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.
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” James 1:17 True thanksgiving began in the Garden of Eden. This is so because of the essential definition and application of thankfulness. First of all, thankfulness implies that…
“And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever.” John 14:16 It is difficult to grasp the fathomless meaning of the essence of what God calls, “the Comforter,” much less being able to understand the extent to which this blessed gift of God…
“And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty.” 2 Kings 1:9,10 When Elijah was confronted with one of Ahaziah’s commanders, he was addressed as being a “man of God.” It is very evident…
“I, even I, am He that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and the son of man, which shall be made as grass…?” Isaiah 51:12 There are many ways which God uses to reveal Himself to our hearts, and become a living reality to us. …
“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” Romans 8:14 It is a very wrong concept to believe that God will not guide us, specifically lead us clearly in His will. After all, did not Christ die that we might know His Life and power, be…
“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…