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.

Kings And Priests To God

“…For You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and have made us kings and priests unto our God…” Revelation 5:9,11 The calling of God is not just for the time in which we live, but carries with it eternal ramifications,…

The Certainty Of One’s Calling

“Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.” Isaiah 51:2 It is one thing to come to a knowledge of the calling of God, being brought to Christ saving and sanctifying the soul, resulting in true fellowship and communion with God.…

A Morning Prayer

“Know that the Lord, He is God; it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture.” Psalm 100:3 When the Lord Jesus entered heaven, after dying on the cross, and being raised from the dead, He “entered the Most Holy Place once for…

The Power Of The Ascension

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My father.” John 14:12 There has never been anyone like Christ for a multitude of reasons. But one of those reasons is the…

The Fellowship In The Gospel

“Hear, O Joshua, the high priest, you and your companions who sit before you, for they are a wondrous sign; for behold, I am bringing forth My servant the BRANCH.” Zechariah 3:8 The book of Zechariah has been seen by some as a very difficult one to understand, especially in regard to prophecy.  However, though…

A Deadline In Heaven

“The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.” Acts 2:20 In Joel’s prophesy concerning the outpouring of the Spirit upon all flesh, given about seven hundred years before Pentecost, we find in his declaration perhaps the greatest, most extensive,…

When God Speaks

“…And the Spirit of God was upon the face of the waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” Genesis 1:2,3 Throughout Scripture we find that God speaks. Sometimes He speaks through the things that He has made or done. And though there may not be words as we know them…

The Liberating Power Of The Gospel

“Shake yourself from the dust, arise; sit down, O Jerusalem! Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion!” Isaiah 52:2 There came a day in the life of Samson, a judge that God raised up in Israel, to begin to deliver His people from the Philistines, that he awoke from…

God’s Shaking Of Heaven And Earth

“…but now, He has promised, saying, ‘Once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.’” Hebrews 12:27 In the context of the building of the second temple after the period of the deportation had reached its fulfillment of seventy years, the Lord gave to Haggai in his short book, a prophecy of things…

The Race And Objective Set Before Us

“…And let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of faith…” Hebrews 12:1,2 Scripture tells us that the Lord Jesus, ‘…who for the JOY set before Him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne…