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.
“One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in His temple.” Psalm 27:4 When the Lord instructed Moses to build the tabernacle, or Tent…
“Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.” Hebrews 10:22 The issue of drawing near to God, and consequently knowing His nearness to us, is first seen in the Garden of Eden. In the book…
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as the only begotten of God, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14 One of the great truths, if not the most dominant, that arose out of the Reformation, was expressed in the phrase: “The just shall live…
“And the Lord answered me, and said, ‘Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.’” Habakkuk 2:2 It was Jeremiah who, in the midst of his lamentations for Jerusalem, wrote a beautiful declaration of hope: “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because…
“If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” Matthew 16:24 Throughout Scripture we find that great and good men were not so by just their own efforts, but by the intervention and provision of the Spirit of God. David became the King, commander, and…
“Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard lest at any time we should let them slip.” Hebrews 2:1 How great is this salvation which Christ has won for us on Calvary? What are its dimensions, longevity, and magnitude? What about its unchanging character, and the faithful…
“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:16 In all serious study of the Scriptures, zeroing in on a passage, and then the verse and words, one always begins with determining the definition of the terms. That…
“For In Him (Christ) dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in Him, which is the head of all principality and power.” Colossians 2:9 The Lord Jesus Christ is not only God, revealed and made manifest to men in the flesh, but He is also filled with all of the…
“In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand.” Ecclesiastes 11:6 The calling of a preacher of the gospel is a very singular, and significant one. It is designed to bring glory to God in the giving of Life to the hearers. That which accompanies the gospel, and we speak…
“God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.” 1 Cor. 1:9 How important is fellowship, or communion, with God? The answer lies in looking at the One on the cross of Calvary. There is NO communion with God, no fellowship of His Spirit, nor the…