking to school. I decided to leave it there until I returned home later that day. (Don’t judge me; it was a dream!) After school, I rushed back the way I had come, but couldn’t...
