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.
“Consider the lillies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” Matthew 6:28 It is in the contrast of things presented to us by the Lord Jesus that we are…
“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom,” “Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, and Thy glory unto their children.” Psalm 90:12,16 In the writings of Paul, we find that God gave him a remarkable revelation of Himself, first on the road to Damascus at his conversion,…
“And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the forth generation they shall come hither again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.” Genesis 15:15,16 All through the Scriptures sinful man is brought face to face with a perfectly righteous…
“Now therefore, I pray Thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now Thy way, that I may know Thee.” Exodus 33:13 Long after Moses, David came on the scene of history, praying basically the same thing as Moses. David prayed, as recorded in Psalm 25: “Shew me Thy ways, O Lord;…
“And Jesus answered and said unto her, ‘If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, ‘Give me a drink;’ thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.” John 4:10 It might have been a warm day when Jesus, weary from his journey,…
“…and the rest of our enemies heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein…” Nehemiah 6:1 When Israel was taken captive by the Babylonians, and into exile for seventy years, it was basically because she committed two errors which led to her abandonment of God. The first thing…
“I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.” 1 Corinthians 4:19,20 The Bible speaks a great deal about power, primarily as it relates to the power…
“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” Ephesians 4:4-5 In light of Paul’s words in Ephesians where he speaks on the…
“Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord; His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.” Hosea 6:3 The Prophet Hosea, led by the Spirit of God, gives to Israel, and to the…
“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I unto this world.” Galatians 6:14 In E.C. Clephane’s great hymn, “Beneath The Cross of Jesus,” she wrote: “Upon that cross of Jesus, Mine eye at times can see, The…