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.

Two Kings, Two Visions

“Then said I, ‘Woe is me! For I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.’”  Isaiah was a tremendous man, both from an intellectual and administrative standpoint, as well…

The Blessedness Of Thirst

“For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour My Spirit upon thy seed, and My blessing upon thine offspring.” Isaiah 44:3 It is a common need of man that he should have water to drink.  Thirst is that mechanism that God put into man…

God’s Confirmation Of Peace

“Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do His will…” Hebrews 13:20 One of the great themes of the Bible is the matter of “peace.” There are…

The Lampstand To The World

“There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for Mine anointed.” Psalm 132:17 In one of David’s great psalms concerning worship, and the testimony of God as a result of such worship, he writes of finding “…a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty God of…

The Well That Never Runs Dry

“But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” John 4:14 When the Lord Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman many years ago, who had come to the Jacob’s…

Standing Up To Hear God’s Voice

“I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what He will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.” Habakkuk 2:1 One of the greatest qualities, and qualifications, for Jesus choosing His disciples, was the matter of teachableness, that willingness to be…

The Keeper Of Our Souls

“Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.” Jude 24 One of the great, permanent ministries of the Father and the Son, administered and accomplished by the Holy Spirit, is that of “keeping.” In what is called the…

The Hope That Endures

“And now abideth faith, hope, charity (love), these three; but the greatest of these is charity (love).” 1 Corinthians 13:13 There is coming a day when faith will become sight, and as the Apostle Paul expressed it: “…But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away…for…

Faith’s Shielding Power

“Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.” Ephesians 6:16 In Paul’s first letter to his son in the faith, Timothy, he wrote concerning waring a “good warfare,” specifically fighting the “good fight of faith.” (1 Tim. 6:12) An essential objective and…

The Day When The Wheels Come Off

“And it came to pass, that in the morning watch, the Lord looked upon the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, and took off their chariot wheels…” Exodus 14:24 There are several examples in the Scriptures when we find men, armies,…