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.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him BEFORE the foundation of the world…” Ephesians 1:3 It is one thing for men to use the day of their birth as a…
“…That which we have seen and heard we declare to 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 When John the Apostle was an old man, having walked with the Lord for many years, God gave him…
“For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body – whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free – and have been made to drink into one Spirit.” 1 Corinthians 12:13 The body of Christ, the “church,” and every living member of it, is a miracle and marvel of God. Though the knowledge…
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory IN THE CHURCH by Christ Jesus to ALL generations, forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3:20, 21 Where did the idea of the church of Christ come…
“Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. Who is the King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory.” Psalm 24:9,10 When God began to reveal to mankind the salvation in Christ, He did so in three ways. …
“They shall be My people, and I will be their God; then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them.” Jeremiah 32:38,39 One of the covenants that God gave to Israel, He declaring it to be a “new…
“And you shall know the truth, and he truth shall make you free…Therefore, it the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” John 8:32,36 When Moses, a man of eighty years of age, came upon the burning bush in the wilderness of Sinai, the Lord spoke to Him, revealing to him who He…
“But now O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay and you our Potter, and all we are the work of your hand.” Isaiah 64:8 When considering the difference between the Creator and that which was created, the disparity is such that man, in the littleness of his mind and heart, can hardly…
“Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’” Isaiah 45:9 In the forty-fourth and forty-fifth chapters of the book of Isaiah in the Bible, we find mentioned a man by the name of Cyrus. His coming upon the stage of history was proclaimed through the prophet Isaiah approximately one hundred…
“Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Ester 4:14 The timing of God in the history of men is not only a most remarkable intervention on His part, but one which reveals His wisdom, power, and glory. This timing concerns often very humble manifestations of His…