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.
“All power is given unto Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” Matthew 28:18,19 In the revelation of God to Israel of Himself, at a crucial point in history, and…
“And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, ‘Loose him, and let him go.’” John 11:44 In the book of Isaiah, we find where God speaks of the anointing of His Son, the Holy Spirit being given to…
“Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength, and He will make my feet like deer’s feet, and He will make me walk on my high hills.” Habakkuk 3:18,19 During the ministry of the Lord Jesus, there came a day when…
“…Whereunto I also labor, striving according to His working, which worketh in me mightily.” Colossians 1:29 When we look at the Apostle Paul, we are apt to compare ourselves to him since he was a believer, and we are also. But, when we honestly look at the experience, and life of the Apostle, and how…
“And He arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, ‘Peace, be still.’ And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.” Mark 4:39 In the gospel according to Mark, we find Jesus, and His disciples in several boats, crossing the Sea of Galilee, after ministering to the multitude. Jesus, being tired,…
“Thus says the Lord God: ‘I will also let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will increase their men like a flock.’” Ezekiel 36;37 In the book of Isaiah there is a marvelous progression in the revelation of God to Israel, specifically concerning what He will do in…
“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10 Throughout the entirety of Biblical history from the writings of Moses and the prophets to those of the Apostles, there is a resounding purpose. It is that men might know that…
“The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying, ‘Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.” Jeremiah 31:3 It was Adoniram Judson, missionary to Burma, who said, “The love of God, what a study for eternity.” It was M. Shekelton who wrote: “It passeth knowledge, that…
“Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that Thou art the Lord God, and that Thou hast turned their heart back again.” 1 Kings 18:37 It was perhaps one of the greatest days in the life of the prophet Elijah’s life when defying the godless rulers of his time, Ahab and…
“…that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith…” Ephesians 3:16 In Psalm 46, the Psalmist speaks of God being our refuge and strength, “…a very present help in time of…