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.
“Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22,23 One of the most blessed ways that the eternal God reveals Himself to men, and this to the individual, is by the word of God. His word is the verbal and…
“Jesus said to him, ‘If I will that he remains till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.” John 21:22 The call of Christ is not just a single command to the individual. It is true that it begins with that initial sitting down and calculating what it means to follow Christ…
“The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul.” Psalm 23:1-3 David is considered, from a historical and spiritual standpoint, to have been a great man, not just in his dealings with people, but primarily…
“That which we have seen and heard we declare unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.” 1 John 1:3 In the high priestly prayer of Jesus, made just before He was crucified, was revealed very clearly the objective…
“I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgement is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.” John 5:30 Throughout Scripture we find that God is sending messengers, often Angels, or His prophets to proclaim His word to a…
“But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all Your works.” Psalm 73:28 Is it possible to draw near to God, and Him to draw near to us? What does it mean to do so? After the resurrection of…
“But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart, and with all your soul.” Deuteronomy 4:29 When Jacob was found alone with God, wrestling with Him until the break of day, God was bringing Jacob to a place in his heart…
“…a new creation. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.” Galatians 6:15,16 In the Apostle Paul’s second letter to the believers in Corinth, he wrote concerning Christ’s death, and what it would mean for born-again believers in Christ. He wrote that…
“…how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” Hebrews 9:14 The pivotal moment of the history of the world, and the eternal destiny of every man, woman, and child, was when the Lord…
“I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in His word I do hope. My soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning.” Psalm 130:5,6 It was the Apostle Paul who wrote of an experience he had, which the Lord had given him. It was a revelation by God…