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 the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” Isaiah 53:6 Dear Ones: The concept of forgiveness of sins, or pardon, was born in the heart of God before the world began. So was its means and method. To understand the power of the pardon of God, we have to go back…
“When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.” Isaiah 59:19 Dear Ones: The rapture of the church, with regard to the period of the tribulation, mentioned in the book of Revelation, is just as feasible, possible, and certain, as the outpouring of…
“And the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him.” Luke 3:22 Dear Ones: Throughout the life of Christ, from his miraculous birth to the moment that He gave up his spirit, dying on the cross, the key to His success, and the realization of the purpose and will of the…
“For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it.” Matthew 16:25 Dear Ones: It was said by those who heard Him, that no man spoke as did the Lord Jesus. Why? We know that what He said was accompanied by authority, for with…
“According as He has chosen us in Him (Christ) before the foundation of the world…” Ephesus 1:4 Dear Ones: How big is God? Paul responds to that question by writing: “…how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out.” (Romans 11:33) In other words, in our consideration of God, and how “big,” or…
“And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire, a still small voice.” 1 Kings 19:12 Dear Ones: One of the old hymn-writers wrote: “God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants His footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.” …
“Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.” Matthew 23:24 Dear Ones: It has been said that, “Fellowship with Christ makes the complicated simple.” However, it is amazing how many enemies there are to true fellowship with Christ, that life of abiding in Him, deriving all from Him. This communion is…
“But the anointing which you have received of Him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you.” 1 John 2:27 Dear Ones: Most people, in particular believers, have a shallow knowledge of God simply because they do not believe Him according to His word. Instead of living in the realm of…
“Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.” Psalm 37:1 Dear Ones: One of the great values of the Psalms, apart from teaching us so many great and wonderful truths of God, is the related, and validated experience of the Psalmists in their walk and relationship with God. …
“The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63 Dear Ones: There is a great difference between the words of God, and those of men. It is true that both can comfort, strengthen, encourage, and inspire in some way, but there is a fundamental element in the words…