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 young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want for any good thing.” Psalm 34:10 It was Cecil F. Alexander who wrote in a hymn: “Complete in Thee! each need supplied. And no good thing to me denied; Since Thou my portion, Lord, will be, I ask…
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” 1 Corinthians 13:11 In Paul’s letter to the Corinthian believers, he wrote concerning children and men, “…Brethren, be not children in…
“And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before Me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.” Ezekiel 22:30 Of all the means by which God could reach the world with a saving knowledge of Himself, and provide…
“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.” Philippians 2:13 How does God work in us? How do we know that it is Him? In the verse just preceding the one which speaks of Him working in us to WILL and to DO of His…
“Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear: break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst did not travail with child…” Isaiah 54:1 David and Isaiah were great singers. We know this to be so because of their writings. They both speak of singing, breaking forth into singing. Isaiah would write, “Sing unto…
“And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.” Genesis 3:23 In Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, he makes mention of a similar truth that Adam spoke of before the fall. Paul wrote, “For we are members of His (Christ’s) body, of His flesh, and of His bones.” (5:30)…
“I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with Mine eye upon thee.” Psalm 32:8 It is a remarkable thing that the eternal God can guide a helpless sheep. It is not so remarkable with regard to God’s capacity and effectiveness to do so, for…
“And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Corinthians 12:9 That which is a limitation to us is an opportunity for God to do wonderful things. Why? From the very first moment of the Christian’s life in Christ, the Spirit of God is…
“Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord; His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain.” Hosea 6:3 How essential and extensive is rain, especially that “rain” of which God speaks? In the book of Isaiah,…
“This is My body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of Me…This cup is the new testament in My blood: this do ye as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of Me.” 1 Corinthians 11:24,25 There are many things that the disciple of Christ must forget if he would follow Christ. …