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.

Overwhelming Beauty

Faith, Jesus Christ, Lessons

Dear Ones: When I was ministering in France, we attended a Brethren church where, when one was led to pray, he would stand and pray.  There was one dear brother whose name was Emile.  He was a farmer, who ran the farm with his brother.  Emile was a very godly man.  He would, without exception…

Holistic Faith

Faith, Omnipotence

Dear Ones: If ever there was an example of God revealing Himself, and consequently giving a vision of how much He desired, and willed, the access to a life and heart, it was when Abram was ninety-nine years old.  “The Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, ‘I am the Almighty God: walk before Me,…

The Power of a Child

Faith

Dear Ones: A good many years ago I heard the story of a brother in Christ, whose name was Craig. (Not me.)  He loved his wife and children greatly, but none knew the Lord.  At a certain point, his wife and children came to know Christ, but Craig would have none of it.  The pastor…

The Seizing of the Sword

Faith

Dear Ones: His name was Eleazar, and he was counted to be one of David’s “mighty men.”  The story is told in 2 Samuel 23, that Eleazar, apparently left alone in a battle with the Philistines, rose up, and “…smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword:  and…

First Things

Faith

Dear Ones: When I was a boy, and lived on a farm, we built wooden sleds that we would attach to the pulling harness of a mule.  The sleds were rather small, and we did not weigh much, so the mule had absolutely no trouble in pulling them.  Imagine if we changed out the mule,…

The Prayer of Time

Faith, Lessons, Prayer

We do not know when Moses wrote Psalm 90, or at what age he was.  What we do know is that he had thought the matter through concerning time (his time) and the eternity of God.  The conclusion he put into prayer…and this prayer he ordered, and used, as he sought from God the answers.…