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.
“God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:9 Throughout the Old and New Testaments, we find that God reveals Himself as the Covenant Keeping God. What is a covenant but that commitment by two individuals to honor and agreed upon a certain…
“Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.” John 17:1 In the days of Habakkuk the prophet, whose book we find in the Old Testament, we find a man of God who is deeply torn by what might be termed a coming storm. However, it is more than a…
“Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” 1 Corinthians 3:16 Christianity is not a set of rules, regulations, principles and promises. It is a LIFE lived, but one which is specific beyond comprehension or measure, unless we limit God by unbelief in…
“Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise; be thankful unto Him and bless His name.” Psalm 100:4 When Satan confronted the Lord Jesus in the wilderness, offering to him “all the kingdoms of the world,” (Luke 4:5), he did so with the power to accomplish it. We know this from the…
“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 to the world.” Galatians 6:14 Why is the cross of Christ central in the proclamation of God to the world that salvation has come to men, a salvation that…
“Keep silence before Me, O islands: and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.” Isaiah 41:1 In the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Galatians, he speaks of his calling by God, “…who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me…
“Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over Him. For in that he died, H died unto sin once, but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God.” Romans 6:9,10 There are many things which make Christianity the eternal certainty that it is, with regard to…
“As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith.” Colossians 2:6,7 There was so much involved, when in the history of Israel, after in some measure she had returned from the captivity, and had begun to rebuild the temple,…
“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds…” 2 Corinthians 10:4 In the spiritual warfare in which the true believer in Christ is engaged, Paul gives us a vision of the soldier of Christ in his letter to the Ephesian church. This picture, and…
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.” Matthew 24:35 In the fifty-fifth chapter of Isaiah, we read the following concerning the “word” of the Lord: “So shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth; it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that…