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Lightning Hits As Preacher Asks For Sign From God
NewsNet5.com ^ | POSTED: 1:35 p.m. EDT July 3, 2003 | The Associated Press

Posted on 07/03/2003 8:47:23 PM PDT by FreedomCalls

FOREST, Ohio -- A guest evangelist was preaching at the First Baptist Church in a small Hardin County town Tuesday night, emphasizing penance and asking for a sign from God.

At that moment, the church's steeple was hit by lightning, setting the church on fire and blowing out the sound system.

"It was awesome, just awesome," said church member Ronnie Cheney, 40, of rural Forest.

"You could hear the storm building outside ... He (the evangelist) just kept asking God what else he needed to say," Cheney said. "He was asking for a sign and he got one."

Cheney said the lightning traveled through the microphone and enveloped the preacher, but he was not injured.

Afterward, services resumed for about 20 minutes, but then the congregation realized that the church was on fire and the building was evacuated.

The Forest Fire Department quickly doused the flames. Damage was estimated at $20,000.

Forest is about 60 miles south of Toledo.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: lightning; preacher; zot
I sure would like to hear that sermon.
1 posted on 07/03/2003 8:47:23 PM PDT by FreedomCalls
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To: FreedomCalls
I sure would like to hear that sermon

Me to From a Distance
2 posted on 07/03/2003 8:52:16 PM PDT by WKB (3!~)
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To: FreedomCalls
ask and ye shall get it
3 posted on 07/03/2003 9:12:22 PM PDT by herewego
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To: igotfreedom
Just another fire and brimstone orator!! Now, to figure out what the message was....Get the heck out of here???
5 posted on 07/03/2003 10:10:02 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Sacajaweau
Great time to pass the offering-plate, a non-metallic one.
6 posted on 07/03/2003 10:22:11 PM PDT by Howie
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To: FreedomCalls
"Lightning Hits As Preacher Asks For Sign From God."

Be careful what you wish for. It might come true.

7 posted on 07/03/2003 10:27:04 PM PDT by blackbart.223
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To: billbears; 4ConservativeJustices; stainlessbanner; wardaddy; Gianni; PeaRidge; Aurelius; ...
Looks like the "father abraham" cultists have crawled out of the woodworks again for their holy day of worship.

Take a particularly close look at the following passage from this article and tell me with a straight face that the Lincoln crowd doesn't worship the guy. They throw out ba'al as a red herring for slavery (which, BTW, Lincoln was perfectly willing to tolerate and even enshrine into the constitution) but the real idol of the day was mammon. That idolatry of greed and power continues to this day in the worship of the state and the undeserved veneration of its secular idols like Lincoln. Here's the quote:

"Slavery was the Baal of those days, the idol before whom the apostates worshiped, and Lincoln preached the Declaration to convert them, and save the whole people. I mean to show you Father Abraham's words, as an act of proper homage to him, in mourning for the errors of the Court in our day, and as a model of the right use of Declaration Principles in overcoming injustice. Lincoln, and Liberty, prevailed in the 19th Century. If we remain faithful to the founding, we will prevail in our day."

8 posted on 07/03/2003 11:01:54 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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To: FreedomCalls
I'll admit - they didn't teach that in seminary.
9 posted on 07/03/2003 11:08:15 PM PDT by PresbyRev
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To: Sacajaweau
Just another fire and brimstone orator!!

Fire and brimstone is well and good, but I'll ignore him until he's got lightning.

10 posted on 07/03/2003 11:09:41 PM PDT by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: FreedomCalls
And the congregation ran out screaming "Church on fire, church on fire, church on fire!"
11 posted on 07/04/2003 4:18:12 AM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: FreedomCalls
He (the evangelist) just kept asking God what else he needed to say

Lord, give us a sign. Lord, give us a sign. Lord, give us a sign.Lord, give us a sign. Lord, give us a sign...(15 minutes later) Lord, give us a sign. Lord, give us a sign. (LIGHTNING Hits). It just awesome...what you can do if you get the Weather Channel, local weather on the 8's.

12 posted on 07/04/2003 4:41:26 AM PDT by kaboom
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