I got up to speak on Sunday. Wasn’t I surprised? They all stood to applaud! Maybe they appreciated me after all. I had been kicked out just a few years earlier. Nevertheless, I had to speak some tough words to them. I didn’t start with a joke. They had already heard them all. And […]
“The Further End-Times Adventures Of Verb McCracken,” “Twisted In Thyatira,” Chapter 4b, Part 2 “Unruly”
I could see her going down the front stairs to the church and making the curly-cue around her ear. Not the older lady with the crotchety nose but one of her friends. She was making the crazy motion to indicate I was nuts. The whole congregation knew that I did “first person” sermons. A […]
“The Further End-Times Adventures Of Verb McCracken,” “Twisted In Thyatira,” Chapter 4a, Part 1 “Nosey”
She had a gigantic, crotchety nose. You know the kind with a wart on the end. I know crotchety isn’t an adjective that goes with a nose. But hers was crotchety. Would you prefer long, twisted, splotchy? Crotchety. See? In fact, she was crotchety and, of course, old. Ancient, in fact. She had outlived three […]
A Purge In Pergamum, Part 3, “Snap!”
I looked out at the congregation. That is, if you could call what I was seeing was a congregation. I was looking out at a lot of snapping snouts! I was looking out at what seemed more to be an exhibit in a zoo. There were a whole gaggle of crocodiles in front of me. […]
A Purge In Pergamum, Part 2, “Flakey And Scaly”
I began to notice that Nels was starting to grow scales. Yeah, scales. Like a reptile. It just looked like he had hives at first. But then it began to spread and grow. Then it looked greasy. It was gross. His nose grew into a snout. He kept preaching at Pergamum. The strange thing was […]