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.

God’s Dealings With Us

“Therefore, that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, ‘It is the Lord.’” “And none of His disciples durst ask Him, ‘Who art Thou? knowing that it was the Lord.” John 21:7,12 Dear Ones: In the book of the Song of Solomon, we have a picture of a relationship between a bride and her bridegroom. …

A Tabernacle And A Temple

“For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.” Hebrews 9:24 Dear Ones: After Israel was delivered from Egypt, and while the nation was in the wilderness before entering into the promised…

The Light In The Darkness

“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.” Isaiah 9:2 Dear Ones: When the Bible speaks of light, in the spiritual sense, what does it mean? In John’s gospel, we find the Lord’s words:  “I…

The King

“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He doth judge and make war.”  Revelation 19:11 Dear Ones: In the book of Micah, written approximately seven hundred and forty years before the coming of Christ, there was given to…

Goodness And Glory

“And Moses said, ‘I beseech Thee, shew me Thy glory.’  And He said, ‘I will make all my goodness pass before thee…” Exodus 33:18,19 Dear Ones: What is “goodness?”  We get our answer from its source and the effect it has on its intended objects.  From Scripture we discover, as the Apostle Paul declared, “…for…

The Priority Of The Kingdom

“Our Father which art in heaven.  Hallowed be Thy name.  Thy kingdom come.  Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.” Matthew 6:9,10 Dear Ones: Ever since Adam and Eve sinned, there has been the need to seek the kingdom of God.  Why?  When sin entered into the world, the kingship of…

While It Is Day

How is it that ye sought Me?  Knew ye not that I must be about My Father’s business?” Luke 2:49 Dear Ones: Time is a gift of God.  It has its beginning for each of us the moment we are conceived in our mother’s womb.  It ends the moment that this body ceases to live. …

Declarations Of Triumph

For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement (relief) and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place.”  Ester 4:14 Dear Ones: There are several women in the Bible who sang songs, or prayed prayers, of triumph.  It was Miriam, Moses’ sister, who after the deliverance by God of…

Not Faithless, But Believing

“Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.” John 20:27 Dear Ones: One wonders what it will be like to see the glorified Lamb of God in heaven.  In the book of Revelation, John describes the moment when…

Our Eternal Father

“‘…and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be My sons and daughters,’ saith the Lord Almighty.” 2 Corinthians 6:17 Dear Ones: In the Old Testament the Father appears in Genesis, chapter one verse one:  “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”  We know from…