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.
“…you are an epistle (letter) of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.” 2 Corinthians 3:3 In the book of Isaiah, we find the Lord declaring: “I am the Lord, that…
“In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand…Blessed are you who sow beside all waters…” Ecclesiastes 11:6, Isaiah 32:20 One of the most dominant themes of the New Testament is that of the coming of Christ, either to take His church to be with Himself at the rapture,…
“Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it! Shout you lower parts of the earth; Break forth into singing, you mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the Lord has redeemed Jacob and glorified Himself in Israel.” Isaiah 44:23 There is great power and blessing in singing, especially when it is to…
“Nevertheless, my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the Lord my God…Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day.” Joshua 14:8,12 The man Caleb, as well as Joshua, were distinguished in their time, first of all in that…
“The Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor or Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God.” Haggai 1:14 From…
“…the palaces shall be forsaken, the bustling city will be deserted. The forts and towers will become lairs forever…UNTIL the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field.” Isaiah 32:14,15 One of the great, and fundamental truths of true Christianity is that God alone can do the work…
“How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.” Matthew 23:37 We do not know if Jesus was looking over the city of Jerusalem when He spoke of how often He wanted to gather her children around him, to protect and…
“…that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ.” Ephesians 3:8,9 In the Apostle Paul’s personal testimony that he relates to…
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.” Galatians 5:1 There is a liberty which belongs to the believer in Christ which is not known, or cannot be known, by the unbeliever. The Apostle Paul spoke of this liberty,…
“For I have not spoken on My own initiative; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak.” John 12:49 There came a day in the ministry of Jesus that He entered Capernaum, there being met by elders of the Jews who had been sent…