Weighty Truth, Joyfully Told
For almost forty years Ray Rhodes, Jr. has preached and written to strengthen churches, marriages and families. His biographies open the lives of Charles and Susie Spurgeon, so that readers find in them what the Spurgeons found in Christ.
NewSpurgeon: The Man Beyond the Pulpit
Charles Haddon Spurgeon preached to millions and wrote more than almost anyone in Christian history. Yet the man himself is often lost behind the pulpit.
In this major new biography, Ray Rhodes, Jr. tells the whole story: the rural English boyhood that shaped him, the joys of his marriage and ministry, and the controversy, chronic illness, depression and private grief he carried. Spurgeon emerges as a man whose strength was forged in suffering and sustained by Christ.
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Ray's doctoral work focused on the marriage and spirituality of Charles and Susannah Spurgeon. These books carry that study to readers: the preacher, his wife, and the love story between them.
What Readers Are Saying
At last! This is the definitive Spurgeon biography for which I have been waiting for decades now! It is voluminously comprehensive yet immediately accessible, carefully researched but beautifully written, simultaneously incisive and inspiring.
Simply put, this new biography on Charles Spurgeon by Ray Rhodes is a masterpiece! … Lay readers, preachers, teachers, historians, and scholars will all agree that Spurgeon: The Man Beyond the Pulpit is an absolute treasure!
Ray Rhodes has done the seemingly impossible by making Charles Spurgeon seem human without diminishing any of his titanic achievements. … Rhodes has made Spurgeon come alive. I can’t recommend this new biography highly enough.
A book that shows us what such a marriage looks like in the midst of all the joys, frustrations, and disappointments that life brings. Husbands and wives will do well to read this book and emulate the loving marriage of Charles and Susie Spurgeon.
I am truly very thankful for the deep love that my great-great grandparents shared for God and for each other, and I have learned valuable lessons from reading about their lives together.
This book is at times devotional, a manual, an encouragement, and a biography, but always a beautiful love story that we will never forget and that, we pray, shapes our own.
Ray Rhodes has restored “Susie” to her rightful place alongside her famous husband. Anyone interested in Spurgeon will enjoy this book, especially for its insights into the home life, family worship practices, and spiritual relationship of the Spurgeons.
His own happiness in marriage goes a long way toward explaining why he wrote this book, why he knew that telling Susannah Spurgeon’s story would be important, and why you will want eagerly to read Susie.
Ray Rhodes’s carefully researched account of Susie’s life freshly illuminates the story of the woman who upheld the nineteenth century’s greatest preacher by her love and prayer.
Three Things with Ray Rhodes
Ray sits down with pastors, scholars, authors, and ministry and business leaders to talk about the people, books and lessons that have shaped their faith and their work. The aim is simple: to help pastors, their wives and all believers love Christ and His Word more deeply.
Nourished in the Word
Nourished in the Word exists to promote the joy of God through the gospel of Jesus Christ as the strength of the church, the hope for marriage and family, and the good of all people to the glory of God.
We are pursuing life and ministry trusting that God will keep us “occupied with joy.” Ecclesiastes 5:20