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.
“Fear thou not for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of My righteousness.” Isaiah 41:10 When the Creator and Redeemer of all men declares Himself to be “…The Lord, the Lord…
“Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hatn not revealed it unto thee, but My Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 16:17 Perhaps the greatest moment in the life of the Apostle Paul was not the meeting with Christ on the road to Damascus, but when, as he writes to the believers in…
“…For he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6 In the gospel according to Matthew, the Lord Jesus reveals to us the essence of meeting God the Father, and being met and blessed by Him. He speaks of coming…
“Therefore I say unto you, ‘What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.’” Mark 11:24 Where does the assurance, and conviction, come from to believe God, receiving from Him by faith that which is prayed for? In looking at the example of Elijah, whom James…
“The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, ‘Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.’” Isaiah 40:3 It was T. Bimney, in his great hymn, “Eternal Light, Eternal Light,” who wrote the following: “There is a way for man to rise to that sublime…
“I the Lord have called Thee in righteousness, and will hold Thine hand, and will keep Thee, and give Thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles.” Isaiah 42:6 In the book of Daniel, chapter 2, we find where God gives to Nebuchaddnezzar, king of Babylon, a vision of a…
“Go, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us…” 2 Kings 22:13 In Matthew’s gospel, when the Lord Jesus was speaking of the “coming of the Son…
“And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” Genesis 12:93 When God called Abraham to leave the land of his birth, his family, and the idolatrous practices of those who did not have true faith, He did so…
“How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eeternal Spirit, offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” Hebrews 9:14 In the Old Testament, at the time when Israel was being led by Moses towards the promised land, the Lord gave to Moses…
“And they sung a new song, saying’Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.” Revelation 5:9 When John the Apostle received the revelation of Jesus Christ on…