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.

If God Be For Us

“If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” Romans 8:32 What does it mean for God to be FOR the believer?  Is it not the committal of…

The Faith That Staggers Not

“He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith giving glory to God.” Romans 4:20 The story of Abraham, and how God made a man of faith of him, is a monumental lesson for every believer, not only in the necessity of trusting God, but the certainty of God’s…

Who Is God?

“Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.” Psalm 24:7 In Psalm 24, David answers his own question concerning the identity and essence of God by asking:  “Who is this King of glory?” He then answers by writing: “The Lord…

The Son Of God Goes Forth To War

“The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, He shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: He shall cry, yea, roar; He shall prevail against His enemies.” Isaiah 42:13 We have a tendency in our day to seek the Lord Jesus only as the very approachable, meek and lowly Christ, who came…

The Anointing Of God

“Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.” 1 Samuel 17:13 There is no doubt that as a young boy, and into early manhood, the Spirit of God was working in the heart of…

The Pinnacle Prayer

“These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace.  In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 It is the quiet before the storm when Jesus speaks to His disciples concerning “tribulation” in the world, and of the world,…

Christ The Servant

“Behold My servant whom I uphold, Mine elect, in whom My soul delighteth.  I have put My Spirit upon Him: He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.” Isaiah 42:1 Throughout Scripture we are confronted with the concept and practice of being a servant.  It is interesting that when the Lord addressed Joshua, He spoke…

Making Walls To Fall

“…And when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat…” Joshua 6:5 In the conquest of Canaan, Jericho was the first obstacle and challenge in the path of Israel.  That which was not apparent to the naked…