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.
“But He (Jesus) answered and said, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’” Matthew 4:4 In Isaiah’s book in the Bible, he wrote down the Lord’s words for the generation of his time, and certainly of ours. He wrote concerning the word of the…
“If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them, then I will give you rain in its season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.” Leviticus 26:3,4 In the Gospel of John, we find where the Lord Jesus said: “He who has…
“For He (God) says, ‘In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation, I have helped you.’ Behold, now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation.” 2 Corinthians 6:2 It is a Biblical concept that the believer in Christ, since the day when he was born of…
“Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him.” Psalm 34:8 From the beginning of the Bible to its conclusion, there is the revelation of His goodness. In the creation we see where God declares all that He had made, especially man, to be good, the very…
“For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died.” 2 Corinthians 5:14 One of the great proofs of the pride of men is the refusal to first of all recognize that there is a God, a Creator. A second proof is the concept by…
“Then God said, ‘Let there be light; and there was light.’” Genesis 1:3 There was no man present who heard God speak His first command in Scripture, which was before the creation of the world. That which we know, and are assured of, is that God actually spoke, with literal words, but words which not…
“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord; and my prayer went up to You, into Your holy temple.” Jonah 2:7 If ever there was someone in a dire circumstance, with almost no hope to be delivered from it, it was Jonah. A captive in the belly of a fish, he was a…
“For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!” 1 Corinthians 9:16 When Saul of Tarsus was called by God, being converted on the road to Damascus, it was in view of him becoming an…
“Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.” 1 Timothy 1:17 In the book of Proverbs in the Bible, Solomon wrote down many wise, and profound truths. One of those truths has to do with a “vision,” or revelation, that work of…
“To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Colossians 1:27 It was David, who approximately three thousand years ago, penned these words: “O Lord, You are the portion of my inheritance, and my cup;…