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.
“And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:19 What is the basis for believing that God will meet all the needs of his child, the servant of Christ, as the believer begins every day, a day which possesses eternal results and effects? The answer…
“You are My servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away: Fear not, I am with you.” Isaiah 41:9,10 Throughout Scripture in God’s dealings with men, in particular with those who belong to Him by surrender and faith, He often addresses the need of morale, that attitude of heart and mind which…
“…and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ.” Ephesians 3:9 What is a “mystery,” but that which is hidden, that which has not yet been revealed. When the Apostle Paul came preaching…
“Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22,23 One of the most blessed ways that the eternal God reveals Himself to men, and this to the individual, is by the word of God. His word is the verbal and…
“Jesus said to him, ‘If I will that he remains till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.” John 21:22 The call of Christ is not just a single command to the individual. It is true that it begins with that initial sitting down and calculating what it means to follow Christ…
“The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul.” Psalm 23:1-3 David is considered, from a historical and spiritual standpoint, to have been a great man, not just in his dealings with people, but primarily…
“That which we have seen and heard we declare unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.” 1 John 1:3 In the high priestly prayer of Jesus, made just before He was crucified, was revealed very clearly the objective…
“I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgement is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.” John 5:30 Throughout Scripture we find that God is sending messengers, often Angels, or His prophets to proclaim His word to a…
“But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all Your works.” Psalm 73:28 Is it possible to draw near to God, and Him to draw near to us? What does it mean to do so? After the resurrection of…
“But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart, and with all your soul.” Deuteronomy 4:29 When Jacob was found alone with God, wrestling with Him until the break of day, God was bringing Jacob to a place in his heart…