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.
“Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.” James 5:17 It was during the seige of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans that Jeremiah was shut up in prison. …
“Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace are ye saved;) and hath raised us up together and made us to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” Ephesians 2:5,6 In Paul’s first letter to the Corinthian believers, he provides every beleiver in the body of Christ…
“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” Romans 8:2 If the blood of Christ testifies to us of a redemptive price paid to purchase the sinner, cleanse from all and every sin, provide a righteousness that is perfect and complete…
“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I unto the world.” Galatians 6:14 As the blood of Christ, and the covenant according to that shed blood, is the great basis, essence, and reason for the first great…
“But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7 There are at least four significant, major positions faith that are essential to take, and maintain, if one would be…
“Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only deceiving your own selves.” James 1:22 From the beginning of the church at Pentecost, the body of Christ has been on a steep learning curve. It is a curve that is steep because of the blessing of Pentecost, the provision of the Spirit in His…
“And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp; but his servant Joshua, son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.” Exodus 33:11 What is the great characteristic that we see in every man or woman who…
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” Galatians 2:20 The whole of true Christianity, with respect to its small beginnings to the enduring legacy of its endurance and experience, has its beginning and basis in one central fact, expressed by the Lord Jesus on the cross:…
“Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” Ephesians 6:14 Why is it necessary to “stand” in the spiritual conflict? What does Scripture mean by instructing all believers to stand? Standing is an act, followed by an…
“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh.” 2 Corinthians 10:3 The primary conflict that Christ knew on this earth, was not with men, but wiith “…all principality, and power, and might and dominion.” (Eph. 1:2) In Paul’s letter to the Colossians, he wrote: “And having spoiled principalities, and…