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The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. The sexual abuse ended when the woman "developed a horrible infection and was taken to a doctor to find out what was wrong," Petri said. Hyles, meanwhile, exerted extreme control over every aspect of his flock’s lives—control that members say they welcomed because they believed it was divinely inspired. But it was wildly effective, says Kaifetz, in part because Hyles made “soul winning” a key criterion for moving up the church ladder or—if you were a man—for being awarded a coveted staff job.

As with most of his sermons at the northwest Indiana megachurch—the 14th largest in the country and the biggest Independent Baptist house of worship in the nation—the message struck as bluntly as a pounded nail: Submit to God’s plan for your life or be snapped like a twig and flung away (as Schaap would demonstrate by cracking a stick over his head, tossing it aside, and barking, “Next! If he wasn’t scolding his flock for not living up to God’s demands (tithing, volunteering, “soul winning”), he was delivering R-rated sermons that, for example, likened the Lord’s Supper to having sex with Jesus Christ. In 2001, a fleet of over 200 buses was regularly ferrying 7,000 to 15,000 people from all over the area. EXODAI by Elizabeth Hendrick is a brutal, honest and unflinching look at love, obsession and torture.In 2012, Elliott also co-starred as Ripp Cockburn, the husband of Kristin Chenoweth's character Carlene, on ABC's comedy-drama series GCB. On March 19, 2010, Elliott replaced Neal McDonough as the male lead in the television series Scoundrels.

After his graduation from East Texas, Hyles started preaching at several small Texas churches, whose memberships began to grow. Head thrown back, eyes squeezed shut, mouth gaping, he began rubbing the shaft rapidly with the cloth, up and down, up and down.Backed into a corner by a he-goes-or-I-go ultimatum from the administrator, sources say, Hyles arranged for his son to take over as pastor at his old church, Miller Road Baptist in Texas.

What was going on [at First Baptist] was kind of like a process of hollowing out the followers and repopulating them with yourself,” says Schaap’s former editor. In the early 1990s a national survey ranked First Baptist as the largest church in the nation, by average weekly attendance figures.If raunchy threesomes, butt stuff, BDSM, teacher/student, and cheating sounds like your kind of thing, this collection of explicit erotic romance short stories has exactly what you're looking for. This book is narrated by Smith based on his own investigation into the murder of Farquhar, citing Field's own journals to show how he manipulated those around him and indulged in perverse fantasies that, although he later claimed with merely flights of fancy, contained very specific details about the acts he actually carried out. Sources [ clarification needed] say that upon learning of his son's affairs with multiple women, Hyles recommended David as pastor of his former church in Texas; by so doing, David was able to stay out of the public eye. The flock grew to include prominent business leaders such as Austin “Jack” DeCoster, the former egg mogul who by some estimates has given tens of millions to First Baptist and has two church buildings named for him.