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 Heavenly Way

Dear Ones: Just before Moses went to be with the Lord, the Lord instructed him to go up into Mount Nebo, and this, in order to “behold the land of Canaan.” (Deut. 32:49).  In spite of the fact that Moses was not permitted to cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, the land of…

Praying for the Wind — EXPECTANT FAITH

Dear Ones: I’m sure that we have all seen how quickly a rising wind can change a tranquil body of water into raging waves, a powerful sea. What would be the effect if the wind of God blew strongly on our little sea, our lives and those around us? In speaking of the new birth, […]…

Praying for the Wind

Dear Ones: I’m sure that we have  all seen how quickly a rising wind can change a tranquil body of water into raging waves, a powerful sea.  What would be the effect if the wind of God blew strongly on our little sea, our lives and those around us? In speaking of the new birth,…

The Pilgrim’s Practice

Dear Ones: When Abraham “…was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, (he) obeyed; and went out, NOT KNOWING WHITHER HE WENT.” (Heb. 11:8) We know that Abraham went as far as Haran, where he stayed until his father died.  And then, either by remembering the substance…

Anticipatory Faith

Dear Ones: The psalmist, in Psalm 42, writes concerning his thirst for God, and this in the context of his tears and just simply being overwhelmed by life, “…all thy billows are gone over me.” (v.7)  It sounds a bit like the experience of Jonah when he declared from the belly of the fish, “……

He Gave Gifts Unto Men

Dear Ones: The importance of the Ascension of Christ cannot be underestimated.  However, even though the early church put more emphasis on the Ascension than the birth of Christ, I’m afraid that we have missed, even lost, the life-changing significance of this singular event. In Daniel 7:13-14, we find that, “…there was given to Him…

Hope Without Shame

Dear Ones: Hope is very powerful thing.  A blessed, anticipated result at a future time can carry one over some very rocky and dangerous roads.  I heard of a brother in Christ who was very close to death, but just the cleaar picture he had in his mind of him walking out of the hospital,…

Not By Sight

Dear Ones: If ever there was a reality that we must come to grips with, it is our limitations.  How much of the spectrum of light do we see?  A very small portion.  Can we SEE a thought or an intention of the heart.   Without the use of modern technology, can we see into…

The Quest Above All Others

Dear Ones: Yesterday we began with the question, “Who is God?”  There is in that question another one embedded:  “Can we truly KNOW God?”  Or, do we just know facts, and some truths about Him?  I venture to say, from the testimony of those who have gone before, that our greatest quest is not to…

Who Is God

Dear Ones: And how shall we know God, His character, His attributes?  How IS He?  How is it that so many have known Him, and this revealed by the mosaic of truths concerning Him, and yet, we have grasped so little? You would not think that Psalm 51 would reveal to us essential aspects of…