My wife and I served as evangelical, protestant missionaries in France for eleven and a half years, after which I became the pastor and director of a Christian school in a French-speaking evangelical church, L'Eglise Evangelique de Saint Jerome, in Quebec, Canada. After serving in Quebec for five years, we then moved to Greenville, South Carolina, where I became the pastor of the First Evangelical Church of Greenville. In 1995, we moved to Tallahassee, Florida, where I eventually assumed the management of the family business, and remained there until 2012, when our family moved to Meridian, Idaho. My wife and I have six children. These short devotionals are born out of the loss of one of these children in particular, with the hope and prayer that they will serve to encourage and inspire those who read them in their walk with Christ. God bless you all, and may we finish well the race set before us.
“SERVE THE LORD WITH FEAR, AND REJOICE WITH TREMBLING. KISS THE SON, LEST HE BE ANGRY, AND YOU PERISH IN THE WAY, WHEN HIS WRATH IS KINDLED BUT A LITTLE. BLESSED ARE ALL THOSE WHO PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM.” PSALM 2:11-12 Theology is the study of God, His nature, HIs ways, according to…
“The Lord has made bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of the Lord.” Isaiah 52:10 Though God had revealed to Abraham that in him “…all the families of the earth shall be blessed,” and though in the writings of…
“Again, He (the Lord God) said to me, ‘Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!’” Ezekiel 37:4 The ways of God with men are such that in all of His dealings He reveals that He is God and man is sinful man. When He reveals…
“But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” Galatians 6:14 When the believer in Christ reads through the Scriptures, in particular, the letters of the Apostle Paul, he is struck by the enormity…
“God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:9 Where does the concept of the faithfulness of God begin to be revealed to us in the Scriptures? It is in Genesis 1:1 where we read, “In the beginning God created the heavens and…
“My soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning. Yes, more than those who watch for the morning.” Psalm 131:6 Throughout history, those who have truly sought the Lord have found Him. For some, He was found as that “very present help in trouble.” For others He was found as…
“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.” Philippians 3:12 Though the Christian life is one of great inner peace, and rest of soul, Christ Himself being our peace, it is not…
“I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine.” Song of Solomon 6:3 In the book of Daniel in the Old Testament, there are two instances when the Lord tells Daniel, either by the angel Gabriel, or by the personal revelation of Himself, that Daniel is “greatly beloved.” (Dan. 9:23, 10:11) What does it mean…
“…that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior.” 1 Timothy 2:2,3 When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, raised in Nazareth, beginning His ministry after His baptism, there was relative peace in the Roman empire, in particular…
“And Abram believed in the Lord, and He (God) accounted it to him for righteousness.” Genesis 15:7 In making Abram the man of faith that God was determined to make of him, God would first reveal Himself to him, the “word of the Lord” coming unto him. God would create in him a conviction concerning…