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.

A Shared Vision

Goodness, Jesus Christ, Thanksgiving, The Gospel

Dear Ones: This morning as I reflected on my early Christian life two thoughts came to mind. Firstly, “Life reduced to fellowship with Christ makes the complicated simple.” This truth was drilled into me at bible school. Secondly, I remember a conference I attended. The speaker was Dr. Robert Smith. He was a brilliant man…

Overwhelmed

Jesus Christ, Lessons

Dear Ones: “And it came to pass…He (Jesus) took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray. And as He prayed, the fashion of His countenance was altered, and His raiment was white and glistening. And behold, there talked with Him two men, which were Moses and Elias (Elijah): Who…

The Receiver

The Gospel, The Holy Spirit

Dear Ones: Many years ago a very godly man told me that I needed to learn to be a good receiver.  I was an ardent “striver” and knew little of what it meant to receive.  I was somewhat like Peter who refused to let the Lord Jesus wash his feet.  He was unwilling to receive…

Praying Through [Pt. 2 of 2]

Lessons, Prayer, Waiting

Dear Ones: The time just before the birth of Samuel was a dark period in the history of Israel.  In a few short years the Philistines conquered the nation and captured the Ark of the Covenant, the most prized symbol of God’s covenant with Israel.  It was at such a time that the prayer of…

Praying Through [Pt. 1 of 2]

Lessons, Prayer

Dear Ones: It is one thing to begin a race…quite another to finish it.  It is one thing to begin to pray about a matter…it is quite another to pray until the matter is resolved. When Elijah was on the summit of Mt. Carmel, on his knees, though he was a prophet of God, he…

Interposing Christ

Faith, Lessons, Trust

“It is essential to have a knowledge of the truth but we shall not know true freedom of soul and spirit, nor will we know victory in our daily living without personal fellowship with the Son of God. It is in personal fellowship with Him that He communicates to us the power that sets us free.”