by Ray Rhodes | Nov 8, 2018 | Dancing Puritan
Failure! We all know it too well. The dejected coach after a losing season, the business venture gone bad, working for a company twenty years only to be “let go due to cut backs,” or planning to read the Bible through in a year and getting stuck in...
by Ray Rhodes | Nov 7, 2018 | Dancing Puritan
Because the LORD loved you (Deuteronomy 7:8). Doubts and questions often cloud our joy by covering up the rays of clarity. Doubts may come from outside (the world and Satan) but more often they well up inside of us, especially those of us who are prone to timidity...
by Ray Rhodes | Nov 6, 2018 | Dancing Puritan
Our spiritual heroes are not monuments of marble but real-life people with feet of clay. They are not museum pieces for us to ponder over but examples for us to remember, consider, and to imitate. So, though we might be taken aback by Susie Spurgeon’s...
by Ray Rhodes | Nov 3, 2018 | Dancing Puritan
Have there been times when, due to physical affliction or even conviction over sin, you simply couldn’t pray? You are not alone. Susie Spurgeon found herself so gripped by the anguishing pain of affliction that though she wanted to pray, all that she could do...
by Ray Rhodes | Aug 16, 2018 | Dancing Puritan
After Charles died, Susie thought much of eternity. She believed that she would enjoy fellowship with Charles in Heaven. She asserted, “I cannot imagine that God will omit from Heaven’s blessedness the brightest and choicest benediction of our earthly life. It is my...
