Author Archive: JP Murie
JP earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Florida and spent six years ministering to college students with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship as campus staff. She now travels throughout the Southeast leading worship and speaking at discipleship events.
JP calls the sunny beaches of Florida her first home, but now resides in beautiful, Music City, USA with her husband of 14 years. Most days consist of homeschooling her four children, juggling laundry, and keeping up with hungry appetites. However, JP insists that writing helps her maintain her sanity - well, that and her guitar.
In her spare time you might find JP singing at a coffee shop, playing guitar, commenting on current events, or capturing humorous slices of life through essay, poetry and song.
As a singer/songwriter JP writes from her own spiritual journey through prayer and Scripture study. She plans to release a collection of songs and an accompanying Songbook/Bible Study Guide this summer.
Christmas Time is Here
Christmas time is here! And when we blink it will be gone. So many cookies and lights, songs and decorations will be put away until next year. At that point we will all be able to breathe a collective sigh of relief maybe mixed with a little sadness (for my part anyway). I love Christmas. [...]
Tennessee Returns
Republicans have picked up three key Democratic seats to take control of the Tennessee congressional delegation for the first time since 2002 giving Republicans a 7-2 advantage. Only the story here is not that Republicans have won these seats, but the margins by which they have. Each of the three contests in Tennessee’s 4th, 6th [...]
Oversaturating The Constituency
I think I was officially oversaturated for this election. Don’t get me wrong. I looked forward to voting, and I did it with a sense of pride and hopefulness, but it was a long and kind of annoying trip to the polls. It wasn’t the pundits or the many TV ads that drove me to [...]
Burning Things is a Bad Idea
I tend to think that burning things is a bad idea. So like Shane and David and countless others, I believe the plans of Florida preacher Terry Jones to burn the Quran on Saturday, September 11th is abhorrent. I wonder, when has burning something whether it be books, flags or people represented a reasonable argument [...]
Maryland Poised for an Historic Election
Just outside the beltway is a fascinating place to live, just ask Holly Ellison Henderson. Henderson loves Prince George’s County, Maryland, but she also believes that, “It’s time for sweeping change” when it comes to the current administration and the Washington establishment, which is why she is running for the 26th district of the Maryland [...]
I Am a Patriot
I love the 4th of July – the music, the food, the fireworks, the people. I come from a large military family. I enjoy singing patriotic music and tear up whenever I hear Stars and Stripes Forever. I like baseball (soccer) and apple pie. I like the Star-Spangled Banner and America the Beautiful. I am [...]
Nashville Flooding
I flew into Nashville this afternoon after being delayed a day by heavy rains and catastrophic flooding in middle TN. Thankfully my home and neighborhood were spared, but others were not so lucky. As my plane made its descent I could hear audible gasps coming from all over the plane. Passengers stood and leaned over [...]
C’mon Get Appy!
We have more information at our disposal than any one person can keep up with. Yet, because we are willing to try to digest the endless buffet served up by Twitter, Facebook, blogs, etc, technology has answered our desperate cry for more, and the free market has delivered to us the smartphone. These amazing phones [...]
Faith and Politics: Good Stewardship Meets Civic Duty
This question was put to me recently, “Can we be Christians who offer the truth and hope of Jesus and speak to political issues at the same time?” I believe we can and we should do both being mindful of our words and actions. We may not be blazing a trail to the capitol or [...]
A Census of the Soul
Last night I was reading Psalm 40. Anytime I read this particular Psalm I can’t help but think of the group U2. They sing a song called “40” which is on their 1983 album, War. The song, appropriately titled, is a modification of Psalm 40. Consequently, I started humming the tune as I continued to [...]
