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 Law Of Liberty

“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.” Romans 8:2 Dear Ones: The first thing the Apostle Paul deals with, after bringing the believer to understand that, “…in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing,” (Romans 7:18), is to declare, “There is…

Aiming Too Low

“And the man of God was angry with him and said, ‘Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.”  2 Kings 13:19 Dear Ones: In the ministry of Jesus, there came a day when a father brought…

The Power That Transforms

“The preaching of the cross … is the power of God; …Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:18,24 Dear Ones: When the angel of the Lord came upon the shepherds in the field just after Jesus’ birth, he made some most remarkable declarations, which pertain to every human being…

The Prayer Of Faith

“And thou shalt put the mercy seat above the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.  And there I will meet thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat…” Exodus 25:21,22 Dear Ones: The whole, and every facet, of the building of the…

Confidence In Prayer

“Let it be known this day that Thou art God in Israel, and that I am Thy servant, and that I have done all these things at Thy word.” 1 Kings 18:36 Dear Ones: In the apostle John’s first letter, he writes concerning the subject of confidence in prayer.  He begins by writing:  “And THIS…

God’s Golden Oil

“What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?”  Zechariah 4:12 Dear Ones: Throughout Scripture God uses the subject of gold to speak of His holiness, worth, and nature.  From the golden candlestick, mentioned in the book of Zechariah, which represents the nation of Israel,…

Our Incomparable Keeper

“… those that Thou gavest Me I have kept, and none of them is lost, except the son of perdition; that the Scripture might be fulfilled.” John 17:12 Dear Ones: It is one thing to be kept from physical harm.  It is quite another, that the soul of the believer should be kept eternally safe…

The Fine Thread Of Hope

“And hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given to us.” Romans 5:5 Dear Ones: Hope is a very powerful thing, because sometimes in the crucible of difficult circumstances, it seems to be the only thing that faith can cling to. …

The Eternal Study: The Love Of God

“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!  How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out.” Romans 11:33 Dear Ones: What kind of God, almighty and sovereign, everlasting, unchanging, without beginning or end, holy in every aspect of His being, give, as the greatest commandment, above…

The Word, Prayer, Our Knees

“And there is none that calleth upon Thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of Thee.” Isaiah 64:7 Dear Ones: God is not easily known. If Jesus told His disciples that the conditions of following him were the denial of self, and the taking up of one’s cross, then there is evidently something…