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.
“Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight.” Exodus 33:13 The Bible, from the very first pages declaring to mankind that God created the heavens and the earth, to the last pages…
“God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.” Psalm 46:5 In the letter to the Hebrews, in the last chapter, we find a very short statement concerning the eternity of Christ. The author writes: “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”…
“Then Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle (cloak) on him…,” “…Then he arose and followed Elijah, and became his servant.” 1 Kings 19:19,21 There came a moment in the life of Elisha the son of Shaphat, when God made it very clear to him that he was to follow in the steps of…
“And it had been revealed to him (Simeon) by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.” (Luke 2:26) The coming of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, had been declared and revealed in Scripture throughout Biblical history. Numerous were the prophecies which spoke of one aspect…
“…but we also who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.” Romans 8:23 When the Spirit of God was poured out at Pentecost, and the church, the living body of Christ was born, the Spirit came to dwell in…
“Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia.” Ezra 1:1 One of the great proofs of God working in the heart of an individual is what is seen…
“…But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13,14 When the rancher, specifically the cowboy, rises in the morning, certain things are specifically done in different ways…
“When He, the Spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak: and He will tell you things to come.” John 16:13 There is no doubt that the resurrection of Christ from the dead is the…
“Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.” Acts 9:15 When God created the world, man was not there to instruct Him. In fact, the Lord asked Job that very question: “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?”…
“And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward.’” Exodus 14:15 There have been several instances in the Scriptures when the people of Israel were faced with either a natural boundary which would have kept them from pursuing the path the Lord had put…