by Kevin Murray | Apr 16, 2015 | Prayer
I can’t get enough of nature: silver-gold sunrises from green mountain tops, irrepressible seas with moon-powered tides, shady oak trees and striped dragonflies. Shall I go on? Not just yet. We’d be here awhile. God loves nature. It is the mirror of paradise. He made...
by Kevin Murray | Apr 16, 2015 | Encouragement
People tend to act out of their perceived identities. As Christians, our identity is that of a new creation (2 Cor 5:17). We stand fully reconciled, holy, and blameless before our loving Father (Col 1:21-22). Yet so often we look at our sinful thoughts and actions and...
by Kevin Murray | Mar 6, 2015 | Challenges
Goodness gracious and for goodness’ sake! This sure is good news! Surely one of the most overlooked fruits of the spirit is–you guessed it–goodness. Perhaps that’s because, surrounded by such brokenness, we often have a hard time seeing, and...
by Kevin Murray | Dec 18, 2014 | Encouragement
From out of the holiday bedlam a self-promoting world throws its annual tantrum toward those vocal heralds known as evangelists: “The audacity of those proselytizers always talking about God and Jesus and salvation. They need to keep it to themselves!” To some minds,...
by Kevin Murray | Nov 24, 2014 | Encouragement
Some moons ago, my son was ten and his soccer coach announced he would not be returning to coach the team the next season. As the other parents stood shoulder to shoulder listening to the coach’s words, apparently I was doing the standing part, but not the listening...
