Posts from May 19, 2018

Ray Ray Purkey will turn eighty-five this year.  His hands shake and he has a hard time swallowing and talking sometimes due to the effects of Parkinson’s.  But he still remembers clearly getting saved. Not once, but twice. When he was eight years old a young Ray attended a revival at Bell Avenue Baptist Church.  The Reverend Earl Chaney was preaching about going to hell and Ray was listening. For the next few nights, Ray dreamed of falling into hell. …