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...
by Kevin Murray | Aug 7, 2018 | Life Lessons
It’s one thing to know a theological answer to get a passing grade in seminary, another to be able to work with that answer, turning head knowledge into life-changing reality, working out the path for life out of what God wants in all those theological words from you...
by Kevin Murray | Jul 9, 2018 | Life Lessons
I’m all for stewardship of the good Earth and valuing all forms of life and all that other do-gooder planetary stuff. It’s the misguided attitude that all forms of life are equally precious that I’m not for. The attitude doesn’t hold up in practice and leads to dire...
