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.
“They shall be My people, and I will be their God; then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them.” Jeremiah 32:38,39 One of the covenants that God gave to Israel, He declaring it to be a “new…
“And you shall know the truth, and he truth shall make you free…Therefore, it the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” John 8:32,36 When Moses, a man of eighty years of age, came upon the burning bush in the wilderness of Sinai, the Lord spoke to Him, revealing to him who He…
“But now O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay and you our Potter, and all we are the work of your hand.” Isaiah 64:8 When considering the difference between the Creator and that which was created, the disparity is such that man, in the littleness of his mind and heart, can hardly…
“Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’” Isaiah 45:9 In the forty-fourth and forty-fifth chapters of the book of Isaiah in the Bible, we find mentioned a man by the name of Cyrus. His coming upon the stage of history was proclaimed through the prophet Isaiah approximately one hundred…
“Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Ester 4:14 The timing of God in the history of men is not only a most remarkable intervention on His part, but one which reveals His wisdom, power, and glory. This timing concerns often very humble manifestations of His…
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor…” Isaiah 61:1 It was during a very quiet night in the fields somewhere around the small town of Bethlehem that “an angel of the Lord” came and stood before some shepherds who were…
“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit, for without Me you can do nothing.” John 15:5 There is no doubt that the highest calling of man by God is to know fellowship, or communion with the Father and the Son, by the…
“You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals; for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe, and tongue, and people and nation…” Revelation 5:9 In the visions of heaven that the Scriptures give us, both in the Old Testament, and the New,…
“…He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.” Psalm 23:2,3 Throughout Scripture there is a truth that runs straight and true, one which is not only essential to grasp and live by, but one by which God reveals Himself to…
“But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.” 1 John 2:27 There…