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.
“For thus saith the high and holy One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.” Isaiah 57:15 The “way” into…
“Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto y our souls.” Matthew 11:29 What does meekness mean? Scripture tells us that Moses was the most meek man in all the earth in his day, at the same time being a…
“Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons, and concerning the works of My hands, command ye Me.” Isaiah 45:11 To whom does the Lord reveal Himself? Is it not to the seeking heart, to the worshipful soul? Why is it that worship is that means which God has given to men by which…
“The people shall be wiling in the day of Thy power, in the beauty of holiness from the womb of the morning: Thou hast the dew of youth.” Psalm 110:3 The history of Israel during the days of the Judges was one like the rising and retreating of the sea at the times of the…
“…Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father.” 1 Thessalonians 1:3 The perception of God concerning Christ’s body, His church, and every member of it, is often quite different than that of the believer. This…
“I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.” Exodus 3:6 The bold encounter that Moses had in meeting God at the occasion of the burning bush in the wilderness was…
“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.” Philippians 2:13 In Paul’s letter to the believers in Ephesus, he makes it clear that his objective in writing is to bring them to a knowledge of God and His ways, so that Christ may not only…
“The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. The Lord is good to all: and His tender mercies are over all His works.” Psalm 145:8,9 In the book of Jonah, we find him speaking to the Lord after the people of Nineveh repented, turned to God, God forgiving…
“There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Proverbs 16:25 In David’s Psalm of confession, when he deals thoroughly with the matter of forgiveness, and cleansing from sin, he goes to the very root of the issue of sin in asking the Lord, “Create…
“Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, ‘That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.’” Matthew 6:28,29 Almost the entire life of Isaiah, sometimes called the Messianic Prophet, was lived when Assyria was the…