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.
“If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?” Luke 11:13 How much to do we really know about God? How well do we really know HIM? The Heavenly Father is One who, in…
“And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord because of the Midianites, that the Lord sent a prophet unto the children of Israel…and there came an angel of the Lord.” Judges 6:7,8,11 That which is impossible with man is possible with God. The question is whether God will be…
“And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood a man over against with his sword drawn in his hand.” Joshua 5:13 Many are the examples in the Word of God of men, and women, who were soldiers. If we look at…
“But in the fourth generation, they (the seed of Abraham), shall come hither again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.” Genesis 15:16 Time with God is not the same thing as time with men. In the Apostle Peter’s second letter, he writes: “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing,…
“Thus saith Cyrus, king of Persia, ‘All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord God of heaven given me; and He hath charged me to build Him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.’” 2 Chronicles 36:23 One of the great reasons for which there is Biblical prophecy, or the declaring by the…
“The Lord is my light and my strength; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” Psalm 27:1 One of the most extraordinary figures mentioned time and again in the Scriptures is David. He stands out among the masses as being unique in a time…
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14 It has been said that “truth is not mine, until it becomes me.” Is there a Biblical precedent for saying such a thing, and…
“I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth Thee.” Job 42:5 There is an underlying truth concerning God’s dealings with Job. Even though Satan has his way with Job to a certain point, and there is great suffering as a result, there is in the end, not…
“So likewise ye when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.” Matthew 24:33 Towards the end of Christ’s ministry, before He was crucified, He spoke of things to come, especially with regard to judgment, but also, of great grace, and the great salvation that is to be…
“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free, and have been made to drink into one Spirit.” 1 Corinthians 12:13 In one of the great passages of Scripture, the effects of which has resounded throughout history to this very day,…