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 God said, ‘I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee…” Exodus 33:19 There is a great, though simple and brief, hymn by J. Hart, which describes the heart of someone that knows something of the goodness of God. J. Hart writes: “How…
“Fear thou not, for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.” Isaiah 41:10 In God’s dealings throughout history, He has dealt with the nation of Israel in different ways. …
“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?” Luke 11:13 There are many calls of God to man in the Bible, most of which are first of all to get the attention of…
“And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world…” Ephesians 2:1,2 Christianity is a radical thing, not because it is politically, socially, or religiously on the fringe of reason, logic, and normalcy, but because it deals with a radical situation,…
“My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?” Psalm 42:2 There is one great certainty about man’s existence upon this earth that determines greatly how he will live. It is the fact that one day every man will meet God, whether in joy or in fear,…
“And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, ‘How long are ye slack (tardy) to go to possess the land, which the Lord God of your fathers hath given you?’” Joshua 18:3 The picture of Israel as a people, whom the Lord God had delivered from the tyranny of Egypt, to bring them into a…
“Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10 It is one thing to know the truth, both concerning the knowledge of God and of His ways, and then…
“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” Romans 8:1 In the book of Isaiah we read where the Lord speaks of weapons of the enemy that will face the believer. There is a promise associated with those weapons which are formed against the people of…
“Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” Ephesians 6:11 The spiritual war in which the Christian is engaged to fight, is a difficult one, not only because of the nature of it, but because it is an invisible one. The Apostle Paul…
“Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.” Galatians 3:24 Salvation is a very curious thing primarily because its whole basis is founded and accomplished by the testimony of One which is not of this creation. It is also based upon a message, or the…