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 Man From The East

“For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also shall the coming of the Son of Man be.” Matthew 24:27 In the book of Isaiah, there is mentioned one whom God raises up, coming from the East.  The great emphasis concerning this individual is not upon him as a…

The Tabernacle God’s Meeting Place

“And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by My glory.” Exodus 29:43 In Scripture there is great power in a picture, for by the picture that God gives of something, a structure or a situation, He reveals to man what is His purpose in seeking the…

Apprehending The Highest

“…Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.” Philippians 3:12 The spirit of the Apostle Paul was that of a thoroughbred.  There was nothing less than being wholly committed, and determined, to…

The Giver And The Gifts

“Every good gift and perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.” James 1:17 One of the great sins mentioned in the context of the wrath of God being revealed, is thanklessness.  Why? What do we have but that we…

How To Meet The Coming Flood

“And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass.” Matthew 24:6 Why is it that “wars and rumors of wars” must come to pass in the last days?  As in the case with every nation that has fallen under the…

The Preeminence Of Worship

“Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.” Matthew 4:10 In the vision that God gave to Isaiah, in the year that King Uzziah died, he saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, “…high and lifted up, and HIs train filled the…

A Good Conscience Towards God

“Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned.” 1 Timothy 1:5 Blessed be God for that inner provision, and mechanism, of the Spirit by which God gives to man to realize that first, there is a Creator and a Redeemer, but…

Unrelinquishing Love

“The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, ‘Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.’” Jeremiah 31:3 It was G. Matheson who wrote, “O Love, that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee, I give Thee back the life I…