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.
Many years ago, we were doing evangelistic work in a market in central France. There were two brothers who had a large truck, from which they sold their goods, not too far from our stand. We met them, and strangely enough, they looked very much like Elvis Presley. In our conversation with them, we learned
“Practically, where does the “partaking” begin? And how are we thus to live by this Quickening Spirit? How is Christ to “dwell in the heart?” There is only one way, BY FAITH.”
