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.
“Cause me to hear Thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in Thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto Thee.” Psalm 143:8 The life of David was a most remarkable one, especially in that it reveals a “working” knowledge of God, His…
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away…” Revelation 21:1 It has been said that the Christian life is a “…series of multiplied new beginnings.” This is true, as God’s mercies are new every morning, the blood of Jesus cleansing us from…
“Having therefore brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil…” Hebrews 10:19 In the temple that Solomon built, there was a particular place that symbolized “nearness” or closeness to God. It was a small place, but…
“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgements, and His ways past finding out.” Romans 11:33 It was Moses, as a shepherd in the wilderness of Sinai, who received the revelation of God in the burning bush. There God told him to remove the…
“Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of His knowledge by us in every place.” 2 Corinthians 2:14 One of the greatest characteristics of the life of Christ while on this earth, and now in heaven, is that He was a conqueror over every…
“And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to past, but the end is not yet.”” Matthew 24:6 The rise and fall of civilizations has always been characterized by “wars and rumors of wars.” Scripture tells us that, as we approach…
“Lie not to one another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him.” Colossians 3:9,10 Scripture is very clear concerning God’s attitude of judgment upon all that is of sin, self,…
“So shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11 Credibility is an essential element in one being worthy to be trusted. What does it…
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.” 1 Timothy 4:1 It seems that the terms “latter times,” and “latter days,” speak of not only a period of time, but of the historical unveiling of “the mystery of…
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord.” Isaiah 55:8 When the Lord gave to Isaiah these words on the comparison between the thoughts and ways of men, and those of God, the difference between them is striking. There is categorically no affinity between the two. On…