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.
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraides not; and it shall be given him.” James 1:5 Dear Ones: If there is one way to surely know God, it concerns the matter of wisdom. Scripture tells us that “…the meek will He (God) guide…
“‘You are My witnesses,’ says the Lord, ‘and My servant whom I have chosen: that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He.’” Isaiah 43:10 Dear Ones: When the Lord confronted Nicodemus about the necessity of being born again, He made it very clear that the power to BE born again…
“For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.” Philippians 2:13 Dear Ones: The concept of the ministry of the Spirit of God in the heart and life of the believer is essential to understand, if faith would lay hold upon Him for the full outworking…
“I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron.” Isaiah 45:2 Dear Ones: What is victory? What is it from heaven’s standpoint? If the believer is to understand victory aright, he must look at Christ, and…
“Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.” Matthew 2:13 Dear Ones: The spiritual conflict that the believer on this earth in engaged in is very real, and has formidable repercussions…
“And He said unto him (Abram), ‘I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.’” Genesis 15:7 Dear Ones: There is often great power in a picture, power to learn truth, and to appropriate the blessing of the truth. The initial “picture” of…
“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world gives, give I unto you.” John 14:27 Dear Ones: Jesus, in speaking to His disciples concerning “peace,” made a distinction between the peace given by the world, and that from God. One has its origin in men, their methods and…
“Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money, come ye, buy and eat…” Isaiah 55:1 Dear Ones: In John’s gospel, the Lord Jesus makes a remarkable declaration about being drawn to God: “No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draws him.”…
“He leads me beside still waters…; He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.” Psalm 23:2,3 Dear Ones: It was Fannie Crosby, blind from a very early age, who wrote the hymn: All The Way My Savior Leads Me.” In that hymn, she wrote: “All the way my Savior leads me,…
“In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of His temple, and my cry came before Him, even into His ear.” Psalm k18:6 Dear Ones: It is very possible that the first question that entered into the mind of Gideon when the “angel of the…