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 the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds…” 2 Corinthians 10:4 In the spiritual warfare in which the true believer in Christ is engaged, Paul gives us a vision of the soldier of Christ in his letter to the Ephesian church. This picture, and…
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.” Matthew 24:35 In the fifty-fifth chapter of Isaiah, we read the following concerning the “word” of the Lord: “So shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth; it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that…
“O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since Thou hast spoken unto Thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.” Exodus 4:10 The story is told in Scripture of a “mad” prophet, not just one who was angry with God’s ways, and what God had called him…
“…for he that cometh to cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6 The basis for understanding how we are to live on this earth, at this time in history, begins with the One who has declared Himself to be “the…
“God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.” Psalm 67:7 What is the blessing of God, and what is the extent of that blessing? In the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Ephesian believers, he wrote at the beginning of the letter the following: “Blessed be the God and Father…
“Behold! My Servant whom I uphold, My Elect One in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.” Isaiah 42:1 The Lord Jesus Christ is perhaps the greatest anomaly the world has ever known. One of the ways we see Him as such is…
“…walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” Ephesians 4:1-3 There was a very wise man who once said, “If I have peace in my home,…
“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…