I’ll never forget the first time he came to our small Bible study while we were both students at Mississippi State University in 1978. He had so many questions. He wanted all God had for him and he wanted it now. From the moment he first surrendered his life to Jesus...
One of the fringe benefits of working in Nashville an extra few weeks during wintertime is the change of weather. In the Philippines we have three seasons: hot, hotter, and hot & wet. Rainy season is a nice name for typhoon season which is Filipino for hurricane...
Living my first twenty-four years in Mississippi and the past twenty-two in Manila, I’ve had little exposure to hockey, but I do know some Canadians. Last night, I attended my first hockey game—with my sons and Rice Broocks and his sons—and I officially became an NHL...
Here’s the latest Murrell news: Jonathan, our fifteen-year-old, got his first #1 buzz cut since 2001. Many did not recognize him on Sunday at Bethel. Here’s the long and short of it. Since we will be in the States for about five weeks (working on the re-structuring of...
A week in the hospital watching Mom suffer, a week in Palm Springs debating and eventually solving ministry growing pains, followed by Mom’s funeral and the settling of her estate with my siblings—these past three weeks could have been and should have been some of the...
It has been a hectic two weeks, to say the least. One week in the hospital watching Mom suffer, followed by a major re-org board meeting in California with 120 of our leaders from all over the world, then Mom’s funeral and the settling of her estate with my siblings....
