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.
“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.” Galatians 6:14 In the first letter of Paul to the Corinthians, he made this declaration: “For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the…
“And He that sat upon the throne said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.’ And He said unto me, ‘Write: for these words are true and faithful.’” Revelation 21:5 What is the making of something new, from God’s perspective? First of all, it is that which is conceived in the heart and mind of God. …
“…nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:39 There is in the Song of Solomon a picture where Solomon is protected by threescore valiant men, the most valiant men of Israel. Scripture tells us that,…
“Then He said to them, ‘O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken…” Luke 24:25 True faith affects the entirety of our being. It expresses itself in our emotions, and in our minds, or intellect. But the point at which it is truly accepted by God is in the…
“So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.” Joshua 10:13 In Paul’s letter to the Colossians, he writes: “For by Him (Christ) were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or…
“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…