"Best preaching I ever heard. Spirit was working in there."
"Billy Graham dreams of being that good," another said.
"That's the most excited I've felt in a service in a long time." Several nodded.
After a long and exhaustive search, the Pulpit Committee of the small Crown of Thorns Baptist Church has found a dynamic new preacher. Owen Tisdale is experienced, savvy, and knows how to pack the pews. There's just one problem: the once peaceful congregation has begun to unravel. At first, it's just little things. new members with new opinions, an ambitious public relations campaign, and old members with nightmares.
But when opinions become arguments, campaigns become staggering debt, and nightmares become illness, accident, and rape, questions must be asked. And the most frightening question of all is. What if the Devil himself has just been hired as senior pastor of Crown of Thorns Baptist Church?
As unsuspecting church committees meet and Sunday school teachers plan their lessons, the incidents of mayhem mount. It will take a humble church deacon and a young mother with bleak and terrifying visions to find the answer.
Darren Dillman grew up in a small New Mexico town, where his parents helped start a Baptist church. He earned an MFA in creative writing from McNeese State University, and now teaches English for Arizona Western College.
ISBN: 9781434768094
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: DAVID C COOK / SURVIVOR - published 15/05/2009
Format: Paperback