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.

God’s Dealings With Hopelessness

“…behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off on our part.’” Ezekiel 37:11 The Apostle Paul, in writing to the believers in the church of Ephesus, spoke directly to the “Gentiles” of that church, specifically declaring to them that formerly they were, “…strangers from the covenants of…

The Preaching And Teaching Of Christ

“Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, ‘Why have ye not brought Him?’ The officers answered, ‘Never man spoke like this man.’” John 7:45-46 If ever there was a man who was dead to the praise or blame of men, it was Jesus Christ.  But it was…

The Loving Kindness Of God

“‘For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed, but My kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of My peace be removed,’ saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.” (Isaiah 54:10) That which makes true Christianity a most beautiful thing is the beauty of the Lord.  What do we…

The Life Of Rest, Christ’s Peace

“Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” Hebrews 12:1 How is it that the Christian is called to run a…

The Faithfulness Of God

“God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:9 If we were to break down the English word, “faithfulness, we would find in some small measure the meaning of it.  For example, we would begin by isolating the word “faith,” and this would…

The Zeal Of The Lord

“And the disciples remembered that it was written, ‘The Zeal of Thine house hath eaten Me up.’” John 2:17 The zeal of the Lord is a very real thing.  In Psalm 69 we find it mentioned.  In the great passage in the book of Isaiah, where he writes concerning “…a child is born, and a…

The Sovereign God Of Detail

“And Gehazi said, ‘My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.’” 2 Kings 8:5 There are times when God moves in such a way that only a person who chooses to be blind, will not see it.  Such was the case of a woman whom…

The Written Living Word

“For the word of God is quick (living), and powerful, and sharper than any towedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12 How is it that Isaiah could write his book…

Christ In You

“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen…” Galatians 1:15,16 It is one thing to profess faith in Christ.  It is quite another to take Him at His word, believing that…

God’s Rod Of Authority

“And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse…and He shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He slay the wicked.” Isaiah 11:4 It was to Moses that the Lord addessed the question, “What is that in thine hand?” The…