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 Fulfillment Of God’s Purposes

“Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, and He that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things…that confirmeth the word of His servant, and performeth the counsel of His messengers.” Isaiah 44:24,26 One of the principle ways that we confirm, and certify, the words of the Bible as being inspired…

The Prayer

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, ‘Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My name, He will give it you.  Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.’” John 16:23-24 In the gospel of John, he quotes the Lord Jesus as saying:  “And He…

Jesus, Lover Of My Soul

“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 The ways of God are certainly not those of men, especially men who are sinners.  Even if men were righteous, and good, God’s ways being infinitely vast, and…

Lord What Will You Do?

“Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, ‘Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons, and concerning the works of My hands command ye Me.’” Isaiah 45:11 It is very significant on the day of Christ’s transfiguration, when in the company of Peter, James, and John, and where Moses…

Led By The Spirit Of God

“And Jesus being full of the Holy Spirit returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness.” Luke 4:1 Why is it so difficult at times to trust God to lead us by the Spirit?  The first thing always to consider is our personal vision of God.  Is it according to the…

The Power Of Christ In Us

“But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that call upon His name.” John 1:12 The Apostle Paul, in writing to the Corinthians, wrote:  “For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.” (1 Cor. 4:20) From the moment of…

The Imperative Commission

“Jesus saith unto them, ‘My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His work.’” John 4:34 There came a watershed moment in the life of Jesus, as after His baptism, and returning from the forty days in the wilderness, being tempted by Satan, He stood up in the…

The Centrality Of Communion With God

“God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:9 In Paul’s first letter to the believers in Corinth, he states this:  “But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.”…

The Life Giving Light

“In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.  And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness overcame it not.” John 1:4-5 There is but one Light of the world, and it is God, in Christ.  He IS the light that shineth in the darkness, a light that is pure, good,…