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.
“The meek will He guide in judgment; and the meek will He teach His way.” Psalms 25:9 It was written of Moses that He was the most meek man in the earth in his day. The Lord Jesus even said of Himself, “…I am meek and lowly of heart.” Why is this matter of meekness…
“I AM THAT I AM: and He said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.” Exodus 3:14 There is power in words, especially if those words come from God. In the simplicity of five words, God gave to Moses for the people of Israel in bondage,…
“Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.” 1 Timothy 1:17 One of the great keys to the life of faith of the Apostle Paul, and that which was communicated through his writings to the believers of his day, and until now, was…
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.” Psalm 23:4 The great value of the twenty-third psalm is found in the matter of accessability to God. Here we have in a very short space and time all that is needed to come to God, our Maker,…
“God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.” Psalm 46:5 When Peter asked the Lord to bid him come and walk on the waves of the sea, as the Lord was doing in the midst of the storm, the Lord Jesus told him…
“For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour My Spirit upon thy seed, and My blessing upon thine offspring.” Isaiah 44:3 It is a wonderful reality that God has given to us day and night, designating and making clear that time passes, and there…
“And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.” 1 Samuel 30:6 There are times and moments in life when all of a sudden, the…
“Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.” Hebrews 11:11 What is true faith based upon? Is it not the faithfulness of God? What then is faithfulness, and in particular, that which we see…
“And I have put My words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of Mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, ‘Thou art My people.’” Isaiah 51:16 It was in the days of Elijah the prophet in Israel, that…
“For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.” 1 Corinthians 4:20 When the Lord Jesus began His ministry, after the wilderness experience of being tempted by Satan, Scripture tells us that He “…returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee.” (Luke 4:14) In the book of Isaiah, we discover the…