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.
“…for I knew that Thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest Thee of the evil.” Jonah 4:2 Dear Ones: Perhaps one of the greatest aspects of the revelation of God in the Scriptures, has to do with man’s total incapacity to realize WHO He is, and…
“And He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John 14:26 Dear Ones: What does it mean to be taught by the Spirit of God? It means firstly that He is by nature, disposition, and capacity, the greatest Teacher of all. It is hard…
“And unto him He said, ‘Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.” Zechariah 3:4 Dear Ones: Debt and condemnation are very real weights that burden down the soul, even crippling it from rising to the height of life and blessing that the Lord…
“Behold my servant, whom I uphold, mine elect, in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him..” Isaiah 42:1 Dear Ones: Perhaps the greatest testimony of Moses at the time of his death was that he was, as the Lord declared him to be, God’s servant. Throughout Scripture we find this concept,…
“Awake you who are sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.” Ephesians 5:14 Dear Ones: In one of the most extraordinary events in the life of Jesus Christ, He “awakens” someone who had died. Though Lazarus, the brother of Martha and Mary, had died, Jesus told His disciples: “Our friend…
“I marvel that you are so soon removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel.” Galatians 1:6 Dear Ones: When the Apostle Paul wrote his letter to the Galatians, he was addressing “the churches of Galatia.” (1:2) His concern in writing the letter had to do with a deviation…
“For brethren, you have been called unto liberty.” Galatians 5:13 Dear Ones: What constitutes true freedom? What IS freedom? Just the word “freedom” speaks to us of a condition of mind and heart, and perhaps body, where there is the opposite experience. So, what IS freedom, freedom from what? And what is heaven’s perspective? True…
“For the Lord’s portion is His people; Jacob is the lot of His inheritance.” Deuteronomy 32:9 Dear Ones: It will take eternity to just begin to understand and know the mind and heart of God. It is true that the believer will know God, even as he is known. (1 Cor. 13:12) But there is…
“And who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Ester 4:14 Dear Ones: In the economy of God, there is no mistake, nor is there any error on God’s part. Paul wrote to the believers in Ephesus the phrase: “…according as He has chosen us in Him BEFORE…
“And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him.” Exodus 4:24 Dear Ones: How important is the covenant which God makes with man? It is so very important that God deals with man, irrespective of his status or stature. He makes no exception. …