by Ray Rhodes | Apr 3, 2021 | Dancing Puritan
A quiet and frosty morning draped in early spring’s darkness gives way to a bright and majestic sun, it’s beams sparkling on the early morning dew and warming our yard. Childhood dreams of a wedding at home in the space that you played in will be realized today....
by Ray Rhodes | Feb 9, 2021 | Dancing Puritan
Charles Spurgeon was the unlikeliest of candidates to win the heart of Susie Thompson. He was rural England and she was London and Paris. After seeing and hearing Charles in the pulpit for the first time, the furthest thought from her mind was marrying him. How then...
by Ray Rhodes | Jan 26, 2021 | Dancing Puritan
Fact and fiction are intertwined in the modern recounting of the story of St. Valentine and his surmised connection with romance. However, he is remembered each year on February 14th, a day considered to be a day of love. Valentine’s Day is celebrated with cards,...
by Ray Rhodes | Jan 11, 2021 | Dancing Puritan
B&H Academic’s The Lost Sermons of C.H. Spurgeon Collector’s Edition Vol. 4 edited by scholar Jason G. Duesing, is a stunningly beautiful book; it is ornate in its marble-art design (reflective of Spurgeon’s own sermon notebooks) and delightful in its...
by Ray Rhodes | Dec 7, 2020 | Dancing Puritan
On Sunday morning December 23, 1860, Charles Spurgeon preached a sermon from Job 1:4-5 that he titled, “A Merry Christmas.” His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat...
