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.
“Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Return to Me,” says the Lord of hosts, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the Lord of hosts.” Zechariah 1:3 From a prophetical standpoint, because of the role of the prophet and his responsibility before God, that which is most important, and which tremendously arrests his attention, are…
“My beloved spoke, and said to me: Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For lo, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.” Song of Solomon 2:10,11 The Apostle Paul, in speaking of the spiritual condition of men when they are born, and in which they remain, unless a…
“So now it was not you that sent me thither, but God: and He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.” Genesis 45:8 The sovereignty of God, that distinctive quality of His purpose and work, His independent intervention in the…
“I have set the Lord always before me: because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.” Psalm 16:8 What is stability but that ability and strength to go through the storm when, with wind and hurling rain, it is beating against you seeking to destabilize, or move one in their position…
“My soul clings to the dust: quicken me (or make alive, revive) according to Your word.” Psalm 119:25 Throughout Psalm 119, there is great emphasis on the written word of God, His precepts and testimonies, His commandments, the necessity to know them, keep them, and obey them. Why? Because according to the “will” and mind…
“And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward.’” Exodus 14:15 The deliverance of the people of Israel from the tyranny of Pharaoh and the Egyptians in the days of Moses, is perhaps one of the greatest testimonies in history to the greatness and…
“…and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of faith…” Hebrews 12:1 Where does faith come from? And how is it strengthened, or renewed? The answer lies but in on place, or one Person…the Lord Jesus Christ. We see this in the letter…
“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…