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.

Christ’s New Man

“He stood, and measured the earth: He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: His ways are everlasting.” Habakkuk 3:6 When we consider the ways of God as opposed to those of man, immediately we are confronted with the issue of magnitude.  And yet, when…

Love’s Prelude, Call, Commitment

“The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” Jeremiah 31:3 Where does love come from?  What is the essence of love, the nature of love?  What is its strength and power? The answer to all of these questions…

The Fire Is The Key

“For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar.” Judges 13:20 Fire in the Bible, as it relates to the Lord, is a very important subject.  Scripture tells us that our God is a “consuming…

Making Christ My Own

“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?” Psalm 27:1 In David’s famous Psalm 23, he begins by writing of something he does in his relationship with God that is a key to his life.  It is…

Great Expectations Of A Great Heritage

“This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.” Isaiah 54:17 The word “heritage,” for the Christian, has a present application to life on this earth as well as one for eternity in heaven.  First of all, what is a heritage? It is a “special…

Strength Out Of Weakness

“…we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: but we had the sentance of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead.” 2 Corinthians 1:8,9 It was the eldery Mr. Hallesby, who wrote a classic on prayer, who said…

Exchanging Clothes

“Take away the filthy garments from him.  And unto him, he said, Behold I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.” Zechariah 3:5 In the book of Revelation, in the Lord’s letter to the church at Laodicea, he told them of their true spiritual state…

Stand On Thy Feet

“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, and set me upon my feet, that I heard Him that spake unto Me.” Ezekiel 2:1-2 It must have been a very pleasant day when Jesus…

The Seventh Day, The Sabbath

“To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept not sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.” 2 Chronicles 36:21 In the book of Daniel, he speaks prophetically of the seventeeth week concerning God’s dealings with…