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.
“Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am God, and here is no other.” Isaiah 45:22 Just before Christ’s ascension into heaven, He gave to His disciples a commission. It is often called the “Great Commission.” At the end of Matthew’s gospel, we find it declared in its…
“The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.” Lamentations 3:25,26 When Joseph, as young man of seventeen years of age, was sold by his brothers as a slave to merchantmen travelling…
“‘Come!’ And let him who hears, say ‘Come.’ And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires let him take the water of life freely.” Revelation 22:17 In the days of Daniel the prophet, as revealed in the Old Testament, there came a day when he went before King Nebuchadnezzar to interpret a dream that God…
“Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” Matthew 24:3 There came a day during the last days of the ministry of the Lord Jesus, that He considered the spiritual state of Jerusalem, its rejection of Him as the Messiah. …
“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who ask you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear…” 1 Peter 3:15 The man Moses was declared to be at one time, “…very humble (or meek), more than all men…
“And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.” Genesis 3:8 One of the great evidences and proofs of sin in the heart of man…
“For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be…” Matthew 24:27 When the Lord Jesus spoke of His coming, in answer to the disciple’s request to know the “…sign of Your coming, and the end of the age…,” He spoke…
“He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” Psalm 91:1 What is a secret place, but one which is not known except to those who KNOW where it is and USE it for its purpose. Biblically speaking, the “secret place” has existed from before…
“And when she had finished giving him a drink, she said: ‘I will draw water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking.’” Genesis 24:19 In the sermon on the mount, the Lord Jesus spoke of those characteristics which would be seen in true believers, true followers of Christ. One of the great, and…
“O God, You are my God; early will I seek you: My soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.” Psalm 63:1 Why was David so great a man in the sight of God? Why was he chosen by God as a young…