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.
“Now Jericho was straightly (securely) shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out and none came in.” Joshua 6:1 The beginning of the conquest of Canaan began at a specific point, a designated place, at a designated time, and a desginated way. The promise to Israel of the successful conquest of Canaan,…
“Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for He hath torn, and He will heal us; He hath smitten, and He will bind us up. After two days will He revive us: in the third day, He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight.” Hosea 6:1,2 Every act of God,…
“Then Peter said, ‘Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.’” Acts 3:6 It was very soon after Pentecost, when the Spirit of God was poured out according to the prophecy of Joel, that Peter and John…
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to seplarate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38,39 It is one thing to…
“Moses My servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the chidren of Israel.” Joshua 1:2 There came a day in the life of Joshua, the son of Nun, when all changed. It was somewhat like the…
My Beloved has gone down to His garden, to the beds of balsam, to pasture His flocks in the gardens and gather lilies. I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine.” Song of Solomon 6:2,3 There is no way to truly know God without following the Shepherd. What does this mean? There comes a…
“Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, ‘Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons, and concerning the work of My hands command ye Me.’” Isaiah 45:11 Throughout Scripture, from the Garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve heard the Lord walking in the cool of the day, and…
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be one fold, and one Shepherd.” John 10:16 The work of redemption, and the salvation of men, is strictly an act and settled accomplishment of God. Though a body was…
“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you.” John 15:7 In one of the clearest statements in Scripture concerning the ways of God as opposed to the ways of men, the Lord declares in the writings of Isaiah: “For My thoughts…
“Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Matthew 6:9 If there is one thing that is revealed to men in what is called the Lord’s Prayer, it is that, what is true, and is occuring in heaven, is…