Joy’s Endurance
How shall we overcome adversity? How shall we endure? How shall we reign in life?
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 Receiver
Dear Ones: Many years ago a very godly man told me that I needed to learn to be a good receiver. I was an ardent “striver” and knew little of what it meant to receive. I was somewhat like Peter who refused to let the Lord Jesus wash his feet. He was unwilling to receive…
Praying Through [Pt. 2 of 2]
Dear Ones: The time just before the birth of Samuel was a dark period in the history of Israel. In a few short years the Philistines conquered the nation and captured the Ark of the Covenant, the most prized symbol of God’s covenant with Israel. It was at such a time that the prayer of…
Praying Through [Pt. 1 of 2]
Dear Ones: It is one thing to begin a race…quite another to finish it. It is one thing to begin to pray about a matter…it is quite another to pray until the matter is resolved. When Elijah was on the summit of Mt. Carmel, on his knees, though he was a prophet of God, he…
Interposing Christ
“It is essential to have a knowledge of the truth but we shall not know true freedom of soul and spirit, nor will we know victory in our daily living without personal fellowship with the Son of God. It is in personal fellowship with Him that He communicates to us the power that sets us free.”
Without A Vision The People Perish
Dear Ones: God is a God of clarity. When He instructs Hababbuk to write down a vision, He says, “…make it PLAIN upon the tables, that he may run that breadth it.” (Hab. 2:2) Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 14:8, “…For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?” David…
The Keys of the Kingdom
Dear Ones: One of the most extraordinary statements in the Bible is in Matthew 16:19, when Christ was addressing Peter: “…And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven.” Here is an ordinary fisherman whom Christ has chosen to be his disciple, and to whom, He is entrusting the “keys of the kingdom of heaven.”…
“I Will There Talk With Thee”
Dear Ones: In the book of the Song of Solomon (5:2,6), we have the picture of the bridegroom/shepherd, arriving home, and seeking His bride. He stands at the door and speaks. She recognizes His voice, and as she puts it, “…I sleep, my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh.” It is…
Taught of Lions
Dear Ones: There are a good many lions mentioned in the Bible. And as we study the situations, and the context, in which these animals are mentioned, we find that God has used them to accomplish many of His purposes. Sometimes the lessons from lions were aimed at demonstrating to the world that He was/is…
God’s Ways…
In Psalm 77, we find the psalmist declaring, “…Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?” When Jesus answered Satan at one point of being tempted, He declared, “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.” The primary theme here is…