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.
“Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; on You I wait all the day.” Psalm 25:4,5 It is in the Psalms written by David that we discover the very practical seeking of God concerning clarity and…
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.” Psalm 19:1-3 In the Apostle Paul’s letter to the believers in Rome of his day, he wrote the following concerning…
“Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them, the children of Israel.” Joshua 1:2 After Moses died, and was buried by the Lord Himself, there were about thirty days that the people of Israel spent in mourning…
“For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground, He has no form or comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.” Isaiah 53:2 When Christ came into this world, and was born in Bethlehem, apparently the only…
“Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not ALL His benefits.,,” Psalm 103:2 Throughout Scripture, though we are admonished to not dwell on the past, to be wrongly influenced by it, we are called upon to remember that which is good, especially and primarily that which God has revealed of Himself to the heart,…
“Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” 2 Corinthians 3:17 When Christ comes to the heart, seeking entrance so that He can cleanse the soul, and direct the attention and energy of one’s life to devotion to Him, He comes with a promise: “If the…
“Thus says the Lord who made it, the Lord who formed it to establish it (the Lord is His name): ‘Call unto Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things which you do not know.’” Jeremiah 33:3 In the book of Jeremiah, we find him recounting his experience in “the…
“SERVE THE LORD WITH FEAR AND REJOICE WITH TREMBLING. KISS THE SON, LEST HE BE ANGRY, AND YOU PERISH IN THE WAY, WHEN HIS WRATH IS KINDLED BUT A LITTLE. BLESSED ARE ALL THOSE WHO PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM.” PSALM 2:11-12 Theology is the study of God, His nature, His ways, according to…
“The Lord has made bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of the Lord.” Isaiah 52:10 Though God had revealed to Abraham that in him “…all the families of the earth shall be blessed,” and though in the writings of…
“Again, He (the Lord God) said to me, ‘Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!’” Ezekiel 37:4 The ways of God with men are such that in all of His dealings He reveals that He is God and man is sinful man. When He reveals…