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.

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…

Ready To Meet God

“Now if any man have not the Spirit of God, he is none of His.” Romans 8:9 Dear Ones: When Nicodemus came by night to talk with the Lord, he was as a man drawn to the reality of that which he saw in Christ, but was not sure about what he saw.  He came…

The Soldier’s Sufficiency

“He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places.  He teaches my hands to war.” Psalm 18:33 Dear Ones: In passing the torch to Timothy, Paul’s spiritual son in the faith, he exhorted him:  “Thou therefore, endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.  No man that warreth entangleth…

The Faith That Saves

“And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?” John 11:26 Dear Ones: To choose not to believe in God is to automatically deny and reject several things.  The first is the denial of “creation.”  It is the refusal to embrace the reality of not only “intelligent design” in the  bringing…

The Choice To Believe

“…He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6 Dear Ones: Faith is not just an intellectual knowledge and understanding of the truth.  Why is this so?  Because truth is not only the absolute, and unchanging, laws of existence of…

The Messenger Of Christ

“I have manifested Thy name unto the men which Thou hast given Me….,” “…I have given unto them the words which Thou gavest Me.” John 17:6,8 Dear Ones: When Ezekiel received His commission from God, as a prophet, God gave him a vision of heaven.  In that vision Ezekiel perceived holy beings, celestial beings, along…