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.
“The earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” Genesis 1:2 Perhaps the most cataclysmic event of all time, before the coming of Christ in Bethlehem’s stable, was the creation of the world and the universe. …
“I have food to eat of which you do not know…My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.” John 4:32,34 In the book of Isaiah we find a marvelous picture of Christ, one that embraces and describes His mission. Though the word “redemption” is not used…
“He that dwells in the secret of place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” Psalm 91:1 It is an amazing truth that the believers of the Old Testament, especially those who have contributed to the writing of the Scriptures, have known God in much the same way as believers…
“Look among the nations and watch…be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told you.” Habakkuk 1:5 In the history of Israel, specifically during the days and ministry of Habakkuk, who is termed a “minor” prophet, though he was a man among men…
“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” John 15:5 The call of Christ to every believer is to a life of absolute dependence upon Him, so as to receive from Christ all that pertains to…
“And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying, ‘Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I tell you.’” Jonah 3:1,2 Even though Jonah, being blinded by his prejudice and intense dislike for the Ninevites, was as a result cast into the sea, carried…
“Though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.” 1 Corinthians 13:2 Why is the greatest commandment from God to man that of loving God? And why is the second greatest…
“Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons; and concerning the work of My hands command ye me.” Isaiah 45:11 The story is told of two elderly women of faith who addressed the great preacher, Dwight Moody, saying to him: “Mr. Moody, the world has yet to see what God can do with a…
“Then it happened, as they continued on and talked, that suddenly a chariot of fire appeared with horses of fire and separated the two of them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” 2 Kings 2:11 In the book of 1st Kings in the Old Testament, we find the account of God giving…
“And Jesus said to him, ‘If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.’” John 21:22 What does it mean to follow Christ? In the Lord’s dealings with Simon Peter, after the resurrection, when he and other disciples were with the Lord Jesus, the Lord spoke to…