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.
“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord; And my prayer went up to You into Your holy temple.” Jonah 2:7 There is in warfare a condition called the “fog of war.” It is that state of being, and confinement of circumstances with its pressures and limitations, where the soldier does not see…
“If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.” Colossians 3:1 It is one thing to believe that Christ by His Spirit comes to dwell in the heart of the believer when that person becomes a new creation because of the…
“…work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.” Philippians 2:12,13 When revival or an awakening came to individuals, peoples, or nations, as mentioned in the Scriptures, there was the consciousness and the conviction of God being…
“Is the seed still in the barn? As yet the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yielded fruit. But from this day I will bless you.” Haggai 2:19 The book of Haggai is an account of God’s dealings with Israel, the exiles who had returned to Israel, and…
“And in his upper room, with his windows open towards Jerusalem, Daniel knelt down on his knees three times a day, and prayed and gave thanks before His God, as was his custom since the early days.” Daniel 6:10 If one was to search for the key to the life of Daniel, with respect to…
“Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” 2 Corinthians 6:2 What does God mean when He speaks of an “acceptable time,” a “day of salvation?” He is speaking of a definite, and very real intervention on His part in response to prayer. In the book of Isaiah, we find…
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 What is hope but the expectation of something better in magnitude of its effect, and certainty of its blessed realization. Hope, as we discover in…
“And He said, ‘Hear thou therefore the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right hand and on His left.” 1 Kings 22:19 Throughout Scripture, in particular in God’s dealings with Israel by the ministry of the prophets, He…
“For the word of God is quick (living), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit…” Hebrews 4: 12 If there is one thing that we see again and again in the Scriptures, it is that God speaks. We know that He always speaks truth,…
“But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God.” Acts 7:55 When Stephen was finishing testifying of Christ before the Sanhedrin, his words piercing their hearts, convicting them of their sins of murder and betrayal, he…