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 Weapons Of Our Warfare

“Blessed be the Lord, my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.” Psalm 144:1 In Psalm 18, David speaks of the warfare in which he was engaged.  He wrote:  “It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect…He teaches my hands to war, so that a…

The Antidote To Care And Anxiety

“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.  Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.” 1 Peter 5:6-7 In Paul’s letter to the Romans, he makes a very simple, and often times, overlooked statement:  “…for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.”…

The Undeniable Calling Of God

“I press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”  Philippians 3:14 In Paul’s letter to the Ephesian believers, he writes on the subject of “oneness,” at it applies to many different, and yet, connected things.  He declares the following:  “There is one body, and one Spirit, even…

The Power Of A Barley Loaf

“Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto the tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.” Judges 7:13 It was a day of great apprehension, and yet, great encouragement, when Gideon with his servant,…

Beyond Asking And Thinking

“After these things, the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, ‘Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.” Genesis 15:1 In God’s dealings with Abram, He began by the revelation of Himself.  Since Abram did not have the Scriptures, nor was he surrounded by a church,…

Beyond The Beauty Of Earth

“For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand.  I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.” Psalm 84:10 There is a monumental difference between the “tabernacles” of earth, where men dwell and live, and that which is of God.  We…

The Care Of The Father

“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time: casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.” 1 Peter 5:6 One of the principal reasons for which David was such a great man in the sight of God, was that he was very sensitive…

Choose Life

“…I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore, choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.”  Deuteronomy 30:19 In the economy of God, there is nothing but perfection, because God is perfect.  His kingdom, and everything that pertains to Him and that kingdom, is perfect.  This is why the…

The Time To Awake Is Now

“Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion, put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.” Isaiah 52:1 The initiative of God for the spiritual blessing of men begins with His word, or the declaration of His will.  Why? …