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.

Stand On Thy Feet And Hear

“And He said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.  And the Spirit entered into me when He spake unto me…” Ezekiel 2:1,2 When the Lord Jesus was led into the wilderness by the Spirit of God, after His baptism, the enemy of our souls came to…

The Power Of Pentecost

“…Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.” Colossians 1:11 When the Spirit of God was poured out upon all flesh, specifically manifesting His presence upon, and in, the group of disciples who were praying and waiting for the “promise of the Father,” there was a specific…

The Imperative Of Preaching

“Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine, for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.” 2 Timothy 4:2,3 From a historical standpoint, there does not appear to be a great deal taught before Pentecost concerning the church, the living body…

Christ The Great Original

“Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.” Revelation 1:18 It has been well, and simply said that we should never “…put God in a box.”  What does this…

Thoroughly Equipped In Christ

“But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:19 The salvation to which the believer in Christ has been called is both great and full.  It is not a partial salvation, though the manifestation of its perfect fulness in and through us will only be…

The High Calling Of God

“…But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13,14 When seeking God in the Scriptures, it is essential to learn the truths of God…