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.
“But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” Deuteronomy 4:29 The great call of God to all of mankind is for individuals, families, peoples and nations, to seek Him, and to find Him. Why is…
“Today if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.” Hebrews 4:7 Is it possible to hear the voice of God? And if it is, how can one discern Him speaking? In the book of Revelation, we have the words of the Lord Jesus addressing His church, His living body created at Pentecost…
“‘For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman,’ says the Lord. ‘Enlarge the place of your tent…’ Isaiah 54:1,2 Just before Elijah the prophet was to be taken up into heaven in a chariot of fire, he asked Elisha the following question: “What may I do for you,…
“Look among the nations and watch – be utterly astonished! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told you.” Habakkuk 1:5 When Habakkuk sought the Lord concerning the violence and injustice of his day, especially that which was prevalent in Israel at the time, as…
“…But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be My people.” Jeremiah 31:33 There is no doubt from the testimony of…
“Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations,” “…even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.” Psalm 90:1,2 If there is one characteristic about the nature of God that should always bring us to our knees, it is the fact that He is ETERNAL. Just in mentioning the word, “eternal,” we are immediately…
“But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.” John 14:31 What did it mean for Jesus Christ to love His Father? First of all, in answering the question, we must recognize our limits as sinners, though…
“Stir up the gift of God which is in you,” “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:6,7 When the Apostle Paul wrote his two letters to Timothy as recorded in the Bible, he did so in view of his…
“When you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut the door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.” Matthew 6:6 The greatest gift to mankind by God was not the perfect beauty of the Garden of Eden. It…
“What do you see? …there is a lampstand of solid gold with a bowl on the top of it, and on the stand seven lamps with seven pipes to the seven lamps.” Zechariah 4:2 In the book of Revelation at the very beginning of the book we find mentioned in the vision that God gave…