Senior Pastor

Rev. Dr. Scott R. Murray is Senior Pastor at Memorial Lutheran Church and School, Houston, Texas. He has served MLC&S since 1996, following pastorates in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada and New Orleans, Louisiana. He loves to teach and share the gospel in small groups and Bible classes. God has blessed him with Maryann, his wife of 26 years, and with two daughters, Anastasia, a senior at Hillsdale College, and Hilary, a freshman at Concordia University Nebraska. His hobbies are collecting books and recordings of classical music. Pastor Murray holds the degrees of B.A. from Concordia College, Ann Arbor; M.Div. from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne; M.A. from Loyola University, New Orleans; and Ph.D from New Orleans Baptist Seminary, New Orleans. He has served the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod on the synod's Commission on Theology and Church Relations (1996-2001) and the Board of Directors of the Lutheran Education Association of Houston (2001-2007). He writes the Memorial Moment, a daily devotion based on the church fathers, which is distributed to an international list of more than 1300 subscribers. He is the host of a weekly radio program “Dying to Live” broadcast in Houston and available as a podcast. Presently, he is the Vice President of the Luther Academy, an editorial associate of LOGIA, and is working on books on the doctrine of Holy Scripture for the Confessional Lutheran Dogmatics Series and a devotional companion to the Treasury of Daily Prayer, provisionally titled: A Year With the Fathers. He is the author of numerous journal articles, and Law, Life, and the Living God published by Concordia Publishing House in 2001.