Michael M. Murray
Getting to heaven can be easy, but we make it so difficult by focusing on ourselves.
In his new book, 52 Paths To Heaven, Michael M. Murray explains how we often walk along many diverse paths on our way to heaven, a perfect place with God that most people will never enjoy. They’ll be in hell.
Michael explains in simple terms that getting to heaven is all about SIN and SURRENDER, admitting our failings and turning our lives over to a Savior named Jesus.
He takes you through dozens of personal accounts and controversial views that define these paths. Michael shows how refreshing and sometime tumultuous experiences can soften our hearts and shape our eternal destiny. Learn how:
- Women who have their babies murdered through abortions can use the experience to make their way to heaven
- Hot-button topics like evolution actually can draw people to God while He’s in the spotlight
- Sin-stained, hate-mongering pastors blow homosexuality way out of proportion and why sensitivity should prevail
- Suicide demands mercy and doesn’t disqualify Christians
- Calamities can help us become dependent on the Lord
- Pornography can take someone to the sewer, but God can rescue him and offer redemption
- World religions apart from Christianity fall short of God’s demand for the perfect sin sacrifice
Referencing more than 200 books, movies, teachings and other resources, 52 Paths To Heaven will help you take stock of your life and whether your view of Jesus is what God has in mind for you.
Some roads are memorable. Others we’d rather put behind us. Together, they serve one purpose – getting us to Jesus.
Care to meet Him? He’s still waiting.
For more than 20 years, Michael M. Murray has taught the Bible to children, discipled other men, helped facilitate spiritual retreats, served in a hospice home and supported social justice organizations. He also created JesusSeekers (
www.jesusseekers.com). Michael earned a journalism degree at Kent State University in 1986 and worked in newspapers before becoming a marketing executive. He frequently speaks at national conferences in his field. Michael lives in northeast Ohio with his wife, Terri, and their two boys, Eric and Drew.
The Atheist
The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, does not seek Him – All his thoughts are, "There is no God.”
- Psalm 10:4
Imagine God using an atheist to guide you toward Him.
Through their words or actions, they can make a difference in your life. They may deny the existence of God, but atheists can play a key role in God’s ultimate plan for your life.
An atheist, for example, may be involved in any number of social justice causes. The Lord clearly wants us to meet the needs of the oppressed. In Matthew 25, the Lord talks about separating the lambs from the goats. In doing so, He says we’re to feed the hungry, clothe the naked and visit those in prison.
The character of an atheist may be an inspiration to you to sacrifice your personal desires for a stranger.
An atheist mentored me more than 20 years ago. Bruce Larrick, at the time a journalism faculty member at Kent State University, could tell I was too caught up in my own dreams and career ambitions.
Our conversations led me to volunteer in a serious fashion for the first time in my life when I was 22. I joined the Big Brothers & Big Sisters organization and befriended a 14-year-old boy named Michael. Over seven years, I became a “big brother” to five boys in three similar agencies.
Has an atheist made a good impression on you? Without a doubt, atheists can be found everywhere, whether they build homes or campaign against racism. Of course, their good deeds won’t get them into heaven. Kind acts by Christians won’t qualify them either. We’re spared eternal damnation only when we repent for our sins and trust Jesus as our only Savior.
You don’t even need a relationship with an atheist to draw closer to God through the experience. Even the topic of atheism may be enough. Although atheists reject the basic notion of God, they essentially keep a spotlight on God because their very nature is so closely aligned with Him. In other words, it’s rather difficult to know or think about atheists without simultaneously reflecting on the possibility of God and His place in the universe.
Seek the Lord. He’ll respond to your simple contemplation.
Additional Perspectives
American Atheists
www.atheists.org
Open Directory Project – Atheism
www.dmoz.org/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Atheism
Atheist Alliance
www.atheistalliance.org
