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...
by Ray Rhodes | Jun 19, 2020 | Dancing Puritan
In 1934, Winston Churchill, in the midst of his “Wilderness Years,” was six years from becoming Prime Minister, Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats were winning awards in poetry, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge died. However, beyond politics and poetry, the attention...
by Ray Rhodes | Nov 12, 2019 | Dancing Puritan
Apology: The piece below is an incomplete response to Ruth Tucker’s article “Downgrading MacArthur and Spurgeon” found here: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2019/11/11/downgrading-macarthur-and-spurgeon I do not know Dr. Tucker and my response is directed to...
by Ray Rhodes | Aug 15, 2019 | Dancing Puritan
In just a few hours we will walk hand in hand, relax in a rustic room, and enjoy a fine meal at a cozy restaurant, and all of this not far from home. When our eyes met as you walked the aisle on our wedding day, neither of us could have seen the joys nor sorrows...
by Ray Rhodes | Dec 11, 2018 | Dancing Puritan
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