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.
“In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Dear Ones: In Paul’s letter to the Romans, he writes concerning those who refuse to see the attributes of God in creation: “…when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, NEITHER WERE THANKFUL.” (Rom.…
“Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort.” Psalm 71:3 Dear Ones: I believe it was John Wesley who had such a hard time coming to grips with salvation by faith, and faith alone. One very wise brother in Christ told him, “Preach it until it becomes real.” And such is the case…
“And I will make My covenant between Me and thee, and will multiply thy seed exceedingly.” Genesis 17:2 Dear Ones: What is a “covenant?” When we take our Bibles, and open them, we find that they are basically divided into what is called the Old and New “Testaments.” As is the case with all languages,…
“And now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.” John 17:5 Dear Ones: One of the hardest concepts to truly grasp, and live by, is that of the preeminence of Christ, laying hold of the fact that He was not only…
“…And behold, a voice out of the cloud which said, ‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye Him.” Matthew 17:5 Dear Ones: There are a lot of things that we will never know about God, and the Lord Jesus Christ. In fact, the farther we walk with and before…
“Then He called the twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all the devils, and to cure diseases. And sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.” Luke 9:1-2 Dear Ones: It has been asked many times since Jesus walked on this earth: “Who teaches like Him?” …
“Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.” 2 Timothy 1:6 Dear Ones: In Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, he wrote: “But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of…
“For she said within herself, If I may but touch His garment, I shall be well.” Matthew 9:21 Dear Ones: Sometimes desperation is a good friend, as long as it pushes us towards God. Such was the case of a woman, whose name we do not know, who found herself to be in a desperate…
“…for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6 Dear Ones: Why can we say that faith is logical, the right thing to practice and embrace, when it comes to the things of God? First, we have to look…
“For I say unto you, among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.” Luke 7:28 Dear Ones: What is the measure of true greatness? What IS greatness? If we look at the…