Preacher Boy Bill

 
“BURN HIM AT THE STAKE”
 
          At the age of fourteen I was getting to preach weekly in various churches. There was a church in an area just outside Tulsa, Oklahoma that had mid-week service on Tuesday nights. They asked me to preach on numerous occasions. I was too young to drive and they were always willing to pick […]

 
“LIFTING UP HOLY HANDS”
 
          A few months had gone by now. I was eleven-years old and things were getting worse at the Vine of Praise Church. Pastor Green had committed blasphemy. The older folks were going to impeach him. The church was now a full-blown holy-roller church. The people were rolling around in the floor during worship. The older church […]

 
“CRUCIFIED UPSIDE DOWN”
 
 
          It was in the cold of wintertime. A workday was called at the church by the new young preacher, Bro. Green. He was only about twenty-five. This little community church had always been non-denominational. “Just leave your doctrinal beliefs outside and come on in,” they would say. Let us call this church, “Vine of Praise.” On […]

 
“KNEE ROUTE”
 
           The church altar was a very frightening thing to me at the age of four years old. The preacher would say, “If you don’t come to Jesus at the altar, you will burn in Hell’s flames forever.” However, the altar of this church was about eight feet long and box shaped. The preacher would say, “Come […]