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.
“Come now therefore, and I will send thee to Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth My people the children of Israel out of Egypt.” Exodus 3:10 There is a great hymn, written by G. Matheson, one stanza of which is this: “O Love, that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in…
“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.” Matthew 24:45,46 At the beginning of almost every letter written by the Apostle Paul, we find a…
“And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent.” Matthew 27:51 In the Old Testament, by the work and teachings of Moses, God gave to Israel a picture concerning God’s way for man, by which he could come…
“I am the bread of life: he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and He that believeth on Me shall never thirst.” John 6:35 Over and over again, in the Lord Jesus’ treatment of the subject of Him being the bread of life, He brings to the forefront of one’s consideration that it was…
“This then is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all.” 1 John 1:5 When John the Apostle wrote his first letter, he was a very old man. He had seen a lot in his day, so that his…
“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…