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.
“For the prophecy came not in old times by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved upon by the Holy Spirit.” 2 Peter 1:21 When we take the written, inspired pages of Scripture, and read them, do we truly understand their importance, and the means by which God…
“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song: He also is become my salvation.” Isaiah 12:2 sp There is a great hymn which begins: “When morning gilds the skies, my heart awakening cries, ‘May Jesus Christ be praised.’” Why is this…
“Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage?” Micah 7:18 If it were not for the awfulness of sin, and our conscience because of it, and if we had pure hearts and clean hands as we approach God in truth, there would…
“For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:19 The Apostle Paul was a most remarkable man, and we discover why in His writings, and the testimony of Christ within him, and through Him to God and to those around…
“I have set the Lord always before me: because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.” Psalm 16:8 There is such a thing as intensity when one speaks of faith. It is that refusal to look at other things when one is looking at Christ. Why? Because in that vision of…
“…the children of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain Thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life to take it away.” 1 Kings 19:10 When the Lord called Elijah to be the principle prophet by whom He would speak to Israel…
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of faith…” Hebrews 12:1 In Matthew’s gospel, he gives…
“And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it (i.e. the passover lamb).” Exodus 12:7 It is in one of Charles Wesley’s hymns that we read the following: “Behold Him, all ye that pass by,…
“And He hath on his vesture and on His thigh a name written, ‘KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.’” Revelation 19:16 It will be at the seventh trumpet sound mentioned in the book of Revelation, to be heard during the tribulation period, that, “…there were great voices in heaven, saying, ‘The kingdoms of this…
“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6 In the book of Jeremiah, the Lord puts the whole matter of trusting Him in a very descriptive perspective. He says, “Let not the wise man…