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.
“Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.” Ephesians 6:16 In Paul’s first letter to his son in the faith, Timothy, he wrote concerning waring a “good warfare,” specifically fighting the “good fight of faith.” (1 Tim. 6:12) An essential objective and…
“And it came to pass, that in the morning watch, the Lord looked upon the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, and took off their chariot wheels…” Exodus 14:24 There are several examples in the Scriptures when we find men, armies,…
“He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him.” John 14:21 During the ministry of the Lord Jesus, He was asked by a certain scribe which was the…
“‘No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee shalt thou condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of Me.’ saith the Lord.” Isaiah 54:17 For forty years the people of Israel had been living in the wilderness not…
“And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.” Ephesians 3:9 It was William Cowper who wrote the following lines: “God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants…
“Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.” 1 Samuel 16:13 In the book of Haggai, though the circumstances vastly differ from those when David was anointed king of Israel, the basic issues were…
“…strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith…” Ephesians 3:17) In one of the great passages of Scripture which speaks of God giving strength to those who have no strength, we read in Isaiah that God “…giveth power to the faint; and to them…
“…I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.” Joel 2:28 God’s way of dealing with men is to speak to them, to their hearts and minds. He does this in such a…
“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9 In the Apostle Peter’s treatment of the subject of the longsuffering, and patience of God, he prefaces it by saying that…
“That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside Me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.” Isaiah 44:6 For thousands of years now the Lord through the Scriptures has proclaimed, proved, and provided every conceivable means by the Spirit, of revealing to…