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.
“The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.” Acts 2:20 In Joel’s prophesy concerning the outpouring of the Spirit upon all flesh, given about seven hundred years before Pentecost, we find in his declaration perhaps the greatest, most extensive,…
“…And the Spirit of God was upon the face of the waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” Genesis 1:2,3 Throughout Scripture we find that God speaks. Sometimes He speaks through the things that He has made or done. And though there may not be words as we know them…
“Shake yourself from the dust, arise; sit down, O Jerusalem! Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion!” Isaiah 52:2 There came a day in the life of Samson, a judge that God raised up in Israel, to begin to deliver His people from the Philistines, that he awoke from…
“…but now, He has promised, saying, ‘Once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.’” Hebrews 12:27 In the context of the building of the second temple after the period of the deportation had reached its fulfillment of seventy years, the Lord gave to Haggai in his short book, a prophecy of things…
“…And let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of faith…” Hebrews 12:1,2 Scripture tells us that the Lord Jesus, ‘…who for the JOY set before Him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne…
“Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22,23 In Psalm 118, we find written concerning the subject of a “day,” “This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (v.24) Why does…
“…And the man of God was angry with him, and said, ‘You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck Syria till you had destroyed it. But now you will strike Syria only three times.” 2 Kings 13:19 During the 6th and 7th centuries before Christ, there were many kings which…
“For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.” 1 Corinthians 14:33 The Apostle Paul wrote to the Philippian believers of his day, that his great objective in life was to know Christ, and the POWER of His resurrection. In his letters to the believers…
“For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” John 3:17 There is a pivotal reason for which Christ was born, then crucified, and raised from the dead. It was first of all to provide a perfect, complete, unchanging way for…
“…the Lord appeared to Abram and said, ‘I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.’” Genesis 17:1 We might think that since Abram (Abraham) is so far removed from our modern world, thousands of years ago, that he did not face some of the same challenges that we face when it comes to…