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.
“As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand Thy truth.” Daniel 9:13 In the second letter of Paul to Timothy, dealing with the matter of escaping the…
“…Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:5 In the first letter by the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians, he makes a most extraordinary statement, the first part of which is in the form…
“Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself: handle Me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see Me have.” John 24:39 Why the cross? Why is it that God chose this means for the sacrifice of His Son, to save sinful and lost man? The first…
“No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me, draw him: and I will raise him up on the last day.” John 8:44 In the book of Jeremiah, there is a beautiful passage which expresses a very ancient, but enduring reality, concerning God and His dealings with us, especially concerning the…
“But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.” 1 Kings 21:25 It was Robert G Lee, who in his great sermon, “Payday Some Day,” described Ahab, the king of Israel, as “…a vile human toad who squatted…
“Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God and the power of His Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before God day and night.” Revelation 12:10 In the book of Zechariah, in the third chapter, we have a picture of Joshua the high priest…
“There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt; open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.” Psalm 81:9-10 There are many things in the Christian life that we will learn. A great…
“For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed and cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.” Mark 11:23 The occasion for the Lord Jesus…
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it.” Exodus 33:1 The origin of any covenant between God…
“…the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20 The subject of love is just a concept or an emotion, a thought or a practice, until it becomes personal and real. The Apostle Paul lived…