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 Towards the end of the ministry of the Apostle Paul, he returned to the city of…
“But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that call upon His name.” John 1:12 The Apostle Paul, in writing to the Corinthians, wrote: “For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.” (1 Cor. 4:20) From the moment of…
“Jesus saith unto them, ‘My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His work.’” John 4:34 There came a watershed moment in the life of Jesus, as after His baptism, and returning from the forty days in the wilderness, being tempted by Satan, He stood up in the…
“God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:9 In Paul’s first letter to the believers in Corinth, he states this: “But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.”…
“In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness overcame it not.” John 1:4-5 There is but one Light of the world, and it is God, in Christ. He IS the light that shineth in the darkness, a light that is pure, good,…
“Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” Philippians 4:6 There is a basic human nature mechanism which kicks in when personal danger, or danger for those around us, is imminent. It is fear. This thought, and emotion, is embedded in us…
“Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” John 12:24 There is a Biblical principle that the Lord Jesus expounded upon, that is essential to understand and to grasp, if we would bear much…
“Go ye, enquire 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 The Assyrian empire was known for its ruthlessness and cruelty towards those it assailed…
“And there is none that calleth upon Thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of Thee.” Isaiah 64:7 In the book of Haggai, we find where the Lord, “…stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high…
“Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land. I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I fill this house with glory, saith the Lord.” Haggai 2:6,7 In the book of Hosea, the Lord…