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.
“Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22,23 In Psalm 118, we find written concerning the subject of a “day,” “This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (v.24) Why does…
“…And the man of God was angry with him, and said, ‘You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck Syria till you had destroyed it. But now you will strike Syria only three times.” 2 Kings 13:19 During the 6th and 7th centuries before Christ, there were many kings which…
“For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.” 1 Corinthians 14:33 The Apostle Paul wrote to the Philippian believers of his day, that his great objective in life was to know Christ, and the POWER of His resurrection. In his letters to the believers…
“For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” John 3:17 There is a pivotal reason for which Christ was born, then crucified, and raised from the dead. It was first of all to provide a perfect, complete, unchanging way for…
“…the Lord appeared to Abram and said, ‘I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.’” Genesis 17:1 We might think that since Abram (Abraham) is so far removed from our modern world, thousands of years ago, that he did not face some of the same challenges that we face when it comes to…
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him BEFORE the foundation of the world…” Ephesians 1:3 It is one thing for men to use the day of their birth as a…
“…That which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.” 1 John 1:3 When John the Apostle was an old man, having walked with the Lord for many years, God gave him…
“For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body – whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free – and have been made to drink into one Spirit.” 1 Corinthians 12:13 The body of Christ, the “church,” and every living member of it, is a miracle and marvel of God. Though the knowledge…
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory IN THE CHURCH by Christ Jesus to ALL generations, forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3:20, 21 Where did the idea of the church of Christ come…
“Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. Who is the King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory.” Psalm 24:9,10 When God began to reveal to mankind the salvation in Christ, He did so in three ways. …