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 Absolute Fundamental Of Faith

“Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed.” Romans4:16 In the letter of Paul to the Romans there is a tremendous testimony to the faith of Abraham, one which illustrates the fundamental quality of the faith that God will certainly…

The Act And The Attitude Of Faith

“And He said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to aother, What manner of man is this! for He commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey Him?” Luke 8:25 It is one thing to “believe in God.”  It is quite another, in the midst of the…

The Authoritative Word Of God

“So shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11 If ever there was a picture of the power and authority of the word of…

The Missed Opportunity Restored

“We then as workers together with Him, beseech you also that ye received not the grace of God in vain.” 2 Corinthians 6:1 It was in the book of Genesis that Moses wrote down the Lord’s words: “My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall…

John’s Vision Of Heaven

“And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?” Revelation 5:2 The vision of heaven that Isaiah saw approximately seven hundred years before John the Apostle received his vision, was very similar and yet very different.  That which was similar…

A Trumpet’s Voice From Heaven

“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up here, and I will shew you things which must be hereafter.” Revelation 4:1 In the book of Isaiah, he describes a vision…

The Overwhelming Awe Of God

“But the Lord is in His holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before Him.” Habakkuk 2:20 There is a great hymn written by W. Chalmers Smith, one stanza of which reads like this: “Immortal, invisible, God only wise, In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days,…

Life By The Spirit

“It is the Spirit that quickeneth (giveth life); the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63 When the angel of the Lord revealed Himself to Zacharias, he told him that Elizabeth his wife would have a son, whose name would be John. In…

The Awakening

“Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord: awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old,” “…Art Thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?” Isaiah  51:9,10 When…