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.
“…That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death.” Philippians 3:10 The Apostle Paul wrote a great deal in his epistles concerning the resurrection, specifically the power associated with the resurrection. But he did not stop there, just declaring the truth…
“I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes. I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.” Psalm 101:3 One of the things that made David great was that he was clear in his convictions, and wholehearted in their applications to his life. For example, with regard to…
“We are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” Romans 6:4 The Christian life begins with the words of Christ on the cross: “It is finished.” Everything in true…
“Cast thy bread upon the waters…In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand.” Ecclesiastes 11:1,6 In the history of Israel, there came a time, after wicked Ahab, the king of Israel, had died, that his son reigned in his place. Ahab’s son in law, Ahaziah, was also king over…
“And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between the pieces.” Genesis 15:17 The animal sacrifices to God in the Old Testament were implemented by God to point humanity towards the ultimate, acceptable sacrifice of His Son on…
“I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.” Psalm 16:7 E.M. Grimes wrote in a wonderful hymn the following: “Speak, Lord, in the stillness, While I wait on Thee; Hush’d my heart to listen in expectancy. Speak, O Blessed Master, In this quiet hour;…
“For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.” Psalm 84:11 Beyond the question of “WHO is God,” comes the following: “What is God?” John the Apostle calls Him Love, “God IS love.” Jesus Himself reveals to…
“Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy…” Jude 24 In the letter to the Hebrews we find a remarkable statement concerning the ministry of the Lord Jesus as our High Priest before God. The author of the…
“And the Lord answered me, and said, ‘Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.” Habakkuk 2:2 Throughout the New Testament there is a dominant theme concerning how the believer in Christ is to live…it is that of waiting for His Lord to come. That coming may…
“The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; He will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy; He will rest in His love; He will joy over thee with singing.” Zephaniah 3:17 We do not often consider that God sings, but He does. We know that Jesus sang hymns with His…