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Alvin C. Murray Jr.
    Author of sermons in Re-Digging Wells
    Edited by Stephen M. Murray

Background is always good to know if you’re taking someone’s advice. 

Alvin Murray was born in 1923 in Little Rock, went to North Little Rock High School, attended one year at John Brown University then transferred to Hendrix College from which he was graduated. He then completed Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University and received an honorary doctorate of divinity from Hendrix College. He was a chaplain in the Korean War in the 19th Infantry, 24th Division, and was a chaplain in the Arkansas National Guard from 1950-1965.

He served as vice chairman of the Council on Evangelism of the United States Church, was a member of the executive committee of the World Methodist Council and was a delegate to the World Methodist Councils in London, Denver, Dublin and Honolulu. He has served the annual conference of the United Methodist Church as chairman and executive secretary of evangelism, director of adult work, conference missions secretary and twice as a member of the commission on finance. He also served trusteeships on the board of St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Mo., and the Methodist Children’s Home of Arkansas.

The author of Parables From Our Lives, he wrote a weekly Sunday school lesson for the Arkansas Democrat. 

Other Pastorates included First United Methodist churches in El Dorado, Jonesboro, Searcy, Marked Tree, Berryville and Gentry and he was district superintendent in the Batesville, Camden and Little Rock Districts.

He and his wife, Mary Ellen, had four children.

The title of each chapter introduces you to the topic; but (1) the topic or title may not be familiar to you, or (2) there is usually related information that you may not have connected with the primary topic.

The sermon for which this book was named is Chapter Six, “Digging the Wells Again.” If you have read or heard about Genesis 26 then you will know about the topic of Isaac taking the reigns after Abraham died. And if you read someplace that the editor of this book is the son of the preacher who wrote the sermons, then you will understand the title of the book. A related chapter is number 25, “Our Spiritual Inheritance;” but, there are some twists that may be even more inspiring to you, especially if you are a business person.

The point is that there are a number of ways you can approach this book, including reading just what seems of interest or reading it all.  Either way, you will probably end up reading it all. 

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