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.
“But as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, ‘Be ye holy; for I am holy.’” 1 Peter 1:15,16 Throughout Scripture, God speaks to mankind concerning the difference between that which is holy and that which is not. Why? Fundamentally, it is…
“And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him.” Exodus 4:24 It was many years after the call of Moses to deliver the people of Israel, that the Lord made David king of Israel. There came a time when David, with all the…
“… for He hath said, ‘I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee,’ so that we may boldly say, ‘The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.’” Hebrews 13:5,6 One of the great truths of Scripture which is part of that great foundation upon which the salvation…
“But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into eternal life.” John 4:14 It was a French Pastor, Theodore Monod, who long ago wrote the following: “All in Christ, By the…
“But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.” Luke 11:42 In the Gospel of Luke there is a story of a man who is called “the rich young ruler.” He is an intelligent man, well versed in Scripture, and very desirous to live…
“So shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11 When God speaks, it is different than anyone else’s speech, not only because of the…
“And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.” Acts 2:17 When Scripture speaks of the last days, it certainly…
“In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest…” Haggai 1:1 Scripture tells us by the…
“The thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” John 10:10 The promise of the outpouring of the Spirit, as mentioned in the book of Joel, was an imperative to the church being born…
“I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.” Psalm 16:7 In Isaiah’s wonderful description of the child that is born, and the Son that is given, he begins by declaring, “…and the government shall be upon his shoulder…” (Is. 9:6) Why does he write…